I really do not like the new hints for public trees. It just changed yesterday for me (I live in California). Ancestry used to clump all the public trees together as one hint, putting the top three in a side by side view, sorted by trees with the most sources. Now each public tree is it's own hint and comes one at a time. Not a fan, I rarely look at public trees, and when I do, I look for the one that has the most sources. It's very hard to do now with the new setup. It also takes longer to "ignore" them. Additionally, it doesn't show the side by side view to see which details differ from your own tree. :-)
Absolutely agree with you and I registered a complaint. The changes only came to me on 27July. We have now lost so much real estate t the top, the left and with this rubbish about having each tree appear on its own to have to check AND they have taken away the number of sources, so it is now a lottery. I will be ignoring all these suggestions along with the community trees as it is too risky. Not sure how they determined that of these changes are improvements … the removal of the grouping of other trees to check or ignore, means that each appears singly, you think you have dealt with all hints, click out and another one shows up. I had one yesterday which I had to click into 8 … EIGHT times. I hate it .. but feel slightly better after this rant!😂😂😂
Thanks for the video. Ancestry is adding a few things but keeping the same limits of what they provide. For genetic genealogists who want to solve brick walls with family lines that go past the records era (prior to early 1800's) the little extra's don't mean a lot. What will be really groundbreaking is if they finally let us know (on our matches) the chromosomes and segments (starting point and ending point) on our matches (which would be a chromosome browser. MyHeritage, 23andMe, FTDNA, Gedmatch and now Living DNA are all providing this. Why is Ancestry the holdout ? They need to get on board.
I am not liking their new display of shared tree's in the Hints. You now got to go into the the other tree to see the user profile to access them to message them.
I would love it if ancestry would allow you to see relationship to home person on other people's trees... sometimes I find a hint that someone has ..say my father...in their tree... but when I look at their tree... I can not figure out how he fits... if his profile page on their tree... say he is... for example.... x cousin y times removed.. it would help me to see if this person is related directly or via marriage or other connection...now I spend a lot of time chasing down various options
❗NOTE: Depending on your browser's zoom, the options on the left side panel may be different. I keep my browser (Chrome) at 100% zoom, so it does look different for me. On the left side of my tree, I only have 6 tools (View, Gallery, Dots, Home Person, Zoom In, Zoom Out). All the other ones shown here (Find, Hints, DNA) are included in the Dots/More pop up for me. However, if I zoom my browser out, the options would show up like above. Just wanted to let people know this in case they were confused by not seeing the same tools. Also, I just had an update when I signed on today, letting me know that we can now right-click on people in our tree to view numerous edit options for that person.
That change hasn't shown up on my tree, yet, thankfully. If I do look at the public tree hints, I'll often choose to look at the one with the second most records. Often, I find that the top tree is the work of a leaf raker who attaches every hint, whether it applies to their ancestor, or not.
Wow! Thank you Connie for this valuable tutorial on how to navigate Ancestry's tools. Im with much gratitude to you for the work you do in helping/teaching others! 😊
Connnie, all your videos are great but this was one exceptional. I have a suggestion for Ancestry - would like to be able to create a task list on a person's profile and then be able to pull up all the tasks on my tree in one spot. I do use a task list elsewhere but since most of my work is in Ancestry it would be great to have one there. Maybe it's already there and I don't know it??? I know there is one in Family search (To Do List)
Thanks Gail. There is a task list on the tree view but not in the profile view. I agree with you. That would be great to have it on the individual profiles!
I love to see who has viewed my trees. When I reach out to the views I get about a 75% response rate. I love the red comment icon also. Because use it to make comments about ancestors, such as other wrong information I find about them in other trees, or cautions about a similar person in the same area with the same name but who has a completely different family when you dig into them. It also helps me when I'm returning to them. Once again thank you for an excellent video.
I had just sub'd after a long hiatus so I could focus on other projects so all this kind of threw me and I avoided looking at this video because I was as you say focused on this one family unit which paid off big time. I am so happy I watched this now, a real training session in the new navigation model. Thank you again and again and again Connie.
Thanx for the information. It's been three months or so since I've been able to do much after having carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists and finding it hard to get back into the swing of things. But with this new info it gives me more incentive to get my butt into gear.
Thank you so very much for this! I hope everyone that can support your genealogical education efforts does so. Again, thank you for helping us all with your information sharing efforts.
An excellent tutorial video, clearly explained and demonstrated; very informative. A must-see for novices, especially. However I have one criticism of Ancestry's changes: why oh why, would the tree view options have been relabelled from Pedigree and Descendant (or Family?) Views to Horizontal and Vertical? 1: the symbols already clearly appear to be Horizontal and Vertical! 2: which I hate most, I feel that Ancestry is insulting the intelligence of its members by dropping the conventional and universally accepted term "Pedigree" from its vocabulary.
