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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>I could not have said it any
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2>Darlene</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=cklooster@aol.com
href="mailto:cklooster@aol.com">cklooster@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:50
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com -
Response to Pat</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Okay Pat in Tuscon...here's a quick example. If I do a
search for my maternal grandfather, David M. Christie born 1898 in Ontario,
Canada, and stipulate that priority be given to US collections and that all
terms be matched exactly; I get eight responses. The first two are
actually accurate; an entry on the One World Tree, and a US Naturalization
Record. The last six are for unrelated individuals ranging from David
Horace Christie to Paschal A.M. Christie. What kind of "exact match" is
that? If I uncheck the "match all terms exactly" box and repeat the
search, I get 431,864 (not a bazillion, but you get the picture) responses,
but of the first twenty on the page, only the first two (same two as the first
search) are the right person. <FONT size=3><STRONG>Now before anyone on
the list decides to help me out, please understand that I'm just giving this
as an example...I already know everything I need to know about my
grandfather.</STRONG></FONT> <IMG height=19 alt=:-)
src="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/resources/core/images/smile.gif"
width=19> My point is that there are a number of other records on
Ancestry.com that reference this man...several border crossing references as
well as US census records. Since I know where he was living in any
given year, it is relatively simple to give much more detailed information to
pull up the records I needed. But had I not known what state or county
he was living in, or if I did not know his birthplace or birthd ate, sorting
through all of the "hits" on Ancestry is cumbersome and time
consuming. <BR><BR>I am working on a number research projects that
involve people about whom much less is known than I know about my
grandfather. These are the situations in which the limitations of
the Ancestry search function is less than satisfactory...and don't even get me
started about the silly search function for the vintage newspaper collection
on Ancestry which pulls bits of two different words together to make a single
word "matching" your search term!<BR><BR>What I would like is a search
function that is more accurate and can be defined more narrowly if needed...if
I give the name of a person who was born, died, and resided in Alaska in a
given time period, I am pretty much not interested in 400,000 people with
similar names living in the other 48 states in other time periods.<BR><BR>I
know...picky, picky!<BR><BR>In short, I've been using Ancestry since its
inception and will continue to do so (or at least until my dwindling 401K and
Ancestry's increasingly horrendous subscription price bring my research to an
end) but from time to time I feel the urge to vent my frustration.
Consider my frustration
vented!<BR><BR>Carla <BR><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: Kith-n-Kin <Kith-n-Kin@cox.net><BR>To: 'or-roots
mail list' <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Sat, 17 Jan
2009 7:57 am<BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com<BR><BR>
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style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans -serif'">I rarely have a
problem of “too many hits” when I look someone up – unless, of course, there
are a bazillion of them.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Could you give us
a name and parameters so we can try to replicate what’s happening? I’ve not
been able to figure out what the problem is.</SPAN></DIV>
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Tucson)</SPAN></DIV>
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href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A>
[<A
href="mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us?">mailto:or-roots-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A>]
<B>On Behalf Of </B><A
href="mailto:cklooster@aol.com">cklooster@aol.com</A><BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday,
January 16, 2009 11:58 PM<BR><B>To:</B> <A
href="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</A><BR><B>Subject:</B>
Re: [or-roots] Ancestry.com</SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt">Ancestry.com...the site you
love to hate...or hate to love. If they are actually blaming their
recent woes on AOL or Firefox, they're delusional. I have Explorer7 and
have been experiencing the same frustration as others posting on this
list. Some of the problems seems to have been resolved, but last night
Ancestry wouldn't open several census pages ("try again later") and returned a
<EM>"This individual is not listed on Worldwide Tree"</EM> statement for
several different people who were identified on the trees in the search
function. Parts of the site were working but other parts obviously were
not. The website continues to be slow-slow-slow to load. I suspect
that they've outgrown their technical capabilities and are trying to play
catch-up. I continue to be frustrated with their search function that
returns a bazillion people no matter how restrictive you set the search
parameters. I do think it is worthwhile to keep giving them feedback
about the aspects of the site that are less than stellar. The areas that
are identified as problematic by the most people will undoubtedly get the most
attention...<EM>squeaky wheel</EM> and all that.
<BR><BR>Carla<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: JOHN LAURA
MCKINNEY <A href="mail to:birdman_326@msn.com">birdman_326@msn.com</A></DIV>
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ancestry, and they told me that folks using aol or firefox has been an issue
since updating. They had me load int. explorer 7 and now I can get
in. Thanks, Laura</DIV></DIV>
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