Anyone gone onto the 'new' Ancestry.com?

[groom]

From a reply on Facebook to comments about changes of country:

" Thanks for getting in touch. We are aware of this issue with our updated site and are working on fixing it. Please bear with us! If there is anything else I can help you with please let me know."

Sounds like a pretty standard answer to me! If they were aware of it, why release it to UK users before it was fixed?

[dawnsh]

It looks OK to me and amongst the new records it has England and Wales death Indexes from 2007-2013, which is useful.  Although there is this proviso

This collection is a compiled index that covers approximately 55% of the total deaths that occured in this time period.

This index provides death details for people in England and Wales, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at death. However, they do not include the General Register Office (GRO) reference information.

The recent death information on Ancestry has been there since January 2015 and is gleaned from newspaper announcements, probate entries and other miscellaneous sources (funeral directors) and is far from complete AND does not contain the necessary registration information to order certs from the GRO.

The new England & Wales death index 2007-2013 at Ancestry claims a high 55% coverage but in 2013 it has 131000 of over 500000 deaths, less than 26%

I do quite abit of recent death searching for work and have yet to find someone in this dataset, I must just be unlucky.

[groom]

I think it's pot luck, Dawn. I found my aunt who died in August 2008, but not her sister, my mother, who died 18 weeks later in the same place.

[LizzieW]

I didn't search the England and Wales Death Index 2007-13 until reading the comments from groom and dawn, but having done so there is no trace of my mother died 2007 in Gloucestershire or a family friend died 2011 in Surrey.  My mother did not have a will, so no probate and we didn't put anything in the newspapers, however the family friend did leave a will and there was probate - I bought a copy of the will.  So not that great an index.

[KGarrad]

I've already noticed that one of my great grandparents has been moved by ancestry from Swaledale North Yorkshire to Swaledale Iowa.

But did you put Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England?

If you missed the England bit, then the fault is yours!

[mientajb]

Hi there. Is anyone else having trouble dragging the screen across. We have no problems on Old Ancestry but it did not work on with either a mouse or on tablet with New. This is very annoying so we switched back quickly.

[alfietcs]

I've already noticed that one of my great grandparents has been moved by ancestry from Swaledale North Yorkshire to Swaledale Iowa.

But did you put Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England?

If you missed the England bit, then the fault is yours!

 I am slowly begining to realise  Silly me!

[groom]

This looks promising. I left a comment on Ancestry on Facebook re the fact that my ancestors had "been transported" to America unknown to them and me, this is their reply:

 
"Hi Jan, sorry for any confusion caused by this. We are aware of and working on this issue, so you shouldn't have to make the corrections manually, don't worry! Glad to hear you like the updated format otherwise, please keep us updated with any other suggestions/feedback you have.
Like · Reply · 1 · Yesterday at 11:41"

[Lisajb]

I got the standard response - "we're working on this and other issues."