Comments on: Find more records with help from the Ancestry.com community

By: data recovery

data recovery — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:49:38 +0000

This is positively one of the most interesting sites I’ve seen. It’s so easy to assume you’ve seen it all, but there is still some good things out there, and I believe your place is on the short list!

By: Jade

Jade — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:33:52 +0000

The feature Stephanie points to is helpful when the search engine gives you endless listings for the 1930 US Census or Public Record Index (telephone book listings) items for wrong names, places and time periods — instead of, say, military records for the right name and time period.

Unfortunately in the default listing (by the useless “popularity”) the above wrong stuff is usually the first 20 pages.

By: DannieB

DannieB — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:51:59 +0000

Pauline
Are you using screen print or printer-friendly? What browser?
From the census image itself or from the “record”?

I’m not seeing the problems you mention You might check your “page setup” settings within your browser. Enabling “background colors and images” or the equivalent in your browser might solve some of your problems.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:22:05 +0000

I have had some good luck finding family members this week. Ones that have been missing for along time.
I use recent member contact all the time and watch for what other people have added to their trees. Sometimes it’s lots of help, but I also noticed that some of the contacts on the member list have disappeared when I go back to look for their record it’s gone. I had one the other day disappear within minutes.
I also added a comment to one of my photos and the whole photo disappeared. It’s so upsetting when this type of thing happens. Sometimes it’s my fault or something I have done wrong.
There was nothing I did with these items to cause this to happen.

By: Larry Van Wormer

Larry Van Wormer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:11:24 +0000

Re. Message 22. Pauline, no, I don’t have any of the printing problems you describe. I find it prints fine just with a screen print, don’t even usually bother to use the “printer-friendly” option.

The names are black and in quite large enough print, without any adjustments.

The “neighbors” page print is smaller, though I find it okay. Maybe use the View option to zoom the print size? That works okay, just tried it.

Maybe your print settings need adjustment?

Larry Van Wormer

By: Pauline Needham

Pauline Needham — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:20:29 +0000

The pages that I print off most often are when I find a family menber from a census report. In 2006 the heading was in blue, information about the person in black and members of the household were blue now the census date is in soft green and the gray side with information does not print off and names of the household have to be written in because they do not print off at all. I alsoprint off the the neighbors sheets to see if any other famiy members are living near by, before the sheet was blue on the top all names in black and in large print, now the page is printed in very small print. Maybe no one else prints off all the information and puts them in books for other family members but we do just wondering if anyone else is having this problem. Even if I put the printer on the “best” print, it still does not print off the light green and gray. Pauline Needham

By: Monika

Monika — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 06:10:19 +0000

Sorry, I am reaching out to this blog for help, but ancestry.de (the german ancestry website of ancestry.com) has a different format for its blogs as we have on ancestry.com. So, my blog does not fit in their blog section. ancestry.de seems to be managed by different people than ancestry.com, and, sometimes it is really disastrous. For a while there, none of the birthdates of the children showed on the profile sheets of the parents; then the program did not recognize months that were written in German (which on a German website should be possible). Well, they finally fixed all that, but now they are showing the mothers in the box that has the father on ancestry.com, and the father in the box that has the mother in ancestry.com. So, when you add a child, the program keeps rejecting the last name of the child, because it expects the same last name as they show in the first box (which ordinarily is the father, but right now shows the mother…get it??), so it says “must have the same last name as the father” …well it has that…bozo! I went on my trees on ancestry.com, and sure enough, there the father is in the right box and the mother is in the right box. Not so on ancestry.de!!! Sometimes I feel that somebody is sabotaging the ancestry.de site. Actually, I have felt that ever since ancestry.de informed me (you know how ancestry.com does inform you and say “a new person has been added to your tree”), except on ancestry.de it said “Monika was bitten by a rattlesname when walking through the prairie”, in the line where it usually says “a new person has been added to your tree”. I had to be very persistent and work my way up the ladder, until somebody at ancestry.de admitted that some “hacking” had been going on on various trees. (My tree on ancestry.de is a private tree with NO invitees.) I wish somebody would help them straighten out their act!

By: DannieB

DannieB — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:26:01 +0000

Pauline #18
Give us a bit more detail, and there are many of us who will try to help.
From what screen are you printing? Pedigree, group, census, ? Full screen or not? “”Image Only” or “View all”?

By: DannieB

DannieB — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:17:58 +0000

To BEE
So glad it worked for you – sometimes it is something very easy

By: Pauline Needham

Pauline Needham — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:38:02 +0000

When we were doing genealogy in 2006 and would print off the pages, we had a good clean copy. Now we are back on to finish up our work and the pale green and gray on the side of the page do not print off so that we can read it or make copies for other members of the family. Has anyone else complained about this. I do know that there is a lot more information now and I really like that.
Thanks for listening….