Genealogy Chat

Well what can i say went onto ancestry yesterday and they have changed it :( Don't like it at all and now when you want to look up a BMD on the index you cannot narrow down the search. No longer can you put it if you want a birth,death or marriage or can you put a year of event I have just had to go through over a thousand entry's to get to a marriage that occured in 1895 in Nottingham What a pain in the posterior I will be complaining to Ancestry Why fix what wasn't broke in the first place Kath x

Glad it's not just me that hates it then Kathy! lol Jeanette x

Hi Kath I have just tried and mine is ok; try this link is this the BMD search you were after ? http://www[.]ancestry[.]co[.]uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5963 I always have mine with Advanced Search showing, this does offer Type etc... Cheers...P

i quite like it now i have got used to it I like it where it tells you what your last lookup was especially when doing look ups and also when you use the back button the county stays. Jeanette

Paula Mine is always on advanced search mate :) Just don't seem to have anything there to search on :( K x

I haven't noticed any difference with the BMD search except for change in the font. As far as I know you can still specify what you are looking for as before. Kate.

mmm.... So why is mine working ??? Can you post the link that you are using (or the route you are using to get to BMD searching) do you log on to the (.)com) or the (.)co(.)uk website ? Cheers...P

Paula the uk site. http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=freebmd&so=2&gsfn=johnson&gsln=&sx=&year=&yearend=&gskw=&gsco=1&gspl=1%2c+&prox=0&rank=0&db=&ti=5538&ti.si=0&gss=angs-g#SearchAgain Wont let me post link i have PM'd you Paula Kath x

Ok whoever has Ancestry can you try something for me please. Can you go to the home page put in any surname and just click enter It should bring up all the names in all the records then click on BMD 1837-1983 when i do this yes i get the thousand or so names but NO Refine search box at the bottom like i used to Kath x

For the civil reg bit, are you refering to the first box that comes up after you click on ''England and Wales, Civil Registration Index'' on the front page? If yes - and it only shows the spaces for the forenames, surnames and spelling (exact/soundex)....you need to click on the ''Show Advanced Search Options'' at the bottom of the box. OR......if you mean AFTER you have requested a search on the civil reg and you have been given (say) 5000 results, there should be a box under neath the first set of results that is headed ''Refine your search of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983''. The box under this heading was missing for me yesterday (after the Ancestry update), but after I had slept on it, the box appeared this morning! Merry

Merry I quote 'OR......if you mean AFTER you have requested a search on the civil reg and you have been given (say) 5000 results, there should be a box under neath the first set of results that is headed ''Refine your search of the England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983''. The box under this heading was missing for me yesterday (after the Ancestry update), but after I had slept on it, the box appeared this morning! ' Yes that's exactly it mate! no bleedin box anywhere :( Kath x

It's there for me... but you do have to scroll down to see it! Kate.

Must just be me then Kate :( I am off to delete temp cookies and net files see if that helps if not will contact Ancestry and moan :) Kath x

Hi - Is it sunny in Essex today? I think your Cookies thingy will work...... Hubby now (NOW Ggggrrrr) tells me he deleted cookies (or whatever you call it) after I went to bed last night, so that is why everything was working today........ and I had thought it was a miracle! Merry

I quite like it - not sure anything is really different - except the type face and i find it easier to read Jess x

LOL yeah the cookies thing did work Merry :) And yes tis Sunny today :) so it's not to bad i suppose, just wonder why they change things that don't need changing LOL As long as the subcription fees don't go up because of the new look than i suppose (now mines working properly) it's ok Kath x

I don't mind the new font and layout, but had hoped they might have also corrected things that don't work! The civil reg info 1983-2002 doesn't work correctly (if you refine your search it will ALWAYS say there are no matches!!). Unfortunately, this is still the case after this update! Merry