Use as little information as you like to do a search, for example if you wanted to find an Ancestor who's last name was Lyons, or Lynes or any combonation of Ly, you would just put ly in the search box. If you want to fine all ancestors submitted by Jerry Watkins, you can use Jerry or Je or Watkins or Wa or any of the information as long as what you input is correct spelling. So, J W would not work, but if you were to put just a j or just a w, it would find all names with the letter j or w in it. If you are searching for Co.D and forget to put the . it will not find it. The spelling has to be exact, so it is best to just put in the first few letters. If you don't put anything in the search fields and just click on "find", it will find all entrys. If you find you have made a mistake with your entry, Just email me the correction and I will correct it for you.