Is the My Alerts/Obituary Hunter working for anyone? I've not had any results for quite a while. I have family names listed that use 2 pages...I am able to access the names on the first page, but get an error message when I try to go to page two. My email to customer support received a reply that really did not cover my question (what else is new). On February 2nd I called and asked about the My Alerts/obit feature. I was put on hold and told that they reported it. Just wondering if anyone else is having problems.

Nearly a month after you posted . . . sorry!

I hadn't received any Obit Hunter messages for quite a while, either. Today I received one and started checking some of the entries. What a mess!

One entry was for "Catherine D. Formerly." Her name was actually McMichael. Looks like they used a bot to pull the information, so "Formerly Her-Last-Name" (can't remember what it was) was pulled instead of her surname.

Found a lot of entries that didn't relate at all to my search criteia. Upon closer examination, the actual obits contained my first name, but couldn't find anything else that related to me or my search which was for a particular location.

Some other gems:
Under Other Names Mentioned: Copyright and Full Story
The deceased White Oak Striffler was listed six times. There is no such person (well, there may be, but not in this particular case). It was actually the Striffler Funeral Home in White Oak.

Clicked on View Obit for one entry and was taken to Wikipedia!

I left comments and reported problems for some of these, but there were just too many of them for me to report them all.

Since I posted my original message I called them again. I was told, "Sorry, but that is no longer a feature". I have been vocal in the past about how the search engine "picked" names. Some years ago I found a few obits and was able to make connections, but that is long gone. The newspapers for that area are no longer associated with Ancestry.com for whatever reason. No use asking and getting a "canned" answer. Their search engine capacity is not compatible to finding what "exact" information you are looking for. When I check "exact" that's what I expect it to be...and it's not.

I just went to the Obituary Collection...Typing in death for the first name and notice for the last name - nothing else - brought up 5,154 hits. Typing in guest for the first name and book for the last name - nothing else - brougt up 20,913 hits. Too bad they couldn't be that "exact" on names that people are searching for.