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From: Katherine Flynn <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Ancestry's New Look
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 16:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDKEMLFIAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Dear Cheri,

For the life of me I cannot recreate what you describe
in your posting. When I recreated your search I only
got single digit results for the various census years.

Please clarify exactly what search, where gave you
these unexpected results.

Best regards,
Kathy Flynn

--- Cheri Casper <> wrote:

> I've just encountered Ancestry's new search results
> screen and I must say
> that it is awful, awful, awful. Search results are
> no longer categorized
> and you get lots of extraneous search results that
> don't even include the
> name you are looking for. A search for Richard
> Merritt in Missouri resulted
> in every Merritt in the state who was enumerated on
> the census coming up as
> a search result.
>
> I hope everyone who finds it as distasteful and
> practically worthless as I
> do complains to Ancestry. It is going to be much,
> much harder to find
> information. The best bet seems to search by state
> and individual database,
> but you still get extraneous results or no results
> when the person was there
> yesterday.
>
> I wish these folks would leave well enough alone.
> I'm torqued and hope the
> rest of you are as well.
>
> CheriC
>
>
>
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