I totally agree with you! I have paid membership since 2005 and ever since I always do corrections in the index/database when I find errors in names to help the community. So I find it sad that there is extra charges which represent a lot every month. I think the « errors button » should not be in the PRO package because that would be so helpful in making our trees better for us but the community also.
Yep I have "all access", but they want me to pay even more. At first it was $14.99 a month, but looks like they settled on $9.99 for now. If they lowered it to $3.99 I might give it a try for a month or two.
You and me both! I also miss the days when Crista used to do her "barefoot genealogist" videos, that were actually about helping us do genealogy on Ancestry. Now she seems like nothing more than a corporate shill -- who praises every little thing Ancestry does, regardless of how much it hurts the customers.
Regarding Pro Tools: I already pay $409.00 per year for an all access membership. Am I going to shell out an additional $9.99 per month (another $119.88 per year) for tools I already have via Family Tree Maker? I don't think so! I'm really sick of Ancestry's practice of offering deep discounts to new subscribers, yet they continue to bilk their long-time users of an annual fortune. Don't get me wrong, I fully appreciate the wealth of records Ancestry provides, but it would be nice to be appreciated for my loyalty.
To save yourself some money, during their black friday/cyber monday sales, they put gift subscriptions 50% off. Buy yourself the All Access gift membership for 12 months. You can put a start date up to 90 days from date of purchase. There's no reason to be paying full price! And if you do it via gift membership there's no risk of getting billed or renewed at a higher price/rate. It will just elapse.
As I stated earlier in a FB post, when Ancestry announced that subscribers would have to pay extra for Pro Tools, I immediately thought of the airline industry and all its add-ons. Yes, you paid for an airline ticket, but if you want to reserve a seat, you pay extra. Want to check a bag? Extra. I hope Ancestry isn’t following the same business model. At the very least, Ancestry should make the fact checker feature part of a regular subscription, since it will mean more accurate hints and more accurate Thru Lines, which improves the Ancestry experience for all its subscribers. Plus, I already have some of these features in my RootsMagic software.
Thank you so much for going to so much effort to educate us about the new things at Ancestry. I appreciate your diligence in that area. I like the new tools, but I honestly don't see myself paying $10/mo for them right now. My genealogy software will check for errors and duplicates and print all kinds of reports. I've already paid for that. I would like to expand my fan chart and play around with that, but FamilySearch already does all of that for free (except the specific Ancestry info like hints and media of course). But, if I use my software to share data with both Ancestry and FamilySearch, then I already have these tools available there. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nellie. It's just some honest feedback that I wanted to put out there and will also pass along to the powers that be at Ancestry. I understand you are "just the messenger", and I appreciate your efforts to get us the messages in a timely manner. 🙂
Pro Tools is a huge cash grab, and it's disappointing. I already pay for all access. Almost $600 every year, bot including the newspapers inclusion. Super disappointed, and i might switch.
It also looks like they're going to only be providing ethnicty estimates for free soon, so if you want to see public linked tree/shared locations/common ancestors and shared matches info, you can only do that with a subscription. I don't have hundreds of extra dollars lying around every year, or even for half a year, for a subscription and I know I can't be the only one.
Please bring back the option to customize our homepage. It is getting so cluttered and busy. Thanks for the new updates. I'm trying out the new ProTools now.
Connie, I love you, but I am not loving Ancestry these days. In addition to putting all these new tools behind a paywall, they are also about to put basic DNA match services (like seeing shared matches) behind a paywall as well. I am deeply disappointed with Ancestry for doing this.
@@tambracollette Log into your account and look at any of your DNA match profiles. The notice of the upcoming change is right there. Although I suppose it's possible that people who currently have a paid subscription don't see it.
I'd be happy if existing features worked. Its a bit annoying when search filters don't filter. for example if i search for results within a certain area or date range i still get results from outside that
There needs to be a way to permanently reject a possible duplicate as “not a match.” I have a large tree and I am still working my way through the A’s. If I don’t make a note of where I left off, I have to wade through all the possible duplicates again.
Here's a tip. Use tree tags to mark as "Left off here" and then when you go to the tree view, find, filter to "Left off Here" you'll see were you last left off. :) Thanks for supporting the channel!
As a professional I like the content, most likely will continue to use ancestry for the searchable database.. It has, though, become too much like facebook and other social media platforms.. Finally, I export all my research so I can print books for clients … I live Crista and Connie’s enthusiasm ❤
Okay I jumped on board over the weekend to give pro tools a try, I will now be able to clean up my trees so much faster and easier. I wish though another video would be done on how to use it in maps, I haven’t figured that out just yet. I’d say now, it’s worth the extra $10 to me, since I see it will be helpful.
another thing I would love is when you are related to someone through more than one line, the ability to toggle what that relationship would be. For instance, the man that is the father of 2 of my dad's siblings, but not his own father, is listed in my tree as a 4th cousin 2x removed or something. Also, my ex wife is listed as wife in my tree but I have a divorce added as a fact, which I would think would change the label to EX-WIFE, since I never remarried but it still shows as WIFE. Call me picky, but It's something I'd really like. I know how to edit relationships and to make sure the right option is picked. My tree still shows some half relationships as full and vice versa. All I get told is "go into edit relationships and verify the right thing is checked", which I honestly get tired of hearing, so I just ask about it less often. We have the ability to show which spouse we want shown, so I KNOW its possible to change which relationships are shown.
ThruLines used to have that as an option, but it got taken off the platform a few months ago. It will probably be introduced as another paid tool here in the future. Yes, I'm cynical.
Ancestry isn't making enough money on subscriptions so now there's add on subscriptions for more money? No thanks. I've quit working at ancestry. It's too expensive. I've donated a 25,000 person tree and several smaller trees to ancestry which they use. That's the end of my charity.
What BS on the fan chart, to get the 7 generation we HAVE to pay for the tools. Ancestry must be losing a lot so subscriptions for them to steep this low. I’m in the process of moving my trees to family search and will be leaving expensive Ancestry. Money hungry AH’s
I use both. The only downside to FS is that people can change your tree. It’s a global tree. So just be sure to keep your info on software where it can’t be changed by someone else. I have some common ancestors with people out there who disagree with who the spouses were. 😆
YES! I didn't realized that anyone could edit my tree and I found someone had added all kinds of people to my grandparents on there---- I spent a great deal of time removing random people that were not my family. It is the wild west on that site so I just abandoned my account there...not worth it when it's not anywhere near accurate. @@BrandiFink
I am so angry that I have to see the Ancestry Pro Tool pop-up every time I try to research anyone. I called twice and was told their IT department could not stop the constant popping-up of this ad. I explained that I PAID for a subscription so I could do research and now they do this to me. I'm paying and they are forcing me to see the pop-up multiple times. Why not once, when I sign in. I am not stupid! I can read and retain. I know when I am interested in something and if not do not need to have this pop-up in my face. My subscription expires soon and I will no longer be a member of a company that invades my space.
