Today we launched a brand-new home page for logged-in members on Ancestry.com. This new page combines the best of the old home page with all of the personalized features and tools that were once a click farther away on the My Ancestry page.
By combining the two pages into a single new home page, we've reduced the number of clicks it takes you go get to the features you use most. You may have already noticed that since we combined the two pages, there is no longer a separate My Ancestry' tab, or link in the header. All of the tools and features from the My Ancestry page can now be found on the new home page.
Through surveys and analysis of site activity, we found that Ancestry members want easy access to search and their trees (particularly the pedigree view) and they want information on the newest records and features being added to the site. Based on this information, we designed a page that puts your trees and search in prominent, easy-to-access positions.
The new What's Happening at Ancestry' section informs you of new site features and records. In fact, the New records on Ancestry.com' list is dynamically updated every time we add new records to the site.
We also found that smaller groups of people have certain areas of the site, like message boards or specific record collections, which they use frequently. We created the new My Quick Links' tool to help you quickly navigate to pages of Ancestry, or the rest of the internet, you use most - simply by adding the URL and link name.
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