I've been merrily using a search box on Ancestry that had first name, surname, country, county and a date range, along with a drop-down box for exact or soundex. Now suddenly the search box has reverted to first name, surname, birth date country, county, death date, country, county. The former was fairly accurate, never bringing up more than a couple of hundred hits on a soundex search - this other one is bringing up thousands of hits even with the exact names box checked. What have I done and how do I get back to the other search box?
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No, the bar at the top still says try our new search. The box I can now see is in fact the one I originally used when I first got my sub, but Merry, I think it was, pointed me to using exact matches and my favoured box appeared and I've been using it ever since. Trouble is I don't know what I did to acquire it or to lose it again. I'm sure it's just a click...
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I would leave exact match ticked if I were you, but could it be that you have the "Advanced Search"? Yikes, there used to be a thing you could click on to hide the advanced search fields, but I can't see it now. And I only clicked on Advanced Search to see if it looked like what you were describing!KiteRunner
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Just so you know what I'm actually on about, I was lucky enough still to have the old search screen open on the laptop so I've taken screenshots of the two.
This is the screen I've found most useful, returning a couple of hundred hits at most with soundex:
And this is all I can get now, which is returning thousands upon thousands of hits for every search, making it virtually unusable:
My home screen on Ancestry now also no longer has an option to revert to old search or to try new search :(
I really want to get back to the first screen if I can...
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I think the second image you show is the new search option.
When you are logged on to Ancestry there are tabs towards the top of page
Home / Family Tree / Search / Print & Share etc.
Click on the Search tab and you should see an option at the top to revert back to the old search methodElaine
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Originally posted by Elaine ..Spain View PostI think the second image you show is the new search option.
When you are logged on to Ancestry there are tabs towards the top of page
Home / Family Tree / Search / Print & Share etc.
Click on the Search tab and you should see an option at the top to revert back to the old search method
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