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Re: Ancestry Problems...
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 14 March 24 17:25 GMT (UK) »
Thanks ,I thought it was me,not just me then
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« Reply #19 on: Friday 15 March 24 11:12 GMT (UK) »
Yes I have been having a few glitches on Ancestry such as the bad gateway message and "page no long available" etc.
One quite specific problem that has arrived in the past month or so, is on the search page - if you change the date, and try and set a range i.e. +/-5 years, it will consistently ignore you, and simply search for that date, the first time, second time it works, very annoying. It will also refuse to remove places you have put in other boxes, say you had a place in the Any box, then changed to the Born in box, it won't remove the other one first time ???.

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« Reply #20 on: Friday 15 March 24 12:10 GMT (UK) »
Me too.  I have to enter things a few times and refresh the page to stop everything from jumping around and searching for text you just deleted.  Annoying.

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« Reply #21 on: Friday 15 March 24 12:10 GMT (UK) »
Yes I have been having a few glitches on Ancestry such as the bad gateway message and "page no long available" etc.
One quite specific problem that has arrived in the past month or so, is on the search page - if you change the date, and try and set a range i.e. +/-5 years, it will consistently ignore you, and simply search for that date, the first time, second time it works, very annoying. It will also refuse to remove places you have put in other boxes, say you had a place in the Any box, then changed to the Born in box, it won't remove the other one first time ???.

Oh yes, and I get swamped with irrelevant American and Australian results when I keep saying to focus on "UK and Ireland".
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« Reply #22 on: Friday 15 March 24 12:51 GMT (UK) »
I've not had any problems  :-\
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« Reply #23 on: Friday 15 March 24 13:37 GMT (UK) »
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Yes, I get this a lot.  If I just repeat the Search (still focussed on "UK and Ireland") it seems to do just that i.e. focus on "UK and Ireland"!!!!

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« Reply #24 on: Friday 15 March 24 14:28 GMT (UK) »
Damn USA data, fed up with getting it presented despite selecting “UK & Ireland”

Thrulines is still a joke.

The range of Filters that are available is very poor, it is not just Ancestry in that FindMyPast & MyHeritage are as poor. I want to be able to reliably filter to within a specific area which it does not at present.

BMD records have been playing up as well, I have had to use freeBMD and Familysearch to hunt for info that Ancestry is not reporting.

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« Reply #25 on: Friday 15 March 24 15:01 GMT (UK) »
And a new problem I've just discovered - records from "England and Wales National Probate Calendar 1858-1995" aren't coming up in search results.



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« Reply #26 on: Friday 15 March 24 16:52 GMT (UK) »
Oh yes, and I get swamped with irrelevant American and Australian results when I keep saying to focus on "UK and Ireland".

That has been happening to me for some time, it is really irritating as I only have a UK membership and don't want information for anywhere else
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