I am probably going to shoot myself for volunteering to do this BUT it is the best way I can see for all of us to ID the problems we are seeing with the New and NOT improved version of ancestry.com. I am asking for everyone's help in ID'ing issues they see. PLEASE do not respond with 1 complaint at a time--that WILL drive me crazy LOL Put the NEW ancestry through every pace you can think of, try to use every function you are used to working and email me ONE consolidated list of all the issues you find. Once I have a consolidated list I will be happy to email you the WORD doc so when we register complaints you can easily remember all the problems to tell them about. In order not not clog up the lists, please email me off list BUT USE THE SAME THREAD sop I can easily find all your comments. Here is what I have come up with so far---it takes a while to find everything that is wrong with NEW site..so really put it through the paces and try to check everything. Thank you Joyce NEW ancestry problems Formatting in Stories is useless as when you look at them ALL the text runs together ---this makes various things very hard to read---If you have a long story and it has NO paragraphs-it becomes a nightmare to read and understand…Paragraphs were invented for a reason—it breaks up the info to make it more readable. Copying the descendancy chart is useless now as it does not come out with spacing between the various people in the line. It runs them all together making it difficult to tell one generation from the next NO ages in the chronology in Fact View—It is important to to show people’s ages at the time of various things happening ESPECIALLY with the birth of a child. It used to be easy to see if there was an error in some ones birth date or something if you noticed on the timeline the person was 11 years old or something just as crazy --- You cannot see how old a person is when they die---I have seen some trees that have people 119 (or in one case I saw someone who was 300 years old at time of death.) We NEED to be able to quickly see how old a person is all along the timeline!!! NOW we have to take out our calculator for all those events to see if it makes sense—you USED to be able to tell at a glance—THIS is going to CREATE a lot more mistakes in trees if we cannot readily see how old a person was at various events—it used to be quite clear there was an error of some type—now we cannot tell so there are going to be a lot more trees showing up where someone had a kid at 11 years old OR lived to the age of 300… Can no longer print a tree view of a family unless you want to use TONS of black ink—also when you print and the background is such a dark gray it is not as visually pleasing…Black text with a white background is the NORMAL way of printing things. I don’t want to spend a fortune on ink to be able to print off family views so my tree makes sense to the person who will inherit all my genealogy info. I am in the process of making paper copies of many things so the person who takes over my work when I die will have a clue of who it who---It will cost me a fortune to print off all the gray--- There is NO way to do a quick edit on someone. I have a person marked UNKNOWN for date of death. I want to change that to a blank as ancestry techs told me a while back that one should NOT put unknown in a field as the computer searches for a death date of “unknown” BUT there is no way for me to edit this as his death date of “unknown” does not show up in the timeline. I want the ability to do a quick edit in the header portion of the profile page...There is NO WAY for me to get this entry of UNKNOWN off his page .

Hi Joyce, I'm more than a little confused.  First of all I didn't realize that there was an update on Ancestry.  I'm not having any problems and everything seems to work fine for me.  I can print out a descendancy chart just fine and dates are all there.  I would like place of burial in the individual info but that wasn't there in the previous version.  Am I missing something? Barbara Kiersh On Saturday, June 6, 2015 2:01 PM, Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> wrote: I am probably going to shoot myself for volunteering to do this BUT it is the best way I can see for all of us to ID the problems we are seeing with the New and NOT improved version of ancestry.com. I am asking for everyone's help in ID'ing issues they see. PLEASE do not respond with 1 complaint at a time--that WILL drive me crazy LOL Put the NEW ancestry through every pace you can think of, try to use every function you are used to working and email me ONE consolidated list of all the issues you find. Once I have a consolidated list I will be happy to email you the WORD doc so when we register complaints you can easily remember all the problems to tell them about. In order not not clog up the lists, please email me off list BUT USE THE SAME THREAD sop I can easily find all your comments. Here is what I have come up with so far---it takes a while to find everything that is wrong with NEW site..so really put it through the paces and try to check everything. Thank you Joyce NEW ancestry problems Formatting in Stories is useless as when you look at them ALL the text runs together ---this makes various things very hard to read---If you have a long story and it has NO paragraphs-it becomes a nightmare to read and understand…Paragraphs were invented for a reason—it breaks up the info to make it more readable. Copying the descendancy chart is useless now as it does not come out with spacing between the various people in the line. It runs them all together making it difficult to tell one generation from the next NO ages in the chronology in Fact View—It is important to to show people’s ages at the time of various things happening ESPECIALLY with the birth of a child.  It used to be easy to see if there was an error in some ones birth date or something if you noticed on the timeline the person was 11 years old or something just as crazy --- You cannot see how old a person is when they die---I have seen some trees that have people 119 (or in one case I saw someone who was 300 years old at time of death.) We NEED to be able to quickly see how old a person is all along the timeline!!! NOW we have to take out our calculator for all those events to see if it makes sense—you USED to be able to tell at a glance—THIS is going to CREATE a lot more mistakes in trees if we cannot readily see how old a person was at various events—it used to be quite clear there was an error of some type—now we cannot tell so there are going to be a lot more trees showing up where someone had a kid at 11 years old OR lived to the age of 300… Can no longer print a tree view of a family unless you want to use TONS of black ink—also when you print and the background is such a dark gray it is not as visually pleasing…Black text with a white background is the NORMAL way of printing things.  I don’t want to spend a fortune on ink to be able to print off family views so my tree makes sense to the person who will inherit all my genealogy info.  I am in the process of making paper copies of many things so the person who takes over my work when I die will have a clue of who it who---It will cost me a fortune to print off all the gray--- There is NO way to do a quick edit on someone.  I have a person marked UNKNOWN for date of death.  I want to change that to a blank  as ancestry techs told me a while back that one should NOT put unknown in a field as the computer searches for a death date of “unknown” BUT there is no way for me to edit this as his death date of “unknown” does not show up in the timeline.  I want the ability to do a quick edit in the header portion of the profile page...There is NO WAY for me to get this entry of UNKNOWN off his page . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message