Genealogy Chat

There are dreadful errors in my tree now. For example Great Uncle Henry was killed in the Lady Windsor pit when he was sixteen years old. They've now put his death at a ripe old age in Vermont! Good thing I have certs or I would have been wondering.

Annie

What they are working on:

http://ancestryforums.custhelp.com/posts/d7746ed758

Note top reported issues.

Thanks for the link namelessone :-)

I agree with the poster about the "irritating" use of terms such as "passed away" instead of "died" but the real problem is the alteration of inputed info-not sure if there is a way to find the errors except by accident?

Is there any way of correcting the errors on the profiles? I've just been looking again and some members of one family were born (according to Ancestry) in a place that does not exist! This is repeated throughout my tree.

Annie

Kuros

I have corrected the ones I have found by clicking on the "edit" top right hand of page and then on the "quick edit "option but it does mean checking through the whole family - and that is only the ones you know about :-|

I had a look at Kense's link - nice to see the American users are having problems with the place names - but it all gave me a headache :-S

Noticed something else about the "timeline" at the side - even if a persons death is recorded in 1937- it continues to show family events occuring afterwards with {for instance} "? s brother died in 1945 when ? was 50 years old" although ? had already died :-|

Ancestry are working on the site from 7am-11pm according to a banner across the top of the page

This morning I was offered an "update" to FTM14 but did not succeed in getting it as it would not accept the folder as "valid"-downloaded OK but disappeared

Are Ancestry posting anything on Facebook ?

You're right, ElizabethK. It's going to take for ever. I became so fed up with it this afternoon that I imported my tree to findmypast and I'll use that until they've sorted things out. The last straw was when Great Aunt Johannah Kirton's death changed from Pontypridd in 1988 to Preston in 1976.

You can't have a public tree on findmypast or search other trees yet but they say they are working on it. Oh, and people die on there - they don't pass away!

Annie

I said earlier on this thread that I didn't like the profile page, or life story - there seems to be a way of turning off the 'story' Ancestry now gives in their new version:-
"For those of you who don’t want the additional narrative in your LifeStory (at all), here is a tip: you can hide these events completely by clicking on the gear icon on both the Facts view and LifeStory and then selecting the ‘Hide Family Event’s option " I found this on their blog: http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/

I've not tried it as I don't have a tree on Ancestry but hope I can use it when viewing other peoples tree.

Thank you namelessone :-)

Have tried and it works OK - much better !

You now have a choice with "spouse" of partner / single / friend :-D

ElizabethK

I suppose it is modern life ;-)


Looks like Ancestry has found a way to solve some of the problems :-P
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1354259