On 3-Feb-2011 6:46 pm, DiMa wrote: > I totally agree with you Steve. Why did they have to go and break something > that didn't need to be mended. > It worked very well until some nut decided it had to be "upgraded" - to > worse. > I have not been successful in one new search and even then I can't find all > the previous ancestors I know are there. > It's probably more into fuzzy logic, but as I have enough trouble with ordinary logic, the point is lost on me. And the results are kinda odd. If I enter 'Australia' as the country, I get lots of Canadian entries mixed in. It can't figure dates, so don't worry about that one, Steve. I note that Legacy (now 7.5) has updated their app to work better with FamilySearch. Maybe this is a new co-operative gesture to try to match FTM/Ancestry? Paul

Paul Blair wrote: > On 3-Feb-2011 6:46 pm, DiMa wrote: >> I totally agree with you Steve. Why did they have to go and break >> something >> that didn't need to be mended. >> It worked very well until some nut decided it had to be "upgraded" - to >> worse. >> I have not been successful in one new search and even then I can't >> find all >> the previous ancestors I know are there. >> > > It's probably more into fuzzy logic, but as I have enough trouble with > ordinary logic, the point is lost on me. > > And the results are kinda odd. If I enter 'Australia' as the country, I > get lots of Canadian entries mixed in. It can't figure dates, so don't > worry about that one, Steve. > > I note that Legacy (now 7.5) has updated their app to work better with > FamilySearch. Maybe this is a new co-operative gesture to try to match > FTM/Ancestry? > > Paul If they absolutely have to change the old search, I prefer the pilot version, which is still operating but for how long ? http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 If you type in a location, it gives you a choice, using the descriptors in the databasee - and you have a choice between "exact match', 'exact & partial', or 'anything goes' in the results. I really DON'T like this new, improved, whizz-bang site. Bah, humbug! -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

I totally agree - the upgrade is an "improvement" to the worse - but how to tell them?? Regards A.L.I. On Feb 3, 9:12 am, Anne Chambers <a...@privacy.net> wrote: > Paul Blair wrote: > > On 3-Feb-2011 6:46 pm, DiMa wrote: > >> I totally agree with you Steve. Why did they have to go and break > >> something > >> that didn't need to be mended. > >> It worked very well until some nut decided it had to be "upgraded" - to > >> worse. > >> I have not been successful in one new search and even then I can't > >> find all > >> the previous ancestors I know are there. > > > It's probably more into fuzzy logic, but as I have enough trouble with > > ordinary logic, the point is lost on me. > > > And the results are kinda odd. If I enter 'Australia' as the country, I > > get lots of Canadian entries mixed in. It can't figure dates, so don't > > worry about that one, Steve. > > > I note that Legacy (now 7.5) has updated their app to work better with > > FamilySearch. Maybe this is a new co-operative gesture to try to match > > FTM/Ancestry? > > > Paul > > If they absolutely have to change the old search, I prefer the pilot version,  which is still operating but > for how long ?http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=0 > > If you type in a location, it gives you a choice, using the descriptors in the databasee - and you have a > choice between "exact match', 'exact & partial', or 'anything goes' in the results. > > I really DON'T like this new, improved, whizz-bang site. > > Bah, humbug! > > -- > Anne Chambers > South Australia > > anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com