Comments on: Enhanced Editing and Image Page

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Member Connect: Discover More by Connecting with Other Members – My Videos — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:58:07 +0000

[...] to see who else has saved the record or made comments or corrections to it. This is part of our new enhanced image page, which is launching today on a few of our census collections and expanding to other collections in [...]

By: Anne Mitchell

Anne Mitchell — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:03:55 +0000

Some of you have asked about the comments that you entered in the original editing tool. They are still there, but we have not published on the enhanced image page. But it appears the desire to have them published there is strong, so we will be moving them there probably sometime next week. I’ll post in the blog when that happens.

I’ve written a new blog post, with some tips that will hopefully answer some of the more common questions that I’ve seen here at:

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2009/07/30/tips-on-using-the-enhanced-image-page/

I’m going to close this blog post for comments, and we can continue the conversation on the new blog post.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:42:00 +0000

#118 – Pete Smee

If you move your cursor from the ‘Image’ pane towards the panels, you will see it change from a ‘hand’ to a ‘pointy finger’ as it transitions across the pane boundary. You can click anywhere on the ‘boundary line’ when then cursor has ‘changed’… hth

#123 Larry Van Wormer…

The left/right arrows in the upper right in the ‘tool bar’ [next to the word 'GO'] seems to work and move thru the roll as before [at least it seems to be the case...]

wrt Making comments to individual records… that function still seems to be present via the ‘Leave a Comment’ button. You’ll just need to make your correction to the record [Given Name, Surname, etc] then leave related comments and information using the ‘Leave a Ccomment’ option. Two separate steps versus the all-in-one process in the previous interface.

hth

By: Ralph Newton

Ralph Newton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:28:17 +0000

Why??? Just another goof up by tech people

By: Ralph Newton

Ralph Newton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:26:24 +0000

Why??? Just another reason to drop Ancestry Com.

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:23:19 +0000

#129 – Missyad

On your home page select ‘customize your home page’ – once in there you can select the option on each ‘widget’ to delete it or move it up or down the page. One you’ve finished click on the ‘exit’ link of the topmost ‘customize your home page’ panel. Sadly the option to delete the advertising widget isn’t available

TonyC

By: missyad

missyad — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:12:20 +0000

Is there any way I can make that “connect activity” go away or eliminate from my screen. Personally – I don’t care what someone else is doing every day. Or can it be dropped to bottom of screen so I only look when I feel like it

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:34:40 +0000

#110 – Margaret:

Not too sure which records you’re talking about when you say “it would be good to see the birth mothers names on birth certificates and their maiden names on the wedding certificates especially those english ones…”.

If it’s the UK BMD Index records the birth mothers maiden name wasn’t recorded on the birth index until about 1911, same goes for the maiden names on the marriage index.

The only way to get this information is to order the certificates from the UK GRO at seven pounds a copy.

TonyC

By: Tony Cousins

Tony Cousins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:29:59 +0000

#118 – Pete Smee:

You turn the panels off by clicking on the grey >> bar on the panels. It’s in the middle of the edge of each panel, maybe a suggestion to Ancestry would be to highlight it more.

TonyC

By: Rosalind Ashmu

Rosalind Ashmu — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:18:35 +0000

What have you people done at Ancestry to a perfectly good website.

I can no longer just print the portion of the census records that I want.

Bring back the old feature.

I don’t care for the new site, so I’ve been using the old search.

If this continues I’ll find another source to do research on.

You probably won’t print this because you only want positive comments.

Rosalind L. Ashmun