{"id":2559,"date":"2016-04-17T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2016-04-17T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:13:29","slug":"a-search-wish-for-ancestry-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"A Search Wish For Ancestry.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I wish <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fcategory.aspx%3Fcat%3D40\">Ancestry.com<\/a><\/em> would add more functionality to their search. I don&#8217;t need slicker trees and auto-generated historical timelines for my ancestor. I don&#8217;t need to be told that someone who was born in 1895 and died in the 1950s lived through the Great Depression. If I need a computer to tell me that, it&#8217;s time to brush up on my history before my research continues.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some search capabilities that I would like to have. Minor little things that would make it easier to find people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to be able to search passenger lists for two names at once on the same manifest&#8211;instead of one name at a time. This would make it easier to search for family members who immigrated together and whose last name is likely butchered on the manifest.<\/p>\n<p>This would also make it easier to search for a Johann Schmidt who immigrated with a wife Gertrude and several children. There may be many Johann Schmidts, but not as many with a Gertrude appearing on the same manifest. If I could search for two people on the same manifest it would greatly facilitate the search process and allow me to narrow my results more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Are you listening\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10470501-1449535196000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fcategory.aspx%3Fcat%3D40\">Ancestry.com<\/a>?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some days I wish Ancestry.com would add more functionality to their search. I don&#8217;t need slicker trees and auto-generated historical timelines for my ancestor. I don&#8217;t need to be told that someone who was born in 1895 and died in the 1950s lived through the Great Depression. If I need a computer to tell me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}