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From: Michael Neill <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Question about the Castle Garden records
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:36:51 -0500
References: <20050801211511.DE8309EDCA@ws6-2.us4.outblaze.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050801211511.DE8309EDCA@ws6-2.us4.outblaze.com>


I was able to do a given name only search. Very effective for
searching the database for Mimke, Ulfert, Altje, Focke, Foche, and
other names I have that are unusual. I actually found several cousins
just today.

I too tried a specific year search, beginning in 1855 and ending in
1855 and got the whole range of years.

If using NetScape, be aware that all ten results may not appear in
your browser window. I had to refresh each time to get all ten hits to
appear (assuming I had ten hits).

Michael


On 8/1/05, Chad Milliner <> wrote:
> I guess you can never have too many indexes, but what niche does this new Castle Garden index serve that was not already filled by the indexes on ancestry.com? The index to 1851-1891 is here:http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?dbid=7488&htx=List and the index to 1820-1850 is here: http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=7485
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> I tried a search for a known person who arrived in 1848, and couldn't find him, and I had difficulty using the search interface. Initially, I limited my search to just the year 1848. (Same pull-down start and end years.) This appears to have generated an error, since all years got returned. It was only after specifying a broader range (start 1847, end 1848) that it got narrowed down to just those two years. But my person was not in the index. There appears to be no way to do a given name only search or a soundex surname search. The main results list does not include ship name, and seem to be listed in no particular order. So I am not impressed at all by the interface. It is unclear whether truncation is allowed.
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