Record Search Date ranges

Stephen R Franc

Would like to be able to have and exact option for the dates, separate from the place. It currently brings up lots of other stuff for example range of 1740-1780 bring up stuff in the late 1800. Since I some times have found results I'm looking for well down the pages. Thus I'm always left wondering if I am always getting the best results at the top of the page. I believe sometimes this would help me do a faster and better job of finding information to prevent duplications

Thank you for considering this.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

The only way to get anything like exact dates is to use the filters, which will narrow your results down to a decade. (Yes, for 1740-1780, this means four separate applications of the filter.) The reason for this is that most of the search parameters are joined with a logical OR, not AND. ("Most of" because the primary name fields are weighted so heavily that the effect is kind of like a logical AND for those.)