I had trouble with the findmypast 1939 survey too, anyone else struggle?

They claim 90+% accuracy which is way off. Some of the addresses are confused, no local knowledge plus transcription errors. My family didn't show so I did an address search for Wyesham (Monmouth) but half the addresses are missing. I asked FMP why, they replied telling me I'm probably searching wrongly, which is like telling me I don't know where I live. I wondered if the missing Wyesham addresses had been added to Redbrook, part of Redbrook usually appears as part of the Dixton - Newton census. I did an address search for Redbrook, West Dean and it shows just one Dovey family, so no luck there.
I have no idea if it was down to me reporting the errors, but today I did a search for Beach - Monmouth only expecting Oswald Beach in town to show up and my family show up too, but still not if you search by address.

They sent out 60,000 people to collect the census details, why didn't they use postmen who would have known the names and accurate addresses. Still some lucky fellas might not have got called up. FB

Speaking for myself I'm thoroughly depressed about this, and have told them so. I've also chosen not to renew my subscription. Altho' I doubt it will make any difference, please join me and spend a few moments signing this online petition against the changes. I suspect this is just one of several such actions being taken by disaffected users worldwide, I'll continue to try and search them out and add my voice to them all, but in the meantime please sign this petition, even if you're not an Ancestry user. Don't forget, you don't have to be a subscriber to use their site, at the very least it's a good way to build and display your family trees, all free-of-charge.
Or at least it WAS....

Many thanks, Jeff.

PS It's makes us even more thankful there are still excellent, user-friendly, FH websites like this Forest of Dean one; please consider donating towards it's upkeep this Christmas, thanks.

http://blog.eogn.com/2015/08/11/online-petition-to-save-the-old-ancestry-com-classic-us...

I'll also be adding to this, altho it seems clear that only favourable comments are actually welcome.
http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2015/06/05/new-ancestry-feature-update/

UPDATE;
I'm pleased to add that a few hours after signing the petition, I've been sent a poll by Ancestry, which has given me another formal way to comment on their new format. I didn't score it very highly...

Bad News.
I voiced my opinion to ancestry and was told that as of November 6th we will no longer have a choice.

Terry MARFELL

Only just found this thread. I have to agree with the others, like most things in life I much prefer the old style of Ancestry presentation, in fact it was largely the visual look that swayed me over other company's offerings. Yes I too thought I had a virus, talk about poor if not non-existent communications to the users !. Thankfully and by lucky accident I found I could opt out, tho' I suspected that might be a temporary option only.
That said, contrary to what Terry was told, it seems to me that the old-style is still available now as-of 21st November. Perhaps this is a climb-down following complaints, or just a short-term appeasement to (dare I say) encourage users to renew subs to cover their busier winter months before forcing the horrible new-look on to us anyway ??. Having spent money on the new-look I cannot see them ditching it.
Are any other Ancestry users still able to access the older style presentation, or is it just me ?

Anyway, my subscription recently finished so I told them my reason for not renewing was the awful new look, altho I suspect that like many worldwide corporations in this day and age, the voice of some "out of touch old fogies" like me will go unheard...

Has anyone else read any responses from Ancestry, or more recent news, perhaps the FH magazines etc have been discussing it too, all comments welcome.

Thanks, Jeff.

Terry MARFELL

Though you've probably found it by now!

Always seems to be old stuff is better than the new

Regrads to all members

By the way I went back and managed to find site preferences in the tree account section, so I re-ticked use old search and nothing changed, I still have the new "experience" so unless there's a delay? It looks like I'm stuck with it.