ScotlandsPeople - to go offline 24th Jan 2007

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:39 pm

Hi All,

Jumped in feet first yesterday, my last chance of finding birth of Margaret Macrae (abt 1834) and a couple of whom I have looked at for years in the IGI as being the only hope of her parents. I could not have been more excited, but yet another wall in my search for Margaret, no chance of a birth. Then for the marriage of Donald and Ann Macrae who may, or may not be her parents. Found them, but then they are in the IGI. However nothing new and extremely hard to read. Just states Married Jan 10 1825 Lochcarron. There is a column on the right of which I cannot read. There is no heading to the colomn as to what it asks? That is it, nothing else.
I thought after reading what other information some of you are finding I would have been able to either claim to have had found them or move
on.

Lizzie

Post by **emanday** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:02 pm

Why don't you put the image on the gallery and see if anyone can decipher it for you?

Post by **Pandabean** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:01 pm

Wow. Looked on the Statutory Deaths and found you can also add in the Mother's maiden name.

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:17 pm

Pandabean wrote:Wow. Looked on the Statutory Deaths and found you can also add in the Mother's maiden name.

But be aware that the info is only currently there in the indexes (male and female) for ca. 10% of the records.

Further, at the moment, if you enter a surname in the mother's maiden name field, you will only get exact matches, i.e. when there is an actual entry in this field in the index

Some time in the future this should change so that you will also get matches involving records where there is no entry in the mother's maiden name field in the indexes, even when you have put in such a surname in the search parameters.

Anyone who understands that deserves a large

David

Post by **Pandabean** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:22 pm

Does that mean if you do put something in that field and do a search (that hasn't had mothers maiden name indexed) you will get no results?

DavidWW wrote:
Pandabean wrote:Wow. Looked on the Statutory Deaths and found you can also add in the Mother's maiden name.
But be aware that the info is only currently there in the indexes (male and female) for ca. 10% of the records.

Further, at the moment, if you enter a surname in the mother's maiden name field, you will only get exact matches, i.e. when there is an actual entry in this field in the index

Some time in the future this should change so that you will also get matches involving records where there is no entry in the mother's maiden name field in the indexes, even when you have put in such a surname in the search parameters.

Anyone who understands that deserves a large

David

Post by **emanday** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:34 pm

Some time in the future this should change so that you will also get matches involving records where there is no entry in the mother's maiden name field in the indexes, even when you have put in such a surname in the search parameters.

In simple terms. it means that the search engine will be told that...

...if the mother's surname is there - OK, but...
...if NO mother's surname is on the index but the other criteria match - OK...
If, however, a different mother's surname is there, NOT OK.

grannysrock · Post by **grannysrock** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 10:15 pm

David - thanks for the explanation

Anyone who understands that deserves a large

Aye a did , an' it's being consumed'

Cheers
Sally
( Great Chieftain o' the puddin' race )

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:09 pm

Hi Mary.

Spent all day yesterday trying to upload this Macrae Marriage.
Still no luck. I saved it and it went into "My Computer" I have tried to upload it to the Gallery and it does not work. I can send it to myself with no problem. It keeps trying for several minutes then it gives up and I get an ERROR message. Just ERROR, no explanation. HELP?

Lizzie

Post by **emanday** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:33 pm

How are you trying to upload it?

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:55 pm

Following instructions Mary,
When I saved it I looked in My Documents and it was not there. Looked in My Computer and there it is. I went into Gallery, followed instuctions, and when it went into my PC, It started on My Documents, not there, so clicked to My Comuter and there it is. I feel there is something missing in my PC. I watch it trying to upload but it is unable to do it. In the end I get a large ERROR message.
As I said I can send it anywhere but through the Gallery.

Lizzie