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The search for ancestors page has just changed. Whenyou enter name, dates and birthplace, instead of

JohnCARROLL70
JohnCARROLL70 ✭
November 3, 2020 edited August 15, 2024 in Search
The search for ancestors page has just changed. Whenyou enter name, dates and birthplace, instead of getting resuts from the specified birthplace you get people of the same name fromall over the world. Anyone know how this can be overcome?
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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 4, 2020 Answer ✓

    Perhaps FamilySearch is trialling another system (alongside the "old one") at the moment, because I did a search just now for a John Smith in Gibraltar and just got two results. Did your search page have a different format to that illustrated using the link below?

     

     

    https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.givenName=john&q.givenName.exact=on&q.surname=smith&q.surname.exact=on&f.recordCountry=Gibraltar&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on&count=20&offset=0

     

     

     

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 3, 2020

    can you provide a sample search you are doing?

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  • Dennis J Yancey
    Dennis J Yancey ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 3, 2020

    Yeh - I see what you mean - seems like we have gone through some sort of upgrade

    and things are not quite working as they used to.

    we will report this and keep you posted.

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  • JohnCARROLL70
    JohnCARROLL70 ✭
    November 4, 2020

    Hi Dennis, thanks for getting back to me. I'm connecting up families in Gibraltar, which only has 30000 people. You cannot specify the country now, which makesit impossible. I got ​3/4 of a million people last night to search through!

    Kate​

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  • Family Bible
    Family Bible ✭✭✭
    November 4, 2020

    Family Search Family Tree - -not FamilySearch Records.

     

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  • JohnCARROLL70
    JohnCARROLL70 ✭
    November 4, 2020

    Thanks Paul, the situation has been corrected earlier today. It seems to be working correctly now.

    Regards, Kate

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  • Family Bible
    Family Bible ✭✭✭
    November 4, 2020

    yes the selection filtering process seems to be working better now.

    the interface has changed.

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