Saturday, August 2, 2008

Customized Ancestry.com Home Page

I was reading the Ancestry.com blog post about customizing the Ancestry home page, so I thought I would do it, since I complained about it a month ago.

At the bottom of the home page, there is a "Customize this page" button. I tickled that and was able to move the different boxes around. Here's the top of my Ancestry home page screen (I didn't click on the KFC ad, though!):


As you can see, I moved the Search box to the top of my screen, and I added several links to the right-hand side of the screen.

Here's the bottom of my Home Page screen:


If I want to go to my databases, I can but I rarely check my own stuff out. I'd rather check out everybody else's stuff! True confession: I haven't used the "My To-do List" or "My Shoebox" features yet.

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