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    1. Re: [nz] NZ Births Index -missing names
    2. Penne
    3. Andy,you have lost me there, under what system are you getting all that Java script??? I get none. I am posting to ask about your 1879/8345 King Hannah Pauline is that off the microfiche??? if so, I would have thought everyone knew with four or more entries on each register page, to enable online ordering, the whole of the paper entries were assigned a new number. Thus when individual numbers were given to each event 1879/4277 was assigned to her. Or is that not what you are meaning. I must say though, their internal "tinkering" infuriates me, with irregular births to unmarried couples, often being changed. I have one man who was using an assumed named when he married and died in NZ, his widow became heir to a sum of money in England, and real name was advised to BDM. He was then online under the same name 20yrs apart, after I ordered both, got one, and was told they were the same person (which I knew). They then removed the correct one, and have left the one relating to the name correction,(online the old name) 20yrs after his death. Logic defies me. The also use AKA also known as, CKA Commonly known as and another couple I cannot bring to mind. If you do not know those facts you will never find them. I also have at least two original birth certs, one with thewith the chil showing online as birth children to his adoptive parents, and thoe other original cert with fathers name, and the modified one showing not recorded, when in fact it was on the original one. I personally get no extraneous headers along with my Rootsweb postings. Is it your settings?? cheers penne ps I understand it is costly to incorporate a wildcard into the system, and we are lucky to get the index for free. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Gardner" <[email protected]> To: "new-zealand" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2017 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [nz] NZ Births Index -missing names > > I'm not sure if it's because the whole thing was written in some sort of > Microsoft application, but whoever signed off on the current site should > be taken around the back of the bike sheds and introduced to Mr Cluebat. > > Every HTML page sends down a huge chunk of javascript and CSS which should > be isolated into separate files for efficiency. Over 100kB of data sent to > you just to get the maybe 50 bytes of data you want to see. If you're > accessing the website via cellphone data that's why you keep running up on > your monthly limit so quickly. > > Weirdly a lot of the CSS and Javascript is for in-house users (who are > editing data) so it may even be a security risk including all that data in > pages sent to public users as it may give clues regarding how to hack into > their system. > > Also, a while back they changed the "registration number" of many (all?) > of the records on the site, so if you carefully filed away the NZBDM > reference in your ancestor records, it no longer applies. > > For instance, in deaths 1879/8345 KING Hannah Pauline is now 1879/4277 - > whose bright idea was THAT? > > And as for 1751/2 KING Hannah, that's an early death! > > Then there's this mailing list which now includes bucket loads of > "X-Microsoft-Exchange-Diagnostics" headers with each message sent. > > There seems to be a theme appearing - inefficient Microsoft software. > >> >> > > > > > > The List Guidelines > > http://new-zealand-l.blogspot.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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