Author Topic: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?  (Read 1268 times)

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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 11 April 25 14:42 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 11 April 25 19:32 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #11 on: Saturday 03 May 25 17:43 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 04 May 25 08:58 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 04 May 25 10:42 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 13 May 25 14:52 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 13 May 25 17:09 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 13 May 25 18:03 BST (UK) »
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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Re: Has Ancestry broken the adjacent counties setting?
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 13 May 25 18:21 BST (UK) »
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.