New format vs old format discussions are all over the www. Some pro and some con http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/06/01/announcing-the-new-ancestry-website/ The supposed petition is just another variation of that which already exists. and is on many logs. Blog away, petition away, and twitter if you all are so inclined To me it is a waste of time -----Original Message----- From: Robert Pieterse via <[email protected]> To: wldgrdnr <[email protected]>; nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 5:54 pm Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] PLEASE help your fellow researchers to continue to do GOOD research A petition is something signed by people A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity. Petitions to a deity are a form of prayer called supplication. In the colloquial sense, a petition is a document addressed to some official and signed by numerous individuals. The URL is full of nothing but comments from people, it is hardly a petition.. 1,700 people going off in different directions and different comments hardly fit the criteria. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/600/803/575/save-ancestrycom-classic The recipient , in this case ancestry will not read all the comments to ne sure. If it were done correctly they might Nothing wrong with ancestry as is anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> To: nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 5:29 pm Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] PLEASE help your fellow researchers to continue to do GOOD research The Petition is to ask Ancestry.com to keep "OLD" ancestry as an alternative. After a lot of us filed complaints about the NEW ancestry.com being horrible (and if you are serious about research it is--they have taken away a LOT of functions and made things a LOT more difficult to do there) and seeing they are ignoring us, someone has started a petition hoping Ancestry.com will listen to us. You do NOT need to be an ancestry.com member to sign this petition, so even if YOU don't use it, please try to help those of us that do by signing the petition and passing on the link for it to everyone you know. Last I checked we only had 1700 signatures which is NOT going to be enough to get them to listen to us "old timers". The NEW ancestry makes it more difficult to search, print and so many other functions don't work well either. Please help out your fellow researchers by signing and passing it on. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/600/803/575/save-ancestrycom-classic/ Thank you! Joyce ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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