Comments on: State and Country Pages

By: Anne Mitchell

Anne Mitchell — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:10:00 +0000

I've closed this posting for comments. You can visit my latest posting on Questions from the search seminar

By: Carol Berge

Carol Berge — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:33:57 +0000

I am having difficulties finding people in my tree that I am looking for.

I had been able to locate certain people, by using full name, state & county. Not so now…….I have the record saved in my tree….not able to find in ancestry now…..
please correct this problem
Carol Berge

By: Anne Mitchell

Anne Mitchell — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:31:18 +0000

Ken, you can still use the old search interface…it’s available for everyone.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:33:24 +0000

I’m glad to see the state links back up and running. Now if we could solve the new search/old search selection problem we might be back in business. Example: Select “Old Search”, Virginia, Virginia Military Records, then any database pertaining to Virginia in the Revolutionary War. Once you select the database you are now in the “New Search Debacle” with no other option. Thousands of irrelevant results later in numerous databases, I had a computer so slow it wasn’t usable, and now totally fed up with this garbage. That’s it. I’m done. You had your chance and blew it.

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:07:47 +0000

Anne,

Re: your #13 — of course I know the listings of purported State databases were not taken from Trees. The remark was regarding similar-appearing ‘falsiness’* paradigm that is endemic within Ancestry’s approach to database descriptions and classification.

Best wishes,
Jade

* ‘falsiness’ is somewhat similar to ‘truthiness’ but a lot less truthful.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:43:57 +0000

Also, I have been having trouble saving census copies to multiple members of my tree. From both the actual census record and definitely from my shoebox.

Please help! Thanks!

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:40:44 +0000

Fantastic re-addition! Do you know how long I’ve been needing to use this!? Thank you so much!

By: Anne Mitchell

Anne Mitchell — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:07:11 +0000

Cathy, I forwarded your post on to the trees team. I’m not sure what’s up.

By: Athena

Athena — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:05:08 +0000

The main change to increase efficiency is to sort the list by “popularity” but in alphabetical order. I'm very glad to see my state links back but aren't the lists sorted by relevance? When someone brings up the page for state links, the first items listed in each section should be those databases that are explicitly related to that state -- regardless of where the state name falls in alphabetical sequence. In otherwords, the first entry for birth, marriage, and death should not be the SSDI, it should be the state-specific databases. It's hard to understand how TGN can justify investing in all these "innovations" without any consideration of actual relevance.

By: Catherine Leist Hulock

Catherine Leist Hulock — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:58:15 +0000

I haven’t been able to save records from censuses to individuals all day. When will this be back up? Thanks, Cathy