Comments on: Ancestry.com Celebrates Memorial Day http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=memorial-day The official blog of Ancestry.com Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Michel Bryson http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48581 Michel Bryson Sat, 29 May 2010 02:28:54 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48581 I 'attended' the Webinar on finding military records. My great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. I had his company / regiment info, but really nothing else. In less than 24 hours after the webinar, I found him in the 1890 Veterans' Schedule and found a Civil War pension record with *two* petitions! One was filed in 1880 when he was listed as an 'invalid' and the other was filed by my great-great-grandmother less than two weeks after he died. Next is to get both packets from the National Archives so I can get more details on both of them. Thank you thank you thank you! Every webinar is informative, but this one stands out above the rest! I ‘attended’ the Webinar on finding military records. My great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. I had his company / regiment info, but really nothing else. In less than 24 hours after the webinar, I found him in the 1890 Veterans’ Schedule and found a Civil War pension record with *two* petitions! One was filed in 1880 when he was listed as an ‘invalid’ and the other was filed by my great-great-grandmother less than two weeks after he died. Next is to get both packets from the National Archives so I can get more details on both of them.

Thank you thank you thank you! Every webinar is informative, but this one stands out above the rest!

]]> By: Karis http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48570 Karis Fri, 28 May 2010 09:07:06 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48570 Thank You Andy. It seems to have stopped by itself. I couldn't load people and also when I tried to add new people a screen came up saying the person didn't exist. No problem for several hours now. Thanks ancestry. Thank You Andy. It seems to have stopped by itself. I couldn’t load people and also when I tried to add new people a screen came up saying the person didn’t exist. No problem for several hours now. Thanks ancestry.

]]> By: Ingrid http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48566 Ingrid Fri, 28 May 2010 00:23:38 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48566 I forgot that the webinar was on the same night as church. In the future, could you do a night other than Wednesday? Do you think you will ever have a list of the Women who enlisted in WWII? Or the WASPs? My mom was a WAVE and my dad's second wife was a WASP. I would love to find some records. I forgot that the webinar was on the same night as church. In the future, could you do a night other than Wednesday?

Do you think you will ever have a list of the Women who enlisted in WWII? Or the WASPs? My mom was a WAVE and my dad’s second wife was a WASP. I would love to find some records.

]]> By: Andy Hatchett http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48565 Andy Hatchett Fri, 28 May 2010 00:09:19 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48565 Karis- are you using FireFox and NoScripts? If so there is a new NoScripts undate that has cured several people's problems. There was an automatic update of NOScripts at the same time Ancestry was having all the problems and it messed things up for some. the newest update, just out, cures those problems. Karis- are you using FireFox and NoScripts?
If so there is a new NoScripts undate that has cured several people’s problems.

There was an automatic update of NOScripts at the same time Ancestry was having all the problems and it messed things up for some. the newest update, just out, cures those problems.

]]> By: Karis http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48562 Karis Thu, 27 May 2010 20:01:57 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48562 Sorry to bring it up but I had very few problems during big change but site is behaving oddly for me now. It is not loading everything and I keep getting screens that I've never seen before. I won't panic but wanted to let you know. Sorry to bring it up but I had very few problems during big change but site is behaving oddly for me now. It is not loading everything and I keep getting screens that I’ve never seen before. I won’t panic but wanted to let you know.

]]> By: Emelen67Rowe http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48555 Emelen67Rowe Thu, 27 May 2010 06:26:13 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48555 Tony, Sounds like you may have done something I catch myself doing now and then. Be sure that when you follow and work the hints that you always click save or done or whatever is at the bottom of each page, otherwise when you click on to something else the work you've done isn't saved. Good luck :) Tony,
Sounds like you may have done something I catch myself doing now and then. Be sure that when you follow and work the hints that you always click save or done or whatever is at the bottom of each page, otherwise when you click on to something else the work you’ve done isn’t saved.

Good luck :)

]]> By: Tony Mitchell http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48553 Tony Mitchell Wed, 26 May 2010 19:51:51 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48553 Question for tonight's (5/26/10) webinar. After I click on the leaf and update records, is their a way to turn off the leaf for that person until new data comes in? I wasted alot of time looking those records up on one day and then checking it again on another day. Question for tonight’s (5/26/10) webinar. After I click on the leaf and update records, is their a way to turn off the leaf for that person until new data comes in? I wasted alot of time looking those records up on one day and then checking it again on another day.

]]> By: Wilfredo Flores http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2010/05/25/memorial-day/#comment-48552 Wilfredo Flores Wed, 26 May 2010 11:42:40 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/?p=3955#comment-48552 My father fought in the Battle of the Bulge, he never spoke very much about the war. I strongly believe that like my brother, who fought in the Vietnamese war, had PTSD. I have always wonder about what his, their experiences were, they couldn't have been very pleasant one. God bless them both. They are now both dead and from very similar disease, an addiction they both acquired after being in battle. The experience had to have been awful for two very gentle men. My brother died just last year this coming June and father died about eight years ago. I hurts to know that they were in so much pain from their war experiences, but, unfortunately there wasn't as much knowledge of or treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD)in those days. I miss them both terribly, which is why I started to grow my tree in their honor and what they did for our country, even if they were both treated badly throughout, racial discrimination, knew no bounds then. My paternel great grandmother came to the island of Puerto Rico from the Canary Island sometime in the early to mid twenties. She was a landowner both in the Canary Isands, as well as in PR. Only we have very little information about that, and it's one of my quest to find out some more information about her. I could use some help, but it's an expensive prospect, but well worth the effort. I am attending the next webinar to get some more tips on how to go further than I am now. Is there going to be an expansion of information coming out the Caribbean? Warm regards, Wilfredo Flores My father fought in the Battle of the Bulge, he never spoke very much about the war. I strongly believe that like my brother, who fought in the Vietnamese war, had PTSD.

I have always wonder about what his, their experiences were, they couldn’t have been very pleasant one. God bless them both. They are now both dead and from very similar disease, an addiction they both acquired after being in battle. The experience had to have been awful for two very gentle men.

My brother died just last year this coming June and father died about eight years ago. I hurts to know that they were in so much pain from their war experiences, but, unfortunately there wasn’t as much knowledge of or treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD)in those days.

I miss them both terribly, which is why I started to grow my tree in their honor and what they did for our country, even if they were both treated badly throughout, racial discrimination, knew no bounds then.

My paternel great grandmother came to the island of Puerto Rico from the Canary Island sometime in the early to mid twenties. She was a landowner both in the Canary Isands, as well as in PR. Only we have very little information about that, and it’s one of my quest to find out some more information about her. I could use some help, but it’s an expensive prospect, but well worth the effort.

I am attending the next webinar to get some more tips on how to go further than I am now. Is there going to be an expansion of information coming out the Caribbean?

Warm regards,

Wilfredo Flores

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