Am I the only ones who has done this?

[coombs]

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. 

[dowdstree]

Well we are only human

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

[River Tyne Lass]

I have had 'senior moments' in my researching too.  That's my excuse anyway.  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.

[jc26red]

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.

[coombs]

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.

[macwil]

Just spent more than 2hrs searching for marriage and death of James Griffiths when I should have been looking for JOHN.

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.

[pharmaT]

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.

[ThrelfallYorky]

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....