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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Les,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ronda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Leslie Chapman<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:40 AM<br><b>To:</b> or-roots mail list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [or-roots] familysearch.org and filters<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 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 </span><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>interesting</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Of course if your information is not there, all these tricks won't work. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Les C</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>