Ancestry - residence now placed after death event

[MWG]

Ancestry often suggests changing browser when there are problems.

For me, this issue occured without changing my browser (Google Chrome for many years).

[ms_canuck]

This change is fairly recent, as I have been working on my tree regularly for some time.

If enough users complain, Ancestry may go back to the original settings.

Yes, I noticed the reversal in the past week or so here on Ancestry.ca.  Very annoying.

The other date issue for me is that the UK Death Registration sources have the dates in US format (mm/dd/yyyy) instead of UK (dd/mm/yyyy).  So any day 12th or less is switched to the month.  I have begun to just assume it's switched and put the UK date in my tree.  I reported this to Ancestry in March 2024 but so far nothing has changed (not holding my breath).

Ms_C

[KGarrad]

Yes, I noticed the reversal in the past week or so here on Ancestry.ca.  Very annoying.

The other date issue for me is that the UK Death Registration sources have the dates in US format (mm/dd/yyyy) instead of UK (dd/mm/yyyy).  So any day 12th or less is switched to the month.  I have begun to just assume it's switched and put the UK date in my tree.  I reported this to Ancestry in March 2024 but so far nothing has changed (not holding my breath).

Ms_C

I have never had a date from UK Death Registration in anything other than normal UK format (dd/mm/yyyy).

[MWG]

My personal database RootsMagic allows me to re-order events manually if necessary. I would like to have this facility with Ancestry.

[ms_canuck]

Yes, I noticed the reversal in the past week or so here on Ancestry.ca.  Very annoying.

The other date issue for me is that the UK Death Registration sources have the dates in US format (mm/dd/yyyy) instead of UK (dd/mm/yyyy).  So any day 12th or less is switched to the month.  I have begun to just assume it's switched and put the UK date in my tree.  I reported this to Ancestry in March 2024 but so far nothing has changed (not holding my breath).

Ms_C

I have never had a date from UK Death Registration in anything other than normal UK format (dd/mm/yyyy).

Hi.  Took me a while to find one.  It's actually the UK Death Index, not Registration.  The person's birthdate is 6 May, and date of death is 1 Dec.  On one record, both dates are in the incorrect format, but on the other they are both correct.  (Additional sources were found that confirmed the correct dates.)

Ms_C

[KGarrad]

That looks like an Ancestry source? And not a UK source?

[ms_canuck]

That looks like an Ancestry source? And not a UK source?

I don't know, but either way one of them is consistently wrong.  The matter has been reported, but nothing has changed.

Ms_C

[Pheno]

Is this a bug they are working on I wonder?

I suspect it is a bug - or at least an oversight - rather than a deliberate change.

Ancestry user trees usually have at least one bug at any given time and they tend to be resolved. A couple of years ago there was a bug with custom sources that caused external web links to be garbled, rendering them useless. That lasted a couple of months, I think, and was a major impediment to my usual workflow.

I've raised this issue on the Ancestry Users facebook group and Ancestry rep Crista Cowan frustratingly suggested a workaround - as if the way I enter the info is correct - rather than acknowledging the problem.

It's because all the dates are in a different format.

If you want them in the correct order, when saving to your tree, I always change the date of death to the 1st of the month in which the burial happened and the residence date to the last day of the previous month and hey presto they are in the correct order.  And if you always use the 1st and 30/31st then you will know that it is a manually amended date.

Pheno

[BushInn1746]

It annoys me like mad that with the UK & Ireland selected the damn system gives USA based results.

Agree and also gives far too many results, not searched for too!

I've also noticed that deaths may now be placed after burials.

Oh dear. I've seen Trees burying the living.