The green check-mark is a great feature but I am unclear on the concept of a “person card” and its “floating capability”.

Couldn’t identify exactly what you meant was “floating” and a quick check of the AMT help system didn’t seem to provide any further enlightment on a “person card”.

Does this “person card” and “floating capability” apply to both AMT and FTM users? (I use the former but not the latter.)

Cute. I’d now like to see your results screen with “Exact” checked.

I love the check mark! Saves a lot of back and forth to see if I already have that record. Up till now, I had to make lists for each person, to remember which census I was looking for, etc.
If I understand your terminology, while I am searching down a long list of files, I really appreciate the info for the person I am looking for, in a floating box, going down the line with me. It would seem a person would not forget who they are looking for, or what year they were born = but I do it quite regularly!!! I LIKE BOTH of these new features!! THANK YOU!!!!

Excellent idea to help keep track of the records you have attached on the fly. This help speed up research and avoid confusion.

Love it! This saves time and duplicate searching.
Thanks,
Vicki

I really like the floating box, with a lot of information to compare, it is easier with my info compared with others. I also like the ability to add family members automaticaly, I like to add the members & info at each census or other event right on my page, instead of having to go back to look up each time I want to compare. See Whitley family

The check mark is fantastic!! It is great to be able to know at a glance which records have already been saved to an individual. It is a huge time saver! As for the floating “person card,” on the one hand, I like having the individual’s information handy for comparison, but sometimes it gets in the way. On the whole, I think it is a good idea, with the exception that it seems to slow down the loading of the page. Thanks for all the wonderful changes you have been making in the last few months!

For the few who seem to hate it you might add the ability to turn it off.

That way everyone will be satisfied.

I’m with Tyler; I know that this is something I’ve wanted but not quite sure how to use/bring it up, etc.Please respond.

I LOVE the green check-mark!

I like the idea of the person card, but the results pages seem to take a LOT longer to appear now. Instead of something floating from the top, how about making the personal information in the “refine search” part of the left column static so that it stays put as the results scroll on the right?

The green check mark has been a great improvement. No more time spent going into the record just to find out it’s already attached to the person. Thank you.

sorry, i’m from italy,
this application is real?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ancestrycom/7483836629#/group.php?gid=39694393822

this consumer writes of an application in accord between facebook and ancestry for a “archive” cross and automatic.

The floating block is a waste of time. I am the one that started the thread on the boards.

Why do you guys waste your time and our subscription money on eye candy? It is extremely annoying. The name of person appears at the top of the browser whether I am using Firefox or Safari. I don’t know about IE.

GET RID OF THE FLOATING BLOCK!

Guess what? It’s not working!!

I am not seeing the green check mark you are talking about. The only time I see a check mark is when I have already saved something to the shoebox. Is there another check mark for something else? Also what is a floating capability? I’m obviously missing something (but don’t know what).

can someone explain why when i search specifically for canadian male records that i get results mixed with us, english wales australia etc results? if i wanted to search other countries i would. i scan thru records for Jack and get everyone else for anywhere from 100 plus records then get a disclaimer the next record were not a good match etc. and the first records up are Jack. your searches are very frustrating i get to the 2000 record mark and can go no further yet if you did not include all the other records that were not canadian or were for totally different names than i asked for i might be able to restrict my search to your 2000 limit your exact match is not optional per field then you throw directory items into a result i’m searching 1848 why would i want to see a 1995 phone directory?
email me with searches for the senerios listed above that will eliminate any but the type of records i am looking for all birth, or all marriage or all death all ontario not saskatchewan or the dourin collection if i don’t ask for it don’t show it

I love the green check too, but have a couple of questions.
1. Why can’t I download my research from Ancestrydotcom to my PC and family treemaker? If it is not possible, then I think I won’t be contributing for quite awhile, because I’ll have to do all 1000 + people by hand on my PC (and I am a very good contributor).

2. Why can’t I upload an audio interview from 1974 with my 90-year old cousin? Your system only allows live (and not even that easily). Why can’t I upload the MP3 file?

More from me ~ If geneologydotcom and ancestrydotcom have common log-ins, why can geneologydotcom download my family trees from ancestrydotcom?

Thank you, these are both excellent enhancements.

The saved indicator has been my #1 wish list item. I love it. Next on my list is a similar indicator that shows which records have been “viewed” before (maybe an eye-ball, or pair of glasses?). This will help less-organized folks like me from reviewing the ssme record multiple times. I suspect this cannot be done retroactively (unless you’ve been keeping track of every record I have “touched”).

I have already found the person card useful. I’m not sure what you mean by floating capability? I thought it might refer to the behavior of some widgets that cause the rest of the data on the screen to push down. but the person card seems to pre-allocate real-estate on the panel to avoid this. THANK YOU !

If you can implement the same behavior for the ancestry hints and “Show siblings” you would have a fan for life.

I noticed that my last comment on this thread was removed. I was not abusive, did not use unappropriate language, etc. Do you guys want an honest opinion? Thanks for your timely response in advance.

