{"id":49549,"date":"2019-04-19T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=49549"},"modified":"2019-04-19T13:12:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:12:58","slug":"genealogybank-search-tips-using-the-my-folder-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogybank-search-tips-using-the-my-folder-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"GenealogyBank Search Tips: Using the \u2018My Folder\u2019 Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction<\/em><\/strong>: In this article, Mary Harrell-Sesniak explains how to use an important tool GenealogyBank provides: the \u201cMy Folder\u201d feature, which lets you save articles and entire searches \u2013 and can help when a \u201csenior moment\u201d strikes you. Mary is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background.<\/em><\/p>\n

Years ago, I wrote this quote which was published in the GenealogyBank blog (see Genealogy Humor: 101 Funny Quotes & Sayings for Genealogists<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Although humorous, this quote certainly hits home for family historians. As any GenealogyBank user knows, that\u2019s what we do every time we visit the site. We search and search and search like busy little bees until we hopefully find what we are looking for.<\/p>\n

When we come up short, we\u2019re prone to repeat searches \u2013 and we\u2019ve been known to get excited by finding info that we already found in a previous search! Ha ha \u2013 that\u2019s my kind of senior moment, as it\u2019s happened more times than I would care to admit!<\/p>\n

Resolving Senior Moments<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucky for all of us, GenealogyBank\u2019s website designers came up with a solution to help us figure out what we\u2019ve been doing. They created a series of features under the \u201cMy Folder\u201d option where we can see:<\/p>\n