However, I too am disappointed in some of the “enhanced images”. They have actually been improved to the point of not being able to use them. Please give us users assurance that as we report these UNREADABLE images that they will be investigated and replaced with either the old ones or more readable ones. Indexes are very helpful, but NOTHING substitutes for being able to look at the original image!!!

Boy! was I ever pleasantly surprised.

The new features make research seem almost like cheating! It is so simple and So Improved. Talk about shooting fish in a barrel, this is simpler.

I have located census data on family that I swore did not exist!

Thank You, I am glad I got over my miff and checked back.

It will become an increasingly difficult task to identify ancestors born and deceased after 1930.

The older death certificates uploaded are extremely helpful, because they provide the deceased’s parents name, spouse (if applicable) and the name of the informant. They are great for providing clues.

Can ancestry provide other state records that would give more information?

Please, put it back the original way of viewing.

Be thankful you aren’t getting OneWorldTree data!

OneWorldTree is nothing but pure junkology and isn’t worth the pixels it takes to display it onscreen.

For anyone who is halfway serious about their genealoogy research it is a complete waste of time and effort.

to Andy #29… true point about the back-ups to resurrect from errors… but Jade #28 is also correct…. we do still need to be patient. I’m a betting fool that when multitasking is involved, it is usually the culprit for the delay…

and we all know how corporate management insists on mulit-tasking. no matter what kind of job or for whom you work.

back-ups are not as easy when mulitple changes and enhancements have been made in batches. Hopefully there is a system backup that exists for each individual change and not just stages of their enhancements cluster of stages…

and you know how backing-up goes… it sorta like brushing your teeth. we all do it, but we could do it better.

and the biggest delay I’m sure has to do with the nature “business”

and when changes involve cost, it always needs approval….and nine times out of ten approval must come from the pack, there is no lone wolf.

…and most board members of any type usually only meet once a month. And of course it has to take four, six or nine meetings before they all can agree to decided to put a vote through.

And than if all the voting members are present and not on vacation or sick or on funeral leave than the vote can go thru..

and yadda yadda yadda … the beat goes on.

If Ancestry can get rid of something in the blink of an eye then why should we have to be patient when they take months or years to fix a problem?

Have these fools never heard of backups?

That is the exact reason one creates them, so that errors can be easily undone.

And if Ancestry *isn’t* creating backups then we all need to find a new organization to deal with as this one has no clue at all!

It took Ancestry.com only about 6 weeks to re-install a group of 1820 enumeration images that someone deleted around Sept. 9, 2009.

But it took 2-1/2 years to correctly link index entries to, and install the images for, 2/3 of the images for one County’s World War I Draft Registration cards.

And only 3 years after notification, a missing 1840 enumeration page (and related index links to wrong page) for Aroostook Co, Maine magically appeared. This was a Thanksgiving Surprise, no one ever responded back that they were going to fix it or that it was fixed.

It might be that there is some deeper problem with those ED descriptions than you could see — such as an extra field deleted from that ?SQL file for the sake of search-engine compatibility. So just keep checking back, and the problem may one day be solved for the sake of browsability.