I'm saving this video in my playlist to watch again. You just showed me how to write a story for my tree ---- I couldn't find it before! lol Thank You!
Thought would be important to mention, that the DNA icon on the left side panel will only appear on the tree we've linked the test in, it will not appear on any other tree
I have learned so much from watching your videos which are very easy to understand and follow. I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into making them. Thanks, Janette from Scotland.
Connie, I knew we had to be related somehow. Way too many familiar surnames.... Samuel Ferguson and Mary Jameson- I descend from Elizabeth's brother Thomas, who married Mary Jones.
One negative thing I noticed is the family tree hints. You only get one tree at a time now, instead of a group of several trees. I like to open several trees to mine for missing information and possible clues and it helps seeing multiple at a time to weed out the bad trees. I do like the big pop up window (from records search) for confirming multiple people on a record (different than the side panel confirmation view).
Connie you don't have to change the home person to change the relationship focus person. When you single click on someone in Family View, under the wrench icon dropdown the first option is to View his/her family tree. That changes the focus to the person you've selected and will show relationships to that person *if* the Relationship line labels is turned on in Family View. Great video as always!
You do have to change who you are in the tree if you want to see all relationships for the person. For instance, I’m a distant cousin to my granddaughter on her father’s side. Making her the focus person will show her relationship to ancestors, but not fifth cousins, once removed. I must change the “who you are in the tree” to her in order to see the relationship on the profile page.
Thank you from the UK. I can tell I haven't taken advantage of the changes and updates to the lay out since I joined ancestry many years ago. This is invaluable Connie.
Thanks, Connie. Great video. You can also make a person the focus person without going to their profile page by clicking their name in the tree view. In the drop-down box click the little wrench then click on “view his[her] family tree.” This might have been changed since you made this video, Connie, but it is not not necessary to change the home person for the “relationship line labels” to show (if you have it switched on). It works if it is the focus person. If I am viewing a person’s family tree (as mentioned above), the relationship line labels will show.
This was really helpful, Connie. Genealogy is a wintertime activity for me, and I'll take up a 6-month subscription in the next month or so; having this update will make my work easier once my subscription is active. I have 2 functions I would like to see: 1) change the relationship line color from gray to yellow or dashed to indicate a Suspicious Relationship [people who I've added in my early research years, but who I suspect may not be an actual direct relative]; and 2) the ability to dissociate myself from a tree [where I created a tree for a friend or colleague, but I am no longer involved]. I need to create Tree Tags this season.... such a great idea... for "Floating Tree", "Left Off Here", and probably "Immigrant" Thanks for your videos; you give me such good ideas for my next season's research!
I had found and used most of these new features but it's nice to have, for reference, such a comprehensive video, showing in detail exactly how they work - thank you.
Thank you for your detailed walkthrough of the changes. I am so glad I watched the entire video and will probably watch it again. The ACTIVITY section showing views of your tree is interesting. Thank you again.
Some tweaks are nice others not so much. I hate the new view to add records which is just the side view to add records enlarged with I never liked. Even when opening the record to avoid the side view I can no longer see the information from my tree which is annoying. It's so annoying I may even consider unsubscribing for awhile. It kills me to get all this window dressing and still no chromosome browser. 🤷♂
Great video and thank you!! It helps to know where to look for everything. I am liking the changes so far. I sure wish Ancestry would give us more colors/shades so we could color code all of our ancestor couples back to the 4th great grandparents.
Yes... but here is the latest... go to Tree View>Find (on the upper right side)>Filters> then you can filter to the ones you have tagged. Now how to add a tag... Go to an ancestors profile view>near the top there is a pencil icon or the +tag icon>in the side panel choose the drop down menus to see your options... or create your own under the Custom Tags. If you don't see the MyTreeTags in the side panel, look to see if there is an edit button near the bottom of the side panel.
fantastic video as always, Connie. all this focus on new tree view functionality explains why part of the tree view in ipados mobile app is now broken. as a former programmer i can see what’s happened. in the new version of the web app when you click from tree view into a person’s quick profile under the wrench icon you can select “view his/her family tree” and you will see their ancestors. if there are descendants, press the little arrow below their icon to display them. in tree view in the ipados mobile, if a given ancestor has descendants, you clicked the little arrow beneath their icon and the descendants would be displayed. now when you click the little arrow their ancestors popup in a doubly overlaid layer. very messy and confusing . i did just discover that if they have ancestors, a small tree icon shows up in their icon which if clicked, sets things right. how can we pass this oops onto ancestry?
If the area is in Beta, there will be a feedback button in the lower right corner. Using that from the area where the issue is located will send a message to the product manager directly. Don't expect a response. It is my understanding that they do read and review those feedback messages weekly.
