Comments on: Ancestry’s Search Functionality

By: Geraldine

Geraldine — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:03:50 +0000

I am trying to find out some information on my uncle, Mr Arfentress New, whom dies in 1972, Mother’s name was Birtha New and Father was, Matthew Allen New

By: Dinah Deck

Dinah Deck — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:12:49 +0000

One letter off does make a difference. My Grandfather was Otho Clyde Grate and in one town cences it was listed at Atho Clyde Grate. He was also nicknamed Thomas. Now what is up with that. Makes it very confusing. I would like to find birth or marrage records but nothing so far. I do know he was born in 1890. Dinah

By: bettty

bettty — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:39:18 +0000

any info on george w cornelious or marie marquardt.?thanks

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:01:04 +0000

the number of records available thru your search feature is truly amazing, thats for sure ….but for that very reason it would be most helpful to be able to sort by column. Also I think it in searching border crossing records it would be very helpful to put in a month and/or day along with the year….I know the date I am looking for, but have to enter only a year so I get way too many records to search throughly. thanks for giving us the opportunity to offer our 2cents!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:40:20 +0000

I recently started searching the database of French Canadian records. Now I find this to be extremely useful and I have had a lot of success with it. However it suffers from some liberal interpretation of the Quebec parish registers (Drouin) and census records by english speaking transcribers. The census is a double problem because the original census takers were often english speaking and apparently lazy at writing down french names. Please take this as a constructive criticism but it would help if the search engine was smarter or tuned the french, eg I found Jeanne intrpreted as Jennie.

By: Racing Schools

Racing Schools — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:52:24 +0000

Wow. It’s nice to always find your roots.

By: Jeff Stoks

Jeff Stoks — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:11:03 +0000

Hi,

An ancestry.com fan and member, but your “Stories & Publications” Search is whack!

Try typing in Mary Stokx. Many results… not one Mary Stokx on the scanned in pages.

Then I tried a variety of names… again, many results, not one actually on the scanned page.

What up?
Jeff

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:39:01 +0000

Hi,
I’m Cathy and have been a member of ancestry for probably close to 6 years. While I am still trying the new search I seem to continue to go back to the old search.

Here is a problem that I don’t know who to tell about.
If you will go here or seek out

1850 United States Federal Census
about William H Moore
Name: William H Moore
Age: 84
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1766
Birth Place: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 23, Cooper, Missouri
Household Members:
Name Age
Ann Moore 78
Ann Moore 78
William H Moore 84
William H Moore 84

you can see above that it is a double entry. But that’s not my complaint. My complaint is that when you look at the census you will see that the numbers are 2’s not 7’s meaning their ages are 27 yrs old and 24 yrs old. I see no where to report this.
Here it is transcribed by me from that page:
1850 Mo Cooper Dist23 - image 130

1204/1204
Joseph Moore 27 M Farmer 500 MO (1) Married within the (last) year
Mary A Moore 24 F MO (1) Married within the (last) year

So the search capabilities would throw someone off if they are doing a date range and trying to find them.
Can you tell me where to report these things? Yes I’ve added a comment but that won’t help correct the typo in the transcription. And if you look closely you will see the census takers 7 is clearly a 7 while the 2 is rounded at the top.

I’m still relying on the old search capabiilties, but I wish that you would incorporate some of the features, as in choosing which to go fuzzy with. I have more faith in the old because I won’t have to weed through page after page of incorrect data to find my 1 true match that is a bit different, spelling, etc.
Thanks for reading!

By: BELLE SEIDMAN

BELLE SEIDMAN — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:16:08 +0000

I’M SORRY, I DIDN’T READ THIS ARTICLE. I AM SO HOPPED UP ON TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT MY OWN FATHER AND MOTHER, I’M TOO EXCITED TO TAKE THE TIME TO READ NOW. MAYBE I WILL IN THE FUTURE. I WILL BE SO GREATEFUL FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN PROIVDE. THANK YOU.

By: Dale Frank

Dale Frank — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:20:12 +0000

It seems no longer possible to do a search for a married woman and expect results which include her married name. One step forward - two steps back, methinks!! Now in order to do a search for a woman who has been married, we need to do the independent search and use her maiden name. Using both surnames in the surname field does not work. Please give us the old search back until at least the major bugs have been worked out of this new version.