Comments on: We’re always working on making your family history research quicker and easier – here’s what we’ve done lately

By: judy

judy — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:55:10 +0000

sorry i have no experience of mac so have no idea. i do know that they DON’T work on windows explorer. but to get a screen save there are two ways in windows. first use the ‘print screen’ button which will save a copy to the copy board then you can open it in paint.
but the most easiest is to load irfanview on to your machine have the program running and then when you want a snap shot of the screen you are using (it must be open) all you need do is use ‘ctrl +f11′ and you will get a snap shot JPEG pasted into irfanview. i know that irfanview is available for mac

http://www.irfanview.com/ (windows)

i just googled and got this it seems that you can get tabletools and screengrab firefox add on for mac

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/TableTools.shtml

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Internet-Utilities/Screengrab.shtml

http://irfanview2.software.informer.com/download-irfanview-mac/

By: christopher8944

christopher8944 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:06:30 +0000

Judy.
Do you know if the above add-ons work on Macs?

By: keith

keith — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:39:25 +0000

the frustration for me is that having announced the coming of 1911 census it has not been followed up on. I have started looking elsewhere which means reconsidering if Ancestory is value for money.

By: judy

judy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:12:32 +0000

sorry those links dont work of course these do

http://www.screengrab.org/

http://www.mingyi.org/T2F3/

By: judy

judy — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:08:39 +0000

pam

if you use firefox you can download a tool to do exactly that. once you have it installed all you need do is right click over the colum you wish to sort move down to ‘sort table column as’ this will sort the current page you are looking at. and of course if you use old search exact ticked you have more control
it will work on other sits to.
another good one to have is screen grab

(table tools)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo/addon/2637

(screen grab)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

By: Pam Hopper

Pam Hopper — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:21:33 +0000

I completely agree with the comments about search (new or old). There are too many returns, most of which are wholly irrelevant. When we get our results from our search, why can’t we use the title bar names to be able to re-organise our results i.e. click on ‘name’ and it will re-organise into alphabetical order or ‘year of birth’ and that column re-orders etc. etc.? This would give us the freedom to check the results most relevant to us and then continue on looking through the less relevant ones if we wish, without having to scroll through (sometimes) thousands of returns. If I’m searching a particular year I want to see all relevant results for that year before venturing forth into other years (earlier or later). I’m afraid the search results seem totally illogical to me………

By: Charlene Chen

Charlene Chen — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:08:13 +0000

Thank you everyone for your comments. We hope that you are finding the new ancestry.co.uk Blog a useful channel to keep you up-to-date on what’s happening at Ancestry.co.uk, and that you will become a regular visitor. If you haven’t already done so, you can click on the “E-mail” link on the right-hand side of this page to subscribe to a free service which will deliver all new articles into your email account as they are posted on the Blog.

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#1 Judy
Thank you very much for reporting the issues with LMA and BMD. We are aware of them and working to resolve the problems.

By: Patricia Yandell

Patricia Yandell — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:07:35 +0000

I would also like to know when you are going to get the 1911 census. It is so frustrating. I don’t really want to subscribe to another site. So please let us have this census soon or you might loose some subscribers.!!

By: chodgetts

chodgetts — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:18:26 +0000

I won’t repeat all the things above which I so agree with. The arrival of the transcription window means we can see just how dire the transcripts are.
Particular beefs of mine are
Abbreviations. I can see an argument for transcribing abbreviations exactly. There are some cases where two or more names are possible (Jos) for instance. But, your software doesn’t cope with this (Family Search does much better at returning variants, including abbreviations) An abbreviated name often turns up pages and pages later – after whole lists of returns that don’t match in terms of age, place, birthplace. You’ve usually given up by then.
Also abbreviations for place names. Very common when that place is where you are, or really close. Birm for Birmingham is one.
Secondly, the links for revising the search are very erratic. You want to make a small alteration to the criteria, but often, quite randomly a different search box appears, from which the collection information has not only disappeared, but there isn’t the means of re-selecting 1851 England census, or even Uk census collection, or whatever, so instead of improving the search results you get hundreds of returns from collections you don’t want – and have to start over from the menu.
Not to mention the number of times when you hit return to search results and get a search you did much, much earlier. Again, have to start over.

By: Ann Wilkinson

Ann Wilkinson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:30:57 +0000

I agree with all the comments above. Prefer Old search. When will we get 1911 census? Also I find it difficult now to find my way to view Birth /Marriage / death index NOT transcribed. Often the improvements make it harder and more complicated.