Thank you Connie for bringing these up, I opened my tree on a different window as you were guiding us, there were many things I was aware of, but some that I was pleasantly surprised of finding out about!
For the new "potential ancestors" w/name, you stated this could come from DNA connections that Ancestry finds. So I'm thinking if I have a person (say someone's father/parent) listed as "Unknown Smith", it would be best to remove that entry entirely and see what/who Ancestry might find?
Thanks, Connie for thorough video. I made sure I downloaded the handout because there were too many things to take in all at once. I can now read and try each out at my leisure!😇
Very helpful information. Thank you for sharing your tree with us. As you were sharing the information, I noticed that some of the surnames in your tree are some of the ones I have in my tree. Do you have a Samuel Booth from Virginia in your tree? I have been trying to find more information about my great great grandfather. His wife is Millie Booth. I found her in the 1880 census with her son in Dinwiddie, Virginia.
I do have a Samuel Booth 1810-1889 from Wayne, Augusta, Virginia... but I have not done any work on this ancestor yest. He is supposed to be my 3XGF. I have not marked him as verified. I must have imported him from the Massie book. There is a Booth book and a Ferguson book. Samuel's father is Charles Booth (1774-1821) and his mother is Elizabeth Ferguson (1785-1862). I'm almost positive I got this from the Charles Booth book by Massie. If you want to further this conversation, contact me through my website at GenealogyTV.org. I don't check replies here very often.
@@GenealogyTV I have the Massie books too, and love her stories about the people. So many interviews! But zero citations, sadly. Great for hints though, and it got me started on my mother's grandmother Nancy Jane Booth and her family.
I’ve been doing Ancestry for years. I usually take off for the summer. Everytime I come back Ancestry has made so many changes I have no idea what he’ll I’m doing. I hate it Ancestryhas gotten out of control.
Hi Connie. Thank you for video. Great as usual. QUESTION: I am able to see all the updates however my husband is not able to see them on his tree. We have separate ancestry accounts Thank you. Barbara
I just discovered your TH-cam channel this weekend, How do you turn hover menu on vertical tree to add relative or edit profile, it would be so helpful but I don't see them when I hover on ancestry web site.
Intensely dislike the new tree hints. Intensely dislike the new arrangement of everything. If it ain't broke... I just attempted to add members of household from a 1950 census. Impossible. Click, click, click, click, not a match, click click click. I gave up and moved on. If all of it is like this I won't be adding anything from ancestry. And for pete's sake! Do I really need to have children and grandchildren labeled on the family tree page? I'm not an idiot. I know that a descendant of a person is his child! What I'd really like is ALL SPOUSES as the default. I change both of those all the time for everyone I look at.
Sorry, but you totally lost me by 4:59. I will just have to go into Ancestry and see for myself if I can figure out what is going on. I wish they had little "i's: in a circle that you can click on and it would give you information on what it is and how to use it.
The images should download to FTM if they are attached to an ancestor. Video & Audio or links I don’t think so. Links might be shared in your synced notes. I’ve not tried it yet.
Gotta try the relationship labels so I can better sort my Aunt's relationship to a DNA match on My Heritage that I am researching because he is an unknown 2C1R
I do not like the new view to add records. they took away my view of the record I already have. Only their suggestions of who the person is. Am I making sense? lol I am on every day and I enjoy finding records, but this is really fustrating.
What about when someone has a DNA test - but because of illegitimacy and not knowing exactly where/how they connect - they erroneously attach themselves to the wrong ancestor. This has happened in my tree and it's very confusing trying to find the correct people when wrong people (or at the very least unverified people) are showing up?
Yes you can print from the profile view under tools on the upper right side. You can also order printed books under the Extras tab. In the tree view you can print from the left nav bar under the three dot menu.
Would be gd if you could colour the whole page of a person in different pale colours on the pages of direct ancestors so they be seen quickly .eg I have 1 colour for any direct ancestor associated with Mum's Father's ancestors, Mum's Mothers Ancestors etc
I am working on a sibling downline. I have found that you can sometimes get information about a sibling that helps you with your direct ancestor. However, in this downline I have found a person that has been confused with someone else, which is probably not helping the other person's research. Both women married a Mr. Knowles, but not the same Mr. Knowles, so you would think that might be a hint they have the wrong person. I am fairly certain they have not done much to verify this person, because they go to great pains to point out that she is a twin. My person never shows up with a twin in any of the documentation I have found. Is there any nice way to tell these people they are not the descendants of her father? The father only goes by initials on most documents, so he could easily be confused with numerous persons. The twin person does not have the same name, so they are calling it her nickname. Huh? Would straightening out these crossed up profiles [hint trails] make a good video?
