[DemolitionRed]

I've been using Ancestry.com for over a year now and got back to the early fifteen hundreds (I'm from a long line of peasants btw ). Yesterday I logged into my account and looked through a few records before going back to the pedigree page. I clicked on my grandmother and '****' my entire family tree disappeared. I messed around trying to get it back but when I had no success, I called admin. Admin said they unfortunately can't do anything about it and claim I can't of saved anything. I did save everything but it now appears its gone regardless and all Admin could suggest is I start again.

Has anyone else used this site and had similar problems ?

[rubymoo]

Aww that's crap!

I've never used the site, you must be gutted

I think it's great thuogh that you got back to the 1500's and you're from a long line of peasants

I want to do mine now

[Lee.]

No, I've used it for years now and have loads saved on it. I've never had any problems with it I'd be gutted if it all disappeared!

[Marsh.]

I started putting together a tree just before Christmas. (Edit: Not a Christmas tree )

Amazing some of the things I've discovered and shown my grandparents.

[Crimson Dynamo]

i am old enough to remember all my ancestors so dont use it

[Z]

I'd like to know more about my family tree but I can't be arsed doing it myself and my family all hate each other anyway so I'd probably get shot if I tried to find out anything

[DemolitionRed]

I'm majorly peed off with the site. Its funny but the other day I thought I should start typing this out and storing it somewhere safe and now I'm gutted I didn't.

Marsh, it means a lot to grandparents when they see you taking an interest in past relatives.

Lee, I'm sure I've done something that's just accidentally hidden my stuff. I think the woman on the phone was just clueless and that there's something that can be done to restore what I'd so carefully saved.

Ruby, do it! Its a really interesting investigation that's sometimes frustrating but often brings reward. Every time you find an ancestor and fingerprint it back to yourself it feels great. I just wouldn't recommend Ancestor.com atm!

[Ammi]

..I always think that ancestry is a bit like a family Chinese Whispers, it's fascinating to look at similarities of the greats and the great greats etc with your own life or your children's lives and think hmmmm, so that's where that gene came from/type thing ..and then there are things that you just couldn't recognise at all as relating to your ancestry...but yeah, so interesting...

[jennyjuniper]

My daughter has researched our family and I must say the results have been very interesting. Best of all though, because my dad died in 1958, I had no photos of him at all. She managed to find one when he joined the merchant navy when he was 18. So thanks to her research I finally have a photo of my dad.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by jennyjuniper

My daughter has researched our family and I must say the results have been very interesting. Best of all though, because my dad died in 1958, I had no photos of him at all. She managed to find one when he joined the merchant navy when he was 18. So thanks to her research I finally have a photo of my dad.

.....awwww, how lovely Jenny, that her research came up with a photo of your dad and you'd never had one before...one of the greatest gifts she could have given you, eh...

[arista]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

I'm majorly peed off with the site. Its funny but the other day I thought I should start typing this out and storing it somewhere safe and now I'm gutted I didn't.

Marsh, it means a lot to grandparents when they see you taking an interest in past relatives.

Lee, I'm sure I've done something that's just accidentally hidden my stuff. I think the woman on the phone was just clueless and that there's something that can be done to restore what I'd so carefully saved.

Ruby, do it! Its a really interesting investigation that's sometimes frustrating but often brings reward. Every time you find an ancestor and fingerprint it back to yourself it feels great. I just wouldn't recommend Ancestor.com atm!

Can you Print it all?

Or do they block that?

[jennyjuniper]

Originally Posted by Ammi

.....awwww, how lovely Jenny, that her research came up with a photo of your dad and you'd never had one before...one of the greatest gifts she could have given you, eh...

Thats true Ammi. He was such a handsome man too. (I must take after my mum in looks)
The interesting thing is that I followed in his footsteps, without knowing about it until later in life. He joined the merchant navy as a young man and I did too. It is fascinating looking at the past, even when we are confronted with the good or the bad.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by jennyjuniper

Thats true Ammi. He was such a handsome man too. (I must take after my mum in looks)
The interesting thing is that I followed in his footsteps, without knowing about it until later in life. He joined the merchant navy as a young man and I did too. It is fascinating looking at the past, even when we are confronted with the good or the bad.

..I'm not listening to a word of that Jenny, I bet you have equally striking looks from both of your parents...how weird though because we hear that a lot, don't we...of 'parallel lives' and same chosen paths of families who are separated through large parts of their lives and then re-united...I think especially the most (similarities in lives..)..of twins...but also any siblings/parents and children as well...