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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry's new Messaging and loss of old folders
« on: Monday 27 July 20 19:42 BST (UK)  »
Thank you - There comes a time - one in a while - that a website company who you have believed for years were switched on and focused, that you have relied on and trusted, suddenly does something that shocks you into thinking they didn't really understand it at all? That today is Ancestry.co.uk

Deleting the ability to store and organise messages is removing a core component of its usefulness that makes you wonder what bizarre conversations went on in the boardroom when they discussed how to improve Ancestry and ended up, through lack of consultation with their customers, presumably by people who don't actually do family history research destroying a core aspect of their offer. Well done Ancestry !!

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry's new Messaging and loss of old folders
« on: Monday 27 July 20 14:26 BST (UK)  »
Another totally bizarre decision from Ancestry. The standard memo says 'they appreciate the need to store and organise messages' and then tell us the one aspect of their sites functionality which does just that is being deleted. They tell you your folders won't be deleted 'anytime soon.' however the new message experience is a radical transformation that appears not to have been on the beta test page (or at least the beta test page I looked at).

The new messages are more like 'instagram', or 'snap chat' - if you are a teenager you'll be impressed by the chat room look and feel, but if your are a serious researcher of family history, believing yourself to be on a serious research family history site you will find the new chatroom experience unusable !

The reality is the folders for time frames, places, cousins, branches whatever your system was, have now GONE. They don't show up - you have to down load them and 'won't be deleted anytime soon' promise mean by end of August, so about 5-weeks. If you are an irregular user and busy elsewhere in five weeks time you're in for one hell of a shock!

What Ancestry thought they were doing here is a total mystery - a message system without the ability of the user to store and organise message by their personal needs is quite frankly, not a message system at all. Check it out and make sure you like Ancestry support have your feedback !




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The Common Room / Re: Crown Copyright
« on: Monday 05 March 18 14:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

There is a simple and fairly straightforward explanation for this. Most soldiers, airmen or sailors with their box brownies or later cameras could hand their roll of film into the photographic department on their base to be processed (but probably not during a war). This brought the department a little extra income, kept their skills up and was a convenience for the service personnel. It also allowed the authorities to make sure that personnel were not photographing anything they shouldn't. The snaps came back with 'Crown Copyright Reserved' on the reverse as standard. This perk no-longer exists

So you can speculate two-things about these family photographs - the photograph was taken in peacetime and was taken by someone in the British Armed Forces. Hope that helps.

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