Comments on: Member Trees: A New Way to View Your Ancestry.com Member Tree

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:28:19 +0000

Rich Re: #48

Top right hand corner in blue bar click “Exit Preview”

By: Rich Pea

Rich Pea — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:09:49 +0000

OK. How do you turn this thing off? I want the old view back.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:29:40 +0000

Genedocs offered this for FREE in Jan 2009 with its Hybrid (PED+)chart…nice going Ancestry!

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By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:23:18 +0000

I love the new view and particularly the Family view. I have had a number of Check Back Soon issues where I think it didn’t know what to do in rare situations.

One in particular is when I had three sibling ancesters married three siblings of another family. Two of those siblings spouses passed away and the two remaining widows\widowers married each other (go figure). But the family view did not like that at all. I first got a CHECK BACK a couple of times and last night it drew a straight line connecting all of them and children together. I had to leave that part of the tree and come back and view the individual trees.

I would also recommend although there is the PINK-Hers\BLUE-His “View His\Her Family Tree” buttons associated with a person, there should also be a similar button to collapse that family view rather then having to then select someone elses Family Tree to view.

Also, I have a large monitor and it seems to default to a maxinum 5 generations on the screen before having to open up individual trees going back. It would be nice to have (unless I missed it)a user configuration on how many generations to view (particular from the home person) before having to expand. Even if some of the require dragging up or down to get to.

Thanks!

By: Karen C

Karen C — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:16:41 +0000

I like the ‘pedigree’ view. I like that you can magnify, there are ppl who use Ancestry who do not have the best eyesight, that will thank you for this.

I also like the fact you can see more generations- but right now I just get the ‘swirling leaf’ pattern and no more after 5 Gens- maybe because it’s new, or it’s a preview??

The new ‘family’ view doesn’t come up for me, I just get the old one. But, if the template up top is what it’s supposed to look like I won’t use it. It reminds me of the GENI website, which is VERY UN-userfriendly.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 03:16:34 +0000

I like the new family tree view, but when trying it out, the “Show Immediate Family” link disappears from individual profiles. That feature was incredibly useful when comparing new sources or potential member connections. It made it easy to compare the known family members with the ones in the new record. If the cost of the new tree view is removing that feature, it’s not worth it. Please make sure the “Show Immediate Family” link stays.

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:32:01 +0000

Awesome!! The Mundia side of Ancestry is what lured me in and they had an older version of this. It was a lot slower so it is fantastic to see it again!

By: BEE

BEE — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:05:45 +0000

I’ll join #41 in that minority on how to view membership tree. Yes, it is “pretty”, but the “old view” is fine with me, especially since I don’t have any photos on my trees, and I’m more interested in finding information about someone, and being able to confirm it through census, etc.
I do use the “hints” for information, especially maiden names, and hopefully, the proper spelling of names, although so many people just take what is written on a census and assume that is the correct. I just finished deleting a young child listed on a census that a dozen trees have as a living person. In reality, the name was badly misspelled on that census, but matched the young fellow on the next census, who wasn’t on the first! Because they don’t find that particular name on the next census, they assume he died young – when he never “was”!

By: Carol A. H.

Carol A. H. — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:44:56 +0000

I am probably in the minority here because I’m happy with the present system of the family/tree view and the way it functions. The new one, while pretty, takes more scrolling and clicking, and seems to take longer to change screen views. I dont’t want to see more than the 5 generations I’m working/concentrating on currently. I hope for one thing: You will give me the OPTION of seeing my family/tree as it is currently. The key word here is OPTION.

By: Sympathy messages

Sympathy messages — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:22:30 +0000

Thanks for the excellent new features, continuous improvements like these make ancestry.com so special.