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Don't know why I haven't thought of it before, what a good idea. My lot live in a small village and I think i've now found several of my ggg grandfathers brothers :D Maria yippeeee

Added By Martin Briscoe on 11/05/2005 19:29:04 | Update Message | Delete Message Done it quite often when trying to find someone and not getting any matches. Just put the name of the place and confirm that you get matches. It can also confirm whether the name is used for parish or town or both. MB Added by Marnie In Spain on 11/05/2005 19:32:16 sorry martin, but you have me totally confused now Sometimes I will be trying to find a Fred Bloggs born in Anytown. As usual the name has probably been mistranscribed and not finding any Bloggs at all in that location. It is only a small village or area of a town so I am not sure whether it gets records as a location on the census so I just search by the place name in 'parish' field and then in 'town' field. This now confirms that it is a location recorded by Ancestry so I can keep on trying. If it is not recognised then try a few variations or wildcards - this particularly the case in Wales where many place names have been badly mangled by both Ancestry and the original recording in the Census. Sometimes with a small village I will spot the family with their name mistranscribed. MB

Hi Mine works now. My village was too small to be recognised so used the next village along!! Penny

Thanks for this tip, want to keep thread to try out when I join Ancestry!!

Hi peeps, didnt expect so much response to this! Ive always used the first name and age only or whatever facility to try to find people but I only stumbled on this this morning because I was feeling dozey. Friend asked if I could find someone in a particular village and as that was on my mind I put in under residence the county and then the village clicked and there they all were. Ive used the ancestry parish census facility before but to be honest, trawling through those is pretty hard work, this alphabetical list is so much easier. If it doesnt work guys, try again as when I tried a second village I got the 'enter more details' stuff and then when I went back and tried again it worked. Ive got the uk site by the way so it must work with all the versions.

We are subscribed to the *.*com. Joy

Penny are you co.uk or .com ancestry? Jeanette

Wow at last I've found it. Brilliant way of finding rellies. Thanks a million Totally Confused. all the best Ros

:-( Still doesn't work for me , I just get Please enter a name and any other information you know about your ancestor and try searching again. Penny

Thank you TC. Guess I won't be packing for my conference until later. I wonder how many people were living in Southampton, Greenwich and Shoreditch with names beginning with S?

Now I know I'm invisible

Done it quite often when trying to find someone and not getting any matches. Just put the name of the place and confirm that you get matches. It can also confirm whether the name is used for parish or town or both. MB

oh no temporarily unavailable - routine maintenance!

Don't know, Marnie! .... Christopher ... :-) Joy

Hi Marnie, It's not you, I'm getting the same message and so want to try it NOW! Best wishes Amanda

Hi All, Just to let you know, I got half way through my families village & they dropped off the net. Maintenance!!!!! Vivienne

didn't know you could do this. Just tryied but can't get any further than surnames with B or C before it crashes

Just had a go. it's brilliant. Thanks a lot. Linda

cos I am still fairly new to this, I keep forgetting to try wider searches like this. Thanks for reminding me.