Ancient Ancestry Finder™ – FREE best guess at your ancient origins.

Now members and visitors to Ancestry.com DNA can take a quick and fun quiz to discover our prediction of your ancient ancestors.  Post your results on Facebook or Twitter and share with friends.  It’s all free!
Ancient Ancestry Finder™ predicts likely ancestry for both your maternal and your paternal lines.  So, if you’ve only taken one of… Read more

How many billions of records are on Ancestry.com?

The size of Ancestry.com’s record collection is a fascinating topic. As of June 2009, subscribers to Ancestry.com and our international sites can search the historical censuses for the U.S., UK and Canada, U.S. and international vital records, amazing collections of military and immigration records, and many others, not to mention the 10 million family trees… Read more

Ancestry.com Launches ‘My Story’ Advertising Campaign

Today we are excited to announce the launch of our new “My Story” advertising campaign, which highlights five of our customers and their incredible family history discoveries. The campaign will run for at least the next 12 months, and features five 15, 30 and 60-second television ads. You can see the ads on cable networks such as… Read more

Happy Anniversary: Ancestry World Archives Project marks its one year anniversary

Happy 1st Anniversary World Archives Project!
We began the beta portion of the project in June of 2008, since then we have had a wonderful response from many of you including a number of partnerships with genealogical societies.  Your passion for this work is evident through the phenomenal activity we see daily, you’re an amazing group… Read more

Get help from experts at Expert Connect

We have just launched the beta version of a new service called Expert Connect. This new service connects Ancestry.com members and visitors with some of the world’s best independent professional genealogists and local researchers. The initial services available include:
Record Pickup – Hire a researcher in another state or country to visit a specific archive, collect the… Read more

Coming soon: enhancements to the ancestry.com image page

We have been working on a few enhancements for the image page to make it easier for you to read what is on the page, and then to add your own knowledge about your ancestors to our indexes.
Here’s a preview (click the image to see a larger version):

First, we’ve added some tools to help you… Read more

Free webinar: “Genetic Genealogy Made Easy”: Wed., July 8, at 8 PM EST.

On Wednesday, July 8 at 8 PM, we’ll introduce family historians to the basics of DNA testing for genealogy. We’ll walk you through a very simple overview of the science behind the test. And we’ll also show you exactly what you can expect and do with your Ancestry.com DNA results. Register for the webinar now.
I’m… Read more

Temporary website problems earlier today (now resolved)

We experienced some temporary issues on the site earlier today that may have caused errors when trying to log in or when using other portions of the website.  We worked to resolve these problems as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.  We believe these issues lasted less than an… Read more

Family Tree Maker: Come visit us at the Southern California Jamboree

The Southern California Genealogy Jamboree is coming up this week in Burbank, California, June 26-28th. Come visit us at the Ancestry.com booth any time during the Jamboree. You can also attend any of these Family Tree Maker demos:

Friday, June 26th, 12:30pm  - Family Tree Maker demo at the Ancestry.com booth
Saturday, June 27th, 12:30pm – Family… Read more

New in MyCanvas: Descendant family tree posters

During our webinar on family history books back in January, two-thirds of the audience—nearly 1,200 Ancestry.com members—told us they were interested in creating a descendant family tree poster. I’m happy to report that descendant posters are finally available in MyCanvas, just in time for family reunion season.

A descendant tree poster could start with you and… Read more