I'd LOVE for the Fan Chart view feature to *stop* notifying me with a pop-up, _every time_ I'm on my the family tree page! I want to have this notification disabled 💯😤🤬.
The vocal audio in this episode is only coming through in the left-channel. Other effects, like the subscription notification bell are coming through the right-channel.
Did she mention they are taking our shared matches away? Because they are unless we have a subscription. Everything below the banner popping up on accounts will no longer be accessible. I won't be able to build my tre3 without relying on my shared matches.
I'm thinking, of an update, that Ancestry, maybe could do, in the Furure. Ancestry, could tell that, your getting, this Personality, from this Ethnicity, and their getting, that Personality from, that Ethnicity. Maybe, that could happen. Yeah, Like... what's My British Personality, what's My Arab Personality, or Italian and so on... and also, (How Many) things, you like about that Ethnicity
The problem with filters in pro tools is that if you have fixed some duplicate and go back to the list and refresh so that person/people are removed it brings back all the default filters.
I haven't signed up for the pro tools yet but I'm considering it. I want to use the error checker and possible duplicates to see if there is someplace I need to do more research where something may have been missed. I too will be at Rootstech and plan to stop by the Ancestry booth.
Love you guys but have to chime in that these features are things that should be considered basic new additions to the platform. It doesn’t make sense to charge extra for these bells and whistles.
I have some questions concerning Ancestry DNA. First, instead of immediately pursuing sideview for grandparents, why not allow the user to designate which grandparent their matches belong to, then extrapolate the data from there? Seems it would work faster that way. Secondly, is there any tools coming that automatically cluster and organize DNA matches? Thrulines is great for repetitive matches, but fails all too often with matches that do not belong to the same cluster being reported as sharing the incorrect common ancestors. Thirdly, if a chromosome browser is not in the cards, can a way to show that a match shares the same DNA cluster as others on the shared matches list be found? I have seen way too many matches - especially towards the bottom of the list - that are not really part of the shared matches and should not be shown, but are anyway. Very inaccurate. Finally, will there be any allowance for the privacy requirements of some testers who want to see their shared matches but do not or should not be seen on the lists of others? This is a problem I have seen for adoptees, children, individuals who are aware of a recent NPE in their families that does not allow for privacy and results in "match and run" comparing, turning the privacy controls on and off every time one wants to examine the shared matches list and essentially locks them out of thrulines being allowed. My feeling is that if Ancestry is going to raise prices on subscription and offer new "tools" for a premium fee, the users should be given more features to work with in exchange to make it worthwhile.
I'm not convinced that they will be able to accurately separate matches/ethnicity by grandparent, for myself and my mum at the parental level it is still way off. I have my parents tested at 23andme and my mum and myself at Ancestry. I've compared my Ancestry and 23andme chromosome paintings on DNA painter and all the segments of Indian, Chinese and African that Ancestry has assigned to my Paternal side are Maternal on 23andme, the 23andme assignment is correct as it comes from my Maternal Grandfather who was from Mauritius. I have 2 parent phasing on 23andme, but before the phasing, it had trouble separating the chromosomes so it isn't just an Ancestry issue (I have the same issue on the FTDNA chromosome painter too). Also, they are having trouble separating a large amount of our DNA matches, even close matches such as my mother's grand-niece are still unassigned. My mum still has 89% of her matches unassigned, mine is a lot better at 33% unassigned. There are a lot of matches however that have been assigned to the wrong side, even in the small amount that has been assigned for my mum. For her there just haven't been that many people testing from her dad's side and a lot of the paternal assigned matches I have found the MRCA to be on the maternal side (my grandparents were from completely different parts of the world).
Same here. 95% of unassigned matches on all my kits. It's not able to assign my maternal aunt and the majority of 2nd and 3rd cousins are unassigned. When the match is assigned, the assignment is totally random. Sometimes correct, sometimes wrong. Separating by grandparent is technically impossible, it will not work correctly but they will claim how they are the best and it works for the majority of their users. As usual. Actually... the separating by grandparent is possible when we test our siblings and compare the segments shared with our matches. It can currently be done with all companies... except Ancestry.
Not sure what the problem is, but for those of us with hearing difficulties and who use a headset, the sound on this video is not good. Sound for your GenealogyTV theme song comes through the right side only, while the sound of your voices only comes through on the left.
What else would you expect from Christa. She works for Ancestry. Saying negative things could lose her a job. But I feel the same way as you. Ancestry has continued to raise their prices over the years and one day I hope it comes back to bite them. And I already get the errors part on My Heritage, so unless something changes I’m not getting the Pro package!
They have changed the way to search from “List of all people”. I don’t care for it at all. Before, there were fields for first and last names so you could search for a specific individual. Now it’s just one one field and brings up a list that you still have to sort through. For example, this morning I was trying to search for George Washington-THE George Washington. Though not directly related, I do have several connections to him and had just found another to his mother. I needed to find him in my large tree but I have so many George Washington so-and-sos because so many ancestors and cousins named their kids after him. It would have been much easier if I could have entered “Washington” into a surname field.
Ancestry have started posting the banner, under DNA: "We're making some changes. Soon, you'll need a membership to view the features below this banner." When and how much will you have to pay to see your matches in future?
On ancestry pro tools you can review family lines one at a time, a leaf means confirmed. One problem you'll find when checking the exclamation points is "the only sources attached to this person are oline trees
This new "pro tools" rubbed me the wrong way. In some other Genealogy software, these tools are standard and Ancestory wants to do it as a "pro tools".... yeah no... Im thinking of getting Genealogy software do yall have any sugestions? Also they took away the split version it was free now you have to pay. Whats to say the tree part of ancestory is going to be under a pay wall next. I’m a Mac user btw
Roots Magic is a pretty well-known, feature-rich and functional option, though it's not perfect. It also has an active user forum for getting support, posting suggestions, etc. Finally, it's $40, which is a third of the cost of 1 year of Ancestry "pro tools".
Is Pro Tools available now in Australia 22 June 24? I received a hint on my matches that I could sign up for Pro Tools which I did however it does not work. I specifically wanted the Enhanced Shared Matches Tool otherwise I would not have bothered. I have followed the instructions to use that tool, logged out and back in again, but it does not do anything that I could not do before. So disappointed. Customer Service is virtually non existent on Ancestry.