Times like that, once I have sorted out the issue, I leave a comment on the other person's tree. They either pay attention or not, but you can only do what you can do.
Connie, Out of curiosity what are your thoughts about ancestry coming up with a designation color for a line that stems from adoption? For example I have a cousin that he and his wife raised a child that wasn't officially adopted but was known as the surname when growing up and the individual had children and gave them the surname of the family that raised him.
I wish they would allow us to color any line of the tree. Right now the only way I know how to do that is in Family Tree Maker... but then that is a personal view and not online.
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Can you suggest to Ancestry that they allow us to search by a woman’s married name? Sometimes I’m looking for someone and I can’t remember who her husband was or her maiden name.
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I have a shared ancestor with an 11th cousin several times removed. While I can find him in a search, is there an easy way to see where they are in her tree?
Nice video But Not the same on a smart phone As always they just make it harder to use with all this clutter. True lines is loaded with user tree info which is mostly misinformation
I'm not sure where you are seeing this. If you're on Ancestry, I don't know that I have seen this in the family tree. On some census records that would mean the informant, but there is no color associated with it.
@@GenealogyTV The fan chart view is only available on the mobile app on my phone! I do my research from home on my lap top and would like if it was available on all devices!
@@GenealogyTV I saw last night that they finally added the fan tree chart to the dashboard. I was looking for this comment to tell you about it. Then today I see your update video! YEAH!!!
Hi. I can't change any, of My, Family Member's, profile pic, on the app, ever since, they changed things, this past month. There used to be, a little pencil mark, next to the profile photo, where you can change, the profile pic. So, how can I change, My Family Member, profile photo, on this, New version?
@@GenealogyTV I tried, I could find a way, to do it. I can do it, when I go to, google and type in Ancestry. On the main ancestry site. I can do it, that way, but I doint wanna, do it that way. Should be much easier, on the app
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Absolutely a "must see" video. Thanks for putting this together, it will save me so much time and energy!
Ah thanks
I really do not like the new hints for public trees. It just changed yesterday for me (I live in California). Ancestry used to clump all the public trees together as one hint, putting the top three in a side by side view, sorted by trees with the most sources. Now each public tree is it's own hint and comes one at a time. Not a fan, I rarely look at public trees, and when I do, I look for the one that has the most sources. It's very hard to do now with the new setup. It also takes longer to "ignore" them. Additionally, it doesn't show the side by side view to see which details differ from your own tree. :-)
Agree. Disappointed with this change.
Don't like the change. Too many steps and covers the tree, tabs too big.
Absolutely agree with you and I registered a complaint. The changes only came to me on 27July. We have now lost so much real estate t the top, the left and with this rubbish about having each tree appear on its own to have to check AND they have taken away the number of sources, so it is now a lottery. I will be ignoring all these suggestions along with the community trees as it is too risky. Not sure how they determined that of these changes are improvements … the removal of the grouping of other trees to check or ignore, means that each appears singly, you think you have dealt with all hints, click out and another one shows up. I had one yesterday which I had to click into 8 … EIGHT times. I hate it .. but feel slightly better after this rant!😂😂😂
Ancestry was perfect the way it used to be, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
Agreed. PITA.
Thanks for the video. Ancestry is adding a few things but keeping the same limits of what they provide. For genetic genealogists who want to solve brick walls with family lines that go past the records era (prior to early 1800's) the little extra's don't mean a lot. What will be really groundbreaking is if they finally let us know (on our matches) the chromosomes and segments (starting point and ending point) on our matches (which would be a chromosome browser. MyHeritage, 23andMe, FTDNA, Gedmatch and now Living DNA are all providing this. Why is Ancestry the holdout ? They need to get on board.
Thanks for the update tutorial.
You bet
I am not liking their new display of shared tree's in the Hints. You now got to go into the the other tree to see the user profile to access them to message them.
Not a fan here either
I would love it if ancestry would allow you to see relationship to home person on other people's trees... sometimes I find a hint that someone has ..say my father...in their tree... but when I look at their tree... I can not figure out how he fits... if his profile page on their tree... say he is... for example.... x cousin y times removed.. it would help me to see if this person is related directly or via marriage or other connection...now I spend a lot of time chasing down various options
I would love to see a PREFIX added. Along with a nickname area as well.
❗NOTE: Depending on your browser's zoom, the options on the left side panel may be different. I keep my browser (Chrome) at 100% zoom, so it does look different for me.
On the left side of my tree, I only have 6 tools (View, Gallery, Dots, Home Person, Zoom In, Zoom Out). All the other ones shown here (Find, Hints, DNA) are included in the Dots/More pop up for me.
However, if I zoom my browser out, the options would show up like above. Just wanted to let people know this in case they were confused by not seeing the same tools.
