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Improved Sourcing Experience

Improved Sourcing Experience

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 1:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
When using some Ancestry references (e.g., Virginia Colonial Abstracts), Ancestry asks me a bunch of questions when linking to a person. Challenges:
1) It limits the Fact Type, which is a big pain. Why not include the full list? I end up creating the fact, then recreating it as it should be (e.g., often I'd like a Property fact, since I don't yet know if it's an actual residence or not).
2) The Source and Citation don't get created. After all of that work, it drops the page over in my fact as a citation, but I have to create the reference manually.

Please help,
David

Re: Improved Sourcing Experience

Posted: 28 Jun 2015 4:10PM GMT
Classification: Query
denjn5

You have to remember one thing...
Acom's online trees are not, and were never meant to be, a full features genealogy program.

They were and are merely a display app. As such, they will never approach the functionality and feature set of a stand alone genealogy program -be it FTM, RootsMagic, Legacy, etc.

Re: Improved Sourcing Experience

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 6:27AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes, ancestry has repeatedly emphasized that the online tree is merely a "display" program. In that case, it is a true shame that the new ancestry presents such an ugly and visually poor display. . .

Re: Improved Sourcing Experience

Posted: 27 Jul 2015 6:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'll not argue with you on that point - it appears that the taste of their graphics team is all in their mouths! ;)

Re: Improved Sourcing Experience

Posted: 28 Jul 2015 5:36AM GMT
Classification: Query
For a "display" program, they're putting in a lot of features. It's the kind of thing a company does when they plan to drop support for their PC application and make it purely web-based. Advantages for Ancestry: No need to support Mac and PC software; no need to handle sync issues between FTM and Acom.
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