Using Excel to avoid multiple clicks with new format

Barrett Thompson

If you are looking for a surname (and/or searching variations of surnames using wild cards) in a particular town, collection, etc., I find it almost always easier just to download all the hits into Excel and then take the time to separate into births, marriages, deaths, etc. in Excel than to "browse" the records. Excel will list and organize each record in a line by line format rather than a format that fetishizes white space.

Might be useful for some researchers.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

We should probably note the hiding place of spreadsheet downloads: on the results page, open More Options for the search, go to the Preferences tab (!), and scroll all the way down.

Beware of the Leopard.