I always enjoy genealogy research conference calls with my Edgefield-connected cousins Donya, Sheila, and Loretta. They are always illuminating. Nine times out of ten, we can solve whatever thorny genealogical conundrum we're faced with at the time. During a recent call with our cousin Donya, Loretta reminded me of a research strategy I had used to employ regularly...and had simply fallen out the habit of doing.

The research strategy Loretta reminded me of was doing very broad searches using Newspapers.com.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://genealogyadventures.net/2018/01/14/newspapers-com-boolean-search-strings-and-finding-lost-post-civil-war-ancestral-lines/