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FamilySearch Digital Library Boolean Search Operators

The case of the searched words is not important, but operators must be uppercase.

Digital Library normally searches all the text of all books. Field operators restrict searching to metadata fields such as title and subject. Specify the name of the field with a leading capital letter, a colon, and the word to search for. Do not include a space before or after the colon. Spaces in field names require a backslash before the space, as shown in the table, below. In addition to the other operators, the minus sign can be used with a field to return all books that do not have the word specified. Complex combinations of operators allow powerful searches.