Articles by Anne Mitchell
Answers to some search questions
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… Read more
For those who use the old search ui….
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… Read more
Saved indicator and trees person card
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… Read more
Focusing your search with the collections options
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… Read more
Hot Keys in the New Search User Interface
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… Read more
What I learned at FGS 2008….
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 crafted and… Read more
Finding Levi S Baker (or how to use new search interface to find him)
Note, for those who have been following the last comment thread: Yes, the exact search bug was fixed over the weekend, and the fix rolled live Saturday night. Which brings me to our next discussion. Reed, who has commented a few times on my blog posts, has given us an example that wasn’t working too… Read more
Specific Database Search: Old search UI vs New Search UI
One area of importance to many of you, who have participated in the new search UI discussions, is you want to have the ability to be very specific in the searches you make when you are looking within a specific data set. I’m going to post a different example in a different category each day… Read more
Webinar link
For those of you who missed the Webinar on the new search interface, or would like to see it again, you can find it at: New Search Interface Webinar or http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=112633&s=1&k=F61A5B2CBEC642037CADDF67687EA541 The view archive link is at the bottom of the page. If you want to discuss the new search interface, I suggest : New… Read more
The new search interface
I’ve gone through and reread the comments that members have left on my initial search post, and I wanted to try and summarize what I am hearing, just to make sure that I understand what you are saying. I believe that the biggest problem that has been discovered is that the detailed searching on some… Read more
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