# "My Heritage Search"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 23, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824 "2010-09-23T23:37:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824/1 "2010-09-23T23:37:02Z")

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Does anyone know how to get these cork-soakers off my toolbar? I went there to find my German ancestors and now, even though I have deleted them from my programs, that god-damn tool bar is still there.

Thanks for any help!

Quasi

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824/2 "2010-09-24T00:02:27Z")

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Try deleting your cookies. Or if all else fails do a rollback to a time before you messed with the site.

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824/3 "2010-09-24T02:38:34Z")

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If it is a separate toolbar, it should be it Add/Remove programs. Also check in your browser’s Tools/Manage Add-ons and see if you can disable it there.

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**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824/4 "2010-09-24T04:58:20Z")

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Could also be as simple as going to View/Toolbars and if you see it listed there, uncheck it. (I don’t recall the IE equivalent, this is how you’d do it in Firefox.)

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-heritage-search/554824/5 "2010-09-24T18:26:23Z")

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Thank Og for System Restore. That worked! Thanks, **Peanuthead** and everyone. Guess I’ll look for my German ancestors elsewhere. 🙂

Q