I would like it noted if there are Comments or Stories, so I don’t have to click on them just to check. I don’t do that on every person, only if there’s more said about them. This is important!

I would like a descendancy chart as well as a pedigree chart. It’s easier to find where a person fits into the tree, especially if they have a lot of children. You used to have this available, or at least it was on roots.com.

Right now, I can’t search as I just get the notice that Ancestry is either down for repairs or I should try back later. Really folks, this is not helpful.

Searching takes twice as long as it used to. Why in the world, (when the system is working), do I have to go through literally thousands of records when I put in so much info on the person I’m searching for? Why when I tell you the person was born in 1659, the place where that person was born, etc, am I going though info from 1950 and in every other country but the one I wrote down? When checking through newspapers, I’m getting current issues??? Not helpful. It takes hours of searching for the simplest information. This year as been the worst year yet working with this system. It seems you’re taking what wasn’t broke and messing it up and you’re not addressing the things we’ve told you doesn’t work. I would also appreciate receiving answers when I contact customer service. This is very disappointing. Please listen and fix the system!

Here’s a sampling of the error:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:02:55 UTC

Message: ‘YAHOO’ is undefined
Line: 1
Char: 30
Code: 0
URI: http://c.mfcreative.com/trees/js/pt/fullcard.js

Message: ‘YAHOO’ is undefined
Line: 7
Char: 36
Code: 0
URI: http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/header.js?v=1

Message: ‘YAHOO’ is undefined
Line: 1
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://c.mfcreative.com/trees/js/pt/mergeFamily2.js

Message: ‘YAHOO’ is undefined
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Char: 6
Code: 0
URI: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/MergeFamily2.aspx?tid=7963014&pid=-1011022366&hid=-623987648&dbid=1138&rpid=5561952&pg=0,3,48&ret=-1011022366&altRet=

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also acessing trees or any information (if you can get it without a webpage error) is very very slow to load anything.

Will there ever be a way to view more of a tree at once, say like geni.com do in a vertical fashion, and not just a generational side view.

This thread is great in bringing up so many features that would be very exciting to have. I hope that you do move them up on your priority list. My biggest “wants” include the ability to merge duplicate people (currently a nightmare scenario); increased attention to the sourcing issue (especially the ability for us to add our own “historical documents,” such as death certificates); the ability to change the order of our photos; definitely giving us the box back (comments, notes, etc)!; and a less busy design. I also like the idea of setting our own defaults, such as whether to go to the Pedigree or Profile view.

I have another request which would really speed up my work. I would like to have the description line available when I am attaching records, such as the Census. I often have a note that I would like to add (e.g., occupation, number of children, years of marriage). Right now there are too many steps, and sometimes I forget the data that I wanted to put by the time I go through it all.

As so many people here have good ideas on how to improve the Search function, is there a message board or thread for that?

Thanks, Kenny, for taking the time to evaluate all of our rants! It’s only because Ancestry is so important to us that we get a little rabid!