IMHO, I don’t like the floating box. I zip down the list of 50 records per page with my eyes. Many times I review what I am scanning twice. The “floating box” gets in the way.
I would love a search for only the first letter of a persons last name, state and county. Many, many times the second letter of the first or last name is wrong and your search excludes it. Just give me a search for exa: 1850, Arkansas, Searcy, Last or first name starts with a F.

I find the checkmark quite helpful but the floating box is constantly in the way. I would much refer back to the top of the page and be sure I’m not missing a clue because I scooted down the page to far.

Like both features a lot, prefer person card to stay at the top of the results.

Still using “old search” mostly, as it seems faster & I’m getting more specific results most of the time.

p.s. Neither feature seems to be working today, so it’s back to old search again!

Why not a version of the block that only included the person’s date of birth, place of birth and if needed, date and place of death? It would be most helpful if all that info were in one “line” at the top of the page and that it stayed there.

Late to this discussion, but just wanted you to know how much I LOVE the green check mark! Apparently I discovered it soon after it came into being and it couldn’t have been at a better time for me! I was working on a project for my MIL’s birthday and that one feature saved me a ton of time!
The floating “card” on the other hand…well, I was wondering if that was what was making the site so unusually slow, especially when I tried to quickly scroll down the list of results. I can see where it would be useful, but not at the expense of slowing things down that much.
But thanks for the checkmarks!

Thanks so much for your response! I want you to know that I am not trying to be negative. I’m an educator and also have lots of college hours in programming, so maybe I view it more as a constructive criticism. The largest problem I have with searches is the misspelling of the subject’s name. I know the county and state they are in, but the name is misspelled and/or birth state listed wrong and doesn’t come up on a search. It would be EXTREMELY helpful and save hours and hours of my time if I could just zoom to the first letter of the first/last name in the census year/county/state. If the census record I am looking for has 5,000 people in the county, I have to page forward a lot and wait for the page to load.

HOW DO GO TO FIND IT. ABOUT JAMES FELTUS 1883-1946 AND JEFFERSON WALKER 1843-1908 HISTORY?

As I have said, I love the person card floating and the green checks – HOWEVER – it takes SO MUCH LONGER TO LOAD THE PAGE – that I am really getting frustrated with it.
Each page, I wait and wait and wait and wait.
That REALLY gets old!!!!
Can’t you speed it up a little?
It just takes forever to do anything!

LOVE the green checks and am really looking forward to 7 January when we can “pin” the person to the top of the page. Thanks for letting us know! The floating card makes the page so slow.

In fact, I strongly second Donna’s opinion about taking forever to do anything … every page on ancestry.com loads so slowly. Can anything be done about that? I’m on high-speed DSL and it’s very frustrating to wait between 10 and 45 seconds for a single page to load.

Thank you for asking how we feel about new features, and for sharing the January sneak-peak!

Donna,

Using FireFox instead of speeds this up considerably.

how do I save a 1930 census record to a particular person when it only gives me the option of saving to the shoebox? While perusing 1930 Hulen OK census I found some relatives that I want to save the record to and ancestry does not give me the option to.

i love it i spend entirely too much time on it.

I like the check marks and the floating person card.

where did i start and where am i

Once again, someone else is “using” my account. How can that be?
I’m often not able to log in. Why is that?

Also this duplication problem, which so many of us are having has not been addresssed.

This clearly needed to have a “fix” and one that all of us could be aware of…

either FIX it, OR give us money back.

claire lewis

ah…..a lot of us have duplication problems, which apparently you have been notified of. Yet, no “fix.”
You need to fix that. AND let the rest of us know how to remedy our “trees.”
I love it when I try to log in and “my account is already in use by another person.” How can that be???

Has it ever occured to you to refund us when your “service” is not working or is “unavailable” or whatever excuse you have for it not to be working. I check and it’s NOT my local server, it’s ancestry.

claire lewis

“Donna,

Using FireFox instead of speeds this up considerably. Andy”

Andy, I would sooo very much like to thank you!!!! I had been having terrible problems with Ancestry.com getting progressively slower each session I was using it. To speed it back up, I had to log off, close IE and reopen and log on again, only to repeat the process again about 30 minutes later! This was so frustrating and time consuming!! After I read what you typed, I switched over to FireFox (Mozilla) browser, rather than IE. SOLVED THE “SLOW” PROBLEM AND SAVED ME HOURS OF TIME!!! Thanks!!!!

I was surprised that I could find no cemeteries marked in the Ft. Towson, OK map, when I clicked that feature.

I uploaded my Family Tree onto this site and recently I lost my hard drive and my family tree. How can I retrieve it from Ancestry.com and put it back on my computer?

Fred Jenney, born on 4 July is the son of Fred W, born 1884; I think he was the 3rd. My great uncle.
How can I get my tree straightened out?

How do I install Firefox without making myself vulnerable to viruses? I thought I already had but then everything became slow again…???

A cousin sent me his branch of the family going back several generations. While I really appreciate this additional information, I noticed when I loaded it to my family tree that as each person last name he entered father last name space mother last name.

Is there a tool I can use to end up with only the father’s name as the last name for each child or do I have to change each entry manually, ?

Thanks,

Luis Paulete

How do I remove a family tree from my site.
I think the family that is on there is not related.

Thanks, Maureen