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Title: SIT: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 09 September 07 09:14 BST (UK)
What has happened to the search function for the Surname Interests Table?Apparently there are no Surnames beginning with W on the Site?

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: kerryb on Sunday 09 September 07 09:18 BST (UK)
How odd ??? ???

I know I have a couple of W names on the table.

Must be a glitch in the system.  ::) ::)

Kerry
Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Sunday 09 September 07 09:23 BST (UK)
Oooops !!!

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible  :-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 09 September 07 09:26 BST (UK)
Don't worry about it Bob!

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Sunday 09 September 07 09:40 BST (UK)
Quote
Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible

Normal service has now been resumed  ;D ;D

Bob
Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: Arranroots on Sunday 09 September 07 10:01 BST (UK)
Impressive service Bob - and with a smile!!

 :D 8)

Title: Re: Surname Interests Rootschat
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 09 September 07 10:03 BST (UK)
Excellent Bob!

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: SIT: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Ruskie on Monday 24 September 07 07:59 BST (UK)
I went to the SIT to check some surnames, clicked on SURNAME SEARCH, then the first letter of the particular surname, "P" - and got the message "no entries for P" - bit strange I thought, then I checked some more letters and found no entries for D, R, O, N, M, P, V, X, Y and Z.

Any idea what's going on?



Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: SIT is broken ....
Post by: kerryb on Monday 24 September 07 08:14 BST (UK)
Hi Ruskie

I'm sure Berlin Bob will be able to solve this quickly.  It happened a couple of weeks ago when the W disappeared  :o :o

Kerry
Title: Re: SIT is broken ....
Post by: Ruskie on Monday 24 September 07 08:23 BST (UK)
Thanks Kerry - I thought my computer was playing up, or I was doing something wrong when I first noticed it.
Title: Re: SIT is broken ....
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Wednesday 26 September 07 18:34 BST (UK)
Still having problems ??

I just looked, and everything is there  ???

Bob
Title: Re: SIT is broken ....
Post by: kerryb on Wednesday 26 September 07 18:37 BST (UK)
Does seem to be working for me too now Bob.   ::) ::) ::)  Must have been one of those moments, bit like the error messages I was getting yesterday everytime I tried to come onto Rootschat.

How about you Ruskie??

Kerry
Title: Re: SIT is broken ....
Post by: Ruskie on Wednesday 26 September 07 23:09 BST (UK)
Perfect thanks!
Title: SIT: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: meles on Saturday 12 July 08 16:07 BST (UK)
...doesn't seem to be working!

Keep going there to be told there are 0 names beginning with D.


meles

Added - or G!


Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: kerryb on Saturday 12 July 08 16:09 BST (UK)
You are right Meles and I know there are some there, I have a couple!

They show on my interests but just not searching on alphabet.

Kerry
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Saturday 12 July 08 16:27 BST (UK)
I know "why" it's happening,  but not (yet) how to cure it ::)

the letters are sometimes being translated to lower-case and the program is searching for upper-case. 
That's  why it's happening.

But why the upper-case letter is suddenly transformed to lower-case ......
I don't what the problem is  there ???

I'm working on it, and will no doubt find an answer soon ...

"Back-to-the-Drawing-Board"-Bob
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: meles on Saturday 12 July 08 16:29 BST (UK)
Ah! Computers! Don't you love 'em?

Cheers, Bob.

meles
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Saturday 12 July 08 16:41 BST (UK)
I have made a correction, but we won't know till tomorrow, whether it's working ......

Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: aghadowey on Saturday 12 July 08 17:39 BST (UK)
We'll keep our fingers crossed that it's sorted out, Bob. I'm starting to feel like it could be my fault because I added so many names the other day before this happened but of course that's nonsense- isn't it?
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: meles on Saturday 12 July 08 17:45 BST (UK)
Well, all those capital letters you put in obviously overloaded the computer, and it made them small, so it could cope.

Or not!  ;D

meles
Title: Surnames beginning with 'G' missing today
Post by: markheal on Sunday 13 July 08 09:46 BST (UK)
Surnames beginning with 'G' missing today :o
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: meles on Sunday 13 July 08 09:52 BST (UK)
It's working! Thank you, Bob - what a star!  ;D

meles
Title: Re: Surnames beginning with D
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Sunday 13 July 08 11:28 BST (UK)
I merged markheal's topic with this, so it looks like Meles was a bit too fast with the praise.

