Three hots and a cot (1969)

[Sam Clements]

Doug said, "The ancestry.com search engine leaves something to be desired."

Welcome to the bizarro world of Ancestry.com.

Hey!  You knew the mission was dangerous when you accepted it.  :)

If I explained it to you, I'd have to kill you!

Perhaps Barry or Jonathon can.

Sam Clements


----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Three hots and a cot (1969)


> >For what it's worth, NO ancestry.com hits from 1959-69 on
three/hots/cots.
>
> The ancestry.com search engine leaves something to be desired. I believe
> there are certain common words which just can't be searched for in certain
> fields. The site doesn't tell you this (AFAIK): you just get no responses.
> For example I get ZERO newspaper hits not only for "three/hots" but also
> for "three/miles", "three/things", "three/points", "three/goals",
> "three/years", "three/days", etc.
>
> Another example: "[blank]/three" gives ZERO hits, "[blank]/"thine" about
> 64,000.
>
> Another: about 37,000 hits for "yesterday/evening", ZERO for
"this/evening".
>
> The Valdez newspaper sometimes is an exception: perhaps it's treated
> differently for some reason.
>
> If SC or others know how to work around the glitches ... please fill me
in!
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>