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Customizing Your Ancestry.com Home Page

4/23/2013

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Customizing Your Ancestry.com Home Page via 4YourFamilyStory.com.Customize your Ancestry.com Home Page
You are busy. And you know while you might get lucky and actually find something useful when you enter something in those very tempting search boxes on the Ancestry.com Home Page, you know you usually get better results when you start searching for an ancestor by location in collections on Ancestry.com {or any online database}.

And if you didn't know that? You do now. =)

But back to the fact that you're busy... Ancestry.com allows you to customize your Home Page so that you can arrange the information in a way that makes sense to how you use the site.

One of the things you can add to your Home Page is something they call "Quick Links," but you and I would call it bookmarks. Whatever you call them, they're definitely handy and dandy. Basically, I can bookmark a collection on Ancestry.com that I seem to use a lot and add it to the list on my Home Page. 

A huge time saver!

So? I created a 2-part tutorial. The first part introduces the Customize Your Home Page feature and the second part shows you how to add a Quick Link to your Quick Link List located on your soon-to-be-customized Home Page. Just click on the thumbnails below and the image will get bigger. They're in order from left to right, top to bottom.

How to Customize Your Ancestry.com Home Page

How to Add a Link {or bookmark} to Your Quick Links, um, Thingy


The Features I've Added to My Customized Ancestry.com Home Page
  • My To-Do List
  • My Quick Links
  • Ancestry.com Blog
  • Record Collections
  • Recent Activity
  • What's Happening at Ancestry.com
  • My Family Tree {on Ancestry.com}
  • My Shoe Box


Have you customized your Ancestry.com Home Page? If not, do you plan to? If so, what do you have on your Home Page? What about your Quick Links? Share in comments below. =)

~Caroline
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Cheri Hudson Passey link
4/23/2013 08:41:01 am

I did this several months ago and it has really helped!
Thanks for your post. I am going to make sure I found all the ways to customize that you did!

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Caroline
4/23/2013 11:30:58 am

Cheri,

It's amazing what all you can do on your Ancestry.com Home Page. It's a great place to have shortcuts and also keep with what new collections they've added as well as their blog!

And thanks for stopping by and reading! =)

~C

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Stephanie Nichols Bateman link
4/23/2013 12:57:14 pm

Thank you for this! I saw something the other day, but hadn't tried it out yet. Great step by step :)

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Caroline
4/23/2013 02:45:22 pm

Thanks Stephanie! I'm glad you found it helpful. It's a small thing but any amount of time we can save is helpful.

Thanks for stopping by!

~C

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Mariann Regan link
4/23/2013 05:10:45 pm

I had never thought of doing this. And some Quick Links would be really useful. I'm going to save your step-by-step tutorials and put them on my to-do list. After making my word cloud! Thank you.

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Nancy Caton
7/14/2014 11:33:45 am

Great idea - only one question for you. As a result of my sloppiness and ancestry rules long ago, I have about 5 id's there. You used to be able to combine them. Now when I log on, I can never remember where that cousin, or this personalized start page are? Any ideas how to finally combine them and not have them show up as potential logins any morer?

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Caroline
4/8/2015 07:05:06 am

Hi Nancy,

I would contact Ancestry about that, Hopefully there is a way!

Thanks for reading,
~C

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QC
11/26/2014 03:57:14 am

Thank you! Very nicely done.

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Caroline
4/8/2015 07:05:34 am

Thank you for your kind words and for reading!

~C

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