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  1. Ability to search just for the surname MANNING without thousands of man

    8 votes
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  2. Can a secondary search facility be added to allow searches only within the initial group?

    Can a secondary search facility be added to allow searches only within the initial group of records? Words which are almost certain to be in the article would determine the first group. Then, perhaps after filtering, secondary searches of that group can be made for possible words or phrases.

    7 votes
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  3. When doing a serach, show next to each article found whether it has already been viewed, like FindMy Past does, so any newly added entried c

    When doing a search, show next to each article found whether it has already been viewed, like FindMyPast does, so any newly added articles can easily be identified.

    22 votes
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  4. Exact search

    Exact search needs to actually be exact and not include variants of the searched words. For example when I search for "Downing" I don't want results for "down" and "downs" too. Case sensitivity would also be useful.

    62 votes
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  5. By unscrambling the articles otherwise the site is rubbish and will remain rubbish

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  6. A search option for just Day & Month - Year is Wildcard

    I do Radio Programmes, and I wish to search for events that have happened on a day and a month.. You cannot search for this at the moment, which is very frustrating..

    13 votes
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  7. Searching photo captions only

    Looking for a photo of my grandfather and fellow soldier loading ammo into a pram. It would be useful to be able to search photo captions only as I've no idea if there was an article attached to the image. I just remember him telling me about the photo being in a British newspaper 1945.

    8 votes
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  8. Wildcard Search

    We need a better search facility - the current transcriptions are often horrifically off the mark. It might even help to have a wildcard option to try and incorporate all the random letters supposedly appearing in the middle of names.

    30 votes
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  9. Allow "Next Page" and/or "Page Number Selection" to Full Screen

    Unless I am missing something the only way to go to the "Next Page" in Full Screen View is to come out of that view

    10 votes
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  10. Get alerts - Individual paper updates

    I would like the ability to 'subscribe' to select papers. What this means is that I will be notified by email or message if my selected papers are updated with new issues, and notified which editions have been added. It would save logging in daily to see if the papers we are interested in have been updated and then trying to work out which issues.

    14 votes
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  11. Ability to delete a summary from Search History.

    Often a search proves fruitless or (as often in my case) I misspell a key word, yet the search remains in Search History. These searches need to be deleted before my Search History becomes unmanageable.

    18 votes
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  12. Improve Optical Character Recognition

    The existing OCR is poor. Many words are garbled, rendering search results meaningless

    132 votes
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    Open - Ongoing process  ·  29 comments  ·  Admin →
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  13. BETTER SEARCHES (accuracy, control & operators)

    Have an advanced search like Google Advanced. When searching for 'all these words' that should mean that all of those words are in the article not just one of them.
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    64 votes
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    Open - Under review  ·  12 comments  ·  Search  ·  Admin →
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  14. Better Search Tool

    A better search tool is required. Today I have done an advances search for 1 street in a town and received almost 77,000 matches. There is no way all of these relate to the street and town I am searching for, the most relevant match relates to a birth in Cornwall whereas I'm looking for information on a street in a town in Scotland and it is impossible to wade through all of these matches.

    8 votes
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  15. We should be able to search only the newpapers that have been added most recently

    It would be great if there was a way to search only the newspapers that have been added in the last 30 / 60 / 90 days so it's easier to find new stories.

    132 votes
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  16. Wildcards

    I would love to be able to use wildcards. It's so difficult to guess what the mangled version of a name would be.

    41 votes
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  17. Go back to same place on results page when an article has been reviewed

    when weve viewed an article and return to results page pls can you go back to the last position we were on in the page so we dont have to keep scrolling down all the time esp as some results are very similar

    34 votes
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  18. search terms to be within the same article

    Option to use search words where all words are only found in the same article and not on the whole page

    19 votes
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  19. A preview for the search results without having to go into the full page

    It would be much better if you could hover over an entry after a search and have a small preview pop up showing the context of the match to your search criteria. This would be highly effective in reducing the number of "red herring" matches that you often have to go through.

    57 votes
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  20. Some way of searching for two words NEAR each other rather than just both appearing or a phrase

    Some search systems have commands like NEAR4 to find two words with four words of each other.

    All too often a search for two words finds then in completely different parts of the page.

    47 votes
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