Author Archives for Melissa Philips

Scheduled Site Maintenance Tonight, Wednesday Nov. 18


We want to let you know that the Ancestry.com and related Ancestry International sites will be down for about 4 hours for scheduled maintenance tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 18) through early Wednesday morning beginning at 11:30 PM Mountain Time (that’s 1:30  AM ET or 5:30 AM GMT).  The Ancestry World Archives Project will only be available for offline keying.
Thank you for [...]

Scheduled Site Maintenance Wed. October 28


We want to let you know that the Ancestry.com and related Ancestry International sites will be down for about 3 hours for scheduled maintenance on early Wednesday morning beginning at 1 AM Mountain Time (that’s 3 AM ET or 7 AM GMT).  The Ancestry World Archives Project will only be available for offline keying.
During this [...]

New Site Navigation


We are excited to announce the launch of the new site-wide navigation at the top of every Ancestry.com page.    This change came about after a lot of research and gathering feedback from people who use the site every day.
You will find that it is quicker and easier for you to get where you want to go on [...]

New! Improved! Customize Your Homepage!


Today we rolled out an update to the logged-in homepage that we are really excited about. You can now add and remove sections from your homepage, as well as re-order them.  So you can create a page that is customized to how you use the site and to your style of research.
Just click the “Customize [...]

New Ancestry.com Homepage Update


In my previous post, I discussed some improvements and adjustments we were planning to make to the new home page based on your feedback.  Here is an update on those promised improvements:
Quicker access to the Search box
 
Based on the feedback we received since my last post, we changed how we were planning to give you quicker [...]

Follow-up on the New Ancestry.com Homepage


This is a follow-up to our previous post about our new homepage. Thanks again to everyone for their feedback on the updated logged-in homepage. We really want to make sure that the homepage is something that can be a real help to all of you. Here are some of the improvements we have planned based [...]

Introducing a New Ancestry.com Home Page


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 [...]