I have not been able to research as much for the past year because I had to prepare to my house to sell, sell it, pack and move into storage, buy a house, move and try to get things in order. I am finally getting back into the groove of genealogy and I have been trying to use FamilySearch.org like I used to. I have discovered numerous problems, especially with the search of collections. Previously, I found it easy to locate all sort of information in censuses that I could not find in any other way. That search does not work the way it used to at all. Even if you know where to look, trying to narrow the search down doesn't seem to pull up the information you are looking for. The regular search doesn't work well either. It is much harder to narrow the search fields and find information. I had been reading a book that a relative wrote some time ago and he mentioned a census record in 1880 in a particular location in Texas. I entered the information in every way I could to find the record. I could not find the information with the FamilySearch search engine. I finally went to Ancestry.com, found the record I wanted and where it was located, then went back too FamilySearch.org, found the locale -- a county, then searched the specific area name by name and finally found the record. Using the information in the record, I attempted another search and FamilySearch did not pull up the record. Their new search engine does not work very well. I wish they could go back to the old one, or ditch this one and find one that works. I have wasted hours looking for records on FamilySearch.org where I used to could find it in minutes.
And then when I tried to contact them to complain, I couldn't even register or log into my account to contact them. Totally weird.
