New in AncestryPress: Better page management, more desktop printing options
Thanks to all of you who offered comments and suggestions in response to my last post. I’d like to answer the two most common questions and then tell you about some recent improvements.
“I’ve created a book in the 8.5×11 inch format, but now I want the larger size. Can I upgrade to the 11×14 inch… Read more
Public Member Profiles
Yesterday we made some improvements to public member profiles on the site. Some of you may not know that there were member profiles on the site, so let me tell you a little about them.
Your profile is a place that you can let others on Ancestry know about you. It’s designed to showcase your family… Read more
New Search is available for everyone
I’m pleased to announce that Ancestry’s new search preview is now available to all Ancestry users! Based on thousands of pieces of customer feedback, we’ve completed some new search features that we believe will make searching for records about your ancestors easier, faster and more effective. You can now switch to the new search and… Read more
New Record Merge Feature
We’re excited today to be rolling a long-awaited and much-requested feature for family trees.
Many of our historical records on Ancestry have information in them about other members of the family—not just the one person. Previously when you saved a record, you could only save it to one person at a time,… Read more
Family Tree Maker 2008 Webinar – June 5th
I wanted to make everyone aware of our next Family Tree Maker Webinar. It is open to the public and is scheduled for June 5th at 8:00 p.m. EDT (2 a.m. June 6th Greenwich Mean Time).
The following items are scheduled to be presented:
• Find and Replace
• Filtering Features
• Working with media
• Sources and Source Citations
• Searching anywhere on the Web
There… Read more
Why such little interest in Central and South American records?
We have run many surveys regarding content interest around the world. We consistently see relatively small interest in content from Central and South America. We have a huge number of people that have ancestors from these areas both in the United States and in those countries. We have some opportunities to get many more records from… Read more
Updates to Trees Service
Yesterday between about 11:30 PM and 2:00 AM we did some work to improve our trees service database.
An unfortunate side affect of this work is that a few features of the system will be down for (we anticipate) a few days while we get everything caught up with new changes. During this time you… Read more
Ancestry.com Signs New Digitization Agreement with NARA
Today The Generations Network and The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) signed an agreement that will make millions of historical records available on Ancestry.com. With the new agreement, Ancestry.com will have technicians and scanning machines onsite at NARA to continually digitize content for online access faster than ever before. To learn more about this… Read more
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.
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… Read more
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