Hi Nuala, The "secret" is that when you log in to the home page, click on the "Search" tab - and when that comes up look at the extreme right-hand side at the top, and click on the [very inconspicuous] < old search > - and *bingo* everything's back to Normality. Grateful thanks to Bob Douglas who solved it for me - and hopefully for the rest of us as well... Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nuala Cockburn" <nualacockburn@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [WOR] Census Residence > Hi Gus, > > Like you I shudder whenever a firm "improves" their search boxes etc. > In fact I hadn't noticed that ancestry had done this until I tried to > look > it up to help John. "If it ain't broke don't fix it" is the phrase which > comes to mind. > > > Nuala > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gus Tysoe" <gustysoe@tiscali.co.uk> > To: "John Richardson" <jjminfiek@ntlworld.com>; > <ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 4:16 PM > Subject: Re: [WOR] Census Residence > > >> Hi John >> >> I *think* you'll find it's the 1841 listing of the Parish of Halford, >> WAR - >> in Shipston on Stour District & Kington Hundred. >> >> BUT... >> >> A lot depends on the date the reference was written, as the 1841 >> referencing >> has been altered "comparatively" recently. Although the Piece Numbers >> remain >> the same, at the time I was working my way through the 1841 Census in the >> late 1990s, each piece was *not* Folioed as one unit. It was broken into >> sections - some of which were, and others weren't, given folio numbers. >> The >> result was that it was possible to have several quite different folios >> given >> the same one :-( >> >> This was converted "comparatively" recently into sequentially-numbered >> 'sections', and all were numbered-through separately from 1. >> >> >> All of this was easily determined until about a month ago, when Ancestry >> "improved" its search-boxes by removing piece and folio numbers and >> substituting "places" - of which around 90% have no relevance whatsoever >> to >> anything appearing in any English Census..... >> >> >> HTH >> >> Gus >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WORCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message