Over the course of this year, we have been making incremental changes to our new search forms in response to your comments and suggestions. We’ve added name and place filters and changed the way you could do searches that included family members.
You’ll find we’ve modified the search forms just a bit to make entering that information just a bit easier.
Add an Event
The updated form may not look that different, but the difference is all in the “Add an Event”.
Click on “Add an Event” and you will see a list of other events you can quickly add to your search. These events aren’t cluttering up the form if you don’t need them but, when you do want to use them in a search, they are just a click away.
Category and Subcategory Forms
You’ll also notice some changes on category and subcategory forms.
Previously, when you looked at the Birth, Marriage and Death Category, the search form was a bit long. Even in advanced, the search form didn’t give you as much specificity about dates that many researchers would like to have.
So we tightened up the form and, where we’ve got it indexed, we allow you to do searches with days and months instead of just years.
Any Event
You may have noticed the “Any Event” option on some of these new search forms. Sometimes you don’t know for certain exactly how the event was listed. If you enter a year or location into an “Any Event” search field, we will look for any event that is about person you are searching for: birth, death, electoral, you name it.
Happy Searching!