Articles About Searching for Records
Latest on lifespan filtering
Note: For those of you who love the old search, it is still there. You can get to it by clicking “Old Search” in the tan bar on top of the search pages or here: Old Search. Old Search has always been there. The lifespan filter was applied to both and other than that we… Read more
More relevant search results are coming this Wednesday
There is a long list of things we want to improve in search (and in new search in particular) – and we’ve started with what you’ve told us is the most important – getting relevant results; and relevance is our top priority this year in search. And date relevance seems to be the most requested… Read more
Some of our data sets are not returning results in search
As some of you have noticed, some of our data sets are not returning results when they are searched. We are currently working on it and I will post updates as I get them. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Changing text size on search results
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.… Read more
More search questions from the webinar
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… Read more
Follow-up on some search questions from the webinar
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 plus… Read more
State and Country Pages
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 increase… Read more
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
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