Sort, page number and indexing features for large volume record searches
I am looking for relatives with very common names (Adams, Miller and Kelly), unknown first names and very non specific leads like year of birth or State only. My searches often return massive volumes of records (over 100,000). The records load into a massive file that may bee 100s of pages long but it can only advance one page at a time. As I find records that can be attached to known persons I do so. I have found many relatives this way with nieces / nephews presumed dead because they did not appear on the family census only to find them "loaned out" to an uncle as farm or household help after age 8 or 9. as i work thru the long list it is frustrating to stop work at page 53 and then have to manually advance through 52 pages when I sign on again to resume my work. Would you consider an option to advance multiple pages at once or select an exact page to view? Or sort indexed records into unattached, attached or those with hints? Or previously viewed / unviewed? Any of the above would eliminate huge amounts of backtracking,
Would you consider an alphabetic search option for names and locations and numeric sort for dates? That way I could group all together when looking for missing entries. For example John Adams in Putnam County may have bought land in adjacent Duchess or West Chester counties in eastern NY but would have been unlikely to have purchased land in Erie County (western NY) in the same timeframe. It is tedious to sort all 3 counties separately then try to compare, but if you do the whole state the volume is massive an most records would be irrelevant. Also sorting thru Johns born 1850 in NY with a father John pretty well eliminates John Sr being born between 1833 and 1850 (I match birth certificate address to census address when possible)
Would you consider the ability to "index as you go" records that you can view but have not been indexed? I recently viewed the death and graves registrations of Connecticut and it seems a shame that while sorting thru 100s of John and Mary Adams' my work is not available to anyone else simply because the records have not been indexed
Thank you so much for the tremendous work you do