On 18/07/2013 13:37, n-ashby wrote: > As has been mentioned,Ancestry are discontinuing Old Search. > Can some one explain to me,how to use new search. > I just checked,on one of my ancesters,by using old search,there was a > listing,for his birth,marriage & death,various census and passenger list > details and links to possible other connections. > I can see none of this on new search and it looks like.I will have to > access,the various sets of records,one by one. Have they actually said they are removing it? They had a survey and for some reason seem to not like Old Search even though just aout all serious users seem to hate New Search and many have made this very clear to Ancestry.

On 17/07/2013 21:24, MB wrote: > On 18/07/2013 13:37, n-ashby wrote: >> As has been mentioned,Ancestry are discontinuing Old Search. >> Can some one explain to me,how to use new search. >> I just checked,on one of my ancesters,by using old search,there was a >> listing,for his birth,marriage & death,various census and passenger list >> details and links to possible other connections. >> I can see none of this on new search and it looks like.I will have to >> access,the various sets of records,one by one. > > Have they actually said they are removing it? Yes, I had an email from them today, as "one of the 2% who still use Old Search". Q Based on that, as a part of the work this year we will be bringing together the two search experiences into a single search experience on Ancestry.co.uk. We hope to bring forward the best features of both the old and new search systems into the consolidated experience to facilitate the transition for our users and to improve the overall search experience. We expect to discontinue the old search function as a separate experience within the next 6 months. UQ

"Renia" <renia@otenet.gr> wrote in message news:ks789k$dt4$1@speranza.aioe.org... > > > On 17/07/2013 21:24, MB wrote: >> On 18/07/2013 13:37, n-ashby wrote: >>> As has been mentioned,Ancestry are discontinuing Old Search. >>> Can some one explain to me,how to use new search. >>> I just checked,on one of my ancesters,by using old search,there was a >>> listing,for his birth,marriage & death,various census and passenger list >>> details and links to possible other connections. >>> I can see none of this on new search and it looks like.I will have to >>> access,the various sets of records,one by one. >> >> Have they actually said they are removing it? > > Yes, I had an email from them today, as "one of the 2% who still use Old > Search". > > Q > Based on that, as a part of the work this year we will be bringing > together the two search experiences into a single search experience on > Ancestry.co.uk. We hope to bring forward the best features of both the old > and new search systems into the consolidated experience to facilitate the > transition for our users and to improve the overall search experience. We > expect to discontinue the old search function as a separate experience > within the next 6 months. > UQ My thought is they get the 2% because new users are defaulted to the new search and unless they know about and how to find old search they would not even know about it

Renia wrote: > > > On 17/07/2013 21:24, MB wrote: >> On 18/07/2013 13:37, n-ashby wrote: >>> As has been mentioned,Ancestry are discontinuing Old Search. >>> Can some one explain to me,how to use new search. >>> I just checked,on one of my ancesters,by using old search,there was a >>> listing,for his birth,marriage & death,various census and passenger list >>> details and links to possible other connections. >>> I can see none of this on new search and it looks like.I will have to >>> access,the various sets of records,one by one. >> >> Have they actually said they are removing it? > > Yes, I had an email from them today, as "one of the 2% who still use Old Search". > > Q > Based on that, as a part of the work this year we will be bringing together the two search experiences into a > single search experience on Ancestry.co.uk. We hope to bring forward the best features of both the old and new > search systems into the consolidated experience to facilitate the transition for our users and to improve the > overall search experience. We expect to discontinue the old search function as a separate experience within > the next 6 months. > UQ Interesting - as one of the "2%", I have had a letter from them too. I find it strange that Ancestry claim that only 2% use Old Search, given that I don't recall anyone on this group saying they prefer New Search and most posts on the subject are asking how to get back to Old Search ! Since this group is probably pretty representative of any genealogy group, I wonder what % actually do use Old Search. I completed a survey on the two searches not that long ago, I wonder if this is the same one. I guess there's only one way to find out... -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com