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For those who use Ancestry for their trees - a new 'feature' has been added to the top right of your screen - Notifications!  If you haven't looked at it, it lights up red (why not green?) when something is added.  The additions are, for the most part, completely useless IMHO. 

For instance: "we may have found a mother/father for XX"; "You shared a picture from 'user', what else might 'user' be able to share? Message 'user'"; etc., etc.,

They asked for Feedback LOL...  I told them to get rid of it pronto and fix the useless messaging system instead!

Cheers
Ms_C

I only recognize Sue Perkins.
We don’t get the show here, unfortunately.

You can find current (and some past) episodes on YouTube.  The only annoying thing is that they are all broken up into about 5-10 minute segments, but they are there.

Ms_C

I am on Ancestry.ca and I concur - no emails received letting me know someone has messaged me on Ancestry.  I would have to scroll back to find the last one, but it's been a while.  Last week every reply I did send was going through twice!  I actually had to delete one instance of 3 different responses.  So annoying to both sender and recipient.

I really long for the old system too whereby you could group messages together, and even delete ones where there was no longer a reason to keep them.  Ah well, 1st world problems I guess but still a nuisance.

Cheers
Ms_C

About 3 years ago I was the recipient of one of 'those' emails - "you have made an error on your tree and here's why".  When I looked at the person in my tree, I had definitely made an error!  I had the same person as both wife of, and sister of, my supposed ancestor (1841 and 1851 Census docs)!

The person who sent the email was extremely helpful, because as my grandson would say, that whole line of my tree was now "sus"!  LOL  That error resulted in having to remove over 5,000 people!  It took ages, but finally I managed to clean it up.

Since then I have been much more careful to READ everything.  I have also been going thru my tree systematically taking out precise birth/death/marriage dates where I personally have no source document, but have been guilty of simply taking another member's word for it.

I'm also waiting on two replies where I have politely pointed out, with documented proof, that a particular person is incorrect on their tree.  To date, not a peep.  Ah well, 'twas ever thus!

Cheers,
Ms_C (on a very snowy day in Toronto)

(btw - @Gadget - thanks for telling me what FH is!  I did a bit of research and eventually decided on RootsMagic.)

It might be best if they stopped messing about and get the shared matches sorted.

Hi.  What is the problem you're having with shared matches Gadget?

(Edit:  And yes, mine is back to the previous format too!)

Cheers (and Happy New Year)