Ancestry Thrulines

[GailB]

There is a new look for Thrulines on Ancestry. Not sure I like it, but at a glance it is much easier to see how many matches for each ancestor.

[Biggles50]

Interesting.

It has not reached our system yet.

[GailB]

Must be a gradual rollout.

[ikas]

You seem to have a choice between old style and new style and you can switch between them. A minor improvement if you prefer the new style. I do wonder who/how the priority for developments is set. Certainly not near the top of my wish list.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

I find it a bit easier on the eye but the fundamental flaw of relying on inaccurate trees is still there.

[Cas (stallc)]

I still have the old style, cannot see anything to switch between 2 styles.

Possibly rolling out gradually...

I agree Glen & Ikas and also would rather they concentrate on the DNA side and improvements rather than how things look

Cas

[Steve3180]

All very nice and pretty but they don't include all the dna matches that we identify but they don't, and worse yet they include all the nonsense ones that they identify and we can't reject.

[ikas]

Having used this new look Thrulines over the weekend I have changed my mind. The old style evaluation is not available. I have a minor issue with the new display as you now see much less of the relationship line on the screen which means you have to scroll up and down to see the entire relationship.

The major issue is that you cannot evaluate each step as you could do before. It seems to be AI led and it forces you to add individuals to your tree before you can evaluate steps down your matches line. I don't want to add individuals to my tree until I have evaluated all the steps in my matches line. Unless I am mistaken there is no way now to do that.

Also in the course of one hour it changed the relationship line of one match (admittedly low level) by replacing the CA at the top to a completely different ancestral pair. Thrulines always needed to be checked, of course, but I never saw a change in CA in such a short time before.

It looks like another miserable AI failure. Definitely a backwards step for me.

[Alison55]

I got the new system on Saturday and don’t like it at all. The tree has very tiny print and shows only great grandparents to the present. Too much scrolling is involved to see older ancestors and those are the ones I am most interested in. The system was very balky this weekend, although it is better this morning. Initially, they did not offer the option of going back to the previous system. That is now coming and going. It first appeared on my desktop before my tablet. And of course, as someone else said, the problem of inaccurate trees remains.