Some of you may use the text size links on the search results page to increase the font size when you scan a list of results:

This functionality is controlled by javascript, and is performance drag on the page. And you can control text size of an entire page through your browser much more efficiently. [...]

There were some questions in the webinar that were search related that I didn’t have time to answer. This is the second set of questions. You can also view the first set
7. How can I obtain results for just one state?
This is a good question and there are multiple ways to go about it. [...]

There were some questions in the webinar that were search related that I didn’t have time to answer. I thought I pull out some of them and answer them here.
1. Does performing a general search not look in all data sets?
If you perform a general search it will look in all 27,000 [...]

The state and country pages are once again available.We replaced the database server that supports these pages with a bigger, better one. So we are reasonably confident that this will solve the problem in the short term.We are also rewriting pieces of this code so that it become more efficient. The main change to [...]

In a comment on one my earlier posts, Jerry Bryan had this to say:
I wonder if we could prevail on Anne to give us an update on the big picture of New Search vs. Old Search, where she thinks it stands, what she thinks it would take to make New Search into a viable replacement [...]

For those of you that use the old search ui, you may notice that the links to the State and Country pages are now going to the new Card Catalog. First, be assured that your searches will still be in the old search interface, that has not been changed.
So why did we do this [...]

Something new for those of you who store your trees on the site while you are searching: person card and saved indicator.
If you look at this snippet from a search for my great uncle Ashby:

You’ll notice the green check next to records you’ve already saved to that person, which I truly love. If you have [...]

We have over 26,000 collections of data and records that we search every time you press a search button. By choosing a specific nationality or ethnicity, we will give the collections that we know to have data pertinent to that nationality or ethnicity a little more weight.
So if you are searching for someone you know [...]

You might find these useful as your searching in the new search interface:
If you press ‘n’, you will see a brand new search form pop up over your browser.
If you press ‘r’, you will see a search form pre-populated with the data you just searched on.
You can also walk through the previews on a search, [...]

I think the first thing that I learned was that I may be a bit of a history geek. I snuck away from the festivities for a couple of hours and visited the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Standing in the same room where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were partially [...]