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Census Lookups General Lookups => Census and Resource Discussion => Topic started by: Abiam2 on Tuesday 02 March 10 08:39 GMT (UK)
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Cannot get to see censuses for people in my Ancestry tree. Anyone else having problems?
Abiam
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Have just tried and can't get on either :(
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It looks as if there is a problem with the link to censuses. The BMD bit is working fine. No doubt will be resolved soon.
Jen :)
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Can't get in to any of it, 'oops! this link appears to be broken'
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It's working fine for me....
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I just went to Ancestry.com rather than .co.uk for census info, a bit of a sort to find them but it worked fine.
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I can't get on either and need to see my tree :'(
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Thanks people at least it's not me for once!
Abiam
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I'm in NSW OZ, cannot get onto the site either...
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
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I'm shut out too.
Let's hope they're uploading lots of lovely new resources ;)
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I'm shut out too.
Let's hope they're uploading lots of lovely new resources ;)
Fingers crossed ;D
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I can tell your an optomist avm! I some how doubt it, i don't mind when it is scheduled but just being off like that and having no idea when it will be back is driving me crazy, I have an addiction here that needs a fix!
Sarah
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No access here either :(
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No access to either .co.uk or.com here either :( Getting a bit fed up with it now - I couldn't get access most of last Thursday afternoon and evening either >:( It annoys me when they give no explanation when it does go back online >:(
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Salt Lake City is 7 hours behind GMT, and updates are usually done to minimise inconvenience to the bulk of their customers, which I'm afraid are the Americans, not us in the UK. The good news is that when it comes back, there will probably be some new goodies (I hope it includes the Andrews newspaper cuttings collection !) :)
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I am still not having any difficulties with it ! Isn't that odd ?
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You can do the look ups then Shaun! ;)
Sarah
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i can't get on either argh!!!! i only have 2 hours child free in the morning and this is my research time...gutted :'(
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I can't even get into the home page now. Has anyone seen a 'Down for maintenance ' notice recently. Thet do usually tell us if they are working on the site.
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Nope no notice I was on earlier this morning (6am - don't ask) and just had the if you need customer service banner
Sarah
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Does anyone have the 0800 number to hand, I'll try giving them a ring
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It's back!! ;D
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wooooooo hoooooooo typical just as i decide to take a break!
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Not yet back in OZ >:(
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It must have been Evie threatening to ring them that got it back online ;)
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Not back for me! Maybe I should threaten to ring them too :D
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Hi
Found the number and apparently they were doing updates and that it should have been on by now. The guy says although not up and running yet, it is trying (yes I agree very trying) and should be working shortly. I see some of you are back on, excellent. I'm not yet though.
Evie
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Whilst on the subject of Ancestry is it just me but when I am searching say.....
births I put in surname and mmn and it often says none then you leave off mmn and there are thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same mmn.
Also if I put in the surname and place of birth it often says none and then you leave out the place and it spits out thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same place of birth.
etc. etc.
They just say that it's a glich with Internet Explorer that they are working on but does anyone on here have any thoughts please?
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Lol, my excitement was short lived it is off again but hopefully an indication it will be back soon, I am going to switch laptop off before it comes bk or I will be on here all day!
Sarah
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Allotment, yes that happens to me and it is really irratating grr as are lots of things whilst looking up family history like stupid mistranscribing when it is plain as day what the word is, and when they put your relatives in the household next door and change their surname because of it when it is plain as day it is a new household.
Don't get me started!
Sarah ;D
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Whilst on the subject of Ancestry is it just me but when I am searching say.....
births I put in surname and mmn and it often says none then you leave off mmn and there are thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same mmn.
Also if I put in the surname and place of birth it often says none and then you leave out the place and it spits out thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same place of birth.
etc. etc.
They just say that it's a glich with Internet Explorer that they are working on but does anyone on here have any thoughts please?
I think that's because you can either have "exact search" or "very wooly search" and nothing inbetween. I like the new style search, but I do miss the "Star system" that the old search system had (which you can still access).
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Yes but if you take off exact it throws out thousands of totally irrelevant results. At least on FindMyPast when it's not exact they only give close matches.
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Fingers crossed, it seems to be back in OZ at the minute ;D
looks like a long night for me, its 10 pm ish already.
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It's bk again for me but for how long who knows!
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Whilst on the subject of Ancestry is it just me but when I am searching say.....
births I put in surname and mmn and it often says none then you leave off mmn and there are thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same mmn.
Also if I put in the surname and place of birth it often says none and then you leave out the place and it spits out thousands and when you trawl through you find the ones you wanted with the same place of birth.
etc. etc.
They just say that it's a glich with Internet Explorer that they are working on but does anyone on here have any thoughts please?
Been doing both of those to me for ages. Funny it's an IE glitch, when I only use Firefox ::)
Don't know of any alternative to solve the birth/mmn problem I'm afraid. If you're searching a census with surname/place of birth, it narrows it down a bit if you enter the place of birth in the keyword field. Why it can find them with the p.o.b. as a keyword and not actually as a place of birth is beyond me.
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Thanks I will try that.
Another really annoying thing is when you enter a name and you know the middle name initial say in John D Smith. But it says none found then you enter without the middle name initial and it brings up a lot of possibles. When you trawl through there's yours with the name David.
Doesn't it know that David starts with a D.
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Thanks I will try that.
Another really annoying thing is when you enter a name and you know the middle name initial say in John D Smith. But it says none found then you enter without the middle name initial and it brings up a lot of possibles. When you trawl through there's yours with the name David.
Doesn't it know that David starts with a D.
Nope, cos it's stoopid ;D
Not sure it would help for a name as common as Smith, but try this. Looking for 'Barbara E Ives' - enter Barbara E in first name and untick the 'exact' box for first name. Ives in the surname box and search. First result is for Barbara Eliza Ives, and I've double checked that she is only the Barbara E on that census. With a name like Smith, you could try narrowing results by adding other info - searching for John D Smith this way, gives nearly half a million results :o
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Thanks Silvilocks I will try that as well. ;)