On Fri, 3 May 2002, C'est Moi wrote: >"SkyNet News" <mick@skyweb.net> wrote in >news:%ZBA8.44105$Ii2.3764184@bin2.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com: >> "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message >> news:3CD2E00F.9883FB57@scs.uiuc.edu... >>> >>> elebourd wrote: >>> > >>> > I recently made an interesting discovery. Entering the name of a >>> > person you are seeking as "spouse", "mother" or "father" with >>> > the primary search window(s) blank will sometimes turn up >>> > different results than if you just enter that person's name for a >>> > simple primary search. As an example, searching for Anastasia ><snip> >>> > Eleanor >>> >>> >>> Are you sure? I can't find a "spouse" or "father" at >>> Rootsweb/Ancestry. >>> >>> Do you mean the Mormons? >>> >>> Doug McDonald >>> >> Global Search sure does have those fields >> >> MickG > > >And, pray tell, where do you find "global search" on either of those >sites??? Ancestry has an advanced search but that doesn't have >mother/father either. I don't know about the Ancestry.com side, but on the Rootsweb.com side, enter directly into the "worldconnect" project and there will be such a form. Those fields aren't present on the metasearch page.