I use RootsMagic 9, FamilySearch, and Ancestry primarily. And I'm thinking that between RM9 and FamilySearch, I can get all this information from my software the FamilySearch if I'm diligent about sharing data between my software and the online trees --except the color coding of the fan chart specific to Ancestry hints and media. I'm curious to see if anyone brings up a benefit that I might be missing.
Some of the updates are disappointing as we have to pay extra for them. I would love it if in the hints section they separated the hints into Census, Newspapers etc in order to go through them better along with having the normal Stories, Photos etc
What is the benefit of the ProTools chart printing if it only prints a family group chart without photos, documents? Plus, if you cannot add AI gathered information to your "story" to print in a chart, what use is it? It would seem "that" would be a benefit of the "Pro" in the tools. it really adds little value without the extra ability to use it to save and/or print it.
The "view possible errors" feature is glitchy. After correcting the errors....they are not dropping off the list....so I stubble over ones where the error was already corrected. Sometimes they drop off the list, but other times they do not......I've tried refreshing, logging off and on etc. I thought, well maybe the tree needs to be rescanned for them to drop off....but new ones are appearing, yet the corrected old ones are not dropping off the list.
I, for one, do not like the fan. So, for most of these new tools, we have to upgrade to "Pro". How about not letting duplicates add to a tree? Or even a duplicate checker option?
Connie, Could you please ask Crista to look into a way to indicate that there is content in the Notes and Gallery for each individual? As of now, you can't tell if there's anything there or not. Thanks! Another great video.
I'm still trying to figure why this costs an additional $10 a month? It's not correcting the mistakes others have made in their trees that causes thru lines to screw up and give you a false hint?
Hurray, at last we have search by location! If I have a DNA match but don't know what the link could be and there are no similar names, very often a matching location will solve the puzzle
I, like many others below, think the value added from the pro tools is not a paywall adder. While I agree its function for the most part is a great resource for cleaning the errors, I doubt many will spring for it very long. I myself thought it a great idea at a ONE TIME charge of 10 dollars. But that's about it. My Heritage does not charge extra for it. It's just not something I think is worth the money in a monthly format.
Using the Ancestry App is not an enjoyable experience for me. I don’t like the way files duplicate and merging is always challenging. I’ll probably be dropping my subscription soon.
These are excellent tools and I do see myself making use of this. However, I would also like to see another tool that helped filter 'Ancestry member trees' within Hints. Specifically 'Ancestry member trees' that have more or different sources, records, photos than my own tree (i.e. My ancestor with 10 sources, 10 records, 1 photos to someone else's that has 11 sources, 11 records, 0 photos). This would help me find other sources and records that someone else may have already found. And if this could be applied to a tree view, I would be able to find member trees where other members have done a lot of work I have yet to discover.
Wow. Love the new tools. Wasn't aware this was the first day for the rollout. I'm looking forward to working with all of them. The fan chart is great - love the search by location, and to be able to find errors in my family tree....Awesome!!
I have the pro tools and it's not showing fan settings for me or any of the color codes for hints, etc. I do have the other tools though. My one wish request to Ancestry would be the ability to upload a photo and have them scan to see if there are other photo's whether they be named or unnamed, somewhere on the site. We all have plenty of pictures of people that we have no idea who they are.
The new Ancestry owners are so greedy for money, that it does not make doing a DNA test worth it when you can only see 3 of your shared matches UNLESS you pay more. All the money we have paid over the years mean nothing because they just nickle and dime you for every thing now that used to come with your membership. I will just use the library account from now on. I won't be able to save anything, but at least I can print it and have for myself befor the next time they decide to start charging extra for that too.
I have a question. DNA evidence suggests that my 4th great-grandmother's parents were married when she was 7 years old. Then they moved from Virginia to Kentucky where she falsely states that's her place of birth in the 1850 Census. Is that possible?
The huge problem with sharing dna is that a nasty family member has made themselves manager of my dna and I am only a viewer. He is a half brother loving the control he has of me finding my father’s side of my dna and his ability to intercept it all. This has made me very angry and distrustful since so far I am told there is nothing I can do about my own dna.
@@sharontabor7718 I am, and I have several times. They say they will look into it but since he activated it under his account there is nothing they can do. But I won't give up, That is just wrong..
I wasn't planning to get Pro but the map capabilities are exactly what I'm looking for! One thing I'm eager to see as I get into it is how forgiving is it when the same place is identified in different ways. For instance, will Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, United States of America come up the same as Cooperstown, Otsego, NY, USA? I try to keep my place names standardized but differences slip through when the place name is filled in automatically from a record. I'm hoping the algorithm is fuzzy enough that I don't have to review every place for every record for every person on my tree. Fingers crossed! Just for the record, I don't mind paying Ancestry for all the work they do. Excellence doesn't come free.
Some of these are great new features! But, I'm already having a problem with the filter-by-location feature. It appears that only Ancestry-recognized locations work, so that all of my little western Ukrainian village names do not work for filtering. What a bummer. I often want to know about just people from a particular village. And the tools are apparently no longer considered Beata versions, as there is no Beta button to send my comments to Ancestry.
Are they removing shared matches from AncestryDNA if you don't have a membership? Someone I work with on a family project let their sub elapse because of a lot of things going on in their personal life and they're telling me that it says they will no longer see shared matches?!?
When they have opportunity to suck more money out of their users, they take advantage of that. For many years, they told us that they do not allow the upload of foreign DNA data in order to protect the privacy of their users. Two days ago, they updated their privacy statement that our DNA data can be compared not only with DNA data of other users but also with uploaded DNA data. Apparently their income is going down so they're going to allow strangers to upload their DNA data to them so they can charge them a subscription.
This pay wall "Pro Tools" is ridiculously disappointing. Get it together Ancestry. You already charge plenty. It makes me very angry that I pay a full access fee but can't get these features. I am also Canadian and find it disappointing that there is a lag for these roll outs.
I for one wont be paying extra for this service, when I can get that for an app on my computer that has being doing the same thing for years, for aone off purchase, which is Family Tree maker
I'd like to be able to colour my direct ancestors pages different colours from the rest of the family in my tree so they are easy to spot for myself and others at a glance .
“Pro Tools” are standard features on MULTIPLE software applications. It’s criminal for Ancestry to bilk even more money for their already obscenely expensive service. It seems that Crista is popping up on every RUclips channel and that these have become little more than infomercials for “Pro Tools.” Crista seems to tout “free” things that Ancestry has but fails to mention that MANY of these, such as census records are FREE from MANY other places on the Internet.