Also, I just had an update when I signed on today, letting me know that we can now right-click on people in our tree to view numerous edit options for that person.
I hear you. Just as soon as I produce a video they change things. They have added another icon since this was recorded.
That change hasn't shown up on my tree, yet, thankfully. If I do look at the public tree hints, I'll often choose to look at the one with the second most records. Often, I find that the top tree is the work of a leaf raker who attaches every hint, whether it applies to their ancestor, or not.
I don't have that TOOLS option
Wow! Thank you Connie for this valuable tutorial on how to navigate Ancestry's tools.
Im with much gratitude to you for the work you do in helping/teaching others! 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Connnie, all your videos are great but this was one exceptional. I have a suggestion for Ancestry - would like to be able to create a task list on a person's profile and then be able to pull up all the tasks on my tree in one spot. I do use a task list elsewhere but since most of my work is in Ancestry it would be great to have one there. Maybe it's already there and I don't know it??? I know there is one in Family search (To Do List)
Thanks Gail. There is a task list on the tree view but not in the profile view. I agree with you. That would be great to have it on the individual profiles!
I love to see who has viewed my trees. When I reach out to the views I get about a 75% response rate.
I love the red comment icon also. Because use it to make comments about ancestors, such as other wrong information I find about them in other trees, or cautions about a similar person in the same area with the same name but who has a completely different family when you dig into them. It also helps me when I'm returning to them. Once again thank you for an excellent video.
Connie, thank you so much. Ancestry can and often is very complicated but you cut through it all like a hot knife through butter.
I had just sub'd after a long hiatus so I could focus on other projects so all this kind of threw me and I avoided looking at this video because I was as you say focused on this one family unit which paid off big time. I am so happy I watched this now, a real training session in the new navigation model. Thank you again and again and again Connie.
:) You make me smile. Thanks
Thank you for a quick summary of the new tools on Ancestry!
Thanx for the information. It's been three months or so since I've been able to do much after having carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists and finding it hard to get back into the swing of things. But with this new info it gives me more incentive to get my butt into gear.
I hear you. I have tendinitis which cause issues with typing too much. That's when I start using my mic to write for me.
Fantastically helpful explanation; a must view video for Ancestry users. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so very much for this! I hope everyone that can support your genealogical education efforts does so. Again, thank you for helping us all with your information sharing efforts.
Thank you. I appreciate your support.
An excellent tutorial video, clearly explained and demonstrated; very informative. A must-see for novices, especially.
However I have one criticism of Ancestry's changes: why oh why, would the tree view options have been relabelled from Pedigree and Descendant (or Family?) Views to Horizontal and Vertical?
1: the symbols already clearly appear to be Horizontal and Vertical! 2: which I hate most, I feel that Ancestry is insulting the intelligence of its members by dropping the conventional and universally accepted term "Pedigree" from its vocabulary.
I'm saving this video in my playlist to watch again. You just showed me how to write a story for my tree ---- I couldn't find it before! lol Thank You!
Great video, Connie! Thanks!
You are so welcome!
Thought would be important to mention, that the DNA icon on the left side panel will only appear on the tree we've linked the test in, it will not appear on any other tree
Good point.
This is the best geneology video I think I’ve ever seen. Thank you so much!
Wow, thank you!
I have learned so much from watching your videos which are very easy to understand and follow. I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into making them. Thanks, Janette from Scotland.
Ah thanks Janette. I appreciate the compliments and your support of the channel.
Connie, I knew we had to be related somehow. Way too many familiar surnames.... Samuel Ferguson and Mary Jameson- I descend from Elizabeth's brother Thomas, who married Mary Jones.
Well cousin... nice to meet you.
Thank you for a great video! Wow, so much to remember!
Glad you enjoyed it!
One negative thing I noticed is the family tree hints. You only get one tree at a time now, instead of a group of several trees. I like to open several trees to mine for missing information and possible clues and it helps seeing multiple at a time to weed out the bad trees. I do like the big pop up window (from records search) for confirming multiple people on a record (different than the side panel confirmation view).
Connie you don't have to change the home person to change the relationship focus person.
When you single click on someone in Family View, under the wrench icon dropdown the first option is to View his/her family tree. That changes the focus to the person you've selected and will show relationships to that person *if* the Relationship line labels is turned on in Family View.
Great video as always!
thank you for this hint. it was exactly what i needed for a presentation.
You do have to change who you are in the tree if you want to see all relationships for the person. For instance, I’m a distant cousin to my granddaughter on her father’s side. Making her the focus person will show her relationship to ancestors, but not fifth cousins, once removed. I must change the “who you are in the tree” to her in order to see the relationship on the profile page.
I love your videos
Thanks. I enjoy making them.
Thank you from the UK. I can tell I haven't taken advantage of the changes and updates to the lay out since I joined ancestry many years ago.
