<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">David; </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">my experience with Family search filters is pretty spotty; I find about half the time if I specify I only want "exact match" for a term, I get no such record even though when I have 4 thousand matches I see one on the first page that has the very name I am seeking.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">I do think they are getting better though as I seem to be having better luck with it this week.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I have much better luck filtering by time frame to narrow it down. Ironically last night
I was searching a non Oregon guy I had snuck some help from the list for a few years back, Family search gives me 3079 hits if I search him </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">unfiltered</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> and only 9 if I specify his exact given name, two of which are actually the guy I want. If I filter by spouse given name I get no matches even though her given name is listed in their index entry for the 1870 Census. Apparently the filter doesn't recognize any relationship for that Census?</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I am certainly not going to look a gift horse in the mouth even though at times it is frustrating New Family search now convinces me I will never finish the details on the people already in my
family file, let alone get all the individuals members of my key surnames I would like to find.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Les C</font></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">they already did.<br><br>Go to specific database you want.<br><br>you will see "add a life event: Any | Birth | Marriage | Residence | Death<br><br>and<br><br>"Add a relationship: Spouse | Parents"<br><br>What's surprising about these is that you can add filters, all or <br>selective. Better than Ancestry's own convulted search terms.<br><br>W. David Samuelsen<br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><</div></td></tr></table>