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From: John Rhodes <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ancestry Census Images ?
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 12:30:25 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <001d01c72dc8$77ec4330$6402a8c0@SUSAN01>


Thank you Sue, however, I've checked and un-checked that box a thousand times and still find it takes 30 minutes of frustration to do what I did in 5 seconds before. I basically hate the new system. It simply doesn't work well. It's too clever by half. How do you say you want the John Smith's born 1850 and get them in random order from 1500 to 2005? Try to find the John Smith 1850 in the lot of 2000. You select "2" and wonder which 2 they use. Use soundex and you get thousands for the past 500 years; use 'exact' and get nothing. It's useless.

My opinion after a month of hell.

John Rhodes

Sue J <> wrote:
It sounds like you have the little box in the upper left hand side
that says Exact Matches Only with no check mark in it. This is the
page where you type in a name before you start your search. If that
box is not checked, you get their rated searches instead and, to me,
those are worthless.

Sue


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of John Rhodes
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 7:07 AM


Ancestry has instituted a 'new improved' search system that is the
pits. I had the old system working well and could make it do alot of
tricks.





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