Genealogy Chat

I haven't seen this one mentioned. Maybe few people are such searching fools as I!

When you search, say, the Trying to Find board, you get search results that often run to several pages. Maybe you'll be able to get to the second page by clicking the page number or the arrow thingy, maybe even the third. Then it stops, and next time you click you get sent back to the main Trying to Find board.

Ditto for my inbox. Trying to see correspondence from, say, Jane whose surname I've forgotten, I select "ascending by forename" to organize the messages so I can go to the Janes. But I can't. As soon as I click on "11 to 21", say, I can't get any farther. I just get sent back to page one.

Ditto for searching trees. Get a results list several pages long, try to get to the third or fourth page, and get "You must enter a surname" message.

There's no way around it. Even back-paging each time, then selecting page 4, then doing it again and selecting page 5, doesn't work; your luck eventually runs out.

This is already about the most primitive message board to be found in cyberspace. No html functions, and the most useless search function possible.

When not even the crappy functions it is supposed to have work ... what are we paying for, again?

That's never happened to me. Maybe it's a browser problem?

Well, interesting! I just tried a tree search in IE, and it worked. But I hate IE and refuse to use it. If I ever shut down Firefox and reboot, we'll see what happens. I just seldom buy the "the problem's at your end" thing. ;) A tech at my ISP tried it again yesterday when I couldn't connect, 12 hours after one of his more intelligent colleagues had given me a big explanation of the server problem they were having ...

Hi Kathryn, no it's not a browser problem, it happens to me as well. But I always assumed I had been clumsy and hit the wrong button!

Duncan

Well heh, now's my chance to find out, coincidentally enough. ;) Firefox just crashed, and I'm waiting for it to restore the dozens of windows/tabs I had open ... and Ancestry is telling me I've exceeded my licence limit ...

Dang, I love technology. I do, of course, I really do. I'd just like it better if it worked!

I never use IE either. I mostly use Opera, and occasionally Firefox.

Well Firefox has its problems. It crashes on me regularly, although this time I think it was Adobe's fault. Can't view images in Firefox at Ancestry; after a few of them, it crashes. Have to copy the url off into an IE window. At least it generally restores much of what had to get shut down.

Probably most people don't have ... oh, I guess it was probably close to 100 tabs I had open when it happened this time ...

Having to use Ancestry without Adblock, even with NoFlash, would cause me to jump out a window.

I Adblock everything, including all the little icons for things here at GR. Visual clutter just makes me nervous. ;)

Oh, by the way, the page to page function for searches and inbox seems to be working now, so that could have been a firefox problem, or GR could have been listening and fixed the problem.

Hahahaha!

I haven't had any of the problems you mention with Firefox.

It does sometimes respond slowly when I have a lot of Ancestry tabs open, but that seems to be a computer memory problem.

100 tabs open at once seems to be excessive. What's the point?

Try hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL and looking at the Task Manager to see how much spare memory you have when you've got all those tabs open.

removed ... point, made.

Sorry, I was just trying to be helpful. Firefox tends to freeze on me if I have more than about 10 Ancestry windows open, and I thought that might be your problem.

Hi Kath

I don't have that problem

BUT I do find that on all boards on GR if I am on say p.3 and want to go back to p.2 to check something ...... I end up on p.1



and that happens every time I want to go back one page, even from p.16 to 15!



sylvia



ps. have fun with your maternal ancestor . is she/he really an ancestor??? Must be well preserved!

"Must be well preserved"? Whaddaya mean by that, lotus eater??

Let's see, if I'm 92, then she's ...

She's 78 this year. My sister is 42 this year. And that's as much info as I'm givin'. ;)


You have a mutant version of the same problem, it seems. The page-back, page-forward function isn't functioning, some of the time for some people, at least. The fact that it works all of the time for some other people doesn't change that fact!

well,

you did say your "maternal ANCESTOR"


which to me means an ancestor of your mother!


perhaps I should start saying how bad life is here??? We don't want tooo many people coming to lotus land!



OH ........ page back function worked fine for me tonight! First time in weeks.

Funny coincidence, eh? Complain about it, it works. Light a cigarette, your mother will come. (I was out standing on the corner in the bitter freezing cold ... that's: the bitter, freezing cold ... waiting for her cab from the train station, and I just knew if I lit a cigarette I'd miss it pulling up. If some trolling john or bored cop didn't decide to accost me for standing around smoking on the street corner first.)

Okay, so maternal ancestor is ancestor of mother. Sez you. Well, she's my ancestor, and she's maternal, sez I! She brung me freshly baked Christmas cake, and I'll probably find her doing the dishes tomorrow ...

ooooooooohhh


english style dark fruit cake???


can I come for tea?

Noooooooooo.

English style dark fruitcake,yech. Probably USAmerican-style light fruitcake with lots of candied fruit and pineapple, yum.

I'm just no good at this English stuff. Some people are gagging for a cup of tea; me, I gag on a cup of tea.

so you won't let me come for tea then?


BTW ................ I'm not that keen on tea either, especially the strong dark stewed kind!

Kathryn first let me apologise , I have a ? with a relative, I put it on the Trying to find board and it was suggested I try you, hope that is ok. An aunt of my husbands has recently died, in her bible was found a small card," In loving memory of Susannah Delsall aged 48 died in Canada 1893. grave no 382. loving sister of Emma Cranfield." Susannah was the sister of Mary ann Cranfield who had an illegitimate son Henry b.1851 he married an Emma Cant, They are my husbands Gt Grandparents, do not no of any other Emma's in the family, Father-in-law says there was an Aunt living in Canada, I cannot find any Delsall's in England or Canada, do not know if she married here or in Canada, or why she went. If you can throw any light on this I would be grateful.
I am happy to let you have my e-mail adrress if it makes it easier. Beth

Hi Grace, no prob -- as long as it's not by email. ;)

I just had a quick scan of deaths in Ontario in 1893, at Ancestry, and there's no Susan* who looks like she might be Delsall. The Cdn originals are horrific in many cases, the scans worse, and the transcriptions much worser, but nothing looks likely.

I also checked in Ontario for marriages of Susan* to Delsall, and any Delsall marriage at all. No such name. Nor in the 1901/1911 censuses. Closest we get is Dalzell in British Columbia in 1911.

I'm a bit rushed at the moment, but I'll get back to you on this.

The provinces all have to be checked individually, at their vital stats sites, for BMDs.