Ancestry's New Tree Edit History Feature and Tool Icons

Ancestry's New Tree Edit History Feature and Tool Icons

Ancestry's New Tree Edit History Feature and Tool Icons ​

As mentioned in Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features, one of the new Ancestry updates includes a tree edit history/recent changes feature/tool and some new family history and genealogy tools and features icons.
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The tools and features icons are still in BETA mode, so I have been getting different tree view looks, going back and forth, over the past few weeks, and your look may be different than someone else’s.

Ancestry’s New Tools and Features Icons:

For their new Storymaker feature, which I briefly touched on in Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features and will be talking about in more detail soon, they have a new icon to help you get to it quicker in your family tree view, along with many other ways to get to it. Stay tuned!
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They also have a new Activity icon in family tree view for their new tree edit history/recent changes feature/tool, that I also briefly touched on in Ancestry 2023 Updates: New Genealogy and DNA Tools and Features. 

Ancestry's New Storymaker and Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Icons in Standard View

Ancestry's New Storymaker and Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Icons in BETA View

Ancestry’s New Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Feature:

Ancestry’s new tree edit history feature shows you all the recent changes you or any invited contributors or editors made to your tree and when they were made, with a new icon called Activity that takes you to those recent changes. This is a very useful tool that will help you keep track of changes anyone made or mistakes that were possibly made. 

Step #1: 
Click on "Activity" icon in top right panel, then click on "Recent Changes" in the dropdown box

How to Get to Ancestry’s New Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Feature

Step #2 and #3:
View "Recent Changes", then click on "See Connected Changes" to take you to person and change

Ancestry’s New Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Feature

Step #4:
View connected change and person where change occured

Ancestry’s New Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Feature, Connected Changes

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Ancestry’s New Tree Edit History/Recent Changes Feature, Connected Changes 2

Ancestry Icons/Toolbox in Family Tree View:

Ancestry’s Standard Version Icons/Toolbox:​

Ancestry’s Standard Version Icons/Toolbox

Place #1: Left Side Panel

1. View: Choose to view your tree horizontally or vertically
2. Home: Brings you back to the starting person in tree
3. Back: Brings you back to where you are in the tree
4. Tree Viewing Options: Where you can choose family view options for your tree, such as show relationship line labels and view all spouses, and DNA options for your tree, such as show Thrulines icons, possible DNA matches, and connected DNA matches
5. Storymaker Studio: Brings you to the new all-in-one media hub
6. Zoom: Zoom in or out of your tree
7. DNA: Takes you to your DNA Matches

Place #2: Family Tree Dropdown Box

1. View Tree: Choose to view your tree horizontally or vertically
2. Tree Overview: Takes you to a tree overview page that shows you a description of your tree (that you can add); recent photos, stories, audio, and videos; home person; the last person view in your tree; a tree summary; all your tree hints broken down by category; and who you’ve invited to your tree
3. Storymaker Studio: Brings you to the new all-in-one media hub
4. Media Gallery: Takes you to the media gallery portion of your Storymaker studio that includes your photos, stories, and audio
5. All Hints: Takes you to all your tree hints by each category
6. Tree Settings: Takes you to your tree settings page where you can edit your tree info, privacy settings, and tree invitations
7. Invite: Invite someone as a guest, contributor, or editor to your tree
8. Family Group Sheet: To be honest, I am not sure about this one; it just takes me to a place to print  a family view of myself/the home person

Place #3: Top Right Panel

1. Activity: New tree edit history/recent tree changes made to your tree
2. Invite: Invite someone as a guest, contributor, or editor to your tree
3. Print: Takes you to a dropdown box where you can choose to print a pedigree of your tree or where you also have options to create a book, poster, or calendar of your family tree at MyCanvas.com
4. Tree Search: Find a person in your tree ​

Ancestry’s BETA Version Icons/Toolbox:

Ancestry’s BETA Version Icons/Toolbox

​Place #1: Left Side Panel

1. View: Choose to view your tree horizontally or vertically
2. Gallery: Brings you to the new all-in-one media hub, Storymaker
3. Find: Tree search- Find a person in your tree
4. Hints: Takes you to all your tree hints by each category
5. DNA: Takes you to your DNA Matches
6. More: See Place #2 Below
7. Home: Brings you back to the starting person in tree
8. Zoom: Zoom in or out of your tree

Place #2: From the More Icon in left Side Panel

1. Invite: Invite someone as a guest, contributor, or editor to your tree
2. Tree Viewing Options: Where you can choose family view options for your tree, such as show relationship line labels and view all spouses, and DNA options for your tree, such as show Thrulines icons, possible DNA matches, and connected DNA matchesTree
3. Overview: Takes you to a tree overview page that shows you a description of your tree (that you can add); recent photos, stories, audio, and videos; home person; the last person view in your tree; a tree summary; all your tree hints broken down by category; and who you’ve invited to your tree
4. Tree Settings: Takes you to your tree settings page where you can edit your tree info, privacy settings, and tree invitations
5. Print: Where you can print a pedigree of your tree and where you also have options to create a book, poster, or calendar of your family tree at MyCanvas.com
6. Create Keepsake: Brings you to MyCanvas.com where you can create a book, poster, or calendar of your family tree

Place #3: Top Right Panel

1. Invite: Invite someone as a guest, contributor, or editor to your tree
2. Activity: New tree edit history/recent tree changes made to your tree
3. Find: Tree search- Find a person in your tree

 
Many of these icons are redundant, but I’m sure they’ll work everything out soon. 😉​
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Stay tuned for more of Ancestry’s 2023 updates.

More Ancestry and other Genealogy Resources

Learn about more Ancestry features and other family history and genealogy resources under the Ancestry.com and Genealogy Resources categories and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.