Ancestry "new search" disaster part 1

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[didowells]

I want my money back

Di

[carol8353]

Piffle ! 'Fraid my word was a bit stronger than that!

So was mine Red 

I've had to endure their totally ridiculous search method for over a week now.

It doesn't remember anything you tell it,so you end up having to tick UK and Ireland every single time.It is so American biased,and not one of my ancestors ever lived there GRrrrrrrrrr.

[youngtug]

Not very popular this upgrade; http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=679963.0

Topics merged.

[andrewalston]

The "Match all terms exactly" option is useless unless you already know what is in the index. We all know that our ancestors were economical with the truth, even if they knew it.

The "Restrict to exact place" option is useless in this case, because I am uncertain whether she is from Hale in Cheshire, Hale Barns in Cheshire, Hale in Lancashire or another Hale. "HALE*" ought to match all these; Ancestry can't match any of them any more. "Your Search for Mary Jane returned zero good matches".

Even worse is the sequence of the records it does come back with in my original search. Remember that the search was for "MARY JANE". Why would a search decide that "MARY M" and "ANN JANE" were better matches than any "MARY JANE" ?

[heywood]

I have just tried searching for Mary Jane with no results 
I do hope we can get used to this but as you say, the old search enabled a much better general search. It looks as though 'Hale' is not acceptable whereas it would have been previously - without a comma and county.

Using the sliders for 'exact' Mary Jane Forshaw born 1854 Hale, living in Liverpool shows no results. Removing Hale, shows her.

[wrjones]

Don't think too literally when entering location,just enter a County,e.g Cheshire England.

Whilst I agree its a bit daunting to start with but on the other hand I'd be the last one to call myself a genius.I've no great academic qualifications,I've just been educated at the less glamorous "University of life"!

Regards
William Russell Jones.

[carol8353]

Don't think too literally when entering location,just enter a County,e.g Cheshire England.

Regards
William Russell Jones.

Entering a county,for eg Cheshire will only work if the census has Cheshire on it and not just Hale.

[wrjones]

I said in an earlier message,when searching for an individual where you have a rough birthyear and birthplace,don't use the main search page,use the UK Census Collection in the right hand column of the main search page.

Regards
William Russell Jones.