The dreaded change of Ancestry

[StevieSteve]

I guess one man's "harder to find" is another's "more logically placed to aid the user journey" 

[jaybelnz]

It's fine to vent MSR,  I had a pretty good vent myself!  I suppose basically my main thought is "why fix something if it's not broke"?

As I said in my other post, mine worked equally fantastically before on either my PC or my iPad, so there were no concerns there!  Everything worked perfectly! Screen display on ipad was identical to that on my PC.

It's much more comfortable to be sitting in my comfy chair in the lounge too, tapping away and doing everything I need to, instead of being shut away in the other room on the PC!  Warmer too in the winter! 

As for iPhones I can't imagine that anyone would actually be researching and creating a tree and adding all the bits and pieces from that!  But each to his own I guess!

A quick look maybe, but surely not the whole 9 yards, including searches etc?

Time I went to bed anyway!  Night night all! 

[msr]

Don't blame the programmers! They just do what they are told by the Business Analysts!
And they just do what they are told by Management!
KG (ex-computer programmer )

Well perhaps they all need to start taking note of the opinions of the users.   

Can't keep using the excuse that 'I followed orders'.

I guess one man's "harder to find" is another's "more logically placed to aid the user journey" 

Yes, well!  That has worked out swimmingly, I can almost hear the enthusiastic applause from 100% of the subscribers.

[Annette7]

I put my tree on Ancestry many years ago now - haven't worked on it of late but would regularly check in Public Trees (noting how many people had 'pinched' my information).

Did it a couple of days ago and was astounded to find that none of my tree entries appeared in Public Trees and yet, if I signed into my tree, my entries were all safely there - my main reason for looking at it was to ensure that I had entered place names correctly i.e. place/county/country as that seems to have become an issue for people who didn't.   Thankfully I had.   I duly contacted Ancestry to find out why my tree entries no longer appear in Public Trees and was told that it was because I hadn't entered 'sources'.

So, for others like me who didn't enter sources at the outset please be aware that your tree entries will no longer appear in a search on Public Trees.   (Had to smile as over half of the trees I've looked at of late have just one source generally i.e. Ancestry tree so they have just 'pinched' the details from someone elses tree.)  So at some point I will have to amend the entries on my tree (won't be before Christmas, that's for sure) but as I have full baptism/marriage/burial dates it's clear that these details have come from parish registers and not simply filched from someone else.

Annette       

[Speedway ace]

My apologies if any one was offended by my comment "dumbing down" the item now removed from my post.

I did not mean dumbing down in the terms of its fuctionality or ease of use.

I was refering to ancestry's aiming at the lower end of the market.

Nigel

[smudwhisk]

Don't blame the programmers! They just do what they are told by the Business Analysts!
And they just do what they are told by Management!
KG (ex-computer programmer )

Well perhaps they all need to start taking note of the opinions of the users.   

Can't keep using the excuse that 'I followed orders'.

Its all very well saying they can't hide behind the excuse "I followed orders",  but if they don't follow the remit set by Management and the Business Analysts, they'll most likely either get sacked for failing do do their job properly, or, if contractors, not get their contracts renewed.

[msr]

I wasn't offended by your post Nigel, so no need to remove your comments. 
I was more offended by the suggestion (whether tongue in cheek or not) that Ancestry should perhaps dumb it down so that we who oppose the changes can keep up.  New does not always mean better.

As for Management and Business Analysts, they don't always live in the real world.  Many a company has gone under due to their decisions, just ask the thousands who lost jobs because of them.

I continue to stand my ground! 

[ThrelfallYorky]

I've - by fishing around and also following the guidance given, thank you KGarrad, found some things - it does seem to have mislaid a few side-twigs, however, somehow, and I'm still wondering which corner they're packed in. As my qualifications don't include any really in I T, I suppose I can be a bit slow working into things like that - but in the past I've used quite demanding drawing packages fairly instinctively. And that, to me is the point. It doesn't feel instinctive - and it is fussy in presentation. I'm okay if it thinks I'm dumb, but I do like to be able to do what I want quickly and efficiently, then move on. I've always entered full details, I'm that sort of rather over the top person, so I've not - yet - found much in the way of transported family, and those I've managed to repatriate.
A motto I've often quoted over the years ( funnily enough, usually when "Computer says" or someone who's just been on the latest IT course, creates some new way of doing things is "New does not mean improved" It may, but often it doesn't - vide Windows 10 at the moment, which has a grudge against "GoogleEarth", I think!

[smudwhisk]

As for Management and Business Analysts, they don't always live in the real world.  Many a company has gone under due to their decisions, just ask the thousands who lost jobs because of them.

Never said they did live in the real world, but unfortunately if you don't follow what you are told to develop, your time is often short with the company.   The fact that they ultimately may lead to the ruin of the company is neither here nor there, that can happen whatever.

Unfortunately, its almost always "IT's fault" when someone dislikes something new, never the numerous chiefs in the background who insisted that was the way forward, whether its a good business sense or not.