1. Make sure you have loaded the correct Hebrew screen font for your browser. Instructions for downloading the appropriate fonts . Instructions and other links are available on the Homepage for the Princeton Geniza Project (the last item on the page).

2. You may resize any windows to fit your screen resolution. Make sure you can see the content of all the windows. You may browse all 1850 transcriptions currently in the archive. All headers are available below the alphabet box upper left.

3. The three windows on the left are used to build a query.

• Pick the letter of the alphabet for the word(s) you want to search.
• Scroll through the list till you find the word(s).
• Highlight the word(s) with your mouse - you may also include the numbers if you are selecting a range of words.
• Copy the words into the buffer (EDIT - COPY or [ctrl-c]).
• Paste the words (EDIT - PASTE or [ctrl-v]) into the textbox on the far left. One word per line.
  • NB - tidy up the window so there are no extra lines or random characters.
• Pick the appropriate "Radio Button" to select "Complete Word" or "Any Occurrence of the String."
• Click the "getdocs" button above the textbox - wait a few seconds.
• The results will appear in the main window and will replace these instructions.
• The Results page will show you a list of all the words you submitted followed by a list of each occurrence: the word, the shelf mark, and the line containing the hit.
• Clicking on the TS shelf mark will launch the transcription of the document in a new browser window. !!!THE LIST OF HITS WILL STAY ON YOUR DESKTOP!!! When you close the transcription the list of hits should be under it on your desktop.
• You may save the hit list as well as the transcriptions for further use in later sessions. Use the browser "save as" or "save frame" function.
  • NB - when searching for short strings use the "Complete Words" option.
  • NB - the word counts in the "word wheel" and the count of "hit lines" may not be identical. That means there is MORE THAN ONE HIT in some lines.
  • NB - the "Any String" option will find ALL occurrences, even those strings that are in the middle of another word, in the test corpus. It is then up to you to select what is useful. Searching for all the "Alephs" in the corpus may not be very useful. However, you do have the opportunity to do some elaborate lexical detective work on these difficult texts.
  • NB - you may paste from different letters of the alphabet into the text box on the far left to construct elaborate semantic and syntactic queries. That is to say - you may pull together different syntactic forms of the same word as well as different words from the same semantic group. Try to keep the query neat, with one word per line, including the frequency count.
  • NB - to save a complicated query, copy and paste the query into a generic text editor. You will be able to repost the query at a later session. You may also create a library of queries that you can then copy and paste to the text window in later sessions.