Comments on: New Site Navigation

By: marc

marc — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:05:37 +0000

good article .

thanks for info .

By: Mel Freeze

Mel Freeze — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:18:15 +0000

I have been with Ancestry for a few years.I refuse to look at your new stuff.
Please,your customers are researchers,and it seems we spend more time trying to keep up with your never ending,changing things. When we get in a grove you change. If we needed something differant we may move to another Comany.

By: Arlene Thompson

Arlene Thompson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:23:20 +0000

Why can’t I find enisted men in the first world war.

By: B

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:27:45 +0000

I do like the idea of having my To-Dos available via a drop-down from all pages, and it is great to be able to prioritize/move them around by simply dragging.

That said, I have the same question as “M Peters” in post #19 above. Two issues: first, I also need to be able to access/edit the To-Do items. Second, many of my to-do items are 2x or 3x longer than the very limited ~35 characters that actually display.

Please advise if we’ll be given the functionality to edit and show the full text of our To-Do item in the future.

Also, what happened to the hints link from the main page? It used to be so easy to go to http://www.ancestry.com and see “See All People With Hints,” then start my research.

By: Virginia Saul

Virginia Saul — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:19:38 +0000

I have been a subscriber for many eons but I do not like your new search for US census. I was looking for a particular person and I had where he was living at the time of the 1920 Idaho census but it did not show him or his wife or son on the search. The seach could not locate him at all even with excate match not checked. I found him by looking through each page of Center Point, Canyon, Idaho.

By: Robert E. Tapscott

Robert E. Tapscott — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:54:10 +0000

It would help navigation if one had the option to order lists of messages on a Message Board by date, oldest first. Right now, it appears that they are ordered latest first automatically. The ability to order by submitter would also be handy.

By: Reed

Reed — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:32:09 +0000

Of course, the “improvements” aren’t much use if the databases are incomplete. Here’s **another** incomplete directory (this one goes from “A” to “Ideal Machine Co.”):

U.S. City Directories > Ohio > Columbus > 1946 > Polk’s Columbus (Franklin County, Ohio) City Directory

The remaining pages are missing. Come on, Ancestry, at least check to see if you have all the directory pages/images attached to the database. (And who knows whether the names are findable with the search engine. I was browsing manually through this directory.)

New Navigation Tools won’t fix items that are missing or improperly indexed…

–Reed

By: I.J. Wilhelm

I.J. Wilhelm — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:53:12 +0000

Am I the only one with this problem? Since the new changeover, I am unable to print from newspaper or book references from stories and publications. There are no longer icons to click on to print or to order copies, etc. There is very little point in having whole books and newspapers online if one can’t access parts of them and print relevant details. Please fix this.
thanks

By: marrene2

marrene2 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:32:31 +0000

As with all changes, some are good, some not so. Have a little problem with all the drop down (or pop up) menus…keeps me from trying to type in my data. Could this be changed a bit please? I’d also like to see a change on names. When I want to see a Richard Whomever….I get so tired of fighting through a bunch of Charles, Jack, Ted, Martin Whomevers trying to find the Richard I’m looking for. How about either putting in the Richard names or just saying there aren’t any more on record at the moment? Unless there is an initial with a C there isn’t much of a chance any other name will work.

By: tlhittle

tlhittle — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:26:32 +0000

This probably isn’t the correct place for this question, but I’m not seeing any better place to ask it and the subject here is search.
So.. In Church records under the heading directories and membership lists such as:
l Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 1757-1885: Upper Milford Reformed Congregation ., how do associate parents and sponsors to the child that is baptised? There seems to be no reasoning to the way they are listed. If a sponsor has a different last name than the child, I see no way of even guessing which child they sponsored. Children with the same last name show up in order in the list and so do the parents,(with sponsors of the same last name mixed in). It would seem to me that some order would be set up by the data base such as: surname of child’s Birth, child baptism, Mother, father,sponsors and on to the next event, (probably alphabetically by child surname then church record). If there is any such order to these records I’m missing it. Help on this is needed and would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks