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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: Helina on Saturday 02 March 19 12:27 GMT (UK)
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Spent over a hour searching for a family in 1911, no problem yesterday to find them in the 1911 census but to day no. Until I realised I had entered the mother's surname. Think I need a refresher course.
helina
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;D ;D ;D
You're not alone, I'm always doing things like that :)
Daisy
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The number of times I revise a search, and get zero hits, only to realise I have forgotten to empty one particular search field is unbelievable.
40 years in IT and I still expect a computer to do what I wanted it to do, rather than what I told it to do.
Martin
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I've done that on Freebmd when I've entered the name the wrong way round and wondered why nothing at all comes up.
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I'm also guilty of putting in the surname where it states forename & quite often put 1900 instead of 1800 for the dates. I seem to be getting rather a lot of 'Senior Moments' like that lately ;)
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I've done that on Freebmd when I've entered the name the wrong way round and wondered why nothing at all comes up.
Yes.....I did that yesterday and who did I blame??? The site ::) ;D ;D ;D
Carol
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Not one of my many senior moments but I spent ages fruitlessly searching for my grandfather's war records until I realised that he had enlisted using his middle name.
When doing multiple searches on Ancestry I often forget to clear the filters when moving on to a new person.
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Glad I am not the only one
helina
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I did the same silly thing, that I often do, only last night when searching for an ancestor in the hope that new records had been entered. No such luck. I then decided to do general searches for other names and each time absolutely no results, the reason being that I'd forgotten to delete the birth year of the first ancestor I'd searched for. ???
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Sometimes I clear a search engine manually but always leave a filter in, and when I type in a new surname search and it has no results. I am mystified but it is due to leaving 1 keyword in such as "Hacheston", the village.
I once put 1755 as a birthdate of someone who died in the 1720s. And I moan about Ancestry trees. ;D
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Well we are only human ;D
I have made all the mistakes as mentioned and some. When rearching on SP I am known to search for a male and then decide to see if he had any female siblings born in that period forgetting to change the gender and wonder why I am getting no results. A "junior" senior moment is my only excuse.
Happy hunting all.
Dorrie
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I have had 'senior moments' in my researching too. That's my excuse anyway. ;D I think none of us are infallible and will make mistakes now and then unwittingly. I have noticed I am more prone to this type of thing (eg putting incorrect information down when making a search such as transposing names, etc.,) when quite tired. Good thing is if I do something daft I usually recognize this myself after a little bit of frustration when I don't get the expected result/find.
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Or use the wrong century, 1956 instead of 1856, or on Ancestry search the post 1916 births when I really need to search pre1916 🙈
That always signals it’s time for a cuppa and a screen break.
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One of my ancestors was Cuthbert Hetherington. I once put "Tuthberc" instead of Cuthbert when adding him to my family tree on Ancestry. I accidentally switched the first and last letters of Cuthbert.
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Just spent more than 2hrs searching for marriage and death of James Griffiths when I should have been looking for JOHN. :-\ :o ??? :-\
EDIT: However it did throw up a possible son I didn't know about. I'll have to check at the archives, only transcriptions on-line.
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On SP I have accidentally reversed the surname and forename. I am also bad for making typos like 1489 when I mean 1849 or 1949 when I mean 1849. That was just today took 3 attempts to get 1849 entered correctly.
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I got very excited when I found an Andrew Cummins, who seemed a likely character... until I realised I'd entered in Thomas CUMMINS and ANDREW Keating as a mash-up! What a pity. It only took me about 40 minutes following the wrong trail to realise what I'd done....