Two ways to search for people in a location: how do they differ?

Hi @Áine.ní.Donnghaile ,

"Your first search is isolated just to collections from Colombia, 5 collections only."

I agree, this is what I would have expected. However, I have seen some strange cases. Please consider this (as I try to find people with a lastname within a specific collection from Ecuador):

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?count=20&q.recordCountry=Ecuador&q.surname=torreglosa&f.collectionId=1923402

I get 19 records.

However, as I go thru them, I realize that the 1st record, not only got entered wrong location (the Cartagena, Lambayeque, Perú part, a human or bot mistake as we have see often), but belongs to a different collection, from Colombia.

See how record comes from a Colombian collection — that somehow got linked to an Ecuadorian collection.

So, even if the search should be done within a collection, somehow records from other collections get included, even with a high score (and getting to the top of the list).