[or-roots] familysearch.org and filters

[Ronda Howard]

Thanks Les,

I try not to complain to my techie husband when my computer is slow and I
have 15 tabs open, FTM, email, and a few other things.

 

I sure wish I could find some of the original information I find on other
people's genealogies.  Some of it is very interesting, or another generation
back, but they don't know where the information came from.

Ronda

 

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[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Leslie
Chapman
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:40 AM
To: or-roots mail list
Subject: Re: [or-roots] familysearch.org and filters

 


 I just realized I should suggest my favorite trick with Family Search; I
start out by searching for just plain Mary, which gives you a gazillion
hits, then I go down the page to where you see "Collections" which you can
click on and get a whole list of options. Of course if you are looking for
one of the other options; Census, military whatever  you click on that, but
usually I am just after the basics birth, marriage and death. so I select
that and a secondary linke will show up under "collections" then I click on
that and a huge menu will show up on the right; What I like to do is scroll
down to the state I am interested in searching in and opening each option in
a tab of it's own by order birth, marriage and death. Then I try like the
dickens to keep from closing the main window in each of those as I search by
opening anything that looks interesting in a tab of its own. If you have
limited computer resources that may not be an option. My machine starts to
slow down at about 15 tabs plus google earth, FTM  and a word file or two.
Of course if one of those is more than 50 pages that definitely slows me
down and having 4 or 5 books open as pdfs adds to the sluggishness, but if
you have a little patience it works.

 

Of course if your information is not there, all these tricks won't work. 

 

Also I should mention that apparently some of the data bases you will find
include information gleaned from IGI files. I have been trying for several
days to reconcile what I find in various vital records publication with the
answers Family Search is giving me when I noticed that information about the
Massachusetts databases. It explains why the only place I find some of the
information showing up on family search is in other people's genealogies.

 

Les C

 

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