Excessive Ancestry search "results"

[CaroleW]

Is anybody else having this problem when searching for births and marriages directly via Ancestry website and NOT freebmd

Births from 1916 - I ask for a search for George Parry - exact matches only - no mothers maiden name given

Ancestry then throws up 754 "matches" starting with an unconnected surname in 1969 whose mothers maiden name was Parry.

The same is happening when searching for marriages.  Search for George Parry from 1916 and you get 1016 "matches" starting with an unconnected surname in 1967 who married a female Parry.

I have only used this name as an example but I am experiencing it on any search from the 1911/1912 period when maiden names are shown alongside birth and marriage entries

It is also happening on the London B & M's

This is a fairly recent issue as I had no problems before Christmas that I can recall

[Billyblue]

Is anybody else having this problem when searching for births and marriages directly via Ancestry website and NOT freebmd
 then throws up 754 "matches" starting with an unconnected surname in 1969 whose mothers maiden name was Parry.

I hate using Ancestry for just that reason.  You put in asking for an exact match birth or marriage and you get all sorts of census information, wrong countries, etc.!  And people with names other than the one you asked for.
Dawn M.

[c-side]

I'm with you, Dawn.  It's a rare day when I find anything I'm looking for without having to plough through pages of names which bear no resemblance to what I've asked for.

I've always thought it was my 'technique' at fault!

Christine

[Ringrose]

Same here---not only the dates so wide apart but also the counties. I find if I put in a county it can come up pages on. I put in a name  yesterday with BOB,place and year and name in full-----found the record on about page 4. Used to come up first on fi=ront page.
I too began to think I was doing things wrongly.
Ringrose

[carol8353]

Yes I'd noticed that too Carole- Ancestry thinks it has become very clever,when in fact it has become even more annoying.

If you want someone with a surname of say Parry-then you don't want hundreds of people who may at sometime in their past have been connected with a Parry.

I automatically start scrolling through the pages immediately now as I know the first few hundred people are not at all relevant to my search.

Carol

[jericho]

I have also noticed the massive number of hits you get, even when you had put the parents full names and place of birth in, where as before they would come automatically to the top. I have been having trouble finding anyone that I am looking for on the first couple of pages, however one good thing to come out of this, is that I found another child for my 3rd greatgrandparents which I hadn't seen before, but I had to go throuh a couple of pages before I found it. Hope the problem gets sorted out quickly.



jericho

[stanmapstone]

Births from 1916 - I ask for a search for George Parry - exact matches only - no mothers maiden name given

I would suggest not putting exact matches 


Stan

[perth tiger]

glad its not just me. its pathetic really and another dumbing down of society

 

[hiraeth]

Have you seen their new tree view?    I think its horrible and tatty looking if nothing else!  Is there any way to turn off their constant hints - those leaf things are so irritating