A dumb Q about Ancestry

[Merry]

Nothing to add to BK6 from this thread

If someone has made an amendment to a census entry on Ancestry and when you click their member name for the correction a box pops up stating:

Profile not available


Does that mean they are no longer a member, or something else?

[Shona]

Just checked an entry that I corrected and the same message comes up. Perhaps it's because I don't have any trees on Ancestry and thus there is no profile.

[Merry]

Thanks Shona. That makes sense.

[Shona]

Merry, out of curiosity, on the Ancestry homepage, I clicked on my username and then selected my profile to see if I had entered anything. They only way people can contact me is via Ancestry's message system. But as I haven't got any trees on Ancestry, no one would be able to do this! I think it means that if I contact people, then they can respond to me. There is also an option for not allowing any contact.

[Merry]

Thanks Shona. I have just been examining my profile in the same way!

[kiterunner]

Could it be to do with how the user has set their Public Profile Preferences?

http://community.ancestry.co.uk/profileprefs.aspx

[JayG]

I think i've had something similar Merry, and it was to do with the account being created before a certain date hence not having a profile attached.

[JBee]

I don't think I have a profile - don't remember doing one.

[Margaret in Burton]

I don't think I have a profile - don't remember doing one.

I don't either. Never filled it in.

[Merry]

Thanks everyone for your comments :)