While the ability of full-text search at FamilySearch allows researchers to easily find things they may never have found before, it is not perfect. Full-text search:
- only finds what FamilySearch has available,
- has transcription errors that make some names virtually impossible to find,
- requires you to know how to search effectively and creatively,
- is not guaranteed to find every reference to your person
Manual searches are still necessary. Use of original and other indexes are still necessary. Use of full-text search is not, in this researcher’s opinion, an exhaustive genealogy search. It’s a start but other methods must still be used.
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