Comments on: Fantastic Member Submissions

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:21:49 +0000

You make a great point. We don’t have a convenient way to limit search to Footnote Pages from the Advanced Search page. Lee’s tip here was written with images in mind and was posted before we had the current Footnote Page format.

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll see about adding something to the advanced search page to limit a search to Pages.

In the mean time, there are a couple of things you might try:
1. Clicking the “Pages” link in the brown header at the top of the site will take you to a page where you can search only Footnote Pages ( http://www.footnote.com/pages/ ). This will limit the results to Footnote Pages, but not just Pages created or added to by members. It will also include pages that were created from the Social Security Death Index and the World War II Army Enlistment Records that haven’t had additions from members yet.
2. If you click the “Member Discoveries” link in the header and then select the “Footnote Pages” tab, you’ll see a list of the most recent activity on Footnote Pages–new pages created, new things added to existing pages.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:09:03 +0000

This does not work. You suggest you can search Member
Comtributed Pages, but in reality there is no such option available when you do an Advanced search. Its not even a choice. Whats with that? Thats half the fun of the site, or it would be, were it possible. Heck, I’d love to see what other members are contributing, and I’d like a viable way to search for it. Thanks

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By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:00:14 +0000

You might consider setting up a watch for searches that you do frequently.

To set up a watch, perform the search and then click the “Watch” button in the upper right area of the search results page.

Once the watch is set up, when we add new content that includes matches for that search, we’ll send an email letting you know we’ve added something with a match and provide a link to just the matches we’ve added since your last notification.

Hope that helps.

By: Bobbie Snow

Bobbie Snow — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:30:14 +0000

I’d like to respond to your first comments… everytime you’ve finished a review, another 2 million pages are posted. Say I found 208 hits on my first review. Now I run that same search and find 278… another 70 hits from those 2 million pages! Great! But how can I separate out those that I’ve already seen. Unless I am missing some way to do so, I must now go through 278 records, trying to remember which I’ve seen and which are new. Then a few months later, I must do the same with 292 records… and so forth. It will reach the point where new data does me no good because I can’t sort out the new from the old and it is too burdensome to keep going through the ever increasing list of hits. Is there a way to overcome this problem?