This is invaluable Connie.
Wonderful!
Very well explained.
Superb - great pace
Thanks
Thanks! I appreciate your videos. Antioch IL
Glad you like them!
Very helpful update video.
You were one cute baby Connie. 😊
Thank you 🤗
Thanks for this video. Learned new things. ❤
So glad!
Thanks, Connie. Great video.
You can also make a person the focus person without going to their profile page by clicking their name in the tree view. In the drop-down box click the little wrench then click on “view his[her] family tree.”
This might have been changed since you made this video, Connie, but it is not not necessary to change the home person for the “relationship line labels” to show (if you have it switched on). It works if it is the focus person. If I am viewing a person’s family tree (as mentioned above), the relationship line labels will show.
Yes. I did mention that in other videos. I should have mentioned it here. Thanks.
G R E A T information! Love your tips!
Glad it was helpful!
Brilliant! 🙏 so much!
Thank you kindly!
This was really helpful, Connie. Genealogy is a wintertime activity for me, and I'll take up a 6-month subscription in the next month or so; having this update will make my work easier once my subscription is active.
I have 2 functions I would like to see:
1) change the relationship line color from gray to yellow or dashed to indicate a Suspicious Relationship [people who I've added in my early research years, but who I suspect may not be an actual direct relative]; and
2) the ability to dissociate myself from a tree [where I created a tree for a friend or colleague, but I am no longer involved].
I need to create Tree Tags this season.... such a great idea... for "Floating Tree", "Left Off Here", and probably "Immigrant"
Thanks for your videos; you give me such good ideas for my next season's research!
Wonderful. Coloring the tree would be great, I agree. You can remove yourself, but transfer the tree to the other person first.
I had found and used most of these new features but it's nice to have, for reference, such a comprehensive video, showing in detail exactly how they work - thank you.
Great to hear! Thanks.
Great video. Thanks, I needed this! One big thing I learned was how to see people who have recently viewed the tree.
Very helpful. Thank you!
You're welcome!
Your videos are so informative, helpful and enjoyable! Many thanks!!
Glad you like them!
Thank you for your detailed walkthrough of the changes. I am so glad I watched the entire video and will probably watch it again. The ACTIVITY section showing views of your tree is interesting. Thank you again.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for supporting the channel!
Some tweaks are nice others not so much. I hate the new view to add records which is just the side view to add records enlarged with I never liked. Even when opening the record to avoid the side view I can no longer see the information from my tree which is annoying. It's so annoying I may even consider unsubscribing for awhile. It kills me to get all this window dressing and still no chromosome browser. 🤷♂
I too hate the popup to the right. Why add so many extra clicks!?
@@ValorieZimmerman Really very annoying.
Great video and thank you!! It helps to know where to look for everything. I am liking the changes so far. I sure wish Ancestry would give us more colors/shades so we could color code all of our ancestor couples back to the 4th great grandparents.
Benjamin Frankin Boothe is My 4th cousin four times removed - Through the Garrett side of the family - John Garrett lll is my 7th great grandfather :)
Well hello cousin.
You showed things I have always wished Ancestry had. Thank you so much!!!
Any time!
I use the All Hints tab all the time!
Great video Connie 👩🎓
Thank you! 🤗
Adding my thanks for your clear instructions, Connie. 😀
Great overview of the new changes.
Thanks June!
This is a very informative video. Thanks Connie. I was curious as to how to tag. Was there a video on this.
Yes... but here is the latest... go to Tree View>Find (on the upper right side)>Filters> then you can filter to the ones you have tagged. Now how to add a tag... Go to an ancestors profile view>near the top there is a pencil icon or the +tag icon>in the side panel choose the drop down menus to see your options... or create your own under the Custom Tags. If you don't see the MyTreeTags in the side panel, look to see if there is an edit button near the bottom of the side panel.
fantastic video as always, Connie.
all this focus on new tree view functionality explains why part of the tree view in ipados mobile app is now broken. as a former programmer i can see what’s happened.
in the new version of the web app when you click from tree view into a person’s quick profile under the wrench icon you can select “view his/her family tree” and you will see their ancestors. if there are descendants, press the little arrow below their icon to display them.
in tree view in the ipados mobile, if a given ancestor has descendants, you clicked the little arrow beneath their icon and the descendants would be displayed. now when you click the little arrow their ancestors popup in a doubly overlaid layer. very messy and confusing . i did just discover that if they have ancestors, a small tree icon shows up in their icon which if clicked, sets things right.
how can we pass this oops onto ancestry?
If the area is in Beta, there will be a feedback button in the lower right corner. Using that from the area where the issue is located will send a message to the product manager directly. Don't expect a response. It is my understanding that they do read and review those feedback messages weekly.
