Keystone Help: Search Keystone

[Table of Contents]

1. Search Keystone

Keystone is the online database designed to help you find archival records held by the Archives of Manitoba.  Not all holdings are represented in the database. The database is growing and will be updated regularly on the web. Read more about what's available in the database or contact the Archives of Manitoba for further information.

Choose Your Search Option

Keyword Search

• Search the database using a keyword relating to a topic, person or place.  See search tips below.
  
  
• What do my search results mean?
  
  
• What can I do with my search results?

Keyword Search Tips

• Truncate your search using *. This will locate words that have a common stem.

  Example: Entering farm* will match farm, farming, farmer, farmers etc.

• Common words will be ignored. These include: the, a, an, in, of, and, these.
• Select “All of these keywords” to get hits that contain all of the keywords that you have chosen.

  Example: entering the keywords “dog” and “cat” will return descriptions that include both of these words.

• Select “Any of these keywords” to get hits that contain any of the keywords chosen.

  Example: entering the keywords “dog” and “cat” will return descriptions that include either or both of these words.

• Select “Exact Phrase” to get hits that contain your keywords in the order you have entered them.

  Example: entering the keywords “human rights” will return descriptions including that exact phrase.

Advanced Search

• Use advanced search options to make more refined searches on the database.

Please note:

• Keystone is not a complete inventory of our holdings.  New information is added regularly to the database. However, for many of our records, finding aids in the Archives Research Room must be consulted.  Read more about what's available in the database or contact the Archives of Manitoba for further information.
  
  
• The Keystone database will not answer most genealogical research enquiries. Read more on family history research at the Archives of Manitoba.
  
  
• Archival records are organized by the Manitoba public body, Hudson's Bay Company body, person, or private sector organization that created or accumulated them. Knowing a bit more about how archival records are organized may help you to search the database more effectively. See How Archival Records Are Organized for more information.

[Table of Contents]

top of page