What is wrong with Ancestrythis afternoon?

[LizzieW]

Hi Mike

I'm searching on Ancestry.com and Ancestry.co.uk with exactly the same criteria, i.e. either just name, or name and county where the person is living and in particular I used the spelling that I know is on the census that I know are on Ancestry.

With Ancestry.com, the searches show up, but on Ancestry.co.uk, just the message about no search results.

I'm giving up on this now, because until my sub expires, if I want to use Ancestry, I'll go via the American site.  Most times I only use Findmypast as I like that site much more.

Lizzie

[Necromancer]

Have you got 'Exact Matches Only' ticked on each site ?

It makes quite a difference it seems ....

I use .co.uk all the time, very extensively - no problems.

[Necromancer]

1901 - RG13/4479; Folio: 46; Page: 41 - Hull, Sculcoates
 

George W Wright 43 
Maria Wright 52 
William H Wright 14 
Ada Wright 16 
Ernest Wright 7 

Edith A Alder 15 

[Abiam2]

Just tried a known census and it worked.  Also found out, doing some further clicking, on the accounts page that my sub doesn't expire 'til August.  On one part I looked at it said Feb!

So all's fine with me at present!
Abiam

[Gadget]

1901 - RG13/4479; Folio: 46; Page: 41 - Hull, Sculcoates
 

George W Wright 43 
Maria Wright 52 
William H Wright 14 
Ada Wright 16 
Ernest Wright 7 

Edith A Alder 15 

Now that's interesting

It still doesn't show on the index if I search on George Wright, etc. but if I put the ref in it, of course, comes up 

No exact matches searched and it did show some George W Wrights in Sculcoates

 

Gadget

[LizzieW]

Gadget

I think that's what I'm saying.  If I log on to Ancestry.com and then click onto UK census, I can just put a name into the search engine and I get lots of results, including my ancestors.  If I do the same thing on Ancestry.co.uk  the message about no results comes up, even though the people are obviously listed  on the census.

The name of the 15 year old has been transcribed wrongly too.  She is the granddaughter of Maria from a daughter of her first marriage.  Interestingly the ages of George and Maria are wrong too, but that is down to the couple not the enumerators.

As I said, I'll just ignore Ancestry from now on.

Lizzie

[Necromancer]

Have you got 'Exact Matches Only' ticked on each site ?

[Gadget]

I didn't -  not sure about Lizzie

Gadget

[LizzieW]

No I didn't have exact matches ticked, I never do.  As I said I'm not bothering with Ancestry any more.  My sub doesn't run out until October and if I really need to check something which isn't on Findmypast, I will go via Ancestry.com which still works for me.

Lizzie