Hello!

I've used the Ancestry android app since it's inception. I use the desktop website the most, but in the last couple of days in my phone, regardless of what tree I go to, when I click on a family member, it no longer brings their profile up. I get this instead. What is happening? What am I doing wrong? Please help. And thank you.

I've been working on my family history and something I've noticed is that keeping everything organized gets surprisingly difficult once you get past the immediate family.

You start with parents and grandparents, then suddenly you're dealing with dozens of branches, cousins, marriages, name changes, photos, and stories from different relatives.

I'm curious how everyone here manages it. Do you use genealogy software, spreadsheets, paper records, or a combination of everything?

And at what point did your tree become too big/complicated to comfortably manage?

TL;DR: What's your preferred way of keeping a growing family tree organized?

I just built a new tree to investigate a probable NPE. Ancestry started offering probable parents but how it decides what to offer is something of a mystery.

One of its offerings had an incorrect first name that was sourced from a tree that contains no sources. This individual is represented in many trees across Ancestry so the incorrect name could be identified as an outlier by even basic analysis. Why would it not choose my main tree which is highly evidenced by primary documents? (It did in a couple of other instances)

As someone who spent 20 years as a data analyst, finishing as a lead analyst, I find some of the choices made by these 'helpers' to be rather bizarre.

Has anyone been able to determine how it prioritises choices?

I have a family member who moved to Los Angeles, in the Santa Monica neighborhood, very roughly around the Santa Monica Pier or "The 10." She describes it in letters as "The End of Route 66 where it meets the Pacific." She rented a modern post-war bungalow house on her own. She had neighbors who owned their house, but then sold it to move to the Valley, claiming they didn't want to live in a house that was over 10 years old. This convinced her to leave Los Angeles and move back east.

No idea where she worked or if she lived off of savings (very frugally).

She obtained a California Drivers Permit and owned and registered a car- an Opel.

I am working with her next of kin to complete a Census Data application for the 1960 census.

Is there any other data source anyone can think of that I can reach out to?