MMMMmany thanks, Mike, for trying to find her. And for yoour tips on search strings. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Pietruk" <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 6:53 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT:googling--and a Let's Pretend personal story > Sue > > I had similarily poor results searching for biographical info on Patricia > Ryan on Google. > Part of the problem, incidentally, is that Richard Nixon's wife's maiden > name was, used guessed it, Patricia Ryan. > Part of the lafck of online info is that she died young and the show with > her ran from 1934-49. > Let's see if someone can find and scan the book Cindy mentioned as it > would make a nice addition to Bookshare's oldtime radio collection which > Tony B is working hard on right now. > > oh, construccting Google search strings is an art, not a science; and the > more you try it, the better you get. > Among those I tried for Patricia Ryan were > > "patricia Ryan" + "old time radio" > > "patricia Ryan" + "let's Pretend" > > "Patricia Ryan" + "radio" + "pretend." > > Oh, I did a couple of Encyclopedia searches, using K1000, and didn't come > up with anything related to the Patricia Ryan we're talking about. > > > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.