It is common for Ancestry. Scamming the users. They are not able to provide the real professional tools such as the chromosome browser or triangulation, so they are charging for standard features that they call "Pro Tools" :D
I got something, that Ancestry could do, in the Future. Ancestry can tell, where you took, your photos, that you upload, to your Family Tree. Let's just say, you don't, put the location, where you took that photo (or) let's just say, you (do), put the location, where you took the photo. Or, how about this, the photo, is so old, nobody knows where, the photo is taking, or who's in, the photo. And another thing, Maybe Ancestry, can tell what ethnicity, that person looks, in that photo. Maybe Ancestry, can answer that. But I'm sure, they can, someday.
Boy this is definitely worth the extra money. I had created a lot of custom tags to identify family lines, places and other things. With the new features I can use the custom tags as reminders to look for specific records;; such as death certificates. Thankx Connie and Crista.
Charging other people to use my DNA in thru lines and visa versa so have gone private and removed from public luckily I had finished large detailed trees bad on ancestry will be moving everything to other sites
ACTUALLY WE ARE STRUGGLING IN HOW TO USE IT not enough help and basic directions - My friend said the same and now we have it I see her point ---CRISTA please address this ------ I'm not renewing it like my friend -
Goodbye Ancestry. Greed has been your downfall. Hello familytreedna with big Y-700 testing and free autosomal dna transfer. Deleting my DNA + account from Ancestry the second they block access to matches.
I love the tools, but the extra charges do feel like part of a modern business trend to screw over your customers for every last penny you can get. Booking fees, baggage fees, convenience fees etc. It doesn’t make for customer loyalty. I’ll be keeping an eye out to see what other platforms do. 😠
MyHeritage might be one to consider. They have tools no one else has. Here is a 14 day free trial (affiliate link) www.myheritage.com/complete-genealogy-package?keyword=partners&tr_funnel=Complete
@@GenealogyTV thank you for an honest and timely reply. I did indeed upload to MyHeritage over the weekend to see if I could find any matches and clues to a missing 2nd great grandfather. I noticed they had some of the tools ancestry is charging extra for. I’m invested in my Ancestry tree for now and will just have to pay for the extras during the winter months only when I am most active.
Would love see that map developed to show movements of successive generations. Woube a great error checker too, with spurious birth or death locations looking like a spike on ths path. Oh, and a chromosome painter.
All nice, but not for research or determining ancestors. Biggest requirement for adding tools should be a chromosome browser and the ability to match DNA for multiple people.
Little hope many new dna matches have a real interest in actual family history as it is and just loading more and more behind paywalls will just make it worse than ever. If there was ever a company looking at alienating new and existing customers then Ancestry have created the model to follow.
I believe newslibrary is more recent newspapers staring in 1977. Genealogy Bank goes way back. I use GB and Newspapers.com the most... Chronicling America and NewspaperArchives are some other good ones. See this video ruclips.net/video/JezRoBfr8ho/видео.html
Don't know about others but prejudicial nature of Ancestry who time and time again give short shift to any not Amark'n as a default keeping some features behind the wall for prolonged perods personally I find it offensive but then it's the american way eh
It is not uncommon for technology companies to roll out to particular regions first. This is a good idea for testing things but can also be necessary when they are still working on getting the content localized, checking against laws and regulations that might exist in those other locations, and researching the appropriate market pricing. Companies all over the world do this for these very specific reasons and if the company is located in your home region, you would likely see it first. I do understand your frustration, it's completely valid, just wanted to help you understand why it happens do you know, in this case, it's not because they dislike other regions. ;/
And yet they flat refuse to create a beta group to help keep them insync with their customer base and (shudder) get real feedback that perhaps will foster new ideas.... NOT THEIR OWN eh... lol @@reneelasswell9221
I'm still sad and mad at Ancestry for the extra charges after all the loyalty and thousands I've paid them over the years.
I totally agree with you! I have paid membership since 2005 and ever since I always do corrections in the index/database when I find errors in names to help the community. So I find it sad that there is extra charges which represent a lot every month. I think the « errors button » should not be in the PRO package because that would be so helpful in making our trees better for us but the community also.
Yep I have "all access", but they want me to pay even more. At first it was $14.99 a month, but looks like they settled on $9.99 for now. If they lowered it to $3.99 I might give it a try for a month or two.
You and me both! I also miss the days when Crista used to do her "barefoot genealogist" videos, that were actually about helping us do genealogy on Ancestry. Now she seems like nothing more than a corporate shill -- who praises every little thing Ancestry does, regardless of how much it hurts the customers.
@@fyreflye100 I noticed that especially on this video--not one word about how this increase in payments might be bad for people to stomach.
@@ChaiLatte13I thought they said it is free with all access.
Regarding Pro Tools: I already pay $409.00 per year for an all access membership. Am I going to shell out an additional $9.99 per month (another $119.88 per year) for tools I already have via Family Tree Maker? I don't think so! I'm really sick of Ancestry's practice of offering deep discounts to new subscribers, yet they continue to bilk their long-time users of an annual fortune. Don't get me wrong, I fully appreciate the wealth of records Ancestry provides, but it would be nice to be appreciated for my loyalty.
To save yourself some money, during their black friday/cyber monday sales, they put gift subscriptions 50% off. Buy yourself the All Access gift membership for 12 months. You can put a start date up to 90 days from date of purchase. There's no reason to be paying full price! And if you do it via gift membership there's no risk of getting billed or renewed at a higher price/rate. It will just elapse.
How do you get away with $407 a year when most of us pay anywhere
from 1600- 2,520 a year
@@user-ti8yk5rc8g I'm not sure what you mean, since an all-access membership to Ancestry costs $409 per year.
@@user-ti8yk5rc8g How are you paying that much?! 😧
@@user-ti8yk5rc8g How are you paying that much?
Agreed that the fan chart addition is an excellent step - but greedy of Ancestry to require an further payment. A very disappointing update.
As I stated earlier in a FB post, when Ancestry announced that subscribers would have to pay extra for Pro Tools, I immediately thought of the airline industry and all its add-ons. Yes, you paid for an airline ticket, but if you want to reserve a seat, you pay extra. Want to check a bag? Extra. I hope Ancestry isn’t following the same business model. At the very least, Ancestry should make the fact checker feature part of a regular subscription, since it will mean more accurate hints and more accurate Thru Lines, which improves the Ancestry experience for all its subscribers. Plus, I already have some of these features in my RootsMagic software.
