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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #99 on: Sunday 29 November 15 19:00 GMT (UK) »
Well if you pay peanuts...you get monkeys  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #100 on: Sunday 29 November 15 23:40 GMT (UK) »
I quite agree about the colour intensity.  This was one of the items I highlighted to Ancestry when the New Ancestry was introduced.  Regrettably the organisation hasn't taken this onboard!  I personally don't like the dark grey background when looking at a family tree either.

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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #101 on: Friday 04 December 15 17:49 GMT (UK) »
Well I have 10 days left. No, correction, some of us have 10 days left.

I haven't even sneaked a look at the new format and am now starting to get a little worried.

I have stupidly never included England in any of my birth/marriage/death information on any of my trees. The total number of people researched must number in the thoasands......

Please can someone tell me gently....

this is going to be a problem, isn't it?
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« Reply #102 on: Friday 04 December 15 18:40 GMT (UK) »
I've just noticed today that some of mine have "migrated" from England to other lands........ :-\
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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #103 on: Friday 04 December 15 18:46 GMT (UK) »
I'm really not looking forward to it since I had a taste of it and reverted back to the old format.
Shame that as a subscriber for several years I don't have a choice..other than to not renew my subs  :-\
Not impressed with the changes.
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« Reply #104 on: Friday 04 December 15 18:51 GMT (UK) »
I have changed, since I would soon have too anyway.  Although I can't say I'm very fond of it, I'm getting used to it. I mostly stick to the 'Facts' view and rarely look at the time line.  Fortunately I fairly habitually added England to mine so have very few that need to be changed as they slipped through the net.
Hudson - Ipswich, pre 1800; Devall - Colchester, pre 1780

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« Reply #105 on: Friday 04 December 15 19:55 GMT (UK) »
I've spent the last couple of weeks going through my tree and added countries where I needed to.  Long job!
Mullingar, Westmeath Ireland: Gilligan/Wall/Meagher/Maher/Gray/O'Hara/Corroon (various spellings)
Bristol: Woodman/James/Derrick
Bristol/Somerset: Saunders/Wilmot
Gloucestershire:Woodman/Mathews/Tandy/Stinchcombe/Marten/Thompson
Wiltshire: Mathews
Carmarthen: Thomas, Lewis
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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #106 on: Friday 04 December 15 20:13 GMT (UK) »
This has been going strong for a while now. I am ok with new site now, so a complete about face  ;D but as I don't have a tree the problems mentioned earlier don't apply to me. Although I do look at trees and don't like the new look.

Hope it all works out ok for everyone ;)

Love these little Santa's :D sorry for over use :o

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Moore County Down. Redman of Posey, Indiana, USA Emigrated 1820

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Re: Ancestry Website: If it aint broke dont fix it!
« Reply #107 on: Friday 04 December 15 20:37 GMT (UK) »
Well I have 10 days left. No, correction, some of us have 10 days left.

I haven't even sneaked a look at the new format and am now starting to get a little worried.

I have stupidly never included England in any of my birth/marriage/death information on any of my trees. The total number of people researched must number in the thoasands......

Please can someone tell me gently....

this is going to be a problem, isn't it?

It's like this . . . .

The underlying data will remain unchanged (click on a person's profile if you don't believe me!!).
BUT, the information displayed on the screen may show more US based people than you thought you had.

You've had years to ensure that country names were on every place name! :P
And you've had since August to get used to the new look.
Garrad (Suffolk, Essex, Somerset), Crocker (Somerset), Vanstone (Devon, Jersey), Sims (Wiltshire), Bridger (Kent)