Comments on: What Would You Ask ancestry.com?

By: yolanda m.martinez

yolanda m.martinez — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:10:51 +0000

why is it that alot of these meetings are far for to many of us, if its possible for you to bring them closer to home, i am from the sacramento ca. area .my family history is from many parts of the countries, for example arizona,mexico, spain,and also the native,indeginous,cultures. if you could reply it would be nice, thank you.

By: james e rhea

james e rhea — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:00:47 +0000

what would it take to get the floppy discs that i use for backup to where i can use them without getting an error message that they are invalid, which won’t let me use them

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:55 +0000

I particularly like Tessa’s question, but also have one of my own. Will we ever be able to merge new data from a GEDCOM file into an existing Personal/Private tree? I personally have mine set to private, and every time I update my tree, I have to remove the old one (to get rid of duplicate trees) and re-invite people to view my tree…it’s kind of a pain. Additionally, I’ve noticed that people do not remove the older versions of their tree, thus creating several duplicate records from the same person. Oh, and I have many other ideas…how can I get a job there

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:30:18 +0000

When will you fix the mixed up ED’s in the 1910 census for Philadelphia? Images for ED 294 are inserted into the indexed names for ED 328 and vice versa. I blogged about it last July and notified them months earlier! See http://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/a-census-quirk-on-ancestry-com/

By: Evelyn Yvonne Theriault

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:28:54 +0000

When doing a search, why don’t we have more parameters to narrow down the search – at the very least gender, or type of event such as birth, marriage, death?
Evelyn

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:12:37 +0000

Will “OneWorldTree” ever permanently disappear? (I’m begging!) This is one of the least helpful and most erroneous “creations” on Ancestry.com.

By: Tessa

Tessa — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:57:54 +0000

Could ancestry make the shoebox more like a filing cabinet so thatwe could file in a way that was helpful to the researcher (i.e., family surnames or individual names) with the records so we could easily find the information and/or have the system work so that if we check a record does not relate we could put a note in our shoebox that it has been checked? A good example of how this can work is with the Swedish company Genlines – you can put the documents you find and want to make a note of in a file and make any notations so that when you go back to look at it you can recall why you saved it and who it relates to.

By: Lynn Palermo

Lynn Palermo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:30:49 +0000

Why are private trees allowed to take from public trees but can refuse to share with others? I believe ours mothers all taught us if we want to play in the sandbox we should be willing to share. I fully understand if you want your tree to be private, but by doing so a private member should give up the right to access the public trees.

By: Kay Haden

Kay Haden — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:06:24 +0000

I have a request for Ancestry rather than a question. Please, please, please make a greater effort to inform users that just because a “shaking leaf” appears, or a there’s a possible connection proposed to another family tree, it isn’t necessarily correct! First of all the connection has to be somewhat plausible. Dates and locations have to be possible. I am truly amazed and often just disgusted by some of the information in the public Family Trees and the connections made.

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:12:49 +0000

Are they going to have more parish records for the UK