Hi Pam Are you using a bookmarked url? There was a problem some time ago with the results you describe but it was fixed a while back Try https://familysearch.org/ Don't bother logging in Select search Enter surname SMITH For location, start typing Eng and you should find a drop down with England in it, select that and click search Result should be Search Results from Historical Records 1-20 of 6,197,331 results for Name: smith, Country: England At the top of every page is Get Help with various ways to make contact, live chat is very good Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 11/08/2013 23:15, PMR wrote: > Greetings Listers > > My focus at the moment is on my Sussex ancestors and their > families (quite extensive as I'm at least 1/4 Sussex by descent - a pair of > Sussex-born great-grandparents arrived in the Antipodes in the 1800s) and, > although I have access to the SFHG Database (member #8642) which is a great > resource, I like to check FamilySearch for a succinct preliminary listing of > possible family members. I find this a good guide as to which parish to > check on the database. > > However, even when I checked for the surname SMITH for the whole > of England for 300 years, I got the following message! > > No records found for Name: SMITH, Country: ENGLAND, > Event: Birth, Place: ENGLAND, Event Range: 1500-1800