I just wanted to make a quick post to let everyone know that we’ve made some improvements to our RSS feed option on the message boards.  For those not familiar with RSS it stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is essentially a standard way to get feeds or updates from a website (learn more on [...]

There were some questions in the webinar that were search related that I didn’t have time to answer. I thought I pull out some of them and answer them here.
1. Does performing a general search not look in all data sets?
If you perform a general search it will look in all 27,000 [...]

The excitement over the much-anticipated functionality of attaching DNA results to member’s online family trees has been overwhelming, literally.  So many of you have already eagerly associated your DNA with an individual in your tree, but due to the popular response, the propagation of the DNA throughout the trees is taking longer than anticipated.  Some of you may [...]

The state and country pages are once again available.We replaced the database server that supports these pages with a bigger, better one. So we are reasonably confident that this will solve the problem in the short term.We are also rewriting pieces of this code so that it become more efficient. The main change to [...]

It’s been too long! I’m sorry about the length of time since my last post. It’s been a particularly busy time, but that’s no excuse. My goal is to do a weekly post from now on, so you should hear from me on most Mondays.  
I’ve really enjoyed hearing about the reasons why you do your [...]

Kenny Freestone, Trees Product Manager for Ancestry.com, recently chatted about Ancestry Member Trees with Lisa Louise Cook on the “Family History: Genealogy “Made Easy” podcast.
During the interview, Kenny offers his Top Five Tips for making the most of Ancestry Member Trees. You can listen to the podcast here.

With Chinese New Year coming on Monday, we’ve released several new or updated Chinese American databases:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chinese Arrivals, 1900-1923
This database contains descriptive lists of Chinese seamen arriving at the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1900 and 1923. Information recorded in these documents includes: name, date of arrival, ship name, and age.
U.S. Chinese Immigration Case [...]

Many thanks to the 2,100 Ancestry.com members who participated in last night’s webinar about the MyCanvas publishing service. In case you missed the presentation, you can watch it at your leisure by visiting the archive. The program includes a step-by-step demonstration of how to create and customize a family history book.
During the Q&A, we only [...]

We frequently get questions from Ancestry users wanting to know what feature changes we have made recently.  In 2009, we are going to increase our communication via the blog to address this very question on an on-going basis.  To kick off the New Year right, we are holding a webinar next week to discuss key [...]

On Wednesday, January 13, we announced a new Ancestry.com DNA release.  Coinciding with this release is the introduction of some very exciting new features and the introduction of new pricing for the DNA services.
Let’s talk about the stellar new pricing.  At last, a low cost DNA testing option that not only provides for a discovery [...]