How to do a Search

[hutch]

Am I doing something wrong?
If I open up a thread from the result of a search, I am unable to get back to the listing of results of the search without re-entering the details of the search.
denise

[PaulineJ]

If the problem persists, the right-click on the posting you want and "Open in New window". This will leave your search results page untouched.

Pauline

[Berlin-Bob]

Another method is to press the shift-key, while clicking on the link: this also opens a new window. 

This method seems to be general, i.e. it also works for any link on RootsChat, including the Search-Button.

It also works for Google and other web-sites, including local web-sites (hypertext books).

[Dolgellau]

I'm sorry if I am repeating a similar request, but if I had found the answer by doing a search I wouldn’t need to ask

Click on the search button, put in a term that one is interested in lets say a family name Jones, lots of possible pages come up - brilliant just what I want.

Click on a link and go to a page and either find something of interest or irrelevant.

Click "back" to see if any of the other links that the search threw up are of value and get a "Can't Show that its not available" message.

(My browser actually says:
Does dim modd dangos y dudalen
Dydy'r dudalen rydych chi'n chwilio amdani ddim ar gael ar hyn o bryd. Mae'n bosibl bod anawsterau technegol ar y Wefan, neu fod angen i chi addasu gosodiadau eich porwr.  - which is basically "the page can no longer be shown")

Is there a way, after doing, a search that one can go back to the search results without starting over again?

[Berlin-Bob]

the easiest way is simply to hold the shift key down, when you click on a link !!

This automatically opens a new window, so your search results are still in the "old" window !

this seems to be a general thing, which works on links anywhere - Google, RootsChat (e.g. open the Search-window itself in a new window, also useful for  checking "unread posts since your last visit" etc)

Bob

[trystan]

Search results are done "on the fly", RootsChat does however only keep a very limited number of "cached" searches.

If you use Internet Explorer, you can go to:
Tools>Internet Options...>Settings...>Automatically
Then click OK and OK

If you use Firefox (which I do) I can't see an equivalent setting.

Your error message should read:

Mae'n mwy na tebig bod anawsterau technegol ar RootsChat, neu fod Trystan ddim yn gwybod be mae o'n wneud hanner yr amser.

[Kazza]

I have merged these are they are the same question.

Kazza.

[trish251]

Is it possible to search RootsChat for all the threads started by a particular person?
Also, when I do a search, then look at a thread, if I use browser back to return to the search results, I get the "expired page" message and have to reload the search results. Is this as it should be, or am I doing something wrong (as often happens).

Trish

[Lyn S]

the easiest way is simply to hold the shift key down, when you click on a link !!

This automatically opens a new window, so your search results are still in the "old" window !

this seems to be a general thing, which works on links anywhere - Google, RootsChat (e.g. open the Search-window itself in a new window, also useful for  checking "unread posts since your last visit" etc)

Bob

Thanks for that tip, Berlin-Bob.

I have just tried that out when checking Free BMD marriages for 'Possible Spouses' and it works a treat!

I've found recently - maybe due to heavy use by others of the Free BMD site - that, after checking for 'Possible Spouses', I have been unable to get back to my Search Results.

Now I know what to do - thank you very much for the tip.

Best wishes

Lyn S