General Chat

I am having trouble trying to attach a photo I got from someone else's tree (with their permission) to that person's profile on my tree. It went into gallery and there it stays.
I wrote to Ancestry for some help but all they did was send me a copy of what is already on the help section.. Might as well be Chinese for all I understand it. Anyone got an easy way to do this procedure, please.

Many thanks for any help.

Phyll

I am having trouble trying to attach a photo I got from someone else's tree (with their permission) to that person's profile on my tree. It went into gallery and there it stays.
I wrote to Ancestry for some help but all they did was send me a copy of what is already on the help section.. Might as well be Chinese for all I understand it. Anyone got an easy way to do this procedure, please.

Many thanks for any help.

Phyll

Sniggers.. :-D

Much to my surprise I find that my parents married in Andorra.
I know for a fact they married in Castle Bromwich Warwickshire & the nearest they ever came to going abroad in their lives was a holiday in Guernsey in the 1960s.

Thanks, Kense, I'll take a look at that :-)

The "view relationship to me" facility is still; there and it seems to show it for everyone in the tree who is related to you.

You do have to set where you appear in the tree in the Create and Manage trees function.

ah! adding things that you didn't ask to be put there ...

I don't use Ancestry trees but I was puzzled about something, and now I may understand!

a known relation of mine has my grandmother crossing from Canada into the United States in 1925, when she was actually living firmly in Northamptonshire

(I investigated it, examined the record in question, and found that the woman in question was travelling with her husband, a completely different man from my grandfather ... but since they were going to Hollywood, California, I was a little jealous :-) )

the name is pretty uncommon, and it happens that the birth year was the same

but I really hadn't thought that the relation in question was that careless and stupid, when he himself has post-1925 events for my grandmother in his tree that show the idiocy of that 'Fact'!

My gripe with the new site is that there is no longer the "view relationship to me" facility, though the existing ones still appear. :-(

Thanks folks.

I have now made all my trees private.

If you have specified your place names unambiguously then you won't have a problem.

As far as I know it hasn't actually changed the places in the tree, it just makes assumptions when displaying them.

I'm trying to come to terms with the new format. I always believe in giving things a chance. No wrongly assigned place names as yet but I can't find where you can 'search for a person in this tree'. Anyone know where it is please?

Loads of people have complained about the wrongly assigned place names. Personally, despite having 4 trees on there, I haven't come across one :-S

The new layout does take a bit of getting used to, but the more you use it, the more familiar it will become.

All my trees are private on Ancestry but I can't get my head
round new format.

I used to enjoy the old version because I knew what I was
doing.

Bob ................

If you do not want people to take your research, then you should make your tree Private on ancestry

People take anything and everything ............. and they often don't even check that they have taken the correct family. And you have no idea who has taken what.

It's why we are all so very careful about ancestry trees, and often think many of them are not worth the paper they're written on, if I may be forgiven a rather old idiom!

For example ................... I made my two trees private about 10 years ago, but I'd forgotten about a little tree that just had my great-aunt and her husband on it. I'd set it up as a place to put information as I found it. That stayed as a Public tree.

Well, about 2 years ago I found that some one had taken the information on Gt Aunt Hannah and husband John

They did have the same names as a couple that he was looking for, they were born in the same county, and both couples had emigrated to New Jersey.

But mine were born about 90 years after his ......... so the effect was for them to have children about 70 years older than themselves :-S


If you make your tree private, anyone searching for a name, will find that there is a tree with that name on it BUT they have to contact you in order to see anything. You can then determine whether they really are connected, and you can control what you give to them.

bob

If yours is a public tree, then anyone can take anything you have. I always try to ask first but a lot of people don't bother.

'I wasn't complaining, I was commenting.'

I think it is a little tiny bit of both, right Bob ;-)

And, Sylvia, I have just complained to them, as you suggested. I found that someone had copied several photos and documents from my tree to theirs, probably because they are too lazy to do the research themselves. Their tree contained several thousand names!

Yes, I 'accidentally' got it a short while ago by pressing something that said you could take a look, but you could switch back to the original version then which I did pronto as I hated the new version!! Now 'they' have changed me to the new version and I can't change back anymore. I thought Ancestry's FT was one of the best till they mucked about with it. :-S :-S

I wasn't complaining, I was commenting.