Genealogy Chat

Has the IGI been taken off??
I used to be able to find a batch number, put in the parents names & the surname & get a list of all the children baptised to those parents in the church that the batch number refers to.
Now, I do that, press send & get referred to the new site.
It may be my age but I find the new site difficult to navigate.

Try here:

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp

Joy,
The link gives you the 'old site'
But when you put in a Batch Number to do a search for e.g. all Smiths with Father David at a specific location you end up in the new site (or I do, and I assume wisechild does also). And the new site does not appear to list in such a friendly fashion as the old site.
I want to stay in the old site for batch search results.

Oh :-S what a nuisance :-(

you can search by batch number at the new site

https://www.familysearch.org/

click on 'advanced search' and there is a box for the batch number

you can also select the 'relationship' and then put in the names of parents or a spouse


I am getting used to it :-)

Not completely convinced by the advanced search method.
It would not give e.g. Hilman and Hillman if I entered the other one, but gave results for both child and parent, counting those as 2 matches.
But thanks for the information - I suppose I should have read the guide to the new site.

I see what you mean

I searched for something I knew and in the record from the search results I clicked on the batch number and entered a surname and searched

that took me to the search results at

https://www.familysearch.org

If you go to the Search page on this link https://www.familysearch.org/ and look between the 'What's new?' and Civil War field you will see 'Go to previous site' in a blue box. Click on that and it takes you to the old search site. I still like to use this aswell.

Hope this helps.

Jill

I know how to get to the old site, and can search there, BUT when I try to search by batch the results are in the new format.
So, unfortunately, no it does not help.
Sorry, Jill and Howard.

I tried several times yesterday using the old method to find a baptism.
Found what I was looking for, entered the batch number & parents & surname.
I was then redirected to the new site which informed me that there were no matches,so I re entered the search details for the baptism I already had & again, no matches.
How can that be, when I had already found it on the old search?

Exactly.
That has also happened with me, and I sit and scratch my head and pull faces.

Glad I´m not alone.
Thought I was just doing something stupid (which wouldn´t be unusual)