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Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:51:45 +0000

[...] David Graham placed an observative post today on Ancestry.com Blog – Â» Some improvements to the online Messages featureHere’s a quick excerptSome of the member trees on Ancestry.com are private and to learn more about one of your ancestors that may be in the tree you need to contact the owner of the tree. If you choose to do this, we will add a link in your message that goes … [...]

By: Mattie B. Johnson

Mattie B. Johnson — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:54:13 +0000

Please find my Ancestors,my mother’s father name, her grandparent names.Carney,Jones.and Taylor.THEY All deceased.

By: Robertr McCausland

Robertr McCausland — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:39:37 +0000

David:
I am completly frustrated by the inability to make my E-mail address visable with my family tree on Ancestry.Com !!!

And why is my E-mail address repeatably striped from replys to messages from other Ancestry members (thru Ancestry.co) wishing to contact me about my ancestry tree?
I assume that their attempts to send their E-mail addresses to me via
Ancestrys “system” is also defeated.

I have indicated that I wish my E-mail address to be publicly visable
in “personal preferences”

I have a valid World membership with
Ancestry.Com and intensly dislike
Ancestrys consistantly censoring my
correspondence with other Ancestry
members.

Please let me know if this is a system that cannot be remedied as it is of primary importance to me.

Thank you.
Robert R McCausland ADCS

By: Tom Ladnr

Tom Ladnr — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:50:49 +0000

Note: I like the Message System. Though, many days go by: Before I can answer them. Mainly because they appear in my Friends Free Account. Which, I merge all my Gedcom with her Gedcom to make up a Tree of over 140,000 names… Is their a way! a Co-owner of a Tree get notifications of messages incoming. When my Partner/Cousin/Friend is indisposed. Grieving of a Recent death in her family? Trying to stay on Top of things and it’s a little difficult. Thanks for understanding… Re: LMCB the big tree on Ancestry.com

By: Ene

Ene — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:21:06 +0000

#10 Tom – Great idea on sub folders. Some files are more appropriate as sub files of a main subject or location folder. Also, I would like to be able to rearrange the order of my folders. When created, the folders can be alphabetized, but later additions can not. There is no way to insert them in a preferred sequence. Flexibility is needed here. Another thought is that the selections for “Sent” and “Deleted” should be located at the top of the page under “Inbox.” That would save scrolling to the bottom of the page each time to find sent mail. Why not take a look at email browser “favorites” or “bookmarks” for inspiration in consolidating/rolling up subfiles into major file categories. Thanks. Happy programming!

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:26:38 +0000

I agree with Denise. Also I would like to be able to empty or remove messages from the Deleted file. One other thing it would be nice to be able to make Sub Folders under the new folder thats created.

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:32:01 +0000

I like the fact that I can create a folder to save my incoming messages to. However, I can’t move my replies into my folders. If you receive a lot of messages, you are unable to manage the sent messages since you are unable to delete or move them. Adding the ability to move your sent messages to your folders would be great.

By: David Graham

David Graham — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:23:54 +0000

I just wanted to quickly follow-up on a couple of the posts here.

Just to clarify, we do still send an email notification whenever you receive a message from another user. The new online Messages adds to that notification an online notification in the header showing unread messages. This will help when notification emails have email delivery problems (e.g., getting a junk folder, etc.) or when they are simply lost among other email messages.

The suggestion to include the Ancestor Links in other flows, such as when contacting someone about a public member tree, is a great one. This is definitely something we’re investigating as a possible future enhancement.

Thanks again for trying the new Messages feature.

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:17:44 +0000

Diane #4

Try this link and join the many people upset by the removal of the USPRI database.

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2009/03/18/huge-new-content-addition-for-more-recent-years/comment-page-2/#comment-37081

TonyC

By: Lula L Kirk/Puch

Lula L Kirk/Puch — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:24:54 +0000

I love this new feature. I’ve already been contacted, re: someone in my tree