@@GenealogyTV either their QA team found it or someone else reported it because it’s been changed/fixed. thanks for your suggestion.
Thank you Connie for bringing these up, I opened my tree on a different window as you were guiding us, there were many things I was aware of, but some that I was pleasantly surprised of finding out about!
You are so welcome
Thanks for your help!
I have some of the icons on the left side. I do not have the DNA icon.
So much new information. Thank you Connie.
You are so welcome!
For the new "potential ancestors" w/name, you stated this could come from DNA connections that Ancestry finds. So I'm thinking if I have a person (say someone's father/parent) listed as "Unknown Smith", it would be best to remove that entry entirely and see what/who Ancestry might find?
Interesting suggestion.
Must be some new update, as I don't have that tiny tree icon beside my name
Thanks Connie. As always, very helpful.
You are so welcome!
Yes, I noticed the changes, which are great, but thanks for the additional explanations!
You're welcome!
Fantastic info here! Thanks so much!
Thanks! Very helpful
Thanks, Connie for thorough video. I made sure I downloaded the handout because there were too many things to take in all at once. I can now read and try each out at my leisure!😇
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much. I love your clear, concise information/direction, I have subscribed so hope to learn from you again soon.
Awesome. Thanks for the sub.
Thank you for the informative update!
You bet!
I noticed you have 1 of Elsworth booth's spouses as living born 1904
Yeah. I don’t have her info.
Very helpful information. Thank you for sharing your tree with us. As you were sharing the information, I noticed that some of the surnames in your tree are some of the ones I have in my tree. Do you have a Samuel Booth from Virginia in your tree? I have been trying to find more information about my great great grandfather. His wife is Millie Booth. I found her in the 1880 census with her son in Dinwiddie, Virginia.
I do have a Samuel Booth 1810-1889 from Wayne, Augusta, Virginia... but I have not done any work on this ancestor yest. He is supposed to be my 3XGF. I have not marked him as verified. I must have imported him from the Massie book. There is a Booth book and a Ferguson book. Samuel's father is Charles Booth (1774-1821) and his mother is Elizabeth Ferguson (1785-1862). I'm almost positive I got this from the Charles Booth book by Massie. If you want to further this conversation, contact me through my website at GenealogyTV.org. I don't check replies here very often.
@@GenealogyTV I have the Massie books too, and love her stories about the people. So many interviews! But zero citations, sadly. Great for hints though, and it got me started on my mother's grandmother Nancy Jane Booth and her family.
Activity Viewers, is those that you have already added to your tree as an Editor etc, not actually looking at your tree.
I’ve been doing Ancestry for years. I usually take off for the summer. Everytime I come back Ancestry has made so many changes I have no idea what he’ll I’m doing. I hate it Ancestryhas gotten out of control.
Hi Connie. Thank you for video. Great as usual. QUESTION: I am able to see all the updates however my husband is not able to see them on his tree. We have separate ancestry accounts Thank you. Barbara
I think they are in the process of rolling this out to everyone. They do this in stages.
I just discovered your TH-cam channel this weekend, How do you turn hover menu on vertical tree to add relative or edit profile, it would be so helpful but I don't see them when I hover on ancestry web site.
Intensely dislike the new tree hints. Intensely dislike the new arrangement of everything. If it ain't broke... I just attempted to add members of household from a 1950 census. Impossible. Click, click, click, click, not a match, click click click. I gave up and moved on. If all of it is like this I won't be adding anything from ancestry. And for pete's sake! Do I really need to have children and grandchildren labeled on the family tree page? I'm not an idiot. I know that a descendant of a person is his child! What I'd really like is ALL SPOUSES as the default. I change both of those all the time for everyone I look at.
Sorry, but you totally lost me by 4:59. I will just have to go into Ancestry and see for myself if I can figure out what is going on. I wish they had little "i's: in a circle that you can click on and it would give you information on what it is and how to use it.
Great video! Question- If you do a written story or add a video or audio under Storymaker Studio, will these also be downloaded to FTM now? Thanks.
The images should download to FTM if they are attached to an ancestor. Video & Audio or links I don’t think so. Links might be shared in your synced notes. I’ve not tried it yet.
Excellent, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gotta try the relationship labels so I can better sort my Aunt's relationship to a DNA match on My Heritage that I am researching because he is an unknown 2C1R
I do not like the new view to add records. they took away my view of the record I already have. Only their suggestions of who the person is. Am I making sense? lol I am on every day and I enjoy finding records, but this is really fustrating.
What about when someone has a DNA test - but because of illegitimacy and not knowing exactly where/how they connect - they erroneously attach themselves to the wrong ancestor. This has happened in my tree and it's very confusing trying to find the correct people when wrong people (or at the very least unverified people) are showing up?
