This website offers two search engine tools, Google Custom Search and WordPress Database Search.
WordPress Database Search
A WordPress Search on this website presents every result per search query, but requires patience and practice to scroll through everything. It does not offer search results from pdfs or the Flickr page, but does give great detail for the 10,000 pages on the site. This engine is best used for researchers, academics, and anyone seeking a complete knowledge on what the site has on any subject.
Google Custom Search
A Google Search on this website presents the top 100 results per search query in a familiar and easily-accessible format. It is less comprehensive than the WordPress tool, but remains adequate for general informational queries. As differentiated from WordPress, it does include search results from the site’s Flickr photo archive, the pdfs linked to the site, and pages within the Archived Websites.
Note: The more you can specify the terms of your search, the more likely to are to find what you are looking for. As an example: If you want to search for “Mike Touchette” – a member of the Touchette family, a Jonestown pioneer, the husband of Debbie Touchette, and a Jonestown survivor – you should put his name in quotes in the search box. A search for “Mike Touchette” without quotes will yield every document that mentions Mike Touchette, but it will also yield scores of documents that mention Debbie Touchette and Mike Prokes, who were present at many meetings that Temple members had with Guyana government officials.
At the same time, the limitation of your search can be too restrictive. If you do a search for Jonestown survivor “Mike Carter,” for example, you would likely identify slightly more than half of all pages that pertain to him (and would exclude most FBI serials). For a more complete search for Temple documents related to him, then, you should try variations on his name, like “Michael Julien Carter,” “Michael Carter,” “Michael J. Carter,” etc.