Truncation

To include all the possible variants of a word, one can use truncation. When a word is truncated, it is shortened and a symbol replaces some of its letters. There are several instances when you may wish to use truncation to broaden your search results:

To truncate words when searching for items in the Vintage Baseball Cards from the Collection of Senator Richard B. Russell database, use an asterisk. The search engine only allows truncation at the end of a word. For example,

This search term ...... will retrieve these terms ...... in these records
New York Giant*New York Giants.[View results of sample search]
Chicago Cub*Chicago Cubs.[View results of sample search]