Narrowing Your Search by Location

One of the most useful features on Ancestry.com is also one of the most difficult to find your way back to.  It's the "Search by Location" feature.  Ancestry.com lets you narrow your search to specific state or country.  You can also narrows that search even further by selecting certain years or records to search.

To get to the "Search by Location" web page, click here.


One there, you'll see a screen like the image below. I know the image is small , but it should help quickly recognize if you're on the right web page.

Notice that there are 3 red circles on the above image.  The red circle on the top left of the page, allows you to narrow your search by country (United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, & Australia).  Selecting the country helps you eliminate overseas records in your search.  This is helpful when you somebody has immigrated, and you know longer want to look at overseas data for current searches.

The lower left circle (under the U.S. map), shows a down-arrow that allows you narrow your search to specific state.  Again, very helpful!

The last red circle is in the top right corner of image above.  This is the Quick Links shortcut.  Be sure to click it to add a shortcut to this page on your home page (under Quick Links).  Doing so, will let you get back to it easily anytime you want.

There is a little more information about adding pages to your Quick Links in the post on how to add a shortcut to your shoebox.