Articles by Anne Mitchell
Updates to the enhanced image page
New vs Old Search I know this isn’t really about the enhanced image page, but some of you have ended up in in the New Search interface and would like to go back to old. If at the top of the Ancestry.com search homepage you see this:
Tips on using the enhanced image page
If you haven’t seen the enhanced image page yet, you can take a look at this image from the US 1860 census. And to get you started with the basics, here are a few tips. Viewing just the image If you want to view just the image, click on the link. Until you click the… Read more
Enhanced Editing and Image Page
Tomorrow, July 29th, we are launching two enhancements. The first is enhanced editing of index data, and the second is an enhanced version of the image page. Enhanced editing One of the most frequent requests from our members is to have the ability to add alternates to more than just given names and surnames. The… Read more
Coming soon: enhancements to the ancestry.com image page
We have been working on a few enhancements for the image page to make it easier for you to read what is on the page, and then to add your own knowledge about your ancestors to our indexes. Here’s a preview (click the image to see a larger version): First, we’ve added some tools to… Read more
Latest on lifespan filtering
Note: For those of you who love the old search, it is still there. You can get to it by clicking “Old Search” in the tan bar on top of the search pages or here: Old Search. Old Search has always been there. The lifespan filter was applied to both and other than that we… Read more
More relevant search results are coming this Wednesday
There is a long list of things we want to improve in search (and in new search in particular) – and we’ve started with what you’ve told us is the most important – getting relevant results; and relevance is our top priority this year in search. And date relevance seems to be the most requested… Read more
Some of our data sets are not returning results in search
As some of you have noticed, some of our data sets are not returning results when they are searched. We are currently working on it and I will post updates as I get them. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Changing text size on search results
Some of you may use the text size links on the search results page to increase the font size when you scan a list of results: This functionality is controlled by javascript, and is performance drag on the page. And you can control text size of an entire page through your browser much more efficiently.… Read more
More search questions from the webinar
There were some questions in the webinar that were search related that I didn’t have time to answer. This is the second set of questions. You can also view the first set 7. How can I obtain results for just one state? This is a good question and there are multiple ways to go about… Read more
Follow-up on some search questions from the webinar
There were some questions in the webinar that were search related that I didn’t have time to answer. I thought I pull out some of them and answer them here. 1. Does performing a general search not look in all data sets? If you perform a general search it will look in all 27,000 plus… Read more
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