Comments on: Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (10 November 2009, 1-2 AM MST)

By: Donna Robertson

Donna Robertson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:04 +0000

When will this be fixed. I still can’t change trees.
It’s now Nov. 20th and I still can’t get to my trees.

By: Walter Ray

Walter Ray — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:18:23 +0000

Suddenly when I get a hint to family powered ancestry files, I can no longer view parents, children, etc, and check to attach them to my file. Just a box says 10 trees available to view. Then I have to note each difference to my tree, then manually insert each child, or parent into my tree, which makes it very discouraging to keep updating my files. Liked the old way best.

By: Phillip Crow

Phillip Crow — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:46 +0000

#67 Andy. Good point. It amazes me that Ancestry.com can make recommendations (green leaves) to their online tree builder for parents that died long before their children were born in another State! Some kind of immaculate conception/deception! Then this type of “junkolgy” is copied and recopied by others into their trees when the member trees are back online. When I contacted Ancestry.com about the mess they were making, I just got the “oh well” non-sense answer.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:10:46 +0000

Actually, to some of us,member trees going offline is a *good* thing – it means the junkology contained therein can’t be copied!

By: Mary Beth Marchant

Mary Beth Marchant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:23:57 +0000

See the Web operations blog of today. Member trees are off line again. This happened a couple of weeks ago too. Not a good sign for Ancestry.com in my opinion

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:03:28 +0000

Ged Re:#64

You might find this helpful

Military & Civilian Time Designations

From A – Z

There are 25 integer World Time Zones from -12 through 0 (GMT) to +12. Each one is 15° of Longitude as measured East and West from the Prime Meridian of the World at Greenwich, England. Some countries have adopted non-standard time zones, usually 30 minutes offset which have a * designation.

Each Time Zone is measured relative to Greenwich, England. There are both civilian designations which are typically three letter abbreviations (e.g. EST) for most time zones. In addition there are military designations. These use each letter of the alphabet (except ‘J’) and are known by their phonetic equivalent. E.G. Greenwich Mean Time (civilian) or Z = Zulu (military and aviation).

* For complete details of Daylight saving (Summer) Time see here

Standard Time Zones

GMT

Zone
Military

Civilian Time Zones

Cities

GMT

For accurate time
press here

Zulu
GMT: Greenwich Mean
UT: Universal
UTC: Universal Co-ordinated
WET: Western European London, England
Dublin, Ireland
Edinburgh, Scotland
Lisbon, Portugal
Reykjavik, Iceland
Casablanca, Morocco

East of Greenwich

GMT

Zone
Military

Civilian Time Zones

Cities

Time Zones Time = GMT+1

To open clock in new window press here

Alpha
CET: Central European Paris, France
Berlin, Germany
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Brussels, Belgium
Vienna, Austria
Madrid, Spain
Rome, Italy
Bern, Switzerland
Stockholm, Sweden
Oslo, Norway

Time Zones Zone – Time = GMT+2

To open clock in new window press here

Bravo
EET: Eastern European Athens, Greece
Helsinki, Finland
Istanbul, Turkey
Jerusalem, Israel
Harare, Zimbabwe

Time Zones Zone – Time = GMT+3

To open clock in new window press here

Charlie
BT: Baghdad Kuwait
Nairobi, Kenya
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Moscow, Russia

GMT+3:30

Tehran, Iran

Time Zones Time = GMT+4

To open clock in new window press here

Delta
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Muscat
Tblisi
Volgograd
Kabul

GMT+4:30

Afghanistan

Time Zones Time = GMT+5

To open clock in new window press here

Echo

GMT+5:30

India

Time Zones Time = GMT+6

To open clock in new window press here

Foxtrot

GMT+6:30

F*
Cocos Islands

Time Zones Time = GMT+7

To open clock in new window press here

Golf

Time Zones Time = GMT+8

To open clock in new window press here

Hotel
CCT: China Coast

Time Zones Time = GMT+9

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India
JST: Japan Standard,

GMT+9:30

I*
Australia Central Standard Darwin, Australia
Adelaide, Australia

Time Zones Time = GMT+10

To open clock in new window press here

Kilo
GST: Guam Standard

GMT+10:30

Lord Howe Island

Time Zones Time = GMT+11

To open clock in new window press here

Lima

GMT+11:30

Norfolk Island

Time Zones Time = GMT+12

To open clock in new window press here

Mike
IDLE: International Date Line East
NZST: New Zealand Standard Wellington, New Zealand
Fiji
Marshall Islands

GMT+13:00

Rawaki Islands: Enderbury Kiribati

GMT+14:00

M±

Line Islands: Kiritibati
West of Greenwich

GMT

Zone

Military

Civilian Time Zones

Cities

Time Zones Time = GMT-1

To open clock in new window press here

November
WAT: West Africa Azores, Cape Verde Islands

Time Zones – Time = GMT-2

To open clock in new window press here

Oscar
AT: Azores

Time Zones – Time = GMT-3

To open clock in new window press here

Papa
Brasilia, Brazil
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Georgetown, Guyana

GMT-3:30

Newfoundland

Time Zones Time = GMT-4

To open clock in new window press here

Quebec
AST: Atlantic Standard Caracas
La Paz

Time Zones Time = GMT-5

To open clock in new window press here

Romeo
EST: Eastern Standard. Bogota
Lima, Peru
New York, NY, USA

Time Zones Time = GMT-6

To open clock in new window press here

Sierra
CST: Central Standard Mexico City, Mexico
Saskatchewan, Canada

Time Zones Time = GMT-7

To open clock in new window press here

Tango
MST: Mountain Standard.

Time Zones Time = GMT-8

To open clock in new window press here

Uniform
PST: Pacific Standard Los Angeles, CA, USA

GMT-8:30

Time Zones Time = GMT-9

To open clock in new window press here

Victor
YST: Yukon Standard.

GMT-9:30

Time Zones Time = GMT-10

To open clock in new window press here

Whiskey
AHST: Alaska-Hawaii Standard
CAT: Central Alaska
HST: Hawaii Standard

Time Zones Time = GMT-11

To open clock in new window press here

X-ray
NT: Nome.

Time Zones Time = GMT-12

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Yankee
IDLW: International Date Line West

Of course, reading the original post in its entirety would have been helpful too.

By: Ged

Ged — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:21:20 +0000

What the hell is Mountain Standard time..????.(pick a mountain, any mountain)
Ancestry.com is an international forum and Ancestry would be advised to add Greenwich mean time when indicating schedules for maintenance etc. Not all members live in said mountain area wherever that is???

By: JEAN

JEAN — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:29:43 +0000

sorry i did not mean to say search i meant the reacent maintenance issues

By: JEAN

JEAN — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:25:10 +0000

bruce

if you are happy with search the way it is all you need do is to leave a constructive message to that fact, rather than resorting to childish attacks on those of us who are simply pointing out our own feelings on the fact that ancestry have not given a reason for the extended time the site was down. we also have the right to point out faults that we find. if our comments bother you so much then feel free to stop reading them they are after all not personal messages for you but for the powers that be at ancestry to see.

By: John Verkley

John Verkley — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:50:49 +0000

Dear Reader.
I am using 2010. Works fine.
What bugs me is that there is no indication on the screen to indicate that a comment pertaining to that person can be found on the “person” tab.

John.