This search engine helps you find documents on this website. Here's how it works: you tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. The search service responds by giving you a list of all the Web pages in our index relating to those topics. The most relevant content will appear at the top of your results.

1. Type your keywords in the search box.
2. Press the blue arrow to start your search.

1. Type "Romanow" in the search box.
2. Press the blue arrow or press the Enter key.
3. The Results page will show you numerous pages on the site that relate to Romanow.

Webster's dictionary describes an "index" as a sequential arrangement of material. Our index is a large, growing, organized collection of Web pages. When you use our search service, you search the entire collection using keywords or phrases.

When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. The search service needs to know how to separate words and numbers to find exactly what you want. You can separate words using white space and tabs.

You can link words and numbers together into phrases if you want specific words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Example #1: To find information about maternal leave, type "maternal leave" in the search box. You can also create phrases using punctuation or special characters such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.

Example #2: Try searching for 1-800-999-9999 instead of 1 800 999 9999. The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase.

Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Fur" will match the lowercase "fur" and uppercase "FUR".

To make sure that a specific word is always included in your search topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. To make sure that a specific word is always excluded from your search topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.

Example: To find recipes for cookies with oatmeal but without raisins, try "recipe cookie +oatmeal -raisin".

By typing a * within a keyword, you can match up to four letters.

Example: Try wish* to find wish, wishes, or wishful.