What problem does Ancestry Colour Scheme solve?

The default Ancestry interface is bright white, which can be hard on the eyes during long research sessions. Ancestry Colour Scheme replaces the bright whites with darker tones across the entire site so you can spend more time on the page without eye strain.

How does Ancestry Colour Scheme work?

A high-contrast dark theme is applied to the Ancestry website automatically. The styling covers the homepage, your dashboard, family tree pages, profile...

What problem does Advanced Research Tools on Profiles solve?

The default research tools menu on Ancestry person profiles is buried inside dropdowns and only appears on your own trees. Advanced Research Tools on Profiles turns those tools into a single row of clickable links right on the profile page, with keyboard shortcuts and the option to show or hide each link, so the tools you actually use are always one click or one keypress away.

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What problem does Quick Search via Alt + Q solve?

Hunting down a record collection in the Card Catalog, opening a person from one of your trees, or jumping to a DNA test usually means clicking through several menus, and the search you want is often on a different website from the one you are reading. Quick Search via Alt + Q opens a search prompt on any web page, or straight from your browser’s address bar, so you...

What problem does Add Select All Link When Saving to Tree solve?

When you save a record to your Ancestry tree, each person attached to the record has to be ticked individually before the save will pull them in. For a large household that means a lot of repetitive clicking. Add Select All Link When Saving to Tree adds a single link that selects or deselects every person on the page at once.

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What problem does Add Select All People Link to Hints solve?

When you review a hint on Ancestry, the Add people step asks you to tick every family member attached to the record one at a time before saving. For a long family list that’s a lot of clicks. Add Select All People Link to Hints adds a single button that ticks every person in the hint sidebar at once.

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What problem does Add Select All People Link to Records solve?

On the Add new information to your tree page, Ancestry asks you to tick each person attached to the record one at a time before saving their details to your tree. For a record with a full household on it, that’s a long list of manual checks. Add Select All People Link to Records adds a single button that ticks every person on the page at once.

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What problem does Add Advanced Search to Profiles solve?

Searching for a person across multiple genealogy sites usually means opening each site, retyping their name, birth date, and death date, and running each search one at a time. Add Advanced Search to Profiles puts a single Advanced Search button on every Ancestry profile page with a dropdown that can search eight major genealogy sites (pre-filled from the profile), or fire all eight searches in new tabs at once. It...

What problem does Link Place Names to Google Maps solve?

Ancestry records where an ancestor was born, married, farmed and died, but it never shows you where any of those places actually are. Working out whether two townships are neighbours or a full county apart means copying the place name into a map in another tab, over and over. Link Place Names to Google Maps turns every place name on a profile and on the family tree into a...