From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 31 15:41:15 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6VLfFjb023961; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:41:15 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6VLfCCT003518 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:41:12 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6VJ2RFI030324 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:02:27 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6VJ2R9U030323 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:02:27 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6VGH3FI029821 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:17:03 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6VIte9p011871 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:55:40 -0600 X-Envelope-From: joanparker@intergate.com Mon Jul 31 12:55:40 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6VItejb011860 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:55:40 -0600 Received: from smtp9.trip.net (smtp9.trip.net [216.139.64.9]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6VItWmX004679 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:55:36 -0600 Received: from acer2e68c49b20 (2-pool1.ras02.mia01.dial.cogentco.com [206.148.140.2]) by smtp9.trip.net (8.13.7/8.13.7) with SMTP id k6VItL9Y058513; Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:55:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <031001c6b4d2$c8f418d0$2f8c94ce@acer2e68c49b20> From: "Joan Parker" To: References: <412.4bd3a20.31feb252@aol.com> Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: more on ancestry : incorrect ssdi listing Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:42:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 216.139.64.8 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com That has happened to me, person deceased in 1913 but that name showed up in SSDI anyway. Yes, the death date year was entered correctly, right from the tombstone. Go figure. Joanie ----- Original Message ----- From: JYoung6180@aol.com To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:09 PM Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: more on ancestry From: "Vicky Drake" dvicky@cox.net In all the changes to their home page I wonder if Ancestry's search engines have been changed significantly. They certainly seem to less selective or specific. Yesterday I put in Mary Hill b. 1659 d 1712 and among other choices that came back were about 75 hits in the SSDI! I would expect SSDI hits if I didn't have a definite death date but a 1712 death date seems a little out the realm of SSD ---- Vicky- I just tried to duplicate/reproduce your results with May Hill born 1659 and died 1712 on Ancestry's SSDI and got zero hits. So Ancestry's SSDI is not returning about 75 hits based on the parameters you list above. Joan