A New Look for Ancestry Member Trees
A new look for Ancestry Member Trees is now live on Ancestry.com. We’ve updated the design and navigation to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and rebuilt the pages so they load faster.
In early June, we launched a preview of these enhancements to the family tree. Our goal was to help you become familiar with the changes before they were incorporated on the site, as well as give us your opinion of the new design. We received over 8,000 responses, the large majority of them very much excited to see the preview features implemented. We are very grateful for the time and care you put in to providing such insightful feedback, and made several changes to the preview as a direct result of your feedback.
Since the new look launched (yesterday morning) we have received nearly 4,000 feedback responses. We’re taking notes and making plans for additional improvements as people get used to the new look and we learn better how to optimize it. We encourage you to continue sending us your feedback through the feedback link in your family tree.
To learn more about the improvements we’ve made, you can visit our earlier blog post announcing the preview as well as our welcome page which gives a quick overview.
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