diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f268ab8..d1aee07 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ Sometimes you may want to leverage searches on concatenated column. For example,
 $users = Searchy::users('first_name::last_name')->query('John Smith')->get();
 ```
 
+### Soft Deleted Records
+
+By default soft deletes will not be included in your results. However, if you wish to include soft deleted records you can do so by adding the `withTrashed()` after specifying your table and fields;
+
+```php
+Searchy::users('name')->withTrashed()->query('Batman')->get();
+```
+
 ### Return only specific columns
 You can specify which columns to return in your search:
 
@@ -106,15 +114,6 @@ You can also override these methods using the following syntax when running a se
 Searchy::driver('fuzzy')->users('name')->query('Batman')->get();
 ```
 
-
-## Soft Deletes
-
-By default soft deletes will not be included in your results. However, if you wish to include soft deletes you can add do so by followin the below syntax.
-
-```php
-Searchy::trashed()->users('name')->query('Batman')->get();
-```
-
 ## Drivers
 
 Searchy takes advantage of 'Drivers' to handle matching various conditions of the fields you specify.
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 933b909..305dba9 100755
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-    "name": "jakeboyles/laravel-searchy",
+    "name": "tom-lingham/searchy",
     "description": "Laravel Searchy makes user driven searching easy with fuzzy search, basic string matching, Levenshtein Distance and more.",
     "keywords": ["laravel","search","fuzzy"],
     "license": "MIT",
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     },
     "autoload": {
         "psr-4": {
-            "jakeboyles\\Searchy\\": "src/"
+            "TomLingham\\Searchy\\": "src/"
         }
     },
     "config": {
diff --git a/src/SearchBuilder.php b/src/SearchBuilder.php
index 258fb81..bcec903 100755
--- a/src/SearchBuilder.php
+++ b/src/SearchBuilder.php
@@ -28,11 +28,6 @@ class SearchBuilder
     /**
      * @var
      */
-    private $trashed = false;
-
-    /**
-     * @var
-     */
     private $config;
 
     public function __construct(Repository $config)
@@ -78,19 +73,6 @@ class SearchBuilder
         return $this;
     }
 
-
-    /**
-     * @param $trashed
-     *
-     * @return $this
-     */
-    public function trashed()
-    {
-        $this->trashed = true;
-
-        return $this;
-    }
-
     /**
      * @param $table
      * @param $searchFields
@@ -122,7 +104,7 @@ class SearchBuilder
 
         // Create a new instance of the selected drivers 'class' and pass
         // through table and fields to search
-        $driverInstance = new $driver($this->table, $this->searchFields, $relevanceFieldName,['*'],$this->trashed);
+        $driverInstance = new $driver($this->table, $this->searchFields, $relevanceFieldName, ['*']);
 
         return $driverInstance;
     }
diff --git a/src/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php b/src/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
index 719fa74..4f067fd 100755
--- a/src/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
+++ b/src/SearchDrivers/BaseSearchDriver.php
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 namespace TomLingham\Searchy\SearchDrivers;
 
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
 use TomLingham\Searchy\Interfaces\SearchDriverInterface;
 
 abstract class BaseSearchDriver implements SearchDriverInterface
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ abstract class BaseSearchDriver implements SearchDriverInterface
 
     protected $query;
 
-    protected $trashed;
+    protected $withTrashed;
 
     /**
      * @param null  $table
@@ -28,15 +29,28 @@ abstract class BaseSearchDriver implements SearchDriverInterface
      *
      * @internal param $relevanceField
      */
-    public function __construct($table = null, $searchFields = [], $relevanceFieldName, $columns = ['*'],$trashed)
+    public function __construct($table = null, $searchFields = [], $relevanceFieldName, $columns = ['*'])
     {
         $this->searchFields = $searchFields;
         $this->table = $table;
         $this->columns = $columns;
         $this->relevanceFieldName = $relevanceFieldName;
-        $this->trashed = $trashed;
     }
 
+
+    /**
+     * Specify whether to return soft deleted items or not
+     *
+     * @return $this
+     */
+    public function withTrashed()
+    {
+        $this->withTrashed = true;
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+
+
     /**
      * Specify which columns to return.
      *
@@ -100,26 +114,18 @@ abstract class BaseSearchDriver implements SearchDriverInterface
      */
     protected function run()
     {
-        // If they included trashed flag then give them all records including soft deletes
-        if($this->trashed)
-        {
-            $this->query = \DB::table($this->table)
-                ->select($this->columns)
-                ->addSelect($this->buildSelectQuery($this->searchFields))
-                ->orderBy($this->relevanceFieldName, 'desc')
-                ->having($this->relevanceFieldName, '>', 0);
-        }
-        else
-        {
-            $this->query = \DB::table($this->table)
-                ->select($this->columns)
-                ->where('deleted_at',NULL)
-                ->addSelect($this->buildSelectQuery($this->searchFields))
-                ->orderBy($this->relevanceFieldName, 'desc')
-                ->having($this->relevanceFieldName, '>', 0);
-        }
-
-        return $this->query;
+        $this->query = \DB::table($this->table)
+            ->select($this->columns)
+            ->addSelect($this->buildSelectQuery($this->searchFields));
+
+        // If they included withTrashed flag then give them all records including soft deletes
+        // Check to ensure the column exists before committing
+        if( ! $this->withTrashed && in_array('deleted_at', Schema::getColumnListing($this->table)) )
+            $this->query = $this->query->where('deleted_at', NULL);
+
+        return $this->query
+            ->orderBy($this->relevanceFieldName, 'desc')
+            ->having($this->relevanceFieldName, '>', 0);;
     }
 
     /**