We have over 26,000 collections of data and records that we search every time you press a search button. By choosing a specific nationality or ethnicity, we will give the collections that we know to have data pertinent to that nationality or ethnicity a little more weight.
So if you are searching for someone you know […]

You might find these useful as your searching in the new search interface:
If you press ‘n’, you will see a brand new search form pop up over your browser.
If you press ‘r’, you will see a search form pre-populated with the data you just searched on.
You can also walk through the previews on a search, […]

I think the first thing that I learned was that I may be a bit of a history geek. I snuck away from the festivities for a couple of hours and visited the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Standing in the same room where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were partially […]

Note, for those who have been following the last comment thread: Yes, the exact search bug was fixed over the weekend, and the fix rolled live Saturday night. Which brings me to our next discussion.
Reed, who has commented a few times on my blog posts, has given us an example that wasn’t working too […]

One area of importance to many of you, who have participated in the new search UI discussions, is you want to have the ability to be very specific in the searches you make when you are looking within a specific data set. I’m going to post a different example in a different category each […]

For those of you who missed the Webinar on the new search interface, or would like to see it again, you can find it at:
New Search Interface Webinar
or
http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=112633&s=1&k=F61A5B2CBEC642037CADDF67687EA541
The view archive link is at the bottom of the page.
If you want to discuss the new search interface, I suggest :
New Search Interface
Happy Viewing!

I’ve gone through and reread the comments that members have left on my initial search post, and I wanted to try and summarize what I am hearing, just to make sure that I understand what you are saying.
I believe that the biggest problem that has been discovered is that the detailed searching on some […]

Hi! My name is Anne Mitchell and I’ve just joined the team here at ancestry.com as the product manager for search. My previous job experience has been both in product management and engineering at companies including webshots.com and excite.com. And in case you’re thinking, “well that’s nice, but does she actually do […]