Tuesday 16 December 2014

Site improvements at Ancestry

http://home.ancestry.co.uk/?cj=1&o_xid=0003506554&o_lid=0003506554&o_sch=Affiliate+External

I've just noticed that Ancestry have been busy improving the layout of some record collections.

I've only looked at military records so far, but those that I have seen are laid out far more clearly than they were previously and, in the case of SDGW, it is clearly stated that what you are looking at is a transcription only (see screenshot above). There is also room to leave your own comments which I don't think was an option in the previous version.

I have just added a post about George Flack, seen in the example above, who was killed in action 100 years ago today. It must have been a rotten Christmas for his family.

http://home.ancestry.co.uk/?cj=1&o_xid=0003506554&o_lid=0003506554&o_sch=Affiliate+External
 
The screenshot above is the entry page into my great uncle's service record on WO 363. Here, you can quite clearly see that there are images in the collection and in this case I did leave a simple comment which is now visible in the top right hand corner.
 
http://home.ancestry.co.uk/?cj=1&o_xid=0003506554&o_lid=0003506554&o_sch=Affiliate+External
 
All of this is very neat functionality, and there is also the option to connect with people who may be researching the same man. In this particular case, we're back to Ancestry's usual "serve 'em up everything" approach and I see that there are supposedly 48,862 results, the first result being a man who was born in 1832.  So this can't possibly be my great uncle and one would have thought that more fine-tuning to serve up relevant results (or at least, more relevant results) shouldn't be so hard to achieve.  Perhaps it's in the pipeline. 
 
Find your own military ancestors on Ancestry by clicking the link.
 


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