How to Find, Join and Use Groups

Navigate to Groups

In the main menu at the top of the site, click on the Groups item and you will be taken straight to 'All Groups'

OR

Hover over the Groups item and will see three items in a sub-menu:

• Groups (all) - a directory of all groups on Ancestorian
• Groups (Yours) - a directory of groups you are a member of
• Members Directory - find friends or new people to contact via a group or private chat

Arrange and Filter the Groups Directory

Various controls help you to arrange and filter groups in the directory

• You can change between Grid View and List View with the icons to the left of the search box
• Under Sort, you can chose to change the sorting of groups to:
  • Recently added
  • Alphabetical
  • Members count
• You can change the sorting to be Descending or Ascending
• Under Category you can filter the groups to just those that are related to a place, a surname or general groups
  
  
• The most powerful filter for groups is the search box.
  Simply start typing a word into the box where it says "Start typing to search..." and the groups list will be filtered to only include groups including the characters you typed in the group name.

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  Filtering and Searching

  You don't have to filter or search with the start of a word... you can also type in the middle of a word and the filtering still works. See the example of a filter set for 'ambr' to the right. This still shows groups with 'Cambridge' in the name.
  
  This same principle applies to Google and other search systems too.

Join a Group

• When you have found a group that suits your needs, click Join to join the group

Create a Group

• If there is not a group already covering the place, surname or topic you want to discuss, then click Create Group to start a new one.