tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post5458070540073317776..comments2024-03-26T11:22:41.940-07:00Comments on Genea-Musings: New Look for Ancestry.com Family Trees - Post 2Randy Seaverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17477703429102065294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-40573620373095465112009-08-08T10:01:17.776-07:002009-08-08T10:01:17.776-07:00There seems to be no way to upload a video, even t...There seems to be no way to upload a video, even though your earlier comment suggested that it could be done. What appears to be possible is to "create" a video with your webcam. A live shot, then saved to the site. If one has a video of a deceased person, this is fairly diffucult to achieve. There needs to be a way to upload rather than create a video.Roy Rowlettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26204193.post-12864989344441811722009-07-07T10:24:50.923-07:002009-07-07T10:24:50.923-07:00Randy, your last paragraph well sums up some of th...Randy, your last paragraph well sums up some of the limitations of this new presentation format: navigation problems, no improvement in load-time, and lack of ability to even print out an Ahnentafel or descendancy list as one can in WorldConnect.<br /><br />It is not, after all, a genealogy program. Its purpose is to link with the databases on Ancestry.com and to enable persons to take material from other trees.<br /><br />The redundancies must have something to do with the 'Member connect' (enhanced "Hints") enterprise that will be rolled out in a couple of weeks. Different code strings are necessary to link with the different coding of items such as the things called "records" by Ancestry.com (notes and extracts from books and images) and with individuals who have saved them in their trees or just to their shoeboxes, as well as with persons who have made comments or additions (called 'corrections') to the notes/extracts embodied in indexes.<br /><br />The overall purpose of the Tree 'new view' is to integrate with Ancestry.com's marketing program. One cannot view a 'hint' from a database if one is not a subscriber. Every time someone adds part of a different tree to their own tree, it multiplies the number of names that can be a marketing point.<br /><br />This promotion of repetition is where the Ancestry.com approach differs from the NewFamilySearch tree setup, although they are based on very similarly faulty genealogical databases.<br /><br />It will be interesting to see what the final version of Ancestry.com's "Member Tree" display looks like. How are they going to squeeze in the ads?Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.com