Comments on: Ancestry.com Launches One of the Most Comprehensive Collections of Caribbean Slave Records

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:13:18 +0000

Jane

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July 26, 2009 at 7:11 pm
HELP!! Ancestry says someone is logged into my account. I am not using ancestry on another computer. Please help me!!!

By: Leana Rosentrater

Leana Rosentrater — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:41:20 +0000

In answer to Eugene Gingo #7. The problem is in the translation. You have to find the original record by going through it line by line and then trying to figure out all the name combinations that it could have been translated to. This has worked for me with immigration records and census records. Good luck.

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By: Barb Haf

Barb Haf — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:03:38 +0000

Why is it when I put in “WWI records for UK” I keep getting sent to slave records in America?? It is all getting very frustrating!
Reading Peter Mason’s email I have to say – I never get a reply at the best of times – even ppl I think I am directly related to on the family trees never bother to reply lol
Barb
barbh42@bigpond.com

By: Eugene Gingo

Eugene Gingo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:02:11 +0000

I know the exact ship my grandfather came to America on, the port he left from, his first and last name where he was going, where he came from, however when I submitted the information no results come up!
I’m skeptical when I cannot find any information or the message states that no information is available.
How can anyone explain why I cannot access any information.
When I search for info on someone that I may not have such detailed info on and get no results what am I to think?

By: Diane

Diane — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:54:40 +0000

Re #4 and #5: Since it’s doubtful anyone from Ancestry.com will bother to answer your question, I will try. Several months ago, Ancestry.com announced on the blog that they will “close” a blog entry to comments after a few weeks. I think it might be 14 days — not sure if there was an exact number given. They gave the reason that this is how other blogs work and that they couldn’t be monitoring old blog entries. It also seemed to coincide with certain blog announcements getting high numbers of postings (usually complaints.

For now, I think that the only way to make your concerns known or ask a question is to 1) send it to Ancestry.com tech support or 2) post it on one of the Ancestry.com message boards http://boards.ancestry.com/topics/mb.ashx

If you look under Genealogy Software on the list, there is a board specific to Family Tree Maker. However, I can’t say whether those boards are closely reviewed by Ancestry.com employee and you are not guaranteed a reply.
It would be nice if Ancesty.com put some boilerplate sentence on each blog entry explaining that entries are closed to comment after x days and offered the alternatives I described.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:17:43 +0000

Re #4

Yes, why isn’t the blog for Family Tree Maker still open? Last response was at the end of June.

What’s happening????

Has Michelle left also?

By: Peter Mason

Peter Mason — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:42:15 +0000

Two questions – a reply to my e-mail address would be nice!

1. It seems our ability to update the blog entries on Family Tree Maker blogs has been taken away. Why?

2. Will Family Tree 2009 be able to run on the new Windows 7 out in October 2009, or will we all have to by a new 2010 version to do this?

Thanks.

By: Arthur Granbury

Arthur Granbury — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:42:43 +0000

Hold your praise, folks. Don’t forget that this new Caribbean Slave collection will include mis-linked, missing and blurred images, indexing errors, and huge chunks of years unaccounted for,etc. But it will probably – and inexplicably – include high school yearbooks from Afganistan and Alabama (both foreign countries, don’t you know).

But, in case you do happen to forget about this collection, remember that since these are pre-1917 Caribbean records … they will show up in your Ancestry Hints for people born in Kansas in 1993.

By: Donnamarie Barnes

Donnamarie Barnes — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:02:35 +0000

Having this collection on Ancestry.Com is very exciting and the news of the collections from the Virgin Islands yet to come is fabulous! I have been waiting for these records for a very long time and immediately found an answer in the 1841 Census that I have been searching for for a long time!
Thank you Ancestry.Com