Tree Dwellers?
Was there ever a more perfect day than Halloween for a cemetery shot? This photo was forwarded to Ancestry magazine by Ancestry.com subscriber, Lisbeth Schoenfeld Rogers. “I was visiting my sister in New York and I took a drive to the cemetery in Orange [New Jersey] because I have ancestors buried there by the name of… Read more
Introducing the “Ancestry Toolbar”
We’re excited to introduce a new tool which will help you find information from across the web and organize it back inside your family tree on Ancestry. What is it? It’s called the “Ancestry Toolbar”. It’s a toolbar you can install and add to your browser (If you use IE or Firefox), adding an instant… Read more
New Jewish Family History Collection on Ancestry.com
Today Ancestry.com introduced the world’s largest online collection of Jewish family history records, with more than 26 million records documenting Jewish life. Ancestry.com has partnered with two leading organizations committed to the preservation of Jewish heritage – JewishGen, an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in… Read more
Focusing your search with the collections options
We have over 26,000 collections of data and records that we search every time you press a search button. By choosing a specific nationality or ethnicity, we will give the collections that we know to have data pertinent to that nationality or ethnicity a little more weight. So if you are searching for someone you… Read more
New! Improved! Customize Your Homepage!
Today we rolled out an update to the logged-in homepage that we are really excited about. You can now add and remove sections from your homepage, as well as re-order them. So you can create a page that is customized to how you use the site and to your style of research. Just click the… Read more
Welcome to Ancestry.com’s new and improved publishing service
Change can be painful, as I was reminded last weekend when an early snowstorm abruptly ended a stretch of lovely fall weather. As a new homeowner, I was surprised to learn that turning on a gas furnace is more complicated than pushing a button. I was so afraid of blowing myself up by tinkering with… Read more
Q&A with Kelvin Hulet: What to expect from MyCanvas
Kelvin Hulet is principal product manager for MyCanvas (formerly AncestryPress). In this interview, he explains how Ancestry’s online publishing service has evolved — and how you can make the most of it. Q. AncestryPress was just relaunched under the name MyCanvas. How will the change from AncestryPress to MyCanvas affect current AncestryPress users? What the… Read more
Hot Keys in the New Search User Interface
You might find these useful as your searching in the new search interface: If you press ‘n’, you will see a brand new search form pop up over your browser. If you press ‘r’, you will see a search form pre-populated with the data you just searched on. You can also walk through the previews… Read more
Join Us in a Webinar on the World Archives Project, Our New Community Indexing Program
On Thursday, Oct. 23rd, at 8 pm EDT, Ancestry.com will be sponsoring a webinar on its new World Archives Project. Learn more about Ancestry.com’s new community indexing program that gives people around the world the opportunity to save historical records important to them. Register for the webinar here.
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