How strange - I think it's the best thing they've done in ages - all in the eyes of the beholder and perhaps the user who reads and absorbs the instructions! :-) Mind you, I would add a few extra things in the instructions for some people but otherwise it's fantastic having the true Wildcard back again - at least you get all the entries you should find instead of a tiny percentage of them. Regards .......... Susie Zada -----Original Message----- From: aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jean Little via Sent: Sunday, 10 August 2014 1:41 PM To: aus-nsw@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-NSW] NSW BDM John said: "What they have done to the BDM database search is perhaps the worst thing I have ever seen any government department do ever --- I've no idea why this was done; does anyone else know?" My comment is:   Who knows what ridiculous "changes" government departments ever make? Jean

  Hello, Yes could be strange .. or maybe talking about different things.   It's always great too to have something "back again". Cheers, John   ~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susie Zada" aus-nsw@rootsweb.com To: Cc: Sent:Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:45:27 +1000 Subject:Re: [AUS-NSW] NSW BDM How strange - I think it's the best thing they've done in ages - all in the eyes of the beholder and perhaps the user who reads and absorbs the instructions! :-) Mind you, I would add a few extra things in the instructions for some people but otherwise it's fantastic having the true Wildcard back again - at least you get all the entries you should find instead of a tiny percentage of them. Regards .......... Susie Zada -----Original Message----- From: aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aus-nsw-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jean Little via Sent: Sunday, 10 August 2014 1:41 PM To: aus-nsw@rootsweb.com Subject: [AUS-NSW] NSW BDM John said: "What they have done to the BDM database search is perhaps the worst thing I have ever seen any government department do ever --- I've no idea why this was done; does anyone else know?" My comment is:   Who knows what ridiculous "changes" government departments ever make? Jean ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-NSW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message