Comments on: Desperately Seeking Search Tips

By: Jade

Jade — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:01:11 +0000

Perhaps staff could answer the questions here?

By: Vera McHale

Vera McHale — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 03:12:26 +0000

I have been doing family research most of my life by asking so many questions as a kid. Now as I near the end of the story I feel for younger people trying to find their way through a maze they don’t understand. I do agree that no one should have to adjust to new rules just because it is a new idea or even a new owner or another country. Whatever! This shows signs of trying to get subscribers to learn the system you have by publicly teaching each other. Ho Ho Ho ! I guess you could call it a cheap shot. You need employees with a good sense of organizing material. And the programming skills to do it. And good employee salaries will get you that. If you want someone’s work, there or in subscribers, honesty requires you pay them. If you have a misunderstood intent you need to be clearer about what you goal is and who it is designed to benefit. Are you Americans?

By: Ken Hinds

Ken Hinds — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:29:41 +0000

What is the rationale behind requiring a separate account for this new thing?
Why would using this new feature be completely distinct from one’s normal
experience of searching for records? Why do I need to remember yet another
logon and password when I’m already on the site?

And I agree with Andy Hatchett: What exactly is the difference between this
and an unfocused message board? Or the Wiki? And since there apparently will
be no focus to the subjects discussed on this new thing, how would a user
find any information among the flood of unrelated questions? You would have
to organize the new Community page(s) by subject, which leads us right back
to the existing Message Boards.

For that matter, would not the kind of information likely to appear in this
new feature make more sense under the Learning Center menu? “Next Steps”,
“Help — FAQ”, “Webinars”. Wouldn’t one of those be a logical place to look
if one has general questions?

I don’t want to think this, but it’s hard to see this as anything but an
attempt to get your paying customers to create your content for you.

It amazes me that your programmers have time to create something like this,
but they don’t have time to fix real problems, like searches that return
results that don’t match the specified criteria, or the lack of a Notes
section on the Person Overview tree page, or the inability to put line-
feeds in tree comments, making everything comes out as hard-to-read
stream-of-consciousness.

By: Pam

Pam — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:33:43 +0000

Reference your screen shot, as above, is that where all the colour from the Overview Page has gone????

By: Trevor Thacker

Trevor Thacker — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 21:55:51 +0000

Gayla, Please contact our member services team toll free at 1-800-262-3787; we’d be happy to look into this for you.

By: gayla tackitt

gayla tackitt — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 08:40:55 +0000

I signed up for a free two week subscription.i canceled the sub. One week later. Our bank account keeps being charged. What do i do? How do we get or money back? Someone please help we are going into debt.

By: David

David — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:30:49 +0000

I would like to sign in, but since the email address I want to use, is also to my Ancestry subscription, the system will not allow me to log in or create a new user with the same email address.

What good is this going to be to those that have ONLY one email account?

By: Jeff B

Jeff B — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:55:09 +0000

I totally agree with the comments.

1) If the Ancestry.com paid staff are not monitoring this and actively answering, why use it?

Message boards that are in place today, are sufficient for ours needs. Why are you creating an additional system to make it more complicated?

But if #1 is true, then this could help us see already solved customer support issues.

By: Betty Dahlstedt

Betty Dahlstedt — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:25:02 +0000

I agree with Andy Hatchett. If the “thing” only is another means to get advice from other members ….we already have some wonderful people answering questions and offering help that SHOULD be included in the price we pay for membership at Ancestry. Sometimes I wonder if Ancestry really has paid staff.

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:54:36 +0000

I have a few questions about this new ‘thing’.

1). Just what is the difference between this and the Ancestry Message Boards?

2). If the search has to do with a surname or locality, should those message boards be used instead?

3). Will actual PAID Ancestry Staff be actively monitoring this ‘community’ and answering questions?

4) If the answer to #3 is no, then why not? That would, in effect, make it nothing more than one more non-monitored message board!