Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?

[athacliath62]

add a function to allow upload of DNA data, as most other system do

also add an option to exclude search results that link to external paid/subscription sites, e.g. Fold3, Newspapers etc

[Wexflyer]

1. Start over with their indexing, particularly of locations. Present system is beyond repair.

2. Eliminate at least 50% of hints, which are obviously wrong. These are pernicious, as all too many people accept them as correct, leading to a negative feedback loop where Ancestry then points to the accepted material in family trees as further proof, and so on.

[dublin1850]

Get rid of hints and Thrulines - one mistake by someone and it all goes to pot.
Drop the price, considerably.

[mckha489]

Don’t give me hints to my own tree!

It does know! And what is with this download the tree message?! 
When it’s MY tree …as it says

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I get them them frequently and it's a waste of time, saying something is pointless, eg traits and they dump five new ones on you. Suggest an improvement and it's filtered to their 'don't be stupid' box.

There's no reason to give us yet another way to group matches but fear not, the flawed clusters system is on the way and the 6 month rollout is for users to test it for them and pay for the privilege of doing so.

[PrawnCocktail]

Allow us to get rid of obviously wrong "Common Ancestors" suggestions - one of mine, they tried to conflate a cowman from Oxfordshire with a French polisher from London, because they had the same name.
Realise that Isabella is not the same name as Elizabeth. And that sisters are not duplicates of each other. And that Cambridgeshire is not part of Northamptonshire!

[AllanUK]

I agree with all of the above suggestions. I have been a subscriber to Ancestry for over 20 years and I  VERY rarely use it now family tree purposes (fed up with useless suggestions) -- I use it for WW1 military records that are not on other sites.

[SouthseaSteel]

I get them them frequently and it's a waste of time, saying something is pointless, eg traits and they dump five new ones on you. Suggest an improvement and it's filtered to their 'don't be stupid' box.

There's no reason to give us yet another way to group matches but fear not, the flawed clusters system is on the way and the 6 month rollout is for users to test it for them and pay for the privilege of doing so.

Ha ha!!  My suggestion was to suggest they cease asking me for suggestions!!

[CorleyMiller]

I'd really like a proper chromosome browser

I'd also like my list of DNA matches to show how many shared matches I have with each one so that I can quickly see that if someone has no shared matches and no tree there's little chance of any useful information and I can skip to the next.