G’day Viola I agree with you how many websites are redesigned and “improved” but actually become more cumbersome. However in regard to the LDS Family Search site, I have to disagree with you a bit. While the home page search form does indeed give you a whole bundle of irrelevant results, to which you can then add filters, there is an alternative method of searching which will give you more specific results. By clicking on the world map on the home page, you can select the British Isles which will in turn allow you to select whether you want to search in Ireland, England etc. If you click on Ireland, you get this page: < https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927084 > Including the ‘general’ United Kingdom collections, there are 21 collections relevant to searching in Ireland. The search form on this page allows you to select exactly which collection you want to search - and you can confine your search to several simultaneous collections e.g. the five census collections listed for Ireland. It should also be remembered that the LDS is still actively photographing records of interest to us. These new collections are loaded onto the website unindexed so as to make them immediately available to us whereas previously we’d have to identify them in the catalogue and order a copy of the microfilm into our local LDS family history library. There are no collections for Ireland like this, but if you look at the page for England, you’ll see that there are a number of collections, in particular for Durham and Norfolk, which are not indexed. You will not get any results from these collections by using the search form, but you can download and view them page by page as if you were viewing a microfilm in a library. < https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1986340 > One further thing, many of the collections which are listed as “indexed” are works in progress, and thus only partially indexed. For this this reason, I regularly check the “browse all published collections” by clicking on the “last updated” link which sorts the list from alphabetical order into date order. (Last night there were six updates, including a new unindexed collection). Regards David Armstrong Maylands Western Australia From: Viola Wiggins via Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 6:31 AM To: Ulster Ancestry ; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Alarming News about Ancestry.com The LDS has gone from straight forward searching specifying the Country and County and even Parish to a Generalisation of every result other than the one we know was there a few years ago Viola --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com