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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Antrim => Topic started by: Rootanalysis on Thursday 04 April 24 13:52 BST (UK)
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Hi there
Is anyone else having issues with the new UHF website. This used to be a great site but now it doesn’t seem to work properly. I can’t look up anyone as it does not seem to filter. E.g. input John Steele, it throws up all the Johns with different surnames.
Many thanks
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Hi,
If you go to the indvidual record set that you want to search, whether it is baptisms, marriages or deaths and so on, and search from those indvidual pages( and not their main page -where it says "Search our Irish Genealogy Databases" as that will throw all different names at you in the results).
Then tick the "exact "in the drop down menu that says "search type", and you should have results with only the names of John Steele
Kind regards
Ps although when I search from their main search page now, it's not throwing up different names at me , my results are all John Steele's. Maybe it was having an odd glitch with you yesterday. I went onto their site (about 4 days ago I think), and it was very glitchy then , and threw up all sorts of names at me when I was searching for someone in their database, so I gave up. It seems to be working perfectly now though.
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These are the baptisms results for a John steele using "exact". It's the same for the other record sets . The search results will only show all John Steele's
Kind regards.
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Hi there
Thank you for your replies. Yes this works for baptisms but if I input John Steele in to marriages this is what I get. Then when I go back and look at the form Steele is missing and only John is there.
Many thanks
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Hi,
I can see what you mean now.
That's annoying. They are only searching on the Christian name in the marriages even with an exact search with "John Steele" , and the results are people with John Christian names and all sorts of surnames.
The steele also disappears from the search box after the results come in. The computer programme seems to be only searching on the Christian name that you enter, and not the entered surname too.
If I then try a search leaving off the first name John, and only search on a surname in the surname box , with exact too , it won't give me any results at all.
I can't see any way around the problem to get steele, or any other exact surname in the results ( in the marriages)
There's definitely something wrong with their marriage search ( and also their main page search)
Maybe email them and let them know, or ask them why their marriage search is doing this.
Kind regards
Ps I even tried putting Steele as a Christian name in the marriage search, hoping that it would somehow fool the programme lol and it may give me the Steele surnames too ( wishful thinking) Nope , it just gives me one person who so happens to have a Christian name of Steele.
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This below is a post on their Facebook page (dated 6 Feb).
Maybe give them an email over, it's probably teething problems with their new site and they may, or may not be aware of the problem.
Kind regards
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Hi there
Many thanks for this. I have emailed them and the person said they would pass it on to their tech team. I wasn’t sure if it was just me or of anyone else was having the same issue. I think I will have to wait now for these glitches to be fixed. I love that site as previously you could have put two surnames in and if you got a match it saved you time going through every record!
Many thanks for your help.