Ancestry.com Global Content, Product, and Marketing Update
In conjunction with the 2008 National Genealogical Society Conference taking place this week in Kansas City, Missouri, Tim Sullivan has published a letter to the genealogy community. In it, Tim highlights several recently released content collections and product enhancements on Ancestry.com, and offers insights into new projects on the horizon.
Read the complete letter from Tim here.
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Join Ancestry.com at NGS
If you’re going to be in Kansas City, Missouri, next week, we’d like to invite you to join us at the Ancestry.com booth during the 2008 National Genealogical Society Conference.
The theme for this year’s show is “Show Me The Nation’s Records” and it will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street […]
On The Road…
Are you going to the NGS conference this month? Come visit me at the Ancestry booth–I’d love to meet and listen to your thoughts on Ancestry Family Trees.
Here’s the conference details:
2008 National Genealogical Society Conference
Kansas City, Missouri, 14 - 17 May 2008
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/
Huge Newspaper Addition Coming…
We are excited to release a very large and very significant addition to our newspaper collection. It will double the size of our current collection. We are also improving our search experience with newspapers to help you find the information you are looking for.
Newspapers can be an amazing gem of a resource. In addition to […]
Family Tree Maker 2008 Program Updates (SP3) are Now Available
Service Pack 3 is now available.
Service Pack 3 contains critical stability and performance enhancements. I strongly urge you to install this service pack at your earliest convenience.
The following updates are included in Service Pack 3:
Major enhancements in performance
Major enhancements in stability
Book layout in charts
Ability to create saved versions for all charts and reports
Ability to save user […]
News about SP3
I have seen a number of questions about the Family Tree Maker 2008 SP3 update over the past few days. I know that the development team is closing in on finalizing this patch. I’ve delivered three versions of the patch to both our alpha and beta teams. The input has been very positive. A fourth […]
You asked for it: larger and longer books in AncestryPress
Last weekend I had the following conversation with my 5-year-old nephew, Alex.
Alex: “Where are you going?”
Me: “To the store.”
Alex: “Why?”
Me: “Because I want to buy some shoes.”
Alex: “Why?”
Me: “Because I’m a girl, and girls like shoes.”
Alex: “But you don’t need any shoes.”
Which, from an objective point of view, was certainly true. I had a whole […]
Civil War Era Tax Records
Earlier this week, and just in time for Tax Day, we launched a collection of IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862 - 1918. Income tax was established in 1862 to help fund the Civil War, and most of the records cover the mid-1860s. Beyond stated income values, these assessments on Ancestry.com document personal property - pianofortes, […]
Family Tree Maker Survey
Dear Family Tree Maker Community:
We are interested in what you have to say. Your feedback and input directly influence future releases of Family Tree Maker – how it will look, feel and function. We invite you to take a survey and share your thoughts and feelings.
Please click here to complete the survey. We appreciate your […]
Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites
We have recently become aware of three websites purporting to allow family history research: SearchYourGenealogy.com, Ancestry-search.com and Australian-Ancestry.com. The sites claim to have “the largest online genealogical search tool” and promote themselves as the foremost resources for genealogy, but from what we can tell, these sites are nothing more than a series of web pages […]
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