Ancestry.com's New Look Launches!

Ancestry's product development and marketing teams spent more than 18 months personally visiting with and surveying Ancestry members to identify their family history research priorities. Following on those visits, we created innovative new and enhanced web site features to address members' priorities and make their research more effective and efficient.

Some of the enhancements and new features include:

• A "Recent Activity" section on the Ancestry home page will allow members to easily pick up where they last left off their research.
• Enhanced integration between searching records and saving results will allow faster documentation and organization of discoveries.
• Improved contextual search tips will make it easier to track down hard-to-find ancestors.
• New tutorials will help guide members and help them make the most of Ancestry.
• Connecting with other people researching their family stories in Ancestry's new Community section will be more straightforward. Members will be able to share information and ask questions by using a variety of community tools, message boards and a member directory.
• A new worldwide Ancestry connection service, together with member profiles, means it will be easier and faster to connect with people who have similar research interests.
  

The site definitely has a new look and feel, but the ability to connect more easily with those wanting to research the same family lines offers a tremendous benefit to users. Another notable new feature is the 'shoebox', which allows you to save images and records and come back to them later for review.