ancestry problems

[IgorStrav]

Whilst we're reporting Ancestry problems/complaining (I'm certainly complaining, not accusing others of it...)

I've been recently doing some research surrounding Salford in Lancashire, and searching people with Salford, Lancashire as their birthplace.

When I go back to them, and click 'search' again, Ancestry - on its own - has changed all these birth entries to 'Manchester, Jamaica' and I think because of this reason defaults to All Collections, rather than the UK/Ireland I've had before.

Grrrr

[doddsie4]

     Maybe Salford, Lancashire, England is better.     The Ancestry computer may be looking for the last word of the address to be the country.               

[IgorStrav]

     Maybe Salford, Lancashire, England is better.     The Ancestry computer may be looking for the last word of the address to be the country.               

I'll try that, although I THINK that's what I did anyway......

[Albufera32]

In a similar vein, I find that it can and does change Scottish counties such as "Lanark" into "Lanark County, Texas, USA." I've even had "Wishaw, Lanark, Scotland" become "Wishaw, Lanark, Scotland County, Texas, USA."

What I have found seems to work is writing "Lanarkshire" instead of just "Lanark." I draw the line at "Fifeshire" though.

[Kiltpin]

Before interdependence, all my people came from India (HEIC, India Railway, shipping and civil service). When I search in India, Ancestry automatically includes Indiana. 

It doesn't matter if I include Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Bangalore, Nassik in the search - Indiana is included. 

Regards 

Chas

[Jebber]

Before interdependence, all my people came from India (HEIC, India Railway, shipping and civil service). When I search in India, Ancestry automatically includes Indiana. 

It doesn't matter if I include Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Bangalore, Nassik in the search - Indiana is included. 

Regards 

Chas

Yes, it’s very irritating. I find it easy to narrow them down by going to the Filter box on the left, I click on Asia and the Indian results  come to the top of the list, the rest can then be ignored.

Personally, I find Findmypast better for  India research, they have original images.

[Kiltpin]

Before interdependence, all my people came from India (HEIC, India Railway, shipping and civil service). When I search in India, Ancestry automatically includes Indiana. 

It doesn't matter if I include Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Bangalore, Nassik in the search - Indiana is included. 

Regards 

Chas

Yes, it’s very irritating. I find it easy to narrow them down by going to the Filter box on the left, I click on Asia and the Indian results  come to the top of the list, the rest can then be ignored.

Personally, I find Findmypast better for  India research, they have original images.

Oh, I agree Jebber. I started with FindMyPast when they had one of their Remembrance Weekend free access all areas. I downloaded over 90 documents (some with multiple pages) in less than 24 hours. 

Regards 

Chas

[coombs]

If you use the option to "Search on Ancestry" from the central "sources" column, it retains your previously chosen focus for collections (eg in my case by default I search Scotland first since the vast majority of my family are in Scotland). The same applies if you use the Search button from the options in the top left.

If you use the option under the facts for a person where it has options like "Possible Marriage Records" in a blue dotted box, with a green search box, it uses "all collections" - which also sets that as your chosen focus, so the other options will now show "all collections" as well.

So basically just avoid using the green search button in the person's facts, and it should keep your chosen focus for searches.

Thanks, that does work for me.

Also i find the site can be slow, and it sometimes takes forever to load up a profile for an ancestor in my tree.

While not a technical problem, Ancestry seem very slow at adding new bulk records. I await Suffolk records, but a huge bonus is that Suffolk FHS have made their transcription CD's downloadable, and I have bought some this way, makes the "chomping at the bits for Suffolk online records" not so "chomping at the bits" now as many have helped. They have all known Suffolk burials in a CD from 1538-1900 which I have bought plus many 1650-1837 baptisms.

[ms_canuck]

Anyone else ever get this screen?  I've had it a few times, and 3 times today alone!  I'm just trying to cleanup the Shoebox.  Nothing I can do, because the whole thing is greyed out.  I have to close my browser (Chrome) and occasionally only rebooting the PC seems to work.

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Ah well.... Merry Christmas RootsChatters

Ms_C (going into severe lockdown as of Boxing Day here in Ontario - equiv. to Tier 4)