Ancestry again

[Thomasin]

I've been looking at Ancestry's London, England, Poor Law Records, 1517-1973 and they seem to have duplicated their results in a mad way. For example, for 'Southwark, Camberwell, Orders of Removal, Settlement and Relief 1894-96' they have 2,530,913 matches, and they are all the same. It's the same with other boroughs too.

[Peter Goodey]

Eh? When I call up that category

Southwark > Camberwell > Orders of Removal > Settlement and Relief, 1894-1896

I just see 204 pages all different and all looking much as I would expect.

[Thomasin]

There are at least 200 pages, and they are all identical.

Now I get this: Check Back Soon
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[Thomasin]

Don't you see 204 separate 'matches' for this category? If you go into them, they are all identical.

Ah, I see what has happened. 204 matches = 204 pages in the book, and each one has come up separately. How mad is that?

[Peter Goodey]

Ah you're using that search panel. Knowing that it wasn't transcribed I just went straight to the Browse panel on the right and everything appeared normal to me.

Surely the Search panel is just a waste of space if the records haven't been transcribed

[Thomasin]

Search panel? What am I doing wrong? I go in from Card Catalogue. Nothing ever seems very visible in Ancestry.

[Thomasin]

Search panel? What am I doing wrong? I go in from Card Catalogue.

This was a genuine question, and I would appreciate some help. Where, or how, should I be looking, please?

Oh, it's OK. I see now what Peter meant by Search Panel.