Ancestry Lab beta features

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There is a good reason for them not telling - imagine if your DNA test showed that your Dad wasn't your biological father, and then your paternal cousins etc could see that you had done a DNA test but you didn't match them! You might not want everyone to know.

Ah, so it was a blip when I could see that they had had a test done, and we didn't match.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I'm not sure whether this comes under "Ancestry Labs" or not, but they seem to be changing the Compare page that you get when you click on the name of a DNA match from the list. I saw a different version, where it lets you change groups and it has several tabs instead of everything being on one page, but then the next time I clicked on one it was back to the old version.

I am seeing the new version of this again now. Nice to be able to add someone to a group without having to go the route of starring them and then viewing starred matches.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

There is a good reason for them not telling - imagine if your DNA test showed that your Dad wasn't your biological father, and then your paternal cousins etc could see that you had done a DNA test but you didn't match them! You might not want everyone to know.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that.

So not telling people before you get the results is a wise idea.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I am seeing the new version of this again now. Nice to be able to add someone to a group without having to go the route of starring them and then viewing starred matches.

That is about the only good point. I am really cross about losing the place name facility. And I do hope they ultimately put pages back again. Searching is so much more difficult at the moment.

I'm visiting a fifth cousin next Monday who I doubt I'd have found under the current system.

[kiterunner]

Phoenix, can you explain what you mean about losing the place name facility, please?

[kiterunner]

Never mind, I see now. Hmm. Why did they do that?

[kiterunner]

Ah, there is a "Birth Locations Map" that you can use to see where the DNA match's ancestors were born.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Ah, there is a "Birth Locations Map" that you can use to see where the DNA match's ancestors were born.

This only works if they recognise the place. They think Blakeney is inland, not on the Norfolk coast. Charleton in Devon does not exist, nor do heaps of others.

You may find a match doing the search, but then not find it on the map. And if you can't find it on the map, it's like a missing census page. I have provided feedback.

[Phoenix]

Aaaaaaaaaaaargh.

You can now only view 5 generations, so for a surname beyond that, you have to view the full tree.

I will never want to look at a relation with a tree in the thousands now.


Oh, and just to make the day perfect, it sounds as if FMP is throwing open our trees to the world unless we opt out.

[NickiP]

Not happy, not only can you only see 5 generations now but if you click on one of them it doesn't open a window with the basic details but takes you to their tree instead.

I'd left the search page open with results for a surname search, now it shows the search details at the top reducing the amount I can see at any one time. Not an issue for anyone with a big screen, but my laptop screen isn't that high resolution so I can now see less on the page that I did previously and have to scroll down more. Added to that they couldn't even put in the intermittent 5-8th cousin shared matches that they appear to have been trialling. Hope they change it back.