Did I hear you say print somewhere in the video? Has Ancestry finally added print?
Yes you can print from the profile view under tools on the upper right side. You can also order printed books under the Extras tab. In the tree view you can print from the left nav bar under the three dot menu.
Would be gd if you could colour the whole page of a person in different pale colours on the pages of direct ancestors so they be seen quickly .eg I have 1 colour for any direct ancestor associated with Mum's Father's ancestors, Mum's Mothers Ancestors etc
I am working on a sibling downline. I have found that you can sometimes get information about a sibling that helps you with your direct ancestor. However, in this downline I have found a person that has been confused with someone else, which is probably not helping the other person's research. Both women married a Mr. Knowles, but not the same Mr. Knowles, so you would think that might be a hint they have the wrong person. I am fairly certain they have not done much to verify this person, because they go to great pains to point out that she is a twin. My person never shows up with a twin in any of the documentation I have found. Is there any nice way to tell these people they are not the descendants of her father? The father only goes by initials on most documents, so he could easily be confused with numerous persons. The twin person does not have the same name, so they are calling it her nickname. Huh?
Would straightening out these crossed up profiles [hint trails] make a good video?
Times like that, once I have sorted out the issue, I leave a comment on the other person's tree. They either pay attention or not, but you can only do what you can do.
Connie, Out of curiosity what are your thoughts about ancestry coming up with a designation color for a line that stems from adoption? For example I have a cousin that he and his wife raised a child that wasn't officially adopted but was known as the surname when growing up and the individual had children and gave them the surname of the family that raised him.
I wish they would allow us to color any line of the tree. Right now the only way I know how to do that is in Family Tree Maker... but then that is a personal view and not online.
@@GenealogyTV , I wonder if Crista from barefoot genealogy could offer some insight?
Am I tripping or did I watch this already😭😂 is this a re upload?
We had a snafu on our promotions schedule. You likely saw it before it was released to the public as an unlisted video. Channel members get early release of the videos. This past week, early release links when out to everyone on the email list early. So thanks for being on the newsletter list. :)
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Hate with the update, even when you unchecked residence it still adds and you have to go back in and delete it so it doesn't show on the left
Can you suggest to Ancestry that they allow us to search by a woman’s married name? Sometimes I’m looking for someone and I can’t remember who her husband was or her maiden name.
If I have hit a brick wall, could I make the ancestor I am trying to find, the "home" person and then see connections to him?....
Sure.
Curious. I do not have all the new icons and menues that you'r talking about. When will everything be rolled out to everyone?
They are actively rolling them out now. I just got a new Comments icon in the last couple of days, after I created this video.
I can't find the links to the free notes for reading on Kindle mentioned at the beginning of the video.🙄
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In my tree the DNA option is under the 3 dot menu, it's not an icon on the main list.
I have a shared ancestor with an 11th cousin several times removed. While I can find him in a search, is there an easy way to see where they are in her tree?
Go to the their tree and so a search from the tree view.
When I click on the ACTIVITY icon nothing happens . The slide out box does not slide out .
Nice video
But
Not the same on a smart phone
As always they just make it harder to use with all this clutter.
True lines is loaded with user tree info which is mostly misinformation
Yes, I agree, its getting way too cluttered with "bling" that is not useful and distracting.
How do I do location searches to see which parts of my family lived where all at once?
This sounds like a topic for another video.
On my tree chart, what does the white X inside a red circle mean? Thank you.
I'm not sure where you are seeing this. If you're on Ancestry, I don't know that I have seen this in the family tree. On some census records that would mean the informant, but there is no color associated with it.
The Ancestry mobile app has added a fan chart view. Do they plan to add that fan view to the main menu for laptops?
They do? The don’t have that. We’ve been asking for one.
@@GenealogyTV The fan chart view is only available on the mobile app on my phone! I do my research from home on my lap top and would like if it was available on all devices!
Gotcha! Me too. Would love a fan chart on desktop.
@@GenealogyTV I saw last night that they finally added the fan tree chart to the dashboard. I was looking for this comment to tell you about it. Then today I see your update video! YEAH!!!
Hi. I can't change any, of My, Family Member's, profile pic, on the app, ever since, they changed things, this past month. There used to be, a little pencil mark, next to the profile photo, where you can change, the profile pic. So, how can I change, My Family Member, profile photo, on this, New version?
Try selecting it from the gallery. I haven’t tried changing it in a while.
@@GenealogyTV I tried, I could find a way, to do it. I can do it, when I go to, google and type in Ancestry. On the main ancestry site. I can do it, that way, but I doint wanna, do it that way. Should be much easier, on the app
Does everyone have the new changes? I ask because I don't seem to have some of these changes you're showing.
It appears that not everyone has the changes yet.
@@GenealogyTV Thanks Connie.