The dreaded change of Ancestry

[StevieSteve]

Groom, really, I agree with you on this

[Speedway ace]

In the second quarter of 2014 Ancestry lost 52,000 customers, I suggest this trend will continue, The new 'Ancestry' has gained few friends,  The new Christmas i-phone customers will soon get bored after 10 minutes and their free trials will not be extended.

Nigel

[Hampshire Lass]

Well I've had a reply from Ancestry to my enquiry about the facility to show relationship to the home person on a tree.

They said they are working on this and it will be re-instated.

On looking at my trees today I find that the relationship is now automatically displayed in the usual area under their name. I believe this has improved because it now automatically shows everyone's relationship to you, without having to click to discover it. Also if you click on the relationship it opens a new list explaining the route to this relationship through all the generations.

So..... thank you Ancestry 

[groom]

Well I've had a reply from Ancestry to my enquiry about the facility to show relationship to the home person on a tree.

They said they are working on this and it will be re-instated.

On looking at my trees today I find that the relationship is now automatically displayed in the usual area under their name. I believe this has improved because it now automatically shows everyone's relationship to you, without having to click to discover it. Also if you click on the relationship it opens a new list explaining the route to this relationship through all the generations.

So..... thank you Ancestry 

Mine's back as well, and I agree, it is much better and easier the way they show it now. I'm still discovering new things about the site and although I find it strange at the moment, I can't say that I dislike it enough to stop subscribing to Ancestry.

[Hampshire Lass]

It is considerably different groom but I truly like it. Trust me to be in the minority!!!

I'm finding it easy to add people and so far my searches have produced relevant results.

Perhaps it's just luck but so far so good.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Perhaps "they" might listen to a few more of our gripes, and change features back - I've, thankfully, no visual impairment, but I find that colour scheme fussy and unpleasant.
I've tried to remove or diminish most of the things I don't like about the site now, but I'm seriously feeling "If it wasn't broken, then why fix it?"
When you type in a search, a heck of a lot of names thrown up ... or at you ... seem to me VERY random!
I ranged through the comments, and thought "If that was M & S, or any other retailer, they'd be backpedalling like made, because of losing customers". It's a real pity, because I did like the site, and the way it used to work was fine. Why can't "they" let us stick with that, if we want?

[jaybelnz]

Well I'm still really struggling with all of it, and that's really disappointing!  But I gotta keep going with it - so keep on keeping on!  It was all so simple to navigate through before, but now simply frustrating!  I'm not a happy Chappy at all in regard to the changes   

But apart from that??  Life is beautiful! 😃

[dolly dimples]

Ive just cancelled my longstanding membership with Ancestry tonight. I never did like the search system, There is no need to give numerous names, places, et'c  that are not even remotely connected to the search..
  I told Ancestry in my comment's that it is simply to get members to renew and renew their membership for ever!
 I am looking at find my past, so would welcome any pros and cons on that please, but I suspect they will give me as many headaches as Ancestry has ...   Dolly

[groom]

There are many threads on here comparing Ancestry and FindMyPast. It really depends what you are looking for, as each have different records eg I like Ancestry for my London Ancestors, but I sometimes find FindMyPast better for census.

It wasn't that long ago that people were complaining about changes on FindMyPast I believe!