How to search

There is one search box. Type what you are looking for; you get a short answer, and every fact links to the page it came from.

• Names, the way the paper printed them

  Married women usually appear under their husband's name: try Mrs. John Smith as well as her own name.

• Streets and addresses

  Ads and notices print street numbers. 320 Coral Way or Ponce de Leon finds shops and houses.

• What a picture shows

  Describe what you would see: house on fire, wedding, parade. A person's name finds photos whose caption names them.

• Old names for places

  Some names came later. Miracle Mile is not in the 1941 papers; try Coral Way for those years.

• A few misread letters

  The words are read by a computer from old print. If a name is missing, try part of it, or a nearby word.