I've corrected G (and I) by hand, but I still don't know why the crucial variable is sometimes upper-case (correct) and sometimes lower case (wrong).

Totally random, too ... tomorrow G will probably be OK but maybe another letter won't be  :'(  :-[  :o 


"Still-Searching"-Bob 8)
Title: Problem with surname search
Post by: may on Saturday 19 July 08 20:06 BST (UK)
Is anyone else having problems with the surname database on this site?  the letters 'T and K' seem to be missing.


Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: Problem with surname search
Post by: meles on Saturday 19 July 08 20:11 BST (UK)
Yes - there have been problems tht the moderators have been trying to fix. They've been working hard and I'm sure it'll be fine tomorrow.

meles
Title: Re: Problem with surname search
Post by: may on Saturday 19 July 08 20:15 BST (UK)
Thanks, I'll try and be patient. ::)
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 27 July 08 19:32 BST (UK)
Its not working again?

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Cyfrifydd on Friday 24 October 08 18:08 BST (UK)
Hi

Just to say, surnames beginning with N seem to stop at Ne.

Cyfrifydd
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: meles on Friday 24 October 08 18:13 BST (UK)
Oh, yes - for me too  :-\

meles
Title: Surname Search?
Post by: wrjones on Friday 02 January 09 17:29 GMT (UK)
What is wrong with the Surname Interests-Surname Search feature?

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.


Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: Surname Search?
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 02 January 09 17:31 GMT (UK)
Hi

Sorry but It worked alright for me

Rosie
Title: Re: Surname Search?
Post by: wrjones on Friday 02 January 09 17:34 GMT (UK)
I've just tried it now and there's apparently no Surnames for the letter A.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Surname Search?
Post by: rosie99 on Friday 02 January 09 17:39 GMT (UK)
Or G    and a few of the obscure ones I X Y

But the rest of it seems OK  ;D

Rosie
Title: Re: Surname Search?
Post by: wrjones on Friday 02 January 09 17:44 GMT (UK)
Never mind I'm sure we'll get an answer from the "powers that be"!

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Surname Search?
Post by: rosie99 on Saturday 03 January 09 07:50 GMT (UK)
They are all there today - well no X's but that is probably to be eXpected   ::)
Rosie
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Saturday 03 January 09 08:11 GMT (UK)
Sorry All, this is a recurring problem and I have no solution  :(

At midnight (UK time) the surname list is updated and sometimes it misses out letters. 
Usually the missing letter is there again after the following midnight, but then another letter is missing .....  ::)

Not 100% sure, but it may have started after we had 65535 names in the table.
Anybody who knows anything about computers will recognise that number as being (computer) significant.

Now and then, when I have a bit of time, I have another look at the program
but I haven't found anything yet  *Grrrrh !!*

Bob


ps just looked in the database and they are all there, apart from X and that has it's reasons:
there are no RootsChatters searching for for people who's surnames start with X  ;D
(although there are 83 starting with Y and 27 starting with Z)
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: wrjones on Saturday 03 January 09 09:10 GMT (UK)
Thanks Bob,and at least the offending letter's entries are there now.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Lady Di on Monday 05 January 09 11:05 GMT (UK)
Drats!

"G" has gone again - and I was hoping to find someone searching the same family as one of mine - the family of God  :D

Actually looking for Greensmith but seem to have just as much luck with either  ::)

Oh well Bob - at least the reoccurring "challenges" keep you out of mischief for a while!!

 ;D ;D
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Monday 05 January 09 11:37 GMT (UK)
G is now visible again ... I reset it
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Lady Di on Monday 05 January 09 11:56 GMT (UK)
Now that's what I call service - with a smile  ;D

Thanks Bob - off to look for some of my GG's  :D

Di
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Lady Di on Sunday 18 January 09 10:07 GMT (UK)
Please Bob  :-* :-*

would you mind resetting the "P" on the SIT table

It's gone a'wandering again  ;D

Thanks

Di
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Sunday 18 January 09 11:56 GMT (UK)
done :)
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: Lady Di on Sunday 18 January 09 12:06 GMT (UK)
Thank you kindly

 :)
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 18 January 09 13:08 GMT (UK)
Your playing a blinder Bob!F is working now!

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: rosie99 on Thursday 05 February 09 13:38 GMT (UK)
Hi Bob

Could you please reset the F  on the surnames interests  :)

Thanks
Rosie

Title: Surnames
Post by: Springbok on Thursday 16 June 11 01:10 BST (UK)
Could a moderater take a look at the "B" surnames please.

