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The one feature I liked and used every time I opened FamilySearch.org was the world map to quickly access databases available. With the removal of the world map, it is harder to locate specific records available for state or country to search on quickly. Now one must search laboriously through records that are not applicable. For example, typed in persons name, place and date of birth and/or place and date of death and instead of those records coming to the top of the heap, I get all the British records which I don't need. The current change is stupid, illogical, impractical, and impossible. In addition, helpful hints used to come up when you clicked on an entry and now it has disappeared as well.
Are you going to bring back the maps, the collections available and the helpful hints once again? In the meantime, it looks like I have better luck finding stuff on Ancestry.com rather than Familysearch.org.
Thanks for the Halloween scare - yes - Search by Place is still available (scroll down on default Search > Records page):
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One is not going to remember that you have to ADD when you click on Familysearch.org the forward slash, then the word search then forward slash and then list to get to the world map. It used to be you just clicked on familysearch.org, went to search then records and the world map popped up without any further prompting.
Under your first suggestion you say click on search then records and you get the map. NO YOU DON'T. You get the box where you type in a persons name, place and date and then if you want more info, you have to click on the next box and continue to add the info you need. The only way to find the world map is using the hyperlink which no one is going to even remotely remember. Maybe putting it into the drop down under search with the word "WORLD MAP:, would be more easily accessed than having to do a deep dive to find it.
After doing that, you get all the crap from England if you want say born in Pennsylvania and provide a year and died say Michigan and provide a year. Your search parameter pulls up every time dick and harry and all the British records BEFORE you even get to anything close to Pennsylvania or Michigan.
With the map, you just clicked on say Michigan and then it brought up what collections are available and you go from there without getting what anyone else would call spam mail or junk mail.
Would really appreciate going back to the old format because this new method sucks. As I generally work Michigan I know what records I want, but I may not know what is available for say Pennsylvania, New York, Mississippi, etc. With the map it brings up choices and helps me to narrow down the field of search to a specific type of record. If needed, I then go to the catalog and search location in case there is a browseable collection which is not in the list itself.
Sorry to repeat - but no - you don't have to type the address.
Search by Place is still available (scroll down on default Search > Records page):
It's kinda in the middle on the right-hand as you scroll down ... actually I don't even have to scroll - it's right below the Search options you mention under Search> Records - then click Browse Places
Maybe try Ctrl + F and find Browse Places - then you will see where it is on the screen - hope this helps.
If you want just Michigan, Here is the current address you can add as a bookmark/favorite in your browser - then you can just click that bookmark/favorite and go directly to Michigan search:
Does this help?
Happy Halloween.
In the new search interface, everything is still there, but it is all hidden behind a minimum of one extra click. Most things also involve extra scrolling.
Using the world map as an example: it used to be right there, so you could just click on it. Now, unless you have a tall screen, you have to scroll down to the first wide white stripe. Then, you have to look for the "BROWSE PLACES" link in the right-hand column on that stripe, and click on it. This takes you to the world map (https://www.familysearch.org/search/location/list).
That's "straightforward and intuitive", donchaknow.
