"New" Ancestry.com (15 Dec 2015) Recommendation #3: Remove or color-code thumbnails of ancestry.com documents in the gallery
Background: Sometimes I want to see images of Ancestry.com documents attached to an individual.
- Old Ancestry: I scroll down to Source Information (below
the family names); click on the source (e.g. 1860 Census) to get the index and
transcription (what Ancestry calls the Record, as opposed to the image), then
click on "view" to see the image. (3 steps)
- New Ancestry: Now includes thumbnails of images on the
fact page. Click on the image and you
see it (1 step) unless it's below the fold, then you have to scroll and click
(2 steps). Or go to the Gallery to view
them. In the Gallery, user submitted media is shown first, then ancestry
documents. So, if there were a
significant amount of images, I may have to scroll to find the document I want
(making it 3 steps). Since the images
are available from the fact page, it's redundant to put them in the gallery.
They just make a mess of the page.
Recommendation: Remove
ancestry.com document thumbnails from the Gallery, or outline them in a
different color than user submitted media.
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