Comments on: Shoebox Tracks Records You Print and Download

By: Vincent Bowes

Vincent Bowes — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:03:47 +0000

I thought it would be good to pass along the following suggestion. The shoebox feature is a very convenient tool that allows us to “save” items that we can come back to later. Is there any way that more functionality can be built into the shoe box such that users could sort based on names, dates, etc. and also have the option to see more than just a handful of items on each shoe box screen? Just curious. Thanks for your time. I look forward to a reply.

By: Stephanie Cruz

Stephanie Cruz — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:39:27 +0000

#16 Margaret – if you can email me your username, I will have someone look into your issue.

Thanks,
Stephanie (scruz@ancestry.com)

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:14:47 +0000

As of this morning (April 22), all of the old stuff that I had saved through the years to My Shoebox is gone. There had been three pages of listings. Now there is one page with three items on it, none of which I saved to the Shoebox. These items were saved to the Shoebox through your automatic system, including one item which I know that I neither printed nor downloaded but merely viewed on Ancestry (it was a lookup for someone on a message board). What gives? Another “improvement” gone awry?

By: Stephanie Cruz

Stephanie Cruz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:29:12 +0000

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the Shoebox and for your suggestions on better ways to organize, sort, and find records in your Shoebox.

By: Alice Holtin

Alice Holtin — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:44:20 +0000

The Shoebox really does need to be sortable and/or searchable. The feature used in the “List of all people,” where you can sort by clicking on a letter, would be most useful in “Your Shoebox.”

When trying to sort my Shoebox, I have been extremely frustrated. I find an item on page 10, attach it to my tree and when I go back to Shoebox, it’s reverted to page one! Now I have to go through all those pages again to get back to where I was. When there are as many items in Shoebox as I have (over 700), it’s too frustrating to go back through them.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:03:02 +0000

If you have an active membership and then quit Ancestry your shoebox goes away.

You don’t really save items to your shoebox anyway- you merely save links to those images on Ancestry’s servers and with few exception non-subscribers can’t view those images.

If you want to always be able to see them then download them and save them on your computer- not in your shoebox.

By: Bonnie P

Bonnie P — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:21:19 +0000

I have been saving items to my shoebox, but when I go to look for them my shoebox is empty. Records have been file both during the time I had a membership and when I don’t have an active membership.

Am I doing something wrong??

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By: Elle Litist

Elle Litist — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:47:33 +0000

The shoebox is on your homepage. That’s where you find it and access it.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:51:24 +0000

Could you have the shoebox in a easily found position in FTM ?