This is scary. This is the same thing that has been going on for months at Ancestry.com and they can't seem to fix it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:59 AM Subject: Oddity @ searches > I know you've got bigger things on your mind right now, but when it cools > off a bit and you're looking for something "easy" to help take the edge of > the adrenaline crash ... > > Searches > under California > Deaths > > enter surname HERB birth year 1916. > > You get Betty HERB, mother's maiden = Cresap. > > Now, go back, RESET, enter surname HERB, mother's maiden Cresap -- you get > 0 hits. (I tried four or five times after Searches came back on-line last > night). > > I have often gotten 0 hits when using surname + spousename or parentname. I > have previously simply assumed the person I wanted wasn't in there. But > this time, I KNOW she's there. Is there a glitch in the search routine maybe? > > Cheryl > *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* > Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ > http://www.capaccess.org/com/troop763 > http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap > http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) > > ______________________________
With Ancestry.com the same thing happened with umlaut's. Searches came up with a certain name which contained umlauts (Nüchter). When I tried to search on the same name (Nuchter), I couldn't get the umlauts to be included or at least they didn't help the search and absolutely nothing came up--but I saw all the occurrences of the name with umlauts! I knew there had to be more. > > >This is scary. >This is the same thing that has been going on for months at >Ancestry.com and >they can't seem to fix it. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "singhals" <singhals@erols.com> >To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:59 AM >Subject: Oddity @ searches > > >> I know you've got bigger things on your mind right now, but when it cools >> off a bit and you're looking for something "easy" to help take >the edge of >> the adrenaline crash ... >> >> Searches >> under California >> Deaths >> >> enter surname HERB birth year 1916. >> >> You get Betty HERB, mother's maiden = Cresap. >> >> Now, go back, RESET, enter surname HERB, mother's maiden Cresap >-- you get >> 0 hits. (I tried four or five times after Searches came back >on-line last >> night). >> >> I have often gotten 0 hits when using surname + spousename or parentname. >I >> have previously simply assumed the person I wanted wasn't in there. But >> this time, I KNOW she's there. Is there a glitch in the search routine >maybe? >> >> Cheryl >> *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* >> Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) >> >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ >> http://www.capaccess.org/com/troop763 >> http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap >> http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC) >> >> ______________________________ > > >============================== >9 Health Tips for Computer Genealogists >http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/ouch/ > >