Andy Hatchett

Stephanie,

There is one very important criteria we should be able to sort on that isn’t available – the last sign in date!.

Looking for local members in Nashville, Tennessee (some 1000+ names) I had to wade thru pages and pages and pages of names where the last sign in was over 6 months ago.

Needless to say, trying finding current local members is not something the Member Directory was designed to do!

Just for kicks, when I get time, I’ll go thru and document the percentages for:

Over 6 months

Within 6 months

Within last month

Withing last week

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1 week, 2 days ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Jerry,

I search the SSDI from the Rootsweb side.

On the Rootsweb Home Page there is a link to the SSDI-click that.

When the search screen comes up click the advance search box close to the submit button.

Use the screen that comes up that includes m/d/y/, zip, last benefit, etc.

1 week, 6 days ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Monika Re: #11

Do you mean that after adding a source there is no “1 source citation” link right above the “Add Media” line on the right hand side?

To the best of my knowledge there never was a source citation line before an actual source was added,

3 weeks ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Jerry Re: #11

Do all events have the same date format (i.e. all full dates or all year only dates)?

It has been noted that this can make a difference in different browsers. I’ve been told it is being checked on.

3 weeks ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Jerry Re: #6

The code for the original roll out wasn’t written in a day- or even a week; the code correcting the problem will also not be written in a day- maybe not a week either; but it is being worked on (and it probably isn’t just the spacing problem that will most likely be re-written as there is also a text overflow problem).

3 weeks ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Bob Re: #9

I fully agree with the second part of your post.

I’ve mentioned the “Blog and Run” problem more than once to various people but it hasn’t seemed to make much of a difference yet – and I hope yet is the operative word.

The Blog, if it is to have any meaningful use, must become a vehicle of continuous communication between the Ancestry Personnel Bloggers and the membership.

The Ancestry Personnel need to schedule their responses just as they would any other meeting.

Something like this would, imho, work:

1) The Initial Article.

2) About 7 days after the initial article a response to the responses to their initial article.

3) About 13 days after the initial article a response to the later responses to the original article.

I realize that they all have very full plates but if they can’t commit to some type of scheduled response then they should just give up initiating Blog articles altogether.

I don’t feel three posts within a two week period is too much to ask.

Maybe Ancestry needs to initiate some internal policies about blogging if they don’t have them already.

Whatever the case, something needs to be done. As things now stand the blog is becoming more and more like a “let’s pat ourselves on the back” puff piece.

There are exceptions to the above. It is easy to see who those exceptions are by reading the blogs so I won’t mention any names.

And to those Ancestry Bloggers who do respond- a heartfelt thanks!

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3 weeks, 3 days ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Karna Re: #49

I’m curious as to why you say a person with 12,000 names can’t be into genealogy?

Just because someone has a large database doesn’t mean they are a mere namegatherer.

I have 28,000+ names and am *very* into genealogy,as were my grandmother, great grandmother, great grandaunt, and that great grandaunt’s daughter- all now deceased. I am heir to their work and have been doing genealogy since 1956- long before the www, internet, or even personal computers were invented. ... See all content Hide content

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Terry Re: #73

Aren’t Parish Records usually Church of England records? The CoE is, and always has been a government entity; at least that is what I’ve been told.

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Teresa Re: #72

The yearbooks are, in my personal opinion, the second greatest waste of Ancestry’s resources ever seen (the first being the creation and maintaining of that ungodly OneWorldTree).

1 month, 3 weeks ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com

Donna Re: #68

Search what by profession? Census? Death Certificates? ???

Most of the databases have no search field for that kind of entry.

1 month, 3 weeks ago onWordpress in blogs.ancestry.com