They are not in alphabetical order.

Spring
Title: Re: Surnames
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Thursday 16 June 11 08:31 BST (UK)
I guessed you were referring to surnames in the SIT so I had a look:
http://surname.rootschat.com/sit-surnames.php?letter=B

I'll try to find time in the next few days to fix it.

Bob
Title: Re: Surnames
Post by: Springbok on Thursday 16 June 11 09:07 BST (UK)
Thank you Bob.

Spring
Title: Re: Surnames
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Friday 17 June 11 07:52 BST (UK)
Working fine now -  I just snarled at it and it behaved  ;D

Seriously though, this is one of these "occasional errors" that crop up now and then.
Sometimes there will be no entries for a particular letter one day, and they will all be back the next day.
e.g.: Topic: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,350829.0.html

Makes it very hard to find the cause of it as I can't reproduce the errors :(

regards,
Bob
Title: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: ScouseBoy on Tuesday 05 July 11 11:58 BST (UK)
Is the surnames list being Updated  or Re-organised?   But all the "N"  surnames have disappeared today.



Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Mort29 on Tuesday 05 July 11 12:06 BST (UK)
strange indeed - and nothing in the 'News' banner ...  :(
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 05 July 11 12:07 BST (UK)
No Os either  ???
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Mort29 on Tuesday 05 July 11 15:39 BST (UK)
Four candles?
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: artisann on Tuesday 05 July 11 15:52 BST (UK)
That made me laugh..LOL... poor Ronnie up and down the ladder  ;D :)
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 05 July 11 16:01 BST (UK)
Lots of Ps though  :)
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: aghadowey on Tuesday 05 July 11 18:14 BST (UK)
It happens now and then appearently- if you look at some of the other threads on this board you'll see the missing bits seem to change.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,350829.0.html
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 05 July 11 19:35 BST (UK)
Och, Aghadowey - and there were we hoping that Bob would come on and do a two Ronnies for us  :-\

 ;D
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: ScouseBoy on Tuesday 05 July 11 19:39 BST (UK)
We will all have to watch our "Peas"  and Queues
Title: Re: What has happened to all the "N" names in <Surnames> please?
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Tuesday 05 July 11 19:40 BST (UK)
No, I'm SITting this one out  ;D
Title: Slightly out of sorts ...
Post by: mare on Thursday 15 September 11 23:28 BST (UK)
The B and L listings are out of alphabetical order at the moment, at least they're there and isn't a major hiccup, just thought I'd mention it  :) mare
Title: Surname Interest table ..help please
Post by: ambers on Wednesday 05 October 11 12:22 BST (UK)
I can't search the  S   it says no enteries ??? ???

Ambers

I modified this post due to a mistake I made ::)





Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: Surname Interest table ..help please
Post by: Midase on Wednesday 05 October 11 14:31 BST (UK)
Just tried it and indeed S is not working Rootschat.
Title: Re: Surname Interest table ..help please
Post by: Berlin-Bob on Wednesday 05 October 11 14:36 BST (UK)
This happens now and then.  It is such a difficult error to reproduce that I haven't been able to find a cure for it (yet)

But if you wait till midnight (UK time) it will probably be working again.

I've merged this topic with another about the same problem.

Bob
Title: Re: Problem with surname search beginning with ....
Post by: ambers on Wednesday 05 October 11 15:35 BST (UK)
Many thanks Bob, :D

I didn't realise it was a recurring problem. Still 25 out of 26 is not bad ;)

Will try again to-morrow.

Ambers
Title: SIT: Surnames-L
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 09 September 12 20:19 BST (UK)
Why do the Surnames beginning with L apparently end with Leyden?

Regards
William Russell Jones.


Moderator Comment: topics merged
Title: Re: Surnames-L
Post by: Craclyn on Sunday 09 September 12 21:30 BST (UK)
Looks as though K and W may also be missing the latter part of the alphabet.
Title: Re: Surnames-L
Post by: wrjones on Sunday 09 September 12 21:56 BST (UK)
Ours is not to reason why I suppose!

Regards
William Russell Jones.
Title: Re: Surnames-L
Post by: aghadowey on Sunday 09 September 12 22:12 BST (UK)
It gets hiccups now and then, usually it's alright 24 hours later  :)
Title: Surname interest table
Post by: bodger on Friday 01 March 13 21:09 GMT (UK)
I have just had a search for a name i added, TRANMAR, the "T" appears to be non alphabetical ?



Moderator Comment: topics merged