Comments on: Family Trees: New Tree Viewer Tips and FAQs

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:35:53 +0000

Norma RE: # 58

Old Search hasn’t gone anywhere!

See post #12 above!

By: norma j miller

norma j miller — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:39:43 +0000

Hello, I just renewed my subscription, now I wish I hadn’t. I can’t find things as well as before, now I just feel I am wasting my time. Your site is not improved, it’s more complicated. I liked it when we could choose which search we wanted to use. I am very disappointed. I agree with posts above. I hope you will consider restoring the “old search”. N J Miller

By: Nancy Arnold

Nancy Arnold — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:09:35 +0000

I see my tree growing with Ancestry.com and I try to be careful as I work but I have managed to get it in quite a mess adding new people.

Would it help others like me if Ancestry.com could add a coded linked column to the List of Ancestors with a bullet that would let us know this exact personal profile is the same one attached to our pedigree/family view? I will call this the “tree file”. Other files with the same name may have different or additional info such as the spouses lineage that I need to transfer to that person, so, it sure would be nice to be able to open each of these people at the same time to compare info and transfer or merge (by choice) the info to the “tree file”, then that duplicate name could be deleted without fear of loosing info.

I entered my grandfather as Thomas Morris. I wanted to attach census records to his profile but when his name was listed as “Deck” or “Dick”, it added a new person. It would be nice to have box to click to say this is really the same person.

Like I say ya’ll do a fabulous job and give many people hours of pleasure . . . me for one! Thanks!

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:52:06 +0000

Donald Re: #55

If you mean that “Famous Relatives” thing that was associated with OneWorldTree- don’t bother!

That entire thing was pure junk from start to finish and Ancestry should be ashamed to even have it on the site.

By: Donald E. Kliros

Donald E. Kliros — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:17:42 +0000

I want to know how to find Famous People since you made these changes. dekliros@gmail.com
Please E-mail me with the answer.

By: Monika

Monika — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:19:37 +0000

# 53 – Got it! I thought that we had to be talking about two different things! #40 and I were talking about making the print legible on Census records and documents as well! For the older eyes (like mine!) But I agree with you, it would be nice if the print on the “Family” view could be larger. And, yes, by “Profile Sheet” I mean the “profile” view! A rose by any other name…, and when I print that view out I have a “Profile Sheet”! !

By: Jade

Jade — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:45:10 +0000

Monika #52, I was not talking about Census or any other document view – just about the Tree “Family” and Pedigree views where more than 5 generations are known.

I can make text larger or smaller on the Individual Overview (or “profile” view) (is that what you meant by ‘profile sheets’?) with no trouble. Again, I was talking only about the “Family” and Pedigree views.

I do not want to zoom in to the “Family” view and see fewer of the persons in the display. I want to keep the display as-is but make text in the boxes larger.

By: Monika

Monika — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:12:01 +0000

#50. Sorry to disagree with you. On my computer, when I, e.g., want to read the original Census record, I press the zoom button on the bottom right of the display and it will magnify the words as much as I need them to be. The same with my “zoom” button under “View” on my computer, it will enlargen the text on my profile sheets as large as I need it to be. As a matter of fact, I use the “zoom” button regularly, and, there is very little print that I have not been able to “zoom” to a readable level on ancestry.com. So, maybe we are both using the zoom button differently, or??

By: Carol A. H.

Carol A. H. — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:24:38 +0000

I have been watching carefully what happens when I go in and out of a tree. I still get the home person in the Pedigree View (not Family View) when I log onto a tree from “Family Trees,” not the last person I was working with in the profile page. So I don’t get back to where I left off. The tree doesn’t remember where I was last. This means extra clicking to get back to the last person in that tree.

By: Jade

Jade — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:16:20 +0000

#40, #48 — the mouse shortcut and keyboard shortcuts zoom in and out on tree. They do not enlarge text while retaining the viewed layout.

On my screen the only zoom provision is on the vertical image toolbar. Again, you can get a closup or further out view of the box-chart display but not change text size while retaining the view-layout.