Christa said herself, "standard genealogy reports" those shouldn't be behind a separate pay wall
Thank you so much for going to so much effort to educate us about the new things at Ancestry. I appreciate your diligence in that area. I like the new tools, but I honestly don't see myself paying $10/mo for them right now. My genealogy software will check for errors and duplicates and print all kinds of reports. I've already paid for that. I would like to expand my fan chart and play around with that, but FamilySearch already does all of that for free (except the specific Ancestry info like hints and media of course). But, if I use my software to share data with both Ancestry and FamilySearch, then I already have these tools available there. I'm not trying to be a Negative Nellie. It's just some honest feedback that I wanted to put out there and will also pass along to the powers that be at Ancestry. I understand you are "just the messenger", and I appreciate your efforts to get us the messages in a timely manner. 🙂
Thanks Brandi. I agree with you.
Pro Tools is a huge cash grab, and it's disappointing. I already pay for all access. Almost $600 every year, bot including the newspapers inclusion. Super disappointed, and i might switch.
I'm really disappointed too! Thinking seriously about cancelling
It also looks like they're going to only be providing ethnicty estimates for free soon, so if you want to see public linked tree/shared locations/common ancestors and shared matches info, you can only do that with a subscription. I don't have hundreds of extra dollars lying around every year, or even for half a year, for a subscription and I know I can't be the only one.
You now pay for ALMOST all access. Same as me. Which is annoying because I already pay a bunch of money every year as it is.
Didn't Ancestry say it is free with paid access? Which account it is free with?
@@cvmurphy1975I usually get it once a year when they offer a 40 percent off sale.
Please bring back the option to customize our homepage. It is getting so cluttered and busy. Thanks for the new updates. I'm trying out the new ProTools now.
I agree
Connie, I love you, but I am not loving Ancestry these days. In addition to putting all these new tools behind a paywall, they are also about to put basic DNA match services (like seeing shared matches) behind a paywall as well. I am deeply disappointed with Ancestry for doing this.
Wait, what? Do you know that for a fact?
@@tambracollette Log into your account and look at any of your DNA match profiles. The notice of the upcoming change is right there. Although I suppose it's possible that people who currently have a paid subscription don't see it.
Where can we see information about this?
@@suzannemcclendon 1) See my other reply here, or 2) ask Ancestry for yourself. I'm just a customer. I don't work there.
From the Shared Matches tab: "We're making some changes. Soon, you'll need a membership to view the features below this banner."
I'd be happy if existing features worked. Its a bit annoying when search filters don't filter. for example if i search for results within a certain area or date range i still get results from outside that
I would love to see an add on which enables you to see shared dna matches below the 20 cM cut off….this would be beneficial
There needs to be a way to permanently reject a possible duplicate as “not a match.” I have a large tree and I am still working my way through the A’s. If I don’t make a note of where I left off, I have to wade through all the possible duplicates again.
Here's a tip. Use tree tags to mark as "Left off here" and then when you go to the tree view, find, filter to "Left off Here" you'll see were you last left off. :) Thanks for supporting the channel!
As a professional I like the content, most likely will continue to use ancestry for the searchable database.. It has, though, become too much like facebook and other social media platforms.. Finally, I export all my research so I can print books for clients …
I live Crista and Connie’s enthusiasm ❤
Okay I jumped on board over the weekend to give pro tools a try, I will now be able to clean up my trees so much faster and easier. I wish though another video would be done on how to use it in maps, I haven’t figured that out just yet. I’d say now, it’s worth the extra $10 to me, since I see it will be helpful.
another thing I would love is when you are related to someone through more than one line, the ability to toggle what that relationship would be. For instance, the man that is the father of 2 of my dad's siblings, but not his own father, is listed in my tree as a 4th cousin 2x removed or something. Also, my ex wife is listed as wife in my tree but I have a divorce added as a fact, which I would think would change the label to EX-WIFE, since I never remarried but it still shows as WIFE. Call me picky, but It's something I'd really like. I know how to edit relationships and to make sure the right option is picked. My tree still shows some half relationships as full and vice versa. All I get told is "go into edit relationships and verify the right thing is checked", which I honestly get tired of hearing, so I just ask about it less often. We have the ability to show which spouse we want shown, so I KNOW its possible to change which relationships are shown.
ThruLines used to have that as an option, but it got taken off the platform a few months ago. It will probably be introduced as another paid tool here in the future. Yes, I'm cynical.
Those of us that have been paying hundreds and thousands four over 10 years should get these ad on’s for free !!!
Ancestry isn't making enough money on subscriptions so now there's add on subscriptions for more money? No thanks. I've quit working at ancestry. It's too expensive. I've donated a 25,000 person tree and several smaller trees to ancestry which they use. That's the end of my charity.
That’s pretty negative. You know Genealogy TV isn’t part of Ancestry right?
Very informative and great to see Crista, as always, with her exciting updates!
What BS on the fan chart, to get the 7 generation we HAVE to pay for the tools. Ancestry must be losing a lot so subscriptions for them to steep this low. I’m in the process of moving my trees to family search and will be leaving expensive Ancestry. Money hungry AH’s
I use both. The only downside to FS is that people can change your tree. It’s a global tree. So just be sure to keep your info on software where it can’t be changed by someone else. I have some common ancestors with people out there who disagree with who the spouses were. 😆
YES! I didn't realized that anyone could edit my tree and I found someone had added all kinds of people to my grandparents on there---- I spent a great deal of time removing random people that were not my family. It is the wild west on that site so I just abandoned my account there...not worth it when it's not anywhere near accurate. @@BrandiFink
I am so angry that I have to see the Ancestry Pro Tool pop-up every time I try to research anyone. I called twice and was told their IT department could not stop the constant popping-up of this ad. I explained that I PAID for a subscription so I could do research and now they do this to me. I'm paying and they are forcing me to see the pop-up multiple times. Why not once, when I sign in. I am not stupid! I can read and retain. I know when I am interested in something and if not do not need to have this pop-up in my face. My subscription expires soon and I will no longer be a member of a company that invades my space.
Good point.
@@GenealogyTV my annoying pop-ups are gone! for good, I hope.
@@Sandrannz Lucky you! I can't take it no more!
I'd LOVE for the Fan Chart view feature to *stop* notifying me with a pop-up, _every time_ I'm on my the family tree page!
I want to have this notification disabled 💯😤🤬.
Won’t be paying the extra.
The vocal audio in this episode is only coming through in the left-channel. Other effects, like the subscription notification bell are coming through the right-channel.
I can't hear this at all on my phone?
it all sounds good but the sad fact is that My Heritage has most of this with a normal membership.
I finally have this feature added to my account and I’m looking forward to using the heck out of it. ❤❤
Did she mention they are taking our shared matches away? Because they are unless we have a subscription. Everything below the banner popping up on accounts will no longer be accessible. I won't be able to build my tre3 without relying on my shared matches.
