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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: melba_schmelba on Monday 07 April 25 12:28 BST (UK)
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Just trying to do some searches for baptisms and marriages in Middlesex and adjacent counties, comes up with Lancashire, Cheshire, Hampshire :o >:(. So searching for a common name is now absolutely useless ::).
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Now trying to specify any county, seems to trigger endless errors "We’re sorry, this page is no longer available.", is anyone else getting this ???? To explain clearly
going to
Birth, Marriage & Death, including Parish
entering a name and date, enter nothing in the Location box - you get results
entering a name and date, enter a county in the Location box - you get repeated
"We’re sorry, this page is no longer available."
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I think Ancestry is just 'broken' this evening.
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Same for the last 2 hrs, unable to get into census..but seems ok now. Apologies banner up while they worked on it, has gone for the mo.
Cas
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Thanks both, still getting random errors, but the adjacent counties search setting is still universally broken - it seems to almost return ALL counties if you select the 'County and adjacent counties' option.
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Is any still getting probs with Ancestry. It has not been right since this thread started.
Now and again it gives..
We’re sorry, this page is no longer available.
Have to go back a page and try again, or go in through historical records
A right pain...
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Is any still getting probs with Ancestry. It has not been right since this thread started.
Now and again it gives..
We’re sorry, this page is no longer available.
Have to go back a page and try again, or go in through historical records
A right pain...
Yes, been getting them all day, keep having to reload which sometimes works, sometimes not, very annoying!! Not sure what they broke, but it seems rather critical ???. Pretty unbelievable when you look at the profits of this company and the executive pay, the website operation and reliability is seeming to get worse and worse by the year ::).
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And of course county boundaries have changed over the years, so, for example, my father, born in south Lancashire, is now shown as having been born in Cheshire! For a proud Lancastrian that's an insult. Relatives living in North Lancs were transposed into Cumbria. I was born in Rochdale which is now shown as being in Greater Mancester. >:( It doesn't help with the searching.
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Issues still not fixed, getting constant errors >:(.
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And of course county boundaries have changed over the years, so, for example, my father, born in south Lancashire, is now shown as having been born in Cheshire! For a proud Lancastrian that's an insult. Relatives living in North Lancs were transposed into Cumbria. I was born in Rochdale which is now shown as being in Greater Mancester. >:( It doesn't help with the searching.
True, that is one way the adjacent county feature was so useful though, as it allowed for the fact that boundaries have changed a bit, especially around cities, and other cases such as most of Berkshire that was close to Oxford being consumed by Oxfordshire.
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I am getting " browse feature unavailable " on 1921 and 1911 census.
Click here, makes no difference and Ask Leif is useless.
Given up trying on others.
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Is anyone having Ancestry really playing up now...regularly giving blank results, sometimes if I change the results per page from 20 or 50 or vice versa, it helped, but now nothing >:(.
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Ancestry has also introduced yet another new bug, which means you can no longer modify a form i.e. by adding or removing a keyword, or I think really changing any details, you have to go back to the new link at the top every time ::).
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I hate to estimate how much I have paid to Ancestry over the years for what I now class as a third rate site.
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New bug, you regularly cannot save records to a person, unless they are already coming up as a hint, you get a
'We’re sorry, this page is temporarily unavailable.'
message :(
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I can only say (in my humble opinion) I hate to estimate how much I have paid to Ancestry over the years for what I now class as a third rate site. (my earlier post)
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Hello All
An Ode
Oh Ancestry each year I pay my sub,
I type in my search,
Thirsty, but I'll never get down the pub,
Hours later, still sat on my perch!
I should only get a few results,
but hundreds of pages,
I don't want these other cults,
I have to be patient not to have rages.
I often want results for England,
But get results for the US and the World,
Then up comes someone in Maryland,
But it seems the system is Knurled.
Iron out your gremlins,
Have you gone barking,
Save us from trembling,
Or are you just larking?
Mark ::)
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I actually think they've gone off the deep-end and set about AI programmers on the site, and it's breaking it bit by bit.