Genealogy Chat

Right. I take back what I said earlier. There was a 'try it now' button on the Home Page. So I did.

The tree looked, in my opinion, Clunky/Industrial rather than Elegant. The Profile pages were confusing, and the Hints symbol not that obvious.
Showing the births and deaths of close family on the time-line could be useful.

I've reverted to the 'Old' version and will rely on my off-line programme for display purposes.

You should always put place names as unambiguously as possible when building your tree. Ancestry has always had a tendency to assume US towns in such cases.

Thankies Alviegal,
I switched back ....Phew!

OMG I didn't know about this!

Just been on it and I thought it was actually pretty good UNTIL I looked at the facts for my grandfather and discovered his half brother died in Milton County, Georgia when he was 10 years old!

The only thing is he actually died in Milton in Scotland.

I have the same problem as you GlasgowLass. If I haven't put a county down, ancestry have found an American place and added it.

You can change back to the 'old' ancestry if you hover on your username and click on the option to change back. You will also be asked what you don't like about the 'new' version.

I have found with a tree I am currently working on - the parents married in February 1785 , the first child was also born in 1785 with no specific date, the birth has now appeared before the nuptials in the new version despite the baptism showing September -have managed to get it in order by putting a speculative "September" in for the birth

I am wondering how many more are going to surface :-|

I've just had a go at the new ancestry. The tree itself seems fine but I can't stand the profile page - much too busy.

There is no point telling me the official source for an entry when all I really wanted to know was which idiot assumed that my ancestor was also their ancestor on the other side of the world.

Can't see any difference on the tree view.

The only thing I've noticed over the last few days is when viewing an image. There is now a dark grey band at the top of the web page. It used to a shade of white, I think.
There are other bits relating to the image that have been added or fiddled around with a bit, none of which detract from the previous version.

One is a 'related content' icon which I haven't noticed before. Click on that and a slideout thingy comes in from the right listing listing some of the other records attached to the name. That could be quite handy.

Not sure what I think.

However, I have noticed something that I don't like.
My tree was started on Ancestry back in 2008.
On a number of profiles the place of birth or marriage was entered simply with the town or area.
EG
My parents married in Bridgeton but I see that I omitted "Glasgow"

Ancestry kindly updated this for me on the new version
It now reads:
Bridgeton, New Jersey


EDIT:
It takes two amendments.
One for each spouse.

No doubt we will get used to it-- but having had a look at it is it possible to return to the "old" tree on Ancestry ? :-|

Too many changes coming along at the same time :-)

I think it is an improvement. So far I do like it.

Not sure that I like it.