I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail waiting in your ancestry inbox? I believe that the notifications are not being sent, but others tell me that my spam filters must be filtering the mail. I need evidence that the ancestry notifications are still being sent. The last one I received was in 2012. As a test last week I sent ancestry mail to a friend, and she did not receive any notification. Another person to whom I sent ancestry mail (in response to an online tree) replied and said that she saw my mail on ancestry, not via an ancestry notification. The reason I ask is simple. I look on ancestry and I see a tree that contains persons who are also in my tree. I then send ancestry mail to the tree owner, and 90+% of the time I get no response. I assume that people put their trees online so that they can get comments from persons who view the online trees. My contention is that these people are not ignoring my mail; they just are not in the habit of logging on to ancestry regularly to check for ancestry mail. And without a notification from ancestry, they have no idea that they have mail in their ancestry inbox. Thanks. --Barry Finkel Chicago

Hi Barry I can't vouch for the workings of Ancestry internal email systems but you are perhaps assuming to much ie that those who put their tree online actually keep up an interest I have rarely received a reply from people with trees online , Ancestry or other sites, when you check you will often find these people have not accessed their trees for over 12 months In other words they try some research, enter a tree, lose interest, change email address etc etc If you let me know one of your more unusual names I can try and find it and send you a message as a tester Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 24/02/2014 14:46, Barry S. Finkel wrote: > I have a question that related to ancestry.com and not about FTM. > Has any of you gotten mail on ancestry (e.g., in response to someone > seeing your online tree) and then received a notification from > ancestry to your regular e-mail address that you had ancestry mail > waiting in your ancestry inbox? I believe that the notifications > are not being sent, but others tell me that my spam filters must be > filtering the mail. I need evidence that the ancestry notifications > are still being sent. The last one I received was in 2012. As a > test last week I sent ancestry mail to a friend, and she did not