Page Number Finder

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Leon Poteet said: When I click in the "Family Tree" tab and go to "Find," I enter my last name (Deceased Ancestor Name) and in "Place of Birth" I enter the "United States."
The search gives me 7751 hits.
Now my suggestion: at the bottom of the page are the first 5-pages and then I am required to hit "next." Currently, I'm on page 92 and it is inconvient to go 5-pages at a time to get to my current page that I'm working on.
Could a "page number finder" be integrated so that I could pick the page I want to go to?
Another frustration is that when I take a break and come back, the page resets to "Page 1" so I have to go back through all the pages (5 @ at time) to get to where I left off--so the "page number finder" would be so convenient,.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: Yeah that could be helpful. A workaround this is to edit the count and offset in the URL. Count is how many people on the screen up to 100 and offset is how many records u are skipping.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: lol I found out that you can only go up to 5000 search results which is probably fine:P Just interesting.

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Lundgren said: In addition to Jordi's suggestion, you may find it valuable to add more data if you have any to your search, or use some of the filters in the lower left section of the website to narrow your results down.

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Tom Huber said: First, welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

With over 1.2 Billion names in the massive tree, it isn't surprising that you have over 7,000 hits when searching on just the last name.

Lundgren is correct -- whenever I get too many hits to consider, I always add additional parameters to the search results. Sometimes, it is a first name initial with an asterisk, or narrow the results beyond the entire United States. Also a date range is helpful.