Thank you for these, Sue. I'll check them out. It's interesting that you should mention the 'no results' scenario. I've  assumed in the past that when this happened to me, the whole system was  heaving a sigh of failure, or maybe saying 'Look, go away. It's someone else's turn!' I'll take your advice to keep it general. Again, many thanks. Kind regards Joy You wrote - > I have found recently that the new search facility on Family Search often says there is nothing found when I know that there is something - its very frustrating > > I have started being very general with my search (ie no dates or places ) and then filtering using the filters at the side margin - it seems to work better. Principle moan is that after one search every following search I try says "no results" which is not the case! Either I am doing something wrong or the system is limiting my searching!