- Don't try searching for just Pluck or Pluckrose. This site is full of them.
- Enclosing a name in quotes will reduce the number of hits that you get. For example:
- John Pluck will give 76 hits (at the time of writing)
- "John Pluck" will reduce the number to a more manageable 30 hits.
- Emma Pluckrose will produce 15 hits, and
- "Emma Pluckrose" will reduce this to just two.
- The Search Results page provides a link to some additional "search tips".
- The best method of finding someone with a common name, John Pluck for example, is to download a csv file which lists the names of everyone mentioned on this site, together with their date of birth, the number of the Tree that they can be found in and their PL number. You can load this file into Excel (or whatever spreadsheet manager you use), and sort the data as you wish.
Everyone has a PL number and you can use this to search. Remove the PL before you do this because the number may occur in a table where the preceding PL is not used. - You cannot search trees unless you are downloading them as TreeDraw files. TreeDraw allows you to search within an individual tree.
- Another useful search method, if you have an ancestor who was alive at the time of the 1901 census, is to go to the Census section and look in the two tables there which list Plucks and Pluckroses who were alive at that time together with their unique PL numbers and a note of the Tree in which they can be found.
- If you still can't find your ancestor then send me an email. I have a big database and only part of it is on this website. I need to know your ancestor's name, their date of birth (if it is a guess, then tell me), and their place of birth. Anything else such as a marriage or a death (again with dates), and where they lived, could all be useful.
If you are using the Site Search facility . . .
