Hello,   Graham, re "I think John that you must have very limited experience with government departments"  I worked there for decades. And I wasn't just sitting around doing nothing. I'm an information specialist. Specialising in government info in fact --- its means of collection, preservation and later accessibility. Re "This is a minor blip on the scale of  government stuffups"  --- what other ones are you thinking of? Certainly the loss of databased government info in East Germany after the wall fell is a much worse example And of course the Range Search default should be YES instead of NO --- even you realise that .. so why wasn't it I wonder? Cheers,   John   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Graham" aus-nsw@rootsweb.com To: Cc: Sent:Sun, 10 Aug 2014 13:53:03 +1000 Subject:Re: [AUS-NSW] NSW BDM`S John Byrnes 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? I think John that you must have very limited experience with government departments. This is a minor blip on the scale of government stuffups. The implementation was badly botched, but with the return of the District the product we now have is way ahead of what we had two months ago. With a bit more tweaking (such as making the Range Search default YES instead of NO, and getting the SEARCH button to a more visible position), it will again be the most useful of the various state historical BDM sites. With a little thought, you can now extract more from the index than you could on the old site. Try it, I think you'll be surprised. John Graham ------------------------------- 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