Good point
Love these new added tools. I want to print all the things!!!! Lol
I'm thinking, of an update, that Ancestry, maybe could do, in the Furure. Ancestry, could tell that, your getting, this Personality, from this Ethnicity, and their getting, that Personality from, that Ethnicity. Maybe, that could happen. Yeah, Like... what's My British Personality, what's My Arab Personality, or Italian and so on... and also, (How Many) things, you like about that Ethnicity
They had the 7 generation fan chart originally, then they took it away and now they want to change for it?
I know, right?
The problem with filters in pro tools is that if you have fixed some duplicate and go back to the list and refresh so that person/people are removed it brings back all the default filters.
I really need the ability to add a relationship, beyond what they provide. I hate using distant relative when I know they are a 6th or more cousin.
I haven't signed up for the pro tools yet but I'm considering it. I want to use the error checker and possible duplicates to see if there is someplace I need to do more research where something may have been missed. I too will be at Rootstech and plan to stop by the Ancestry booth.
Love you guys but have to chime in that these features are things that should be considered basic new additions to the platform. It doesn’t make sense to charge extra for these bells and whistles.
I hear you
I have some questions concerning Ancestry DNA. First, instead of immediately pursuing sideview for grandparents, why not allow the user to designate which grandparent their matches belong to, then extrapolate the data from there? Seems it would work faster that way. Secondly, is there any tools coming that automatically cluster and organize DNA matches? Thrulines is great for repetitive matches, but fails all too often with matches that do not belong to the same cluster being reported as sharing the incorrect common ancestors. Thirdly, if a chromosome browser is not in the cards, can a way to show that a match shares the same DNA cluster as others on the shared matches list be found? I have seen way too many matches - especially towards the bottom of the list - that are not really part of the shared matches and should not be shown, but are anyway. Very inaccurate. Finally, will there be any allowance for the privacy requirements of some testers who want to see their shared matches but do not or should not be seen on the lists of others? This is a problem I have seen for adoptees, children, individuals who are aware of a recent NPE in their families that does not allow for privacy and results in "match and run" comparing, turning the privacy controls on and off every time one wants to examine the shared matches list and essentially locks them out of thrulines being allowed. My feeling is that if Ancestry is going to raise prices on subscription and offer new "tools" for a premium fee, the users should be given more features to work with in exchange to make it worthwhile.
I'm not convinced that they will be able to accurately separate matches/ethnicity by grandparent, for myself and my mum at the parental level it is still way off. I have my parents tested at 23andme and my mum and myself at Ancestry. I've compared my Ancestry and 23andme chromosome paintings on DNA painter and all the segments of Indian, Chinese and African that Ancestry has assigned to my Paternal side are Maternal on 23andme, the 23andme assignment is correct as it comes from my Maternal Grandfather who was from Mauritius. I have 2 parent phasing on 23andme, but before the phasing, it had trouble separating the chromosomes so it isn't just an Ancestry issue (I have the same issue on the FTDNA chromosome painter too).
Also, they are having trouble separating a large amount of our DNA matches, even close matches such as my mother's grand-niece are still unassigned. My mum still has 89% of her matches unassigned, mine is a lot better at 33% unassigned. There are a lot of matches however that have been assigned to the wrong side, even in the small amount that has been assigned for my mum. For her there just haven't been that many people testing from her dad's side and a lot of the paternal assigned matches I have found the MRCA to be on the maternal side (my grandparents were from completely different parts of the world).
Same here. 95% of unassigned matches on all my kits. It's not able to assign my maternal aunt and the majority of 2nd and 3rd cousins are unassigned. When the match is assigned, the assignment is totally random. Sometimes correct, sometimes wrong. Separating by grandparent is technically impossible, it will not work correctly but they will claim how they are the best and it works for the majority of their users. As usual.
Actually... the separating by grandparent is possible when we test our siblings and compare the segments shared with our matches. It can currently be done with all companies... except Ancestry.
Is it possible for Ancestry DNA to identify matches per great grandparents?
How to identify unknown great grandparents using shared matches tool?
Not sure what the problem is, but for those of us with hearing difficulties and who use a headset, the sound on this video is not good. Sound for your GenealogyTV theme song comes through the right side only, while the sound of your voices only comes through on the left.
Good to know herb. That is odd... I'll try to fix it on future videos.
What else would you expect from Christa. She works for Ancestry. Saying negative things could lose her a job. But I feel the same way as you. Ancestry has continued to raise their prices over the years and one day I hope it comes back to bite them. And I already get the errors part on My Heritage, so unless something changes I’m not getting the Pro package!
The best thing to do is first find out what you can do with the protools, subscribe, use it for one month, and cancel after one month.
Wrong …call and very nicely, stating the facts-complain, complain, complain
When will AncestryDNA bring SideView Technology to our DNA Communities?
They just did it including our common communities now. It just came out yesterday via The DNA Plus membership.
They have changed the way to search from “List of all people”. I don’t care for it at all. Before, there were fields for first and last names so you could search for a specific individual. Now it’s just one one field and brings up a list that you still have to sort through. For example, this morning I was trying to search for George Washington-THE George Washington. Though not directly related, I do have several connections to him and had just found another to his mother. I needed to find him in my large tree but I have so many George Washington so-and-sos because so many ancestors and cousins named their kids after him. It would have been much easier if I could have entered “Washington” into a surname field.
I have been using the Pro Tools since they rolled out and I absolutely love it!
Ancestry have started posting the banner, under DNA: "We're making some changes. Soon, you'll need a membership to view the features below this banner." When and how much will you have to pay to see your matches in future?
I don't know.
Yes someone I work with on a family project is saying they can no longer see shared matches! WHAT?!
On ancestry pro tools you can review family lines one at a time, a leaf means confirmed. One problem you'll find when checking the exclamation points is "the only sources attached to this person are oline trees
What are some common ways to resolve this error
If you share your tree with a non member, can they see media (photos, etc) that you have attached?
How doe I stop the seemingly endless display of the same add over and over again ?
You can't. I get the same thing. It drives me nuts. You can pay for RUclips Premium that stops all ads.
Family search does a lot of these already
This new "pro tools" rubbed me the wrong way. In some other Genealogy software, these tools are standard and Ancestory wants to do it as a "pro tools".... yeah no... Im thinking of getting Genealogy software do yall have any sugestions? Also they took away the split version it was free now you have to pay. Whats to say the tree part of ancestory is going to be under a pay wall next. I’m a Mac user btw
Roots Magic is a pretty well-known, feature-rich and functional option, though it's not perfect. It also has an active user forum for getting support, posting suggestions, etc. Finally, it's $40, which is a third of the cost of 1 year of Ancestry "pro tools".
