Ancestry.co.uk - Births Marriages Deaths
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Re: Ancestry.co.uk - Births Marriages Deaths
 ftmfamily481
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Posted: 9 Jul 2009 9:05AM GMT |
Classification: Query
Update:
They've now changed the search dialog and the spouse name now appears, in most cases the 'Find Spouse' now works.
But that's not the only serious problem with the England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005 database:
There are many transcriptions where the spouse name is similar to 'Lewis Or Early Or Abrahams' (ie. current and previous surnames). 'Find Spouse' does not work.
The County (inferred) shown in the results in many cases is wrong. So any search for an event in a certain county is going to give the wrong results.
Many Registration Districts cover two or more counties, but TGN have arbitarily chosen one of them to show. So for example a search for a Marriage in Derbyshire will not find events in Mansfield or Basford Districts, which both include parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Often the Inferred County is completely rubbish. For example Rowley Regis is in the ficticious county of 'Sandwell'. Hackney is shown to be in Middlesex, but from 1889 it was in London and from 1965 was in Greater London.
Up to 1983 the events are in quarters, such as 'Jul-Aug-Sep 1960'. But it is impossible to search for an event in a perticular quarter because the search dialog only allows for a month name.
It's this cavalier attitude to detail by the Ancestry developers which really gets my goat. You don't find this sort of mickey mouse programming on FindMyPast !
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Dave
They've now changed the search dialog and the spouse name now appears, in most cases the 'Find Spouse' now works.
But that's not the only serious problem with the England & Wales, Marriage Index: 1916-2005 database:
There are many transcriptions where the spouse name is similar to 'Lewis Or Early Or Abrahams' (ie. current and previous surnames). 'Find Spouse' does not work.
The County (inferred) shown in the results in many cases is wrong. So any search for an event in a certain county is going to give the wrong results.
Many Registration Districts cover two or more counties, but TGN have arbitarily chosen one of them to show. So for example a search for a Marriage in Derbyshire will not find events in Mansfield or Basford Districts, which both include parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Often the Inferred County is completely rubbish. For example Rowley Regis is in the ficticious county of 'Sandwell'. Hackney is shown to be in Middlesex, but from 1889 it was in London and from 1965 was in Greater London.
Up to 1983 the events are in quarters, such as 'Jul-Aug-Sep 1960'. But it is impossible to search for an event in a perticular quarter because the search dialog only allows for a month name.
It's this cavalier attitude to detail by the Ancestry developers which really gets my goat. You don't find this sort of mickey mouse programming on FindMyPast !
--
Dave