I agree, Ancestry is not what it used to be. If I ask to search for New York State why do I have to scroll through all the other states and even the UK? Sent from my iPhone Researching: Allard, Chase, Clisdle, Crowhurst, Dressell, Farrelly, Greene, Hoag, Jewett, Jarrett, Marchant, Mills, Neumeister, Prior, Schreiber, Troppmann, Tuite On Jul 1, 2013, at 11:16 PM, "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > I've worked with all the different versions of Ancestry including Aust, > UK and library versions. > I certainly prefer the Old Search. > > I think a lot of the problems are because they don't have Advanced > Search and Exact Matches as defaults, and you don't automatically get > options for year ranges. > > What I really hate is when you go to Refine Search and they make you > re-insert every criteria rather than alter a just a date range for example. > It's particularly galling when you've set your Collection Priority to a > specific country and they make out you're an idiot and should be looking > worldwide. > > Peter > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Marilyn The simple fact is you don't :-) If you use New Search, select Advanced You can select various things on that screen that will apply to all records searched for Down the bottom is "Collection Priority" Select United States and tick the box for "Show only records from these collections" Now when you search for anything it only list US records On the results screen there are two tabs, "Records" (ie ranked results) and "Categories" which when selected looks more like the Old Search results page There are many fields you can use on that same initial page to restrict the search (use the Edit Search button on the left or Start a New Search) You can enter New York in the location field which brings up a drop down select from menu, so you can select one of those or just enter New York and ignore the choices Or enter New York State or whatever in the keyword field I am far from a convert but we have to face facts, they are not going to keep Old Search, so we need to at least try New Search and report its failings if any to Ancestry in their survey Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 02/07/2013 06:19, Marilyn Tracey wrote: > I agree, Ancestry is not what it used to be. If I ask to search for > New York State why do I have to scroll through all the other states > and even the UK? >