@@KimberlyGreenI’m debating between roots magic and legacy tree. Do you run roots magic on a Mac? I’m a Mac user
I'm a Mac person and use Reunion. If I could go back I'd get FamilyTreeMaker because it syncs with Ancestry and FamilySearch.
@@broughpsI was looking at reunion but like the comments on the App Store was like you need a Dropbox account is that true?
No you don't need Dropbox for Reunion.
Is Pro Tools available now in Australia 22 June 24? I received a hint on my matches that I could sign up for Pro Tools which I did however it does not work. I specifically wanted the Enhanced Shared Matches Tool otherwise I would not have bothered. I have followed the instructions to use that tool, logged out and back in again, but it does not do anything that I could not do before. So disappointed. Customer Service is virtually non existent on Ancestry.
Next video, Should you use these tools if you have Family Tree Maker or other software that already does all of this...
I use RootsMagic 9, FamilySearch, and Ancestry primarily. And I'm thinking that between RM9 and FamilySearch, I can get all this information from my software the FamilySearch if I'm diligent about sharing data between my software and the online trees --except the color coding of the fan chart specific to Ancestry hints and media. I'm curious to see if anyone brings up a benefit that I might be missing.
Absolutely not
Some of the updates are disappointing as we have to pay extra for them. I would love it if in the hints section they separated the hints into Census, Newspapers etc in order to go through them better along with having the normal Stories, Photos etc
What is the benefit of the ProTools chart printing if it only prints a family group chart without photos, documents? Plus, if you cannot add AI gathered information to your "story" to print in a chart, what use is it? It would seem "that" would be a benefit of the "Pro" in the tools. it really adds little value without the extra ability to use it to save and/or print it.
Hi. Have you heard, when the Grandparents Sideview, might come out?
Nothing yet.
It seems like they just want more and more money. So sad!
Thanks for getting this video out so quickly! Well done. Weighing the Pro plan with the cost now. I’ll likely do it, because I love more tools.
The "view possible errors" feature is glitchy. After correcting the errors....they are not dropping off the list....so I stubble over ones where the error was already corrected. Sometimes they drop off the list, but other times they do not......I've tried refreshing, logging off and on etc. I thought, well maybe the tree needs to be rescanned for them to drop off....but new ones are appearing, yet the corrected old ones are not dropping off the list.
Good to know. I it is in Beta. Use the feedback button to tell the engineers about the issue.
I, for one, do not like the fan.
So, for most of these new tools, we have to upgrade to "Pro".
How about not letting duplicates add to a tree? Or even a duplicate checker option?
I would expect this feature to be included in our membership not an additional fee now I am thinking of cancelling smh .
When will we see protools for those of us outside the USA?
From the video they said sometime after the holidays. I would guess late January
@reneelasswell9221 thanks. I got access to it at xmas!! What a great surprise
Connie, Could you please ask Crista to look into a way to indicate that there is content in the Notes and Gallery for each individual? As of now, you can't tell if there's anything there or not. Thanks! Another great video.
That's a great idea!
I'm still trying to figure why this costs an additional $10 a month? It's not correcting the mistakes others have made in their trees that causes thru lines to screw up and give you a false hint?
Hurray, at last we have search by location! If I have a DNA match but don't know what the link could be and there are no similar names, very often a matching location will solve the puzzle
I, like many others below, think the value added from the pro tools is not a paywall adder. While I agree its function for the most part is a great resource for cleaning the errors, I doubt many will spring for it very long. I myself thought it a great idea at a ONE TIME charge of 10 dollars. But that's about it. My Heritage does not charge extra for it. It's just not something I think is worth the money in a monthly format.
Thanks for sharing! A one time fee sounds like a good compromise to me.
Using the Ancestry App is not an enjoyable experience for me. I don’t like the way files duplicate and merging is always challenging. I’ll probably be dropping my subscription soon.
These are excellent tools and I do see myself making use of this. However, I would also like to see another tool that helped filter 'Ancestry member trees' within Hints. Specifically 'Ancestry member trees' that have more or different sources, records, photos than my own tree (i.e. My ancestor with 10 sources, 10 records, 1 photos to someone else's that has 11 sources, 11 records, 0 photos). This would help me find other sources and records that someone else may have already found. And if this could be applied to a tree view, I would be able to find member trees where other members have done a lot of work I have yet to discover.
Wow. Love the new tools. Wasn't aware this was the first day for the rollout. I'm looking forward to working with all of them. The fan chart is great - love the search by location, and to be able to find errors in my family tree....Awesome!!
I have the pro tools and it's not showing fan settings for me or any of the color codes for hints, etc. I do have the other tools though. My one wish request to Ancestry would be the ability to upload a photo and have them scan to see if there are other photo's whether they be named or unnamed, somewhere on the site. We all have plenty of pictures of people that we have no idea who they are.
Regarding the fan chart since this is in Beta, you have the opportunity to send feedback directly to the engineers. I suggest you do that.
I also do not have the fan settings tab
@GenealogyTV I'll do that. I thought it was still in a "roll out" phase.
Chromosome browser please. ❤
The new Ancestry owners are so greedy for money, that it does not make doing a DNA test worth it when you can only see 3 of your shared matches UNLESS you pay more. All the money we have paid over the years mean nothing because they just nickle and dime you for every thing now that used to come with your membership. I will just use the library account from now on. I won't be able to save anything, but at least I can print it and have for myself befor the next time they decide to start charging extra for that too.
Good point.
So many of the new tools have been on my wishlist. Delighted.
Rats. Have to wait for it to reach UK
I have a question. DNA evidence suggests that my 4th great-grandmother's parents were married when she was 7 years old. Then they moved from Virginia to Kentucky where she falsely states that's her place of birth in the 1850 Census. Is that possible?
I would double check every fact. Clearly something does not sound right. Perhaps you have more than one person with the same name?
They just updated the genetic communities. I think it was more accurate before, as i lost some communities which i know i should be in.
The huge problem with sharing dna is that a nasty family member has made themselves manager of my dna and I am only a viewer. He is a half brother loving the control he has of me finding my father’s side of my dna and his ability to intercept it all. This has made me very angry and distrustful since so far I am told there is nothing I can do about my own dna.
If you are the owner of your DNA kit, then you need to talk to Ancestry.
@@sharontabor7718 I am, and I have several times. They say they will look into it but since he activated it under his account there is nothing they can do. But I won't give up, That is just wrong..
