Ancestry users what do you think of your new Home page?

From Ancestry in response:

Thank you for contacting Ancestry with regards to your feedback.

Its fantastic that you want your voice to be heard with regards to the decisions made on Ancestry, and I'm sorry you haven't had the opportunity to let it be heard yet.

Interviewees are chosen at random specifically to prevent our own selection biases, we want a collection of both new and returning members' voices to be heard to try and create a better experience. It is unfortunate you yourself have not been selected for this, however I have attached below a link to our suggestion box as mentioned by my colleague previously. It is on this page you will find the "General Feedback" section.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/cs/suggestions

This is the space where members can provide feedback on all manner of features, which is regularly reviewed, especially on newer changes.

We would encourage both yourself and the other forum members you mentioned in your original contact to please provide us with as much feedback as you can. The more feedback the better.

BTW, I did not say which Forum I belong to. The final sentence was not in bold, that's my doing.

 

While composing my contribution to Ancestry's Suggestions I am using the Home Page to assist with descriptions.
I thought I would add a Quicklink to the Suggestions page but they've removed the ability to do so. I sincerely hope our existing Quicklinks do not go the way of the dinosaur.

 

Thanks for posting the link. Hope Ancestry is prepared! Feedback will ensue until it is coming out their ears.

Best to copy all your Quick Links asap. I simply took a screenshot of the list in case they vanished overnight. Then started a more leisurely offline document listing each one as a clickable link & to which I can add new ones. What a faff!

 

I think the Dashboard reflects the last tree you were working with (i.e. spending a lot of time in) because my dashboard is showing the US centric tree that I have been working on for a close family friend, not my own tree. Every hint shown on the dashboard relates to that tree.

 

I meant what a faff having to reorganise my working practice because Ancestry chooses to move the goalposts. I did a quick screenshot because I was on my tablet. Next time I fired up the desktop I copied them to a Word doc. The screenshot was a precaution in case the list did indeed vanish before I got chance to copy them as clickable links.

 

In my long list of suggestions I have pointed out that those of us who are experienced with Ancestry think Quick Links are vital and can we have them back please.
I have also asked if we can turn hints off in the same way we can turn off hints from other trees.

I have copied and pasted my suggestions into a Word Doc and saved it for future reference because there is a statement to the effect they do not answer suggestions.

I raised 9 points and won't repeat them all here, I might bore some of you.

I am not holding my breath for any of it to happen.

 

You can switch off which trees appear in that hint menu. I only have one tree appearing in the shaky leaf hints when you click on it, and when you "see all recent hints", it only shows the trees that I either have open in my tabs or I have been working on recently. It doesn't show a full selection of my trees either.

 

Hmm? How do you know that? Have you asked everyone? In my experience many people (certainly recent new members who have joined for DNA) don't build trees - should Ancestry therefore do away with the facility? And a lot who do build trees don't attach records or sources so . . . .

 

We can't complain about a website we don't use.

 

I use both FMP and Ancestry, and in general I find it much easier to locate specific datasets at FMP than at Ancestry. I don't find the Ancestry card catalogue very user friendly, whereas I rarely have any issues locating what I want at FMP. That is why I think the Quick Links at Ancestry is so useful, but don't miss it at FMP.

 

Precisely! Perhaps THAT was one of Ancestry's pet hates & a reason to get rid.

On the other hand if Ancestry had given more prominence to the usefulness of QL perhaps they would have been better used. When one of my experienced collaborators pointed them out to me some years back it was a revelation! And all my regular contacts who are very experienced use them. But not a single one of them is on LC so I don't accept that the LC community is representative in the way you indicate.

On the TV ads 87% of women interviewed agreed a particular cosmetic was the best thing since sliced bread. Seen the tiny print across the bottom of the screen? That was 87% of maybe 154 women. Hardly representative of the female UK population or even of those who have bought that particular potion. Nuff said.