Ability to restrict search to [person name] AND [keyword] (not OR)

Jane Peppler

I can't find a way currently to do it. But may I say that this full text indexing is miraculous. I've seen things in minutes that used to require my going to PHiladelphia, an expensive city, and deal with nasty public employees and virtually unreadable microfilms of indexes and deeds/wills. THANK YOU xox Jane

RobertWessel

@Jane Peppler

Thank you for your feedback. This is an issue raised by others. Our team is working to improve the filters and fine tune the search parameters. Do you have a specific example of a search that is particularly problemmatic?

Mark McKenzie_1

As of this posting, it does seem to work. If you modify the construction of keywords from this…

https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text/results?count=100&q.fullName=%22john%20mccarty%22&q.text=%2B%22Adlington%20Surrogates%20Court%20%22

To this….

https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text/results?count=100&q.fullName=%2B%22john%20mccarty%22&q.text=%2B%22Adlington%20Surrogates%20Court%20%22

I think you end up with AND