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Problem with birthplace when searching trees
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Kate | Report | 15 Jan 2009 11:32 |
Can anybody help, please? I'm trying to search trees on here for a certain name which is very common in Scotland but not so common in England, so I thought I would narrow it down by putting England in the birthplace, but I'm still getting loads of Scotland matches! If I put something else in, such as London, it seems to work, so does the word England just get ignored for some reason? Anybody know? |
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nuttybongo | Report | 15 Jan 2009 12:02 |
hi there Kate, |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 15 Jan 2009 12:14 |
The search results are all based on what the tree owner has entered on this site. |
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Kate | Report | 15 Jan 2009 12:18 |
Thanks, Nutty Bongo. I do know where they were born - Islington, but the problem is that it might not say that on an entry. They could have put the name of a smaller area within Islington, for instance. I tried London in case they had just put that, but I was hoping to get all the England matches together so I could look through them. At one time if you were building your tree on here it did force you to enter a country, so I was hoping I might find a match that way if they had entered England as the country. |
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Kate | Report | 15 Jan 2009 12:22 |
I've just tried the same search putting Scotland in the birthplace and it works fine, also Australia, so it really does seem as though it just ignores England! What happens is I get 300 matches if I specify England, but that is the maximum it will give you and it includes all the Scottish ones. If I specify Scotland I get 119 matches which are all Scottish. |
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Kate | Report | 15 Jan 2009 12:44 |
Oh well, I've managed to find him on a tree on another site so I now have his name! Thanks. |
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Kate | Report | 15 Jan 2009 13:06 |
If anyone is interested, I did a search on his full name and put in birthplace England, and got loads of matches including all the Scottish ones etc, and in the middle of them was one where the birthplace is just England. So there is definitely something in the search software on here that decides to ignore "England" in the search criteria. |