Answers to some search questions
In a comment on one my earlier posts, Jerry Bryan had this to say:
I wonder if we could prevail on Anne to give us an update on the big picture of New Search vs. Old Search, where she thinks it stands, what she thinks it would take to make New Search into a viable replacement… Read more
If you’re still experiencing site errors…
Though we had some server problems earlier this week, they were generally resolved by Tuesday, January 13th. We have seen some posts and emails from a few customers indicating that they are still experiencing problems, though. From everything we can see in our logs and reporting things should be stable on the site.
If you are still… Read more
A few quick design tips for MyCanvas calendars
I got the printed copy of my 2009 MyCanvas calendar last week and wanted to share with you some of my favorite pages, as well as a few things I learned while making it.
Tip #1: It’s more fun when you build the pages from scratch.
My sister and I created the calendar together, and I think… Read more
For those who use the old search ui….
For those of you that use the old search ui, you may notice that the links to the State and Country pages are now going to the new Card Catalog. First, be assured that your searches will still be in the old search interface, that has not been changed.
So why did we do this… Read more
Ancestry.com DNA welcomes you to our new BLOG home and much more
WELCOME all of our Ancestry. com DNA users and friends to our new home. Something’s new with Ancestry.com’s DNA BLOG…
First, we have a permanent residence under the Ancestry.com blog umbrella at blogs.ancestry.com – hooray. (Our look and arrangement are slightly different but our functionality and goal remain the same.) Our objective here is to provide… Read more
Another update
For those of you keeping up on the server problems we’ve been experiencing, I wanted to give another quick update. It appears that earlier this afternoon we were able to get things stabilized on the site so that hopefully you are not getting any error messages or experiencing other problems. To help further we will… Read more
Thanks for your patience…
As an update to our previous post, we wanted to reassure everyone that we are still very actively working on the server errors that are causing occasional site downtime for some customers. We have narrowed the problem down to a few possible causes, but still have additional testing and other work to do in order to… Read more
Recent Ancestry site downtime
We just wanted to quickly let everyone know that we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties with our servers over the last 24 hours. Because of this you might experience error messages or portions of the site may be inaccessible. It is also possible that some pages, or parts of pages, may load more slowly for… Read more
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