Most Family Tree Maker users are familiar with the process of merging Ancestry.com facts and records into their tree. But did you know you can merge information from other websites too? It’s called Web clipping, and it’s one of my favorite tools. 

Join Ancestry.com in Burbank, California, at the 40th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree for three days of family history, classes, exhibit halls and much, much more.
 
2009 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
June 26–28, 2009
Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center,
Burbank, California
 
More than 100 Family History Classes
Register today to attend the conference, which includes more than 100 family [...]

Last weekend I took my niece and nephew to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, UT. Since it was my first visit, I was trying to view the exhibits in a systematic fashion to make sure we didn’t miss anything. In the special Amazon exhibit, I spent five minutes trying to get my little niece [...]

There is a long list of things we want to improve in search (and in new search in particular) – and we’ve started with what you’ve told us is the most important – getting relevant results; and relevance is our top priority this year in search.
And date relevance seems to be the most requested change. [...]

As some of you have noticed, some of our data sets are not returning results when they are searched.
We are currently working on it and I will post updates as I get them.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

Celebrated annually on April 25, National DNA Day commemorates both the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA in 1953 and the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003.   These scientific strides made all sorts of new genetic applications available, including the genetic genealogy DNA test we use to help you grow your [...]

We want to let you all know about a recent change we’ve made to the Ancestry.com blog. The blog has been updated to prevent comments from being made on posts that are more than two weeks old.

We truly value your feedback, and appreciate the insight our readers provide us on products, content and [...]

As a DNA administrator trying to sort out how to organize and categorize a DNA group can be overwhelming.  Good news,  Ancestry.com DNA Groups have been equipped to help you in these tasks.  The nickname and notes fields are great tools for organizing a DNA Group.  
A “nickname” option is provided for administrators to “code” participants.  Its purpose is to [...]

We just completed some site maintenance to replace a piece of faulty hardware and briefly experienced some unanticipated site down time because of this (roughly 1 AM Mountain Daylight time or 7 AM GMT).  This has now been resolved and we apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused.  If you had any troubles accessing [...]

Just a quick note to explain what was included in the update to World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.  We added or repaired records and/or images for the following rolls:

KENTUCKY Lexington City, Stalion, Carl – Z Lincoln County, A – Z Livingston County, A – K
KENTUCKY Lexington City, C – Staley, George
MISSOURI St. Louis [...]