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   Message 129,297 of 130,039   
   Geoff to Geoff   
   Re: Ancestry message folders   
   26 Mar 20 15:00:04   
   
   From: onlyme101@btinternet.com   
      
   "MB"  wrote in message news:r5ifja$i6q$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 26/03/2020 14:20, Geoff wrote:   
   > I received an email today saying that Ancestry are removing the folders on   
   > the Message Centre page.  Yet another backwards step!   
   > I'm sure others, like me, get messages from various contacts and it's the   
   > best way to keep them in some sort of order.  I presume that in future   
   > they will only be saved in the way that Ancestry wants us to have them.   
   > Some years ago, we used to be able to create on the home page,  "favourite   
   > links" to records that we used frequently.   That went!   
   > It seems that if it is useful, then they remove it to add something else.   
   > Does anyone else feel that Ancestry is moving away from its original   
   > concept of genealogy, i.e. searching and recording?   
      
   I still have, and use regularly, 'My Quick Links' on my Ancestry Home Page?   
      
   Mine vanished years ago!  Do you have to find it first or should it   
   automatically be there?   
      
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