Service Pack 2 is now available to the public. The major updates include the following:

Re-introduced publishing features.

Publishing features include:

Genealogy Register Report
Genealogy Ahnentafel Report
Hourglass Chart
Vertical Ancestor Chart
Updates to all reports to better display facts and notes
Updates to exporting of reports to RTF and HTML
Resolved issues within reports when making changes

Resolved issues related to speed, program stability [...]

Hi, my name is Kendall Hulet, and I’m the product manager responsible for Ancestry’ s search functionality. As this is my inaugural blog post, I want to introduce myself a bit. I’ve been with Ancestry for over 4 years, managing mainly search and content projects. Although I had prior experience with search technology, I [...]

We have a fun collection coming very soon to Ancestry.com. It is a US passport collection with millions of names from the years 1796 to 1925. Passports became more popular in the late 1840s. In 1914, American citizens were permitted to travel abroad without passports. If your ancestors were travelers this will be [...]

I wanted to make a quick post before the week was done to give an update about Service Pack 2, as well as answer some questions about International versions of Family Tree Maker.
As has been posted, Service Pack 2 was pulled after being available for only a few hours. Since that time the Family Tree [...]

If you’re looking for a personalized Christmas or Hanukah gift for someone (or everyone) in your family, now is a great time to check out AncestryPress because we’ve just added two new formats for family tree posters. You can now choose from three formats: a 6-generation standard tree, a 5-generation standard tree and a 5-generation [...]

The task of sifting through questions from the Webinar, feedback form, and blog continues. I have noted that a number of questions surround the merging capability. The latest patch that is being worked on addresses some merging performance issues. I’m estimating that patch will be available in another 2 to 3 weeks.
Here are some common [...]

For up-to-date information about family tree posters, please read my post from March 4, 2009. The post below, which was published on November 5, 2007, contains some obsolete information.
I hope you’ve had a chance to check out the family tree posters we launched last week. If so, you’ve noticed that you can use most of [...]

As I dig into the questions that have been asked in this blog, in the feedback form, to the Member Services team, and in the Webinar, one common theme is the book building capability of Family Tree Maker.
Ancestry Press is not, nor was it intended to be, a replacement to the old book building capability [...]

First off, thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s AncestryPress webinar. We’ll post it in the Learning Center archive next week so that those of you who missed it can watch it at your leisure.
I’d like to clarify a couple of points that I didn’t explain quite as well as I might have during [...]