I have been a long time member of this Forum but have only just discovered how to use the Interactive Ancestry that always shows up on every thread on these research boards.
I have often felt excluded from the research board as I don't have any PPV/subscription websites and only use free sites for research so when someone finds something and it shows interactive I could not see what others were looking at.
I had stopped looking in here as frequently as I had done before because of this and don't feel that the other off topics here are for me.
By chance OC in one of the threads said she could not see census records and someone showed interactive and OC made comments on the record which made me think about how she could see it when I could not I realised that clicking on the interactive link and then signing into Ancestry with my old username and password I would be able to see it too, so I tried it and it worked.
I remember in the old days people always wrote out the information from the record so we could all see it and missed those times as I could no longer input into the threads being unable to see the records.
I like Familysearch and use it a lot in my own research which is very small these days and have a friend who helps with records on Ancestry if I need to see something, so I apologise for this not being a research request but on posting this here I thought it may help others who did not understand the interactive Ancestry like me so I hope this makes it clear to them and also to the people who use it regularly to help them understand that not everyone is fully conversant with this system.
Thank you for your time to read this
Edna
I have often felt excluded from the research board as I don't have any PPV/subscription websites and only use free sites for research so when someone finds something and it shows interactive I could not see what others were looking at.
I had stopped looking in here as frequently as I had done before because of this and don't feel that the other off topics here are for me.
By chance OC in one of the threads said she could not see census records and someone showed interactive and OC made comments on the record which made me think about how she could see it when I could not I realised that clicking on the interactive link and then signing into Ancestry with my old username and password I would be able to see it too, so I tried it and it worked.
I remember in the old days people always wrote out the information from the record so we could all see it and missed those times as I could no longer input into the threads being unable to see the records.
I like Familysearch and use it a lot in my own research which is very small these days and have a friend who helps with records on Ancestry if I need to see something, so I apologise for this not being a research request but on posting this here I thought it may help others who did not understand the interactive Ancestry like me so I hope this makes it clear to them and also to the people who use it regularly to help them understand that not everyone is fully conversant with this system.
Thank you for your time to read this
Edna
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