What is RootsWeb Plus?
As discussed in questions 2 and 3, no search engine is perfect. Each has a different flaw. RootsWeb Plus is my attempt to generate one search engine that combines the desirable features of all the others. I used the RootsWeb search engine as my starting point. However RootsWeb has the following failings: Requires at least three characters for a partial first name or partial last name Does not allow you to search on a range of birth years or a range of death years Does not allow you to search on age at death Does not allow you to specify a foreign last residence Does not allow you to specify the day of month for the death (does allow it for birth) Does not allow you specify how many hits you want displayed per page Does not display the age as part of the results So I developed my own software that modifies the behavior of the RootsWeb search engine in order to rectify the above defects. I call that RootsWeb Plus and it is the default search engine used by my search form. However a cavea
