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  1. How to limit search to first and surname linked together, so that the search doesn't s treat names separately.

    18 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    In the basic search box surround the name parts in quotes

    "John Webb"

    In Advanced Search, type

    John Webb

    Into the Use exact phrase entry field.

    You're welcome.

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

    8 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    Click on "exact search"

  3. Historic Counties

    9 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    which period do you suggest for an archive that spans such a long time?

    County boundaries have always been mobile

  4. Pages are best copied if scanned, when flat.

    4 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    Lots of the newspaper archives are BOUND in volumes, and cannot be laid flat

  5. starting location for "edit text"

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    If you search for your word IN THE EDIT BOX, you will go to that part of the edit text. Even better, if you then click, it will zoom/scroll the image.

  6. I love cherry picking!!!!

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    bugbear commented  · 

    The same applies to counties - much of my interest is on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. I would VERY MUCH like to search those two counties

  7. Can I limit my search to only the London Times?

    7 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    You can already limit to a single newspaper.

    Bu the Times has its own archive, and is not on the BNA

  8. Filter by more than one region

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    bugbear commented  · 

    And the same for counties and publications.

    ironically, the FMP interface, which is generally worse, handles this fine!

  9. Email me when you add new articles that match what I've searched for

    29 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    It's tricky, since with fallible OCR, you're never certain if a match is really a match without reviewing it.

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

    57 votes
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    bugbear commented  · 

    Agreed - even though the OCR is sometimes poor, I would love to be able to preview the OCR version (because it's fast) before going to full page, which is slow for ME, and puts a bigger load on YOUR servers.

  11. Reward Manual Corrections to OCR-generated flaws

    32 votes
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    Sadly there would then be a motivation to just cut n paste trash to earn rewards

  12. Better Drop Down Menus

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  13. Future Publication Schedule

    72 votes
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    Open - Planned  ·  The British Newspaper Archive responded

    We have redeveloped the digitsation workflow software so that it can provide more granular detail on titles. Now we are investigating ways to send the data from the workflow to the website and make it presentable.

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    bugbear commented  · 

    I think Sue's "Hot Match" idea would (in practice) cover this, and is more general.

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