I wasn't planning to get Pro but the map capabilities are exactly what I'm looking for! One thing I'm eager to see as I get into it is how forgiving is it when the same place is identified in different ways. For instance, will Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, United States of America come up the same as Cooperstown, Otsego, NY, USA? I try to keep my place names standardized but differences slip through when the place name is filled in automatically from a record. I'm hoping the algorithm is fuzzy enough that I don't have to review every place for every record for every person on my tree. Fingers crossed! Just for the record, I don't mind paying Ancestry for all the work they do. Excellence doesn't come free.
also, the exclamation point at the top of the page will take you to the list of all possible errors. at least on mine.
Some of these are great new features! But, I'm already having a problem with the filter-by-location feature. It appears that only Ancestry-recognized locations work, so that all of my little western Ukrainian village names do not work for filtering. What a bummer. I often want to know about just people from a particular village. And the tools are apparently no longer considered Beata versions, as there is no Beta button to send my comments to Ancestry.
I'll try to remember that in my next conversation with them.
Are they removing shared matches from AncestryDNA if you don't have a membership? Someone I work with on a family project let their sub elapse because of a lot of things going on in their personal life and they're telling me that it says they will no longer see shared matches?!?
They are making changes to the DNA subscriptions, but I don't have exact details. I hope to learn more at Rootstech.
When they have opportunity to suck more money out of their users, they take advantage of that. For many years, they told us that they do not allow the upload of foreign DNA data in order to protect the privacy of their users. Two days ago, they updated their privacy statement that our DNA data can be compared not only with DNA data of other users but also with uploaded DNA data. Apparently their income is going down so they're going to allow strangers to upload their DNA data to them so they can charge them a subscription.
@@tomask1436 wow really? I missed that update.
This pay wall "Pro Tools" is ridiculously disappointing. Get it together Ancestry. You already charge plenty.
It makes me very angry that I pay a full access fee but can't get these features.
I am also Canadian and find it disappointing that there is a lag for these roll outs.
I hear you. I was really surprised to see they had this as an add-on expense.
I for one wont be paying extra for this service, when I can get that for an app on my computer that has being doing the same thing for years, for aone off purchase, which is Family Tree maker
I'd like to be able to colour my direct ancestors pages different colours from the rest of the family in my tree so they are easy to spot for myself and others at a glance .
“Pro Tools” are standard features on MULTIPLE software applications. It’s criminal for Ancestry to bilk even more money for their already obscenely expensive service. It seems that Crista is popping up on every RUclips channel and that these have become little more than infomercials for “Pro Tools.” Crista seems to tout “free” things that Ancestry has but fails to mention that MANY of these, such as census records are FREE from MANY other places on the Internet.
It is common for Ancestry. Scamming the users. They are not able to provide the real professional tools such as the chromosome browser or triangulation, so they are charging for standard features that they call "Pro Tools" :D
I got something, that Ancestry could do, in the Future. Ancestry can tell, where you took, your photos, that you upload, to your Family Tree. Let's just say, you don't, put the location, where you took that photo (or) let's just say, you (do), put the location, where you took the photo. Or, how about this, the photo, is so old, nobody knows where, the photo is taking, or who's in, the photo. And another thing, Maybe Ancestry, can tell what ethnicity, that person looks, in that photo. Maybe Ancestry, can answer that. But I'm sure, they can, someday.
Boy this is definitely worth the extra money. I had created a lot of custom tags to identify family lines, places and other things. With the new features I can use the custom tags as reminders to look for specific records;; such as death certificates. Thankx Connie and Crista.
Connie, the Pro Tools were said to cost $9.99. Why did I have to pay $14.99? $5.00 tax? Thank you.
I have no idea. Some are only paying $9.99. You might try calling them.
Ok. Thank you.
Charging other people to use my DNA in thru lines and visa versa so have gone private and removed from public luckily I had finished large detailed trees bad on ancestry will be moving everything to other sites
Is this just for America and not for ancestry in the uk?
Right now, yes. Once they work out all the kinks, they’ll open it up to other parts of the world.
ACTUALLY WE ARE STRUGGLING IN HOW TO USE IT not enough help and basic directions - My friend said the same and now we have it I see her point ---CRISTA please address this ------ I'm not renewing it like my friend -
Goodbye Ancestry. Greed has been your downfall. Hello familytreedna with big Y-700 testing and free autosomal dna transfer.
Deleting my DNA + account from Ancestry the second they block access to matches.
I love the tools, but the extra charges do feel like part of a modern business trend to screw over your customers for every last penny you can get. Booking fees, baggage fees, convenience fees etc. It doesn’t make for customer loyalty. I’ll be keeping an eye out to see what other platforms do. 😠
MyHeritage might be one to consider. They have tools no one else has. Here is a 14 day free trial (affiliate link) www.myheritage.com/complete-genealogy-package?keyword=partners&tr_funnel=Complete
@@GenealogyTV thank you for an honest and timely reply. I did indeed upload to MyHeritage over the weekend to see if I could find any matches and clues to a missing 2nd great grandfather. I noticed they had some of the tools ancestry is charging extra for. I’m invested in my Ancestry tree for now and will just have to pay for the extras during the winter months only when I am most active.
Would love see that map developed to show movements of successive generations. Woube a great error checker too, with spurious birth or death locations looking like a spike on ths path.
Oh, and a chromosome painter.
All nice, but not for research or determining ancestors. Biggest requirement for adding tools should be a chromosome browser and the ability to match DNA for multiple people.
Little hope many new dna matches have a real interest in actual family history as it is and just loading more and more behind paywalls will just make it worse than ever. If there was ever a company looking at alienating new and existing customers then Ancestry have created the model to follow.
Ridiculous that you have to pay more money!! I am not!!!
If you mind, I'ld like to know the different between Genealogy Bank and News Library. Are they the same. I've Genealogy Bank
I believe newslibrary is more recent newspapers staring in 1977. Genealogy Bank goes way back. I use GB and Newspapers.com the most... Chronicling America and NewspaperArchives are some other good ones. See this video ruclips.net/video/JezRoBfr8ho/видео.html
Don't know about others but prejudicial nature of Ancestry who time and time again give short shift to any not Amark'n as a default keeping some features behind the wall for prolonged perods personally I find it offensive but then it's the american way eh
It is not uncommon for technology companies to roll out to particular regions first. This is a good idea for testing things but can also be necessary when they are still working on getting the content localized, checking against laws and regulations that might exist in those other locations, and researching the appropriate market pricing. Companies all over the world do this for these very specific reasons and if the company is located in your home region, you would likely see it first. I do understand your frustration, it's completely valid, just wanted to help you understand why it happens do you know, in this case, it's not because they dislike other regions. ;/
And yet they flat refuse to create a beta group to help keep them insync with their customer base and (shudder) get real feedback that perhaps will foster new ideas.... NOT THEIR OWN eh... lol
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