Digital Archives Teaching Example: Oswald

 

 Here is a teaching example from my own work. We have a fabulous Washington State Digital Archives (www.digitalarchives.wa.gov) . 

I did a search for hubby’s grandmother who I knew died here in 1963 and she did not come up. Why?

 Look closely and you’ll see that she’s listed as MRS. Mary Oswald and so a search for Mary Oswald turned up zip. She was indexed under "Mrs" and not Mary. 

So I just did a search for Oswald and there she was! 

Just something to keep in mind when searching records in-putted and indexed by volunteers.