About that advanced option…

Searching text on David Rumsey maps

Yep, readers are right.

The Legal Genealogist sent folks off merrily last week to DavidRumsey.com to play with the new feature for finding text on maps.¹

Things like that elusive ancestor’s name as a landowner in the 1870s.

It’s an amazing wonderful tool — a great use of artificial intelligence for genealogy — but it has a quirk.

A quirk that’s true all across this wonderful map collection.

It’s hard, almost impossible, to find the advanced search tools.

It’s easy to find the text search — it pops up right on the entry page and there’s also a radio button in the upper right to Search the Collection by Text on Maps.

But… where’s the advanced search? The one that lets you really focus the search.

Sigh… it may be there on the entry page somewhere but I’ll be darned if I can find it.

So… here’s how I get to it.

Option 1:

Go ahead and do a search in the Search by Text on Maps feature.

Or Option 2:

At the top of the entry page, next to the David Rumsey Map Collection banner, click on the Browse box.

Either way, the search box at the top of the results page will change. And then you’ll see the dropdown menu arrow:

Click on, that, choose advanced search and you’ll see this:

That’s where you find all the options.

Need more help? DavidRumsey.com has it for you: an entire Guide to Searching and Annotating Text on Maps.²

Have fun.

SOURCES

Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “About that advanced option…,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 26 Sep 2023).