Using Family Search

[Merry]

OK, thanks Kate.

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

Are you using the filters?

If, instead of saying you want a marriage, you scroll down, and then filter by marriage year or place you can refine your search and not get all the guff.

I now realise when people were asking if I used the filters, though I thought I was, the filters on the main part of the site are different to those on the IGI search page I was using before. The filters on the main search page actually work! lol Thanks.

[Phoenix]

I want a portrait shape computer screen. It irritates me so much that the landscape arrangement means I often miss useful bits.

[Uncle John]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

I want a portrait shape computer screen. It irritates me so much that the landscape arrangement means I often miss useful bits.

That's what Apple used to produce and why Apples were in the forefront of computer typesetting.

[Oakum Picker]

Merry,

Not important but I was always able to search the old IGI using parents names only. The only slight problem was if you put in John & Sarah & the record was recorded as John then you didn't get it. Was that what you meant?

[kiterunner]

There were annoying restrictions on the parent search on the old site, Glen, such as not being able to specify a date range nor country.

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Oakum Picker

Merry,

Not important but I was always able to search the old IGI using parents names only. The only slight problem was if you put in John & Sarah & the record was recorded as John then you didn't get it. Was that what you meant?

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There were annoying restrictions on the parent search on the old site, Glen, such as not being able to specify a date range nor country.

To be honest, I can't really remember. Perhaps it was what Kate mentioned that was such a problem with all my Smiths and other common surnames!