I have added George Edwin Hill and when I look for him on the Family Tree Search, he is not there?

Question

I still cannot find George Edwin Hill on the Family Tree Search.  It has been 21 hours ago..    Phebe Mautner

Answer 1

It sometimes take a little while for the system to fully update. For sure tomorrow (if not sooner) you should find him there.

Comments

That's correct, S.

We completely rebuild our search index once a day, at night.

Using an index speeds up searches quite a bit, but it does cause this confusion.

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To S. Willson,

Still don't have George Edwin Hill (Hill-16857) on an index, I have to call his wife up and double click on him there to get to his Profile.

Phebe Mautner      Mautner-3260

Answer 2

I think there's a limit on the number of profiles that are displayed in a search ... 100 I think.  At the top of the search for George Hill you will find something like: .... 100 out of 298.  If you sort by birth date and go to the bottom of the list it does not go to 1870.  Ah, but all is not lost ... at the bottom of the search page you can refine your search ... add in the birth year (1870) and, voila, there he is (after you sort by birth date again), about 8 lines down.  You can choose to exclude profiles without birth dates and the list is much shorter.

Comments

Thank You so much.  I would not have known if it wasn't for you.

 

Phebe Mautner