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Ancestry.com Celebrates New York’s 400th Anniversary
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who can trace their heritage through New York — or if you’re a history buff and always welcome the opportunity to learn more about U.S. history — I hope you’ll take a few moments to check out our New York 400th Anniversary