Comments on: New Record Merge Feature

By: Judith Buck-Glenn

Judith Buck-Glenn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:28:46 +0000

This thing works great when it works, but so often it leaves out realtives that should be incorparated, that i already have on the tree, and then if I choose to selct the ones you DO match up with, the rest of them end up “children of an unknown father” so I end up having to do it one by one. Why on earth, if the mother is named Sarah, and he clearly has a wife named “Sarah Smith” did it not grasp that “Sarah Crawforth”, his wife’s maiden name, is obviously this Sarah Smith? why did Ann Lydia Smith, their daughter, not get taken up, even though you have her as Ann Sydia Smith? Why did most of the kids get left off, but three get taken? It’s infuritating.

By: Karen Parker

Karen Parker — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:26:05 +0000

I am in the 1860 census. I am attaching a record to a person listed on that census. It says click here to shown others in this family or somesuch thing. Anyway, this is the 1860 census, you don’t know if these people are all family. Secondly, I clicked just to see who would come up. The persons daughter came up and she is not on the census, it is 1860 and she was not born until 1875. It is showing me the record I have on file.

By: Monroe McAnally

Monroe McAnally — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:03:18 +0000

This is great. I can’t believe the time it saves, and the long travel to a large city library. Thanks a million.

By: VERA ELLEN RICH

VERA ELLEN RICH — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:38:52 +0000

Love the functionality. It helps keep the trees cleaner and more accurate!

But, I am getting a whole lot of “Hints” that later won’t let me into them to perform the updates. And, the computer system itself needs some serious updating. It is beyond slow- recognizing that there are some huge files but this is still not acceptable performance.

Thank you for your continued services to the geneaology community.

By: VERA ELLEN RICH

VERA ELLEN RICH — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 06:32:44 +0000

Hi!

I was just given a hint for a Lou Caughman who was supposed to be a child of George Martin Coughman the son of a man, also George Martin Caughman. If you check the birth dates of Lou Coughman- yu will see this child belongs to the Senior, not the Jr.

By: George Post

George Post — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:48:38 +0000

How do I find ancestors of mine who I’ve found in your census records. Example, George Butt of Suffolk, N.Y., born 1885, married to Florence Butt. I want to find Florence Butt’s family. I know her maiden name was Valois but cannot find that in records. Any ideas?

By: Steven Myers

Steven Myers — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:36:36 +0000

I just bought a new hard drive with 3GB RAM because it was taking such a long time to navigate your site. Guess what? You’re still extremely S-L-O-O-O-W! This snail’s pace can really take the fun out of visiting you. Please get some new servers, or something.

By: darlene7771 (Darlene A. Walker)

darlene7771 (Darlene A. Walker) — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:55:00 +0000

I found it interesting that you offer the two siblings and then tell me I must choose two parents without offering me the choice. I had to disallow the siblings in order to accept the record as a source for my person. Now if I missed something,and if it is because I haven’t taken your tutorial, I probably won’t. It is too much like learning computer, (too much for this 64 year old grandma to contemplate.) I probably won’t ever learn the new way unless you incorporate directions into each step of the old way, ie. step l, step 2. and to do thus and so for more detail (or whatever) click here. I’m sorry, but you are making things too technical.

By: Margaret Cline Harmon

Margaret Cline Harmon — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:02:35 +0000

I really like and appreciate this new feature on the Ancestry.com Family Tree site. It would save even more time if one could add the record and family to another one of their trees.

By: Lara Rasmussen

Lara Rasmussen — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 04:52:57 +0000

I love this feature, but often when I try to connect siblings it tells me to connect with the parents first. I can see no way to do this on the page. The siblings are shown with boxes to check but the program will not let me check them.
The other aspects of the program are great.
Thank you!