Articles by Anne Mitchell
Search is experiencing intermittent issues.
Our search has been experiencing intermittent technical issues this morning. We are working on the problem and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Update: We are also experiencing some intermittent technical issues with Ancestry Family Trees and are actively working to resolve them. We hope to have everything resolved shortly. Thank you again for… Read more
New filtering options coming to new search
You’ve been asking for better ways to control your results. Over the next couple of months, we will be launching two new sets of filters in new search. One will be a name filter, with specific options for first and last names, and the other will be a place filter. Here’s a quick preview: Name… Read more
Ancestry Search: Improved Collection Filters
As we mentioned last month, we will be launching a series of filters in new search with the aim of giving the experienced searcher a lot more control over his searches and therefore making it much easier to understand search results. Early on Thursday Feb 11, we will be launching our improved Collection Filters, which… Read more
Ancestry Search: Controlling your results with filters
We believe that 2010 is going to be an exciting year for Search at ancestry.com. As you know, we launched expanded wild card functionality at the beginning of this year. But that was only the start of things to come. Having spent much of last year listening to what you wanted, we will be launching… Read more
Ancestry Search: Improved Wildcard flexibility
Improved Wildcard flexibility has been one of the our most requested feature updates. So to start out 2010 on a happy note, we’ve updated our wildcard functionality. Previously, you had to use three characters and then either a * or a ?. We’ve made a few changes: Now you can put a wildcard first, such… Read more
Improved Data Collection Search Pages
Over the coming months, we’re going to be looking closely at a number of aspects of Search, and listening to your feedback to improve them where appropriate. In particular we’ve heard that you want to have more control over how you search and browse into our data collections. Tomorrow, December 16th, we’ll be launching the… Read more
State and Country Pages in Old Search
Currently the State and Country Pages in old search (the pages you get to when you click on the maps on the search home page) are not listing data collections as they usually do. We are aware of the problem and are working on fixing it quickly. Both old and new search are working correctly,… Read more
Refine your searches in fewer steps in new search
After listening, researching and testing with members, we decided to make the hot key experience in new search the default method for refining searches. (Note: I got my dates wrong, it’s Tuesday, November 10th…so just a little more waiting.) This change will happen on Monday, November 9th, sometime during the day. The information you enter… Read more
Some updates on the enhanced image page.
More data collections launched with the enhanced image page We launched more data collections in the new enhanced image viewer yesterday. Here is the list of data collections that are currently available in the new format: 1871 Census of Canada 1870 United States Federal Census 1871 Wales Census 1871 England Census 1871 Isle of Man… Read more
Updates to the enhanced image page
New vs Old Search I know this isn’t really about the enhanced image page, but some of you have ended up in in the New Search interface and would like to go back to old. If at the top of the Ancestry.com search homepage you see this:
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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