Ancestry 'New Home Page'

[tornado]

I have just noticed this change on Ancestry and it is a mistake . It does not look like a Home page , too confusing . I am having to go into all sorts of info to access my f tree , which used to take 5 minutes and now ages . Bring back the original one it worked well .

[Stanwix England]

Then, for some reason, my Ancestry home page shows some irrelevant 1951 US census pages. These are followed by some details - photos and other records - relating to trees that I've not looked at for a good while. They are not relevant to my tree.  Then they summarise my DNA ethnicity results 

It really is ridiculous.

Add - also some US School Year Books that don't seem to relate to anyone's trees

I feel like there is an increasing America bias in how the website is built, which is becoming frustrating to me. I've got nothing against America, but it's frustrating when you know your relative lived and died in England.

I find that when I am searching for something, I keep having to adjust the settings to exclude American results. Like the drop down box which allows me to focus on England, that automatically resets to All Collections every time I edit something else in the search terms.

American results seem to pop up more and more prominently, no matter what I am searching for.

[Rena]

Yesterday I answered a request from ancestry dot com for confirmation of a match by a new "cousin"; but was automatically reminded that I belonged to dot uk.

I probably won't bother going back to ancestry dot uk, as I couldn't access any page showing any of my trees.

[Jon_ni]

I feel like there is an increasing America bias in how the website is built

Stanwix I would agree with that I continually have to adjust location when searching from a person's Facts page. Eg I'm on the UK domain I do a search opening in new tab & the collection Focus says 'All Collections' so I change that to Ireland. Then I go back to my Facts tab and do exactly the same this time it says Focus = Ireland but the Blue Apply bar is active and all the results are from the US census (this chap did emigrate but as currently don't have world sub I just want the Irish data, not that there is much). I click on Apply and the page refreshes dropping the US census and directories and producing Irish and UK info including the birth index entry I had missing, some trees and suggested military info. The Apply option is now greyed out. But I have to click apply every time.

Crista Cowan says on Facebook in response to similar complaint

The collection focus is a sticky setting but you set it from the “search all collections” page. So, go there. Fill in some things to search for. Set the collection focus and click search. Now, go about your business searching and it will stay like you set it until you change it.

Just experimented even with that main Search page showing Ireland or UK until I actually enter John Smith and click & perform a search there then I have to keep blue applying to people. Having done the John Smith search and right clicked to open wife, father or child the Collection focus remains at Ireland and the apply button is greyed out and remains so when edit a locality or date. Not perfect perhaps, just had to reset again going back to other tabs.

This seems a poor design, strikes me if on .co.uk should by default focus on UK & Ireland, Canada for .ca, Australia for .au etc then modify as desired when researching abroad from your home domain with world sub.

A better 'home' page may be just to use that https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/ as drops all the dross.

[lydiaann]

As I said, I hate it.  and I have to agree about the American content.  Now, I do have one or two people in my tree who were in the USA - however, there is not much use in giving me hints about any of them as, if I do try and access them, I can't because I do not have worldwide subs.  Please, bring back the old page - it took me a while even to find my Shoebox yesterday, squirrelled away in a list on the RHside of the page.  Bah humbug! (or worse... )

[Sloe Gin]

I don't have a tree on Ancestry, and have no desire to upload a tree, so the new design is meaningless to me.  All I need is the bit in the sidebar - ideally just the list of links I use regularly.

I find it quite amusing how they are patronising me.

[J.R.Ellam]

Hi

I have tried to sort it out no luck.

Think of cancelling subscription and going to find my past.

John

[suey]

I don’t have a tree on Ancestry. I’m wondering if this has more to do with ensnaring new users into starting a tree.  My home page seems to be geared up for such.  It certainly doesn’t look like a ‘home page’ anymore.  Learn about your family is the first line at the top, a large blue button, start tree.
Boxes to input your parents and hit go…you’re then taken to a page to add other family members.

To the right I have a person search facility and scrolling down I find the list of record collections.  From my point of view it just looks odd but no more difficult to use.

[Rosinish]

Rather than start a new thread...

Can anyone please tell me how / where I can find messages quickly without having to go to my DNA matches to find who I sent messages to in order to see if I have any replies?

I'm almost certain, at one time there was an envelope at the top right side which highlighted the number of messages which now seems to have disappeared or was I dreaming 

I really don't know how or where to see if I have messages at a glance?

Edit to add a pic of what's on my dashboard to help see where messages can be found?

Annie