Comments on: More AncestryPress templates are on the way

By: Spike

Spike — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:27:56 +0000

Waiting for a new templates

By: Jeff Jahn

Jeff Jahn — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:30:18 +0000

One thing I started working on was a project using blank pages. Basicly its a family year in review photo book that i can send to family and friends. Of coarse their is many other companies you can do it with out their right now, but with the special price ancestrypress has them beat.

By: Joan Hanlon

Joan Hanlon — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:06:22 +0000

Are there any plans to have something similar to a family group sheet? They are pretty helpful in grouping people with the family, so you get a good all around summary of a person. I tried to play around with creating one in the custom report but couldn’t quite pull it off.
p.s. I LOVE THIS PRODUCT! Already created a couple of books and it has made me go back and add a lot of stuff to my member tree that I want to include in the “final” book. Thank you!

By: Laurie Gilliard

Laurie Gilliard — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:47:22 +0000

Here is an idea! It would be absolutely INCREDIBLE if we could make a book dedicated to a particular individual in our family tree. For instance, if I click on my granddaughters name and then click on “Make Personalized Book” (or whatever you want to call it) it would create a book that would go something like this. “My name is ‘Jane Doe’ and I was born on ‘preferred date’ in ‘preferred state/country’ to ‘said parents’. My grandparents are/were ‘John & Jill Doe’ and they are/were from ‘said/preferred state/country etc.” It could generate the information using preferred facts with options to add/remove facts, individuals, generations and photos/media. I’d like to have the option to either use the notes we already have entered on individuals OR be able to enter new notes for that particular page/person. Add in a graphical family tree, cool scrapbook embellishments, nifty heritage type design and fonts for Surnames and you got yourself a masterpiece! Also have a dedication/author page, index at the end of the book with each individuals name, maybe even with or by generation #. Include spell check, of course, and date of print/creation. Preview Book, Upload, Order! How cool would that be? Damn, I should have been a software designer… but, since I’m not, I KNOW you guys can do this! Looking forward to it!
~Laurie Gilliard

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:36:44 +0000

With respect to the DVD idea—which is a good one, I think—you might consider a DVD label and insert routine, too, that can be downloaded and printed on a user’s printer. Many programs provide this capability, but you could contribute things like background images related to genealogy.

By: Pat Blanchard

Pat Blanchard — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:35:50 +0000

I had forgotten that I have Passage Express with a Simply Vintage add-on. I am experimenting with altering photos with different frames,embellishments and backgrounds,then bringing those into my project. It’s producing some really interesting results. I haven’t used Passage Express in a long time, so it’s slow going right now; but I just wanted to let you know that this might be an additional avenue for creative additions to our Ancestry Press projects.

By: Pat Blanchard

Pat Blanchard — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:39:37 +0000

So glad to hear about all the plans for future goodies! One teeny complaint … I put in a request to “Feedback” with regard to Adobe Flash. It’s been making my life miserable for two days now with freezing up the project and causing problems on photo download and dragging the photos onto project pages. This sort of thing happened early on with the Beta version, so I guess it will have to be fixed again. Thought I’d let you know, as well as the “Feedback” folks. Thanks for all your hard work. Am looking forward to the Web “class” on November 1st.

By: Angela Gilmour

Angela Gilmour — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:49:13 +0000

Thanks for all the infomation! I’m a scrapbooker so its good to know I can add my own embellishments! I also wanted to know how you highlight sections of the census? Oh, and you mentioned there are maps on ancestry.com? How do I find those? (did I mention I’m new:)