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From: "Daniela Moneta" <>
Subject: RE: Changes at Ancestry
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:35:41 -0700
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You can still find Ancestry World Tree by going to "all databases" under
More Collection to the right of the census search by years. This gives you
an alphabetical listing of all the database they have. It is a little
quicker to search the "W"s for "world" and then find Ancestry World Tree, a
Free database.

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Subject: Changes at Ancestry

Ancestry.com and Ancestry Library Edition made some major format and content
changes on July 27th. Two bothersome changes I see are that in both .com
and Library Edition the search mode defaults to the "Ranked Search". I
(and many of our library patrons) have found the "Ranked Search" to be very
cumbersome and confusing, too much irelevant data. Ancestry still allows
the ability to do an "Exact Search" but it's found in a small box that is
hard to locate. The other big problem I see with the .com version is the
World Trees. They have thrown WFTs (which I have never understood) into the
mix and have removed some of the user submitted trees. Of those that
remain, there is no contact information. That renders the data useless as
far as I'm concerned. If there are no sources and no way to contact a
submitter, what good it the information? Does anyone on the list have any
"inside" information on this?
Liz Walker
Genealogy Library Associate
Tulsa City County Library Genealogy Center

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