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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read more
Coming Soon: A new way to connect with others researching your ancestors
Collaborating with others who are also researching your ancestors can provide truly amazing experiences. Here are just a couple experiences I heard about from two Ancestry.com members in the last couple weeks. One member whose grandmother was adopted and had never known her mother was contacted by a descendant of his grandmother’s brother and his… Read more
Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (18 June 2009, 1-2 AM MDT)
Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance on Thursday, 18 June 2009, from 1 AM to 2 AM Mountain Daylight Time. This maintenance will support upcoming features for Ancestry Member Trees and Family Tree Maker. This tree service downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My… Read more
Here you will find informational, and sometimes fun, posts from the folks behind the scenes here at Ancestry.com. We hope you’ll notice just how passionate we are about family history and about the products we’re building to help connect families over distance and time.
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