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Family Search Pilot- help please

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Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 23 Mar 2011 18:22

Irene, thank you, I have been reading just page one for weeks now!

Glad I finally got round to asking

Wendy x

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL

Renes

Renes Report 23 Mar 2011 18:16

Wendy

On Pilot search there is normally an advert for the new family search -- taking up about 2 inches of the screen ---- hover your mouse over the top RH corner of the advert and close appears --- click on it

You will then see the page numbers at the bottom of your page to see the following entries

Use the filters to choose your date gender - first and second names and it will narrow your search down abit

Irene

Tenerife Sun

Tenerife Sun Report 23 Mar 2011 18:08

When using the Family Search pilot I put in my search info and up comes all the relevant entries. My problem is at the top it says something like Exact and Close Matches 325, for example, but I can never see more than the contents that show by scrolling down to the bottom of the page 20 or 30 according to info. I am sure that there are more as sometimes the bottom of the page is half way through an entry.

I get very frustrated thinking that the one I am looking for just may be the next one down

Wendy x

Researching:
Matthew and Jane Elwood who had my great great grandfather Francis Edward Elwood baptised in 1807 at Horsham Sussex. There is no sign of Matthew or Jane from this date and my great great grandfather was brought up as Francis Edward Elwood MITCHELL