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Full-text search is having an ever increasing impact on the entire FamilySearch.org website. The discoveries made are extraordinary. See "Making Amazing Genealogy Discoveries With FamilySearch Full-Text Search" for a quick introduction. However, in the course of making this short video, I discovered two inconsistent issues.
The first two issues are fairly straight forward. If I make a search for a paticular person, such as this one:
I will get a list of possible matching records. I must say that the list of matching records is extremely valuable and helpful. However, I am stuck if I want to modify the search. Here are the results.
There are two deeds I am interested in but if I want to modify the search, the search field has disappeared and I find that I have to start over completely if I click back to the search field. The fields will be blank. If I use the back arrow I will lose the first list of sources. There needs to be a way to preserve the first list without opening a new window and starting all over again for each variation in the search.
The second issue is that assuming I click on the first deed source and want to attach it to my person in the Family Tree, I will see this menu bar.
With the "paper clip icon" to go to the process for attachment. But if I click on the second deed in blue on the list, and close the side bar, I get a different menu bar entirely for attaching the record to the Family Tree person.
The third issue is that I also have no way to return to the transcription except to go back through the whole process from the beginning.
These three issues make me go through the process over and over again. If I slightly change the search terms during the process, I would have to repeat all the searches to get the different results from previous searches.
It took me a while to figure out that I would be constantly repeating searches unless I kept opening new windows for the results of each variation in the search.
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