About three weeks ago, some of us complained about Ancestry removing their subscribers’ ability to search by year of birth in one of its largest record sets, Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968.
The birth label was still there, but the ability to search by year of birth had disappeared.
At the time, in response to a query posted on Facebook, Ancestry wrote, “It’s not currently possible to search the record collection via birth year – this function was recently removed. This is most likely due to the fact that the record collection is a Church record and lists the year of baptism rather than birth year.”
To users of the Drouin Collection, Ancestry’s rationale for removing one of the search fields made absolutely no sense, especially because they didn’t remove the birth field in church records from other countries.
The good news is that the birth search field is once again available.
So, did Ancestry listen? Or was it just a case of someone in the company realizing that removing the field didn’t make sense?
No matter how it happened, I’m a happy camper that the search field is back.
Another First World problem solved.
YaY!