• John AND Ruffinretrieves documents in which the words John and Ruffin both appear somewhere in the document
• "John Ruffin"(with quotes) retrieves occurrences where the word John appears next to the word Ruffin
• John Ruffin(without quotes) finds documents where either the word John or the word Ruffin appears
• will OR probate returns documents containing either word
• Midway ANDNOT Applingretrieves documents that contain the word Midway but not the word Appling
• Nucholls XOR Nuckolls finds documents containing either Nucholls or Nuckolls, but not both
• Richards* finds all words beginning with Richards, including Richards, Richardsen, Richardson, etc.
• Ruffin AND (deed* OR indenture*) Use parentheses to ensure results. This search expression retrieves documents containing Ruffin and either deed, deeds, indenture, or indentures. Without the parentheses, it will find documents containing Ruffin and deed or deeds OR documents that contain the words indenture or indenture whether they contain the search term Ruffin or not

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