{"id":941,"date":"2015-08-27T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2015-08-27T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T13:56:31","slug":"getting-rid-of-the-city-in-ancestry-com-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=941","title":{"rendered":"Getting Rid of the City in Ancestry.Com Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried but it does not appear to work.<\/p>\n<p>In response to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=907\">A Leave Out Option<\/a>,&#8221; it was suggested (both in a comment and in private emails to me) that one could eliminate specific cities in the search results at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> by using the keyword box and inserting a minus sign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cantgetridofcity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-942\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cantgetridofcity-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"cantgetridofcity\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cantgetridofcity-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cantgetridofcity.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried it. It does not work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cangetridoftwo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-943 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cangetridoftwo.jpg\" alt=\"cangetridoftwo\" width=\"558\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cangetridoftwo.jpg 558w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/cangetridoftwo-300x52.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a> Chicago was still in my search results. The keyword box in the\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com\u00a0<\/em>search screen does not allow for the &#8220;-&#8221; option like some search engines do. My search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-865524-10470501-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsse.dll%3Fdb%3D1920usfedcen%26gss%3Dsfs28_ms_r_db%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3DJohn%26gsfn_x%3D1%26gsln%3DSmith%26gsln_x%3D1%26msrpn__ftp%3DIllinois%252C%2520USA%26msrpn%3D16%26msrpn_PInfo%3D5-%257C0%257C1652393%257C0%257C2%257C3247%257C16%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C%26gskw%3D-chicago%26gskw_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dko5\">John Smith as shown above included Chicago results<\/a>\u00a0as shown in the image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdoqocy.com\/click-865524-10470501-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsse.dll%3Fdb%3D1920usfedcen%26gss%3Dsfs28_ms_r_db%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26gsfn%3DJohn%26gsfn_x%3D1%26gsln%3DSmith%26gsln_x%3D1%26msrpn__ftp%3DIllinois%252C%2520USA%26msrpn%3D16%26msrpn_PInfo%3D5-%257C0%257C1652393%257C0%257C2%257C3247%257C16%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C0%257C%26gskw%3D-chicago%26gskw_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D1%26uidh%3Dko5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-944 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative-doesnotwork-1024x461.jpg\" alt=\"negative-doesnotwork\" width=\"450\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative-doesnotwork-1024x461.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative-doesnotwork-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/negative-doesnotwork.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a way to search for an entire state (as shown in the search box) and then to eliminate one city, I&#8217;m not aware of how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried but it does not appear to work. In response to &#8220;A Leave Out Option,&#8221; it was suggested (both in a comment and in private emails to me) that one could eliminate specific cities in the search results at\u00a0Ancestry.com by using the keyword box and inserting a minus sign. I tried it. It does [&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-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}