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Re: Is Ancestry off again?
« Reply #27 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:34 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: Is Ancestry off again?
« Reply #28 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:34 GMT (UK) »
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!

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« Reply #29 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:38 GMT (UK) »
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!

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Re: Is Ancestry off again?
« Reply #30 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:42 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: allotment on Tuesday 02 March 10 10:34 GMT (UK)
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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« Reply #31 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:45 GMT (UK) »
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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« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:49 GMT (UK) »
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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« Reply #33 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 10:50 GMT (UK) »
It's bk again for me but for how long who knows!
Flintshire Parry, Price, Lloyd, Jones, Williams, Roberts, Ellis, Holland and Davies. Mostly from Brynford area.
Denbighshire Hannam, Evans
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Re: Is Ancestry off again?
« Reply #34 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 19:32 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: allotment on Tuesday 02 March 10 10:34 GMT (UK)
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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Re: Is Ancestry off again?
« Reply #35 on: Tuesday 02 March 10 20:07 GMT (UK) »
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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