Hi: Could I get a bit of feedback please. How useful do people find 'websearch' in RootsMagic? Not webhints, but the websearch tab and its functions. Thanks Pat Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.

I use it all the time. I have an Ancestry membership, so I am constantly using it to search Ancestry for the person I am currently researching. I really haven't used it for any other website. I don't belong to any of the others, and while I know several of them are free, I just haven't used it for anything other than Ancestry. Dave Ludwig Researching Ludwig, Shearer, Falkenstine -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat McGrath via Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 2:28 PM To: 'RootsMagic Users List ' Subject: [RMagic] RM WebSearch Hi: Could I get a bit of feedback please. How useful do people find 'websearch' in RootsMagic? Not webhints, but the websearch tab and its functions. Thanks Pat Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Use it a lot. On May 6, 2016, 3:52 PM -0400, Dave Ludwig via<rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com>, wrote: > I use it all the time. I have an Ancestry membership, so I am constantly > using it to search Ancestry for the person I am currently researching. > > I really haven't used it for any other website. I don't belong to any of > the others, and while I know several of them are free, I just haven't used > it for anything other than Ancestry. > > > Dave Ludwig > Researching Ludwig, Shearer, Falkenstine > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Pat McGrath via > Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 2:28 PM > To: 'RootsMagic Users List ' > Subject: [RMagic] RM WebSearch > > Hi: Could I get a bit of feedback please. How useful do people find > 'websearch' in RootsMagic? Not webhints, but the websearch tab and its > functions. > > > > Thanks > > Pat > > > > Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, > laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. > > > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I suspect that a great many RM users find Websearch to be very useful, so I am probably an exception. I do not use Websearch at all, and so it's not useful to me at all. It's the only main RM view that I do not use. I find all the other main RM views to be extremely useful. My reasons are two-fold. One is that I really like to set up searches myself. On virtually every genealogy web site I use, I use only the "exact" searching options or whatever equivalent to "exact" as exists. I enter a fairly minimal amount of information. For example, entering a death date in an exact search will pretty well eliminate all census records from your search. I use wildcards when available and I use date ranges, etc. But I don't want millions or even thousands of hits. I want my searching to be very precise. Also, I often enter data elements into my searches not supported by Websearch, for example marriage places, etc. Websearch does not give me that kind of control over searches. The other reason is that I want my searches to run in a browser window separate from RM. I hate the whole RM modal window thing, and it's easier for me just to run searches in a browser window I've opened. I realize that RM has an option so that searches run by Websearch will run in external browser. But if I'm going to do that, I can just set up the search myself, which is what I want to do anyway. And when you run Websearch searches in a separate window, the searches cannot bring any data back into RM. Jerry On 5/6/2016 15:27, Pat McGrath via wrote: > Hi: Could I get a bit of feedback please. How useful do people find > 'websearch' in RootsMagic? Not webhints, but the websearch tab and its > functions. >

Completely agree with you, Jerry - I, too, never use it and have no plans to. Lynne -----Original Message----- From: rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:rootsmagic-users-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Bryan via Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 12:59 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] RM WebSearch I suspect that a great many RM users find Websearch to be very useful, so I am probably an exception. I do not use Websearch at all, and so it's not useful to me at all. It's the only main RM view that I do not use. I find all the other main RM views to be extremely useful.

Pat - I use it a lot. You have to set it up to use the sites you want to search.But to me it's a useful shortcut. If recall correctly there is a way there is a way to "customize" it by addingyour own sites that aren't built in. It's been so long since I set mine up, I'veforgotten. One of our resident experts will no doubt contribute something more useful. Good Hunting,Love, LouLouis E. Love, O.D. [Ret] From: Pat McGrath via <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> To: 'RootsMagic Users List ' <rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 2:27 PM Subject: [RMagic] RM WebSearch Hi:  Could I get a bit of feedback please.  How useful do people find 'websearch' in RootsMagic?  Not webhints, but the websearch tab and its functions. Thanks Pat Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message