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From: "Janice Aitkens" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Ancestry problems - have they changed the search engine:
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:02:47 -0000
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Gillian
If you subscribed to www.ancestry.com go & sign in then put in
www.ancestry.co.uk & you can then log in there I took my trial out at dot
com but use co.uk site try & see if that works
Regards Janice
----- Original Message -----
From: "GSS" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Ancestry problems - have they changed the search engine:


> Thanks once again to all those who have tried to help me.
>
> Whatever I do I cannot get an exact matches dialogue tab to appear. I
> think
> it must be because I am going through a .com subscription. I have now been
> able to see what I am trying to look for by going to the 1881 url that a
> couple of you have sent but I am not then able to make my login work from
> that page. I think I am just going to have to live with it. I have got
> most
> of the census info that I require over the last 6 months when I was able
> to
> search in a better manner and it is just the new data coming on to the
> site
> that I want or looking up new names.
>
> I would be interested to here from anybody else who is using the .com url
> rather than a .co.uk url to see if that really is the problem.
>
> All the best to everybody for 2005
> Regards
> Gillian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Lon] Ancestry problems - have they changed the search
> engine:
>
>
>> In an email dated Thu, 23 12 2004 09:56:42 -0000 GMT, "GSS"
>> <>
> writes:
>>
>> ============
>> Thank you to Anne, Caroline and Jack but I cannot find any tabs at the
>> top
>> of the search box either on the front page, when you get to a particular
>> census year or under the results once you have done a search, let alone
> ones
>> marked exact matches only or best matches ranked NEW. I seem have a blue
> box
>> and when you expand it to advanced the bottom appears to be white (or it
> may
>> be very pale blue). The search button is yellow. There is a box within
>> the
>> dialogue box marked exact or soundex but I do not think that is what you
> are
>> referring to.
>>
>> Can you tell me exactly which dialogue box I should be looking at or have
>> they changed it all again.
>>
>> ============
>>
>> Hi Gillian
>>
>> The first thing to ask is 'which Ancestry site are you on?' Is it
> Ancestry.com or Ancestry.co.uk? They may be different - if you are only
> interested in British records it is cheapest to connect to .co.uk.
>>
>> The other thought is that the screen you are seeing is not the screen
>> that
> everyone else is seeing. When you are on the search page, have you tried
> to
> Refresh the screen to force the browser to download a new screen?
>>
>> I get the new options for all censuses. Immediately below the line which
> says, say, '1871 England Census' are what appear to be buttons saying
> 'Best
> Matches (Ranked)' and 'Exact Matches Only'. These are the tabs everyone is
> referring to. Click on each of these and you will see a different set of
> search criteria available.
>>
>> DaveD
>>
>>
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>> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
>>
>
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