Ancestry.com is proud to be a part of these upcoming conferences and expos. Visit the Ancestry.com booth where you can ask our experts questions about the website; sit in on tutorials covering Ancestry.com, Family Tree Maker, MyCanvas and more; and take advantage of special conference discounts on various Ancestry.com products. We hope to see you [...]

Ancestry.com is excited to participate in the St. Louis Genealogical Society’s 39th Annual Genealogy Conference, May 2, 2009, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Ancestry.com expert Suzanne Russo Adams, AG, will be presenting on how to get the most from the Ancestry.com website. She will also offer an overview of Family Tree Maker, the #1 selling genealogical software program.
If you’re [...]

Recently, I received a number of e-mails from users who all have the same question. How do I move my Family Tree Maker file from one computer to another? It’s a situation most of us have faced. Whether you’re finally upgrading to a new system or you need to reformat your hard drive to get rid [...]

Ancestry.com will be in Washington, D.C., this month as an exhibitor at the National Archives’ fifth annual Genealogy Fair, April 22 and 23. The two-day fair, which is free and open to the public, will feature family history classes as well as a vendor area on the Pennsylvania Avenue Plaza. The fair lasts from 9:30 to [...]

Last night’s MyCanvas webinar, “Creative Gift Ideas for Moms, Dads & Grads,” included step-by-step demonstrations for creating family tree posters, photo family tree posters, photo books and graduation posters. If you missed the live presentation, you can view the archived version at your convenience.
The first half of the presentation covers family history products (family [...]

‘Roots’ author, Alex Haley, has roots in Scotland!  Chris Haley, nephew of Alex Haley, took a DNA test a couple of years ago at the request of his friend, Megan Smolenyak, Chief Family Historian at Ancestry.com.  He immediately found an exact match with an anonymous participant who has yet to respond to his email.  Some [...]

We just wanted to let everyone know that the Ancestry.com site will undergo scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, 8 April 2009, from 1 AM to 3 AM Mountain Daylight Time.  We do not expect this to cause any site problems or downtime, but it is possible that some portions of the site may be unavailable during [...]