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Scheduled Site Maintenance Tonight, Wednesday Nov. 18
We want to let you know that the Ancestry.com and related Ancestry International sites will be down for about 4 hours for scheduled maintenance tonight (Wednesday, Nov. 18) through early Wednesday morning beginning at 11:30 PM Mountain Time (that’s 1:30 AM ET or 5:30 AM GMT). The Ancestry World Archives Project will only be available for offline keying. Thank you… Read more
Former Friends Reunite After 34 Years
Most of you have probably seen the video clips on our site highlighting the success stories of a few of our members. There is a video about Cathryn Darling, who thought her father had abandoned her as a child only to find out through research on Ancestry.com that he was killed in a tragic fishing… Read more
Ancestry.com Adds 600 Navy Cruise Books to Its U.S. Military Collection
To commemorate Veterans Day, Ancestry.com today added more than 600 Navy cruise books to its online collection of military records. This effort is the result of an agreement between Ancestry.com and the United States Navy. The collection of Navy cruise books, available exclusively online at Ancestry.com, represents nearly 40 years of cruises following World War… Read more
Scheduled Site Maintenance Wed. October 28
We want to let you know that the Ancestry.com and related Ancestry International sites will be down for about 3 hours for scheduled maintenance on early Wednesday morning beginning at 1 AM Mountain Time (that’s 3 AM ET or 7 AM GMT). The Ancestry World Archives Project will only be available for offline keying. During… Read more
What Happened to Amelia Earhart? Ancestry.com Posts Case File Investigating Her Disappearance
There are multiple theories surrounding the mysterious disappearance of iconic aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished in 1937 while attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world. Today, Ancestry.com has published a case file revealing some unique details into the investigation of what happened. The 73-page file consists of letters and telegrams sent in… Read more
“My father is not going to just disappear off the face of the earth…. His story is going to go on with us forever.” –Cathryn Darling, Ancestry.com member
If you’ve ever had the experience of learning about an ancestor whose story has been missing from your family tree for a long time, you understand the need to preserve that story and make sure it never disappears again. This was Cathryn Darling’s experience, after she learned that her father, who she’d been told had… Read more
Share Historical Record Discoveries via Facebook, Twitter and Email
Do you recall the first time you saw information about an ancestor on a census record, military draft card or an immigration record? We’ve just made it easier than ever to share that thrill of discovery with family and friends through Facebook, Twitter and Email. You can share daily finds from the record page by… Read more
Ancestry.com Adds Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Records
Notorious train robbers, mob bosses, “butter imposters” and financial schemers are among the infamous outlaws who appear in a unique collection of federal prison records we just added to Ancestry.com. Provided by the National Archives at Atlanta, the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Collection (1902-1921) spans two decades and consists of more than 14,000 inmate records documenting… Read more
More Than 400 Years of London Church Records
Did you know that until 1763, you only had to be 12 (girls) or 14 (boys) to marry in London? That 20% of London’s population was killed by a second Black Plague in the 1600s? That during the first year of WWI, marriages in London increased by 32%? In the October newsletter we featured a… Read more
Economy Got You Down? Try Keying Some Naturalization Records…
The other day I took a break from obsessing about the stock market, health care reform and climate change to key some naturalization records for the Ancestry.com World Archives Project. I happened to get a batch of index cards for German immigrants who came to New York in the late 1800s. As I typed in… Read more
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