Comments on: New Record Merge Feature

By: MARGARET mOSELEY

MARGARET mOSELEY — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:20:30 +0000

You have my name as Leopold Fessler-he is a relative. My username is leopold 37

By: Vivian Carroll

Vivian Carroll — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:03:26 +0000

Burta McGraw is the same person as Sarah Roberta Nunn McGraw Graham. She was my great grandmother. Her maiden name was Nunn. She married James H. McGraw who died and then she married James A. Graham. She was born 4/23/1879. She died in 1980 at 101. She had 5 brothers Elijah (1881), E. Gettys (1884), John (1887), Joseph Earl (1892) and Wyatt (1895).

By: Deanna Lytle

Deanna Lytle — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:53:49 +0000

Some of the census information has typos or names misspelled which prevents me from adding them to the correct person in my family tree. Is there a way to do this or provide corrections? For instance…a grandfather that was only married to one woman and has 5 children but the same wife’s name is spelled differently on every census from 1900 to 1930.

By: Rick Boatright

Rick Boatright — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:46:54 +0000

It’s annoying that when it fails to accurately match a person, it insists on making a NEW person rather than letting me hand-match.

Willie Boatright _is_ William E Boatright, but it wants to make a new one. A hand-match would be nice.

By: Frances Gary

Frances Gary — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:52:58 +0000

I would like to use the option of merging family members, if you gave the option of correcting or adding their relationships to each other. EG. the record I attached to my grandmother’s residence when she was 14. When I clicked merge other family members, it only showed her as spouse to her father and daughter to herself, which is not the case of course. Therefore, the option to correct the relationships to each other would be good. — note, the relationships were presented correctly on the 1930 census, but not interpreted correctly on your site. —-

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:12:08 +0000

I am relatively new in understanding computer lingo. It seems I keep duplicating family sibling’s names. It would be nice if the technology could pick this up, and would beep a warning or delete it automatically if repetition occures. Unless, for some reason, repetition is neccessary in other references.

By: Dorene Ferguson

Dorene Ferguson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:27:05 +0000

When I find a specific person on a census and that person’s spouse has died, any surviving children don’t merge under both parents, but with the surviving spouse and an unknown parent. Then I have to “fix” each child by adding the parent that Ancestry considers unknown. Needs a fix.

By: Robin Gilbert

Robin Gilbert — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:37:15 +0000

I love this feature! If you could find some way to speed up the system that would be WONDERFUL! It takes too much time for the pages to actually load so you can move around on them. And go to the kitchen if you try to back up a page – you have time!

By: Karen Jones

Karen Jones — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:42:42 +0000

How do I give feedback if names of ancestors have been transcribe wrong? It will not meld in tree right

By: Ilene Nutt

Ilene Nutt — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:43:21 +0000

After selecting a hint, a document show information that I am looking for. However, when the selection of information to merge appears, it leaves off some of the information needed. For instance Mother and Father names that I would like to merge into my document. Also, I don’t see how to view the original document an longer. Also everything is very slow. What is going on?