Download of searches limited to 100
I am using search of documents in FamilySearch to gather information for finding children of individual families that share a common surname. In the searches, I use the surname, location (Wiltshire), and date range (1700 to 1800). It is common to get more than 100 hits per search, but I am limited to downloading 100 record links to Excel spreadsheets. I use Excel for its sorting properties (by the way, there is something in the formatting of dates that prevents the sort on date working properly, but I have a work-around for that one). I need all of the hits, so I currently have to limit the date range of the search to get the number of hits under 100. Most of the time this works, and then I just combine the data from several searches into a single spreadsheet for sorting and data analysis. Unfortunately, there are times when a single year produces more than 100 hits.
Question: Can the limit (maximum number of download record links) be increased from 100 to 300 (or more)? This would reduce the number of searches that I have to combined into a single spreadsheet, and, more importantly, it would eliminate the problem of a search covering a single year finding more records than can be completely downloaded which might result in missing some of the records that are needed to find all family members.
The current search and download tool is a powerful way of finding members of complete individual families that share a common surname (and in many cases very common given names) and are located in very restricted geographical areas (conditions where my forefathers come from). I haven't found a better way of doing this research and documentation. Maybe there is a better tool, but I haven't found it yet.
Thank you
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Have you tried hitting next page and then exporting to a second output file (and so on), then sticking the lot together, either via cut and paste in Excel or by copying the multiple output files to one target which can be opened in Excel (from a Windows command prompt, the copy command will do this if you put + between the output file names)? You should be able to process up to 5000 records successfully this way (I do this, and it's possible to automate it if you want to do lots of them).
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