Comments on: Ancestry Search: Improved Collection Filters

By: S. Ratigan

S. Ratigan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:43:28 +0000

The new newspaper search function is worse than useless! When I enter “Boston, Massachusetts” in the location field, I do not want “Reno, Nevada”!!!

By: jessica nichole barnhill crumbley

jessica nichole barnhill crumbley — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:21:53 +0000

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By: Joyce Rose

Joyce Rose — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:40:54 +0000

I do not find this format easier to use. Is there a way to go back to the old format. I find it is taking me more time to search and my frustration level is rising at every search. I may not renew my subscription to Ancestry.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:49:58 +0000

I am totaly lost now. I am getting soundex when I check ezact. If I wanted soundex in the old one I had that option. I go looking in the census and you can’t even put where the parents were born, or it is just that I’m not looking in the right place to put it.
I didn’t have any problem with the old one and wish we could have it back. This new one is making me working harder. Please give us back the old one.

By: Shirley Talley

Shirley Talley — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:01:19 +0000

Is it me, am I missing something when researching a person…I go to a record…
This is not a record that I want to save..
At the upper right hand corner, you have the option to Save this information to your Family Tree, Save this information to your shoebox or save this information to your computer…
WHERE IS THE OPTION TO RETURN TO WHERE YOU WERE WHEN YOU WENT TO THIS INFORMATION? NO, I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE THIS TO MY TREE, NO, I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE THIS IN MY SHOEBOX, AND MOST CERTAINLY, I DO NOT WANT TO SAVE TO MY COMPUTER..
NOW IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO ME TO HAVE THE OPTION TO RETURN TO SEARCH RESULTS….ITS THERE IN OTHER AREAS BUT WHEN WE ARE AT A CENSUS RECORD..AND DON’T FIND THE INFORMATION THAT APPLIES TO OUR FAMILY…WE SHOULD BE ABLE ‘AT THIS POINT’ TO RETURN TO SEARCH RESULT…
THANKS

By: Jeannie Hoffman

Jeannie Hoffman — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:21:42 +0000

I can’t believe all the problems I am having with the new changes. For example, when I try to attach a source to a person in my tree, countless times this results to the screen defaulting to the Ancestry Store! Then I have to begin anew with the same search.

Further I cannot seem to print some images, like death certificates. I never had a problem before and I have done all the suggested rememdies and went farther and reinstalled my printer to no avail. I am so frustrated!

By: thomas_harless

thomas_harless — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:02:30 +0000

I have no idea what is going on now, I can get anything but Content-type: text/html MySQL seems to be down Too many connections, I sure would like to know what is now going on, I have been with Ancestry for atleast 15 years, this is very bad news for me & my students.

By: Susan

Susan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:10:14 +0000

Sorry — “new” search, filters or not just doesn’t cut it. I want OLD search back!

By: J. Fulmer

J. Fulmer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:48:55 +0000

“Old search” is still the best !

By: Sylvia

Sylvia — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:03:54 +0000

Too many hits – no opportunity to search on married female names and to insert locations they may have lived at time of death. This is true of Social Security Death Index.
Certainly needs to be “tweaked” to improve the winnowing down of vast amounts of hits.

Have been a member for many years – many of the “improvements” through the years have been worse than the original Ancestry.com search results
of five or ten years ago.