Articles About Site Features
Image Viewer Updates – Print Current View Now Available
AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM)
Thanks to all of you who have provided feedback on the Beta Image Viewer on the blog, via the message boards, through the survey, and directly via email (feedback-imageviewer@ancestry.com). We appreciate the input – both positive and negative – and have used it to further improve the viewer.
Today, an updated… Read more
Beta Image Viewer now available
AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM)
Several years ago, we launched the Advanced Image Viewer. This viewer provided some much-needed capabilities and was welcomed by our members who could take advantage of it. Our other members – almost 50% of our total base – continued to use a basic image viewer which provided somewhat limited capabilities. Over time, as browsers changed,… Read more
Announcing – New Web Search
Authored by Brian Edwards, Ancestry.com
Last October we launched Ancestry Labs to test a few new ideas, and we’d like to thank all those members who contributed a lot of great feedback and discussion around these. Today we’re excited to announce the introduction of one of the ideas, Web Search, into the main Ancestry.com.au search.
Why are… Read more
Take your Ancestry.com.au family tree with you everywhere you go
Our updated Ancestry app for iPhone®, iPod® Touch or iPad® gives you an even better way to take your Ancestry.com.au family tree with you. Now you can see your entire tree — not just names — in a more intuitive way.
Using the app, just log in to your Ancestry.com.au account from anywhere to access your… Read more
Ancestry Search: Improvements to Basic Search
Why have we changed the search form?
Over the past year, we have been working with a wide range of Ancestry members, from some of our most experienced members to relative newcomers. We’ve had a lot of help (including over 10,000 responses to the preview we published in April).
Based on this feedback, we’ve… Read more
A New Way to View Your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree
Over the last year we’ve been working on a better way to let you view your Ancestry.com.au member tree. We’ve built this new tree viewer based on feedback from members, extensive user testing and hours of development and design. We focused on finding ways to let you view more of your tree at once and… Read more
Ancestry Search: Searching using Birth, Death and other Life Events
Over the course of this year, we have been making incremental changes to our new search forms in response to your comments and suggestions. We’ve added name and place filters and changed the way you could do searches that included family members.
You’ll find we’ve modified the search forms just a bit to make entering that… Read more
We’ve launched Ancestry Labs – and we’d love your feedback
AUTHORED BY TONY MACKLIN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM)
We have just announced a new “Labs” area on Ancestry.com. Labs is a separate site where we can give you a sneak preview of new ideas and concepts for helping family history research (but that are not yet ready for prime time). Most importantly for us, it gives us a chance to… Read more
Find out how you are related to other people in your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree
Have you ever found a person in your tree and asked yourself “how are we related”? I know I have. In fact, many of you have asked for something that would help you easily find an answer to that question and we’ve listened.
We’ve just added a new feature in your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree that will allow… Read more
Ancestry Search: New way to add family members
In the coming months, we’ll be making a number of changes to the new search forms. We hope to make searches more flexible and, in response to your feedback, we have improved some searches that were hard to do. You can get a sneak preview of some of these in our Tour… Read more
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