{"id":907,"date":"2015-08-22T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2015-08-22T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T13:32:12","slug":"a-leave-out-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"A Leave Out Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They probably will never do it, but an improvement that I would like to see on the search at <em>Ancestry.com<\/em> is a &#8220;leave out&#8221; option. There are times when I&#8217;d like to search most of western Illinoi<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-908 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/leaveout-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"leaveout\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/leaveout-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/leaveout.jpg 582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>s or even most of &#8220;downstate&#8221; Illinois without including results from the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>While I realize that this search may result in me missing the person of interest, every search restriction does that. What would be nice would be a way to search the entire state of Illinois without including the greater Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>I know Illinois is not the only state that has one large city that sometimes overwhelms the search results.<\/p>\n<p>It would help my searches sometimes to be able to filter out that part of the state where my people didn&#8217;t live but where the majority of the state population does.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fully aware that my person of interest may actually be in Chicago and that I won&#8217;t find them with that approach. I understand that. That&#8217;s not a new problem. Whenever a search is restricted in any way, &#8220;hits&#8221; may be missed.<\/p>\n<p>This would just give those of us searching in certain states (New York State is another one), a way of more effectively narrowing our search results.<\/p>\n<p>And that would make for a better user experience for this user.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They probably will never do it, but an improvement that I would like to see on the search at Ancestry.com is a &#8220;leave out&#8221; option. There are times when I&#8217;d like to search most of western Illinois or even most of &#8220;downstate&#8221; Illinois without including results from the Chicago area. While I realize that this [&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-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","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=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}