Ancestry is updating their family tree look
Via the Ancestry blog Ancestry.com today announces:
We’re working on a new look and feel for the family tree product, including an updated design, a new navigation bar, and also new tabs on an individual’s profile. These changes are intended to make the pages faster to load, require fewer clicks to move around, and let you see more of your information where it is helpful.
Love it? Hate it? Share your thoughts using the “Give us feedback” link below.
I’m still in the process of exploring the changes being effected by Ancestry. They are permitting us Ancestry users to check it out and submit our feedback to them with our reactions.
If you want to check out the changes click the link to the blog and read about them, then leave the blog and proceed to Ancestry.com and look your tree over with a preview of the changes to come.
You might benefit all us genealogy folk if you leave a comment here on this blog so we can all kind of weigh in on what we think of it all.
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4 comments
New enhancements are the pitts ,proved it by looking for many
things I had found before which I now cannot find atall. Previously named Ancestry as scource but why would I now do this as family members cannot find also.
Ancestry has served me well through the years except for trancription errors but this is the final straw.
Thanks for the comment Toni. Anything new that presents a learning curve can be difficult. I’ve used Ancestry for about a decade now. I haven’t noticed the problems you cite. But Ancestry has been the best single source of official documents I’ve been able to find, i.e., Census records. Of course I’m in the United States. I see you must be in New Zealand. So, I can’t really relate to what you are encountering. None of my family has, to my knowledge, any roots in New Zealand. Good luck.
While I worked in IT for years I think you definitely need to accomodate more reader feedback. I think many people (including myself) feel that the very legitimate criticisms are buried with “learning curve” comments. I want to suggest that you tell us what (if any) of these suggestions are being adapted in future updates. I like many users think the “look and feel” is bloated and not user friendly. I can’t imagine having to click on so many tabs to find IF there is a story or comment. Tabs should be color coded to show content, images should be at the top of the page, etc. More work definitely needs to be done before any rollout….
I assume you are referring to the new layout of Ancestry.com rather than this blog. I’m not fully accustomed to the new look of Ancestry. I’m stilling trying to learn all the ins and outs of it.
Thank you for your comment
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