Comments on: More relevant search results are coming this Wednesday

By: tafwys

tafwys — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:23:19 +0000

I search for Evan Evans, born in Wales and died in Wales. The top results I am offered are:

# Shropshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
# Yorkshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
# Staffordshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
# Lancashire, England: Parish and Probate Records
# England (General): Parish and Probate Records

How are these “more relevant” searches when they all refer to the wrong country?

By: Barb

Barb — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:17:12 +0000

I have not seen any improvement when it comes to relevant searches from my point of view. I still get names that have no relevance in my search. If I look for Joseph Code, I get code of ethics, morse code, Joseph Daly and Bill Code. If someone has seen an improvement in the specifics I have mentioned, please comment.

By: Anne Mitchell

Anne Mitchell — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:38:12 +0000

The comments on this blog post are quite a few, so I'm closing this post for comments. For the most recent post, you can check out the latest update on lifespan filtering

By: Anne Shewood

Anne Shewood — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:36:00 +0000

no place immediate on site for Ellis Island immigrants.

By: Chery Reichardt

Chery Reichardt — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:59:12 +0000

I don’t want 250+ Family Trees (including my own) to pop up every time I search. Most of the info on the Trees has been passed back and forth, unsourced and then squeezed like Cinderella’s step sisters feet into shoes that don’t fit. And now I’m getting Family Trees at the top of the search. Now it’s also matching 1st names (the heck with sur names)so there are more Trees to weed through than ever.
Ancestry has an amazing historical data base, that’s what I’m paying for, that and a useable search engine.
All I want is to type in my gggrandfather’s stats and have Ancestry search for all the Racherba* it can find. I’ll decide what’s relevant. Simple stuff.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:47:58 +0000

Tony –

I was wondering the same thing – even searched on ancestry for quite a while, without success.

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Tue, 05 May 2009 21:00:00 +0000

#228

What / where town hall meeting?

TonyC

By: Carol A. H.

Carol A. H. — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:59:56 +0000

To BoBNY #224

Very sharp, Bob. They do have the ability to delete a post because some with objectionable language have been deleted. I remember one such incident. There is also the possibility of a poster typing the wrong number when referring to another post. I’m guilty of that. My typing would not get me a job. None too speedy either.

By: Cathaleen

Cathaleen — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:32:07 +0000

I was amazed to find that using “people with hints” actually found data new to me, and concerning the people for whom I have spent years searching. I too hope to see new features (being able to sort the results would be my first priority), but I was impressed last evening to hear in the Town Hall meeting what is being proposed for the future.

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 05 May 2009 18:48:47 +0000

I know you are trying to make everyone happy, but what ever happened to KISS.

Have a search that if all I have is the name, I put in the name and I trove thru until I find another factor. If I have the name, state, county, birthday, I put that in, again I get results that match, etc. Why have 2 or 3 different search areas, if you want to search this way go here, etc. Give me the option of putting in what info I have and have the results that match that info. And PLEASE, either make soundex to also include “sounds like” or add a “sounds like”. Sometimes soundex WAY WAY off the name. Example, Musselman and you get MC****** as soundex when all you may need is Mussleman (different spelling).