Anyone gone onto the 'new' Ancestry.com?

[Anneatki]

I've seen things about the  "New Ancestry" when I log onto Ancestry.com.au - seems like they've rearranged everything, & it's much better now!
I'm wondering has anyone tried it yet, or should I be the first to press the "try it now" button?! 
Cheers, Anne

[Christine53]

They don't seem to be flagging this up on the UK site but it is available , masquerading as " Improved Ancestry " and accessible from the drop down under user name. Ancestry is always changing things , not always for the better in my view. I don't think much of the life story feature and I really dislike the addition  of irrelevant " historical " details - why do I need to know that cricket matches were played in the village where an ancestor lived ? In any event we shall have to adjust to the changes as ultimately there will be no choice -  I note that on ancestry.au it says " soon New Ancestry will be the only Ancestry "

For the time being , at least , you have the option to revert to the old version so you've nothing to lose by giving it a go.

Good luck !

[MaxD]

Just gave it a go, no problems seen - so far.  New layout will take time to get used to but then we all got used to the new Rootschat some time ago - didn'twe?

maxD

[Deirdre784]

I've just had a look and quite like it (though it will take some getting used to!). I quite like the 'life story' bit, though I'd like to be able to add a 'name known by' field so it doesn't use all their names all the time

I like the map view too, useful to see where places are, especially if you don't know the area.

[Clarkey500]

It looks similar to the style of the app but I think I'll stick with it as it's going to become the only version soon, so I've got to get used to it sometime. The 'Lifestory' section does comes up with some weird facts though!

[LizzieW]

It looks OK to me and amongst the new records it has England and Wales death Indexes from 2007-2013, which is useful.  Although there is this proviso

This collection is a compiled index that covers approximately 55% of the total deaths that occured in this time period.

This index provides death details for people in England and Wales, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at death. However, they do not include the General Register Office (GRO) reference information.

[Anneatki]

Well, thank you all - I'll take the plunge today, as you say, Clarkey500, we have to get used to it sometime!  Anne

[Braindead]

I've tried it and I hate it!
It took me ages to be able to find out how the "old" Ancestry works, but at least I can (for the moment) change back.
I particularly dislike the Lifestory feature, which just generalises to the point of irrelevance with the introduction of historical details - and it also puts in errors e.g. one of my relatives, is now shown as dying in a completely different continent! I know I can change it but why would I want to bother correcting something which was right before?

[KGarrad]

If you haven't put a country on any fact, then it seems to default to USA?!

Easy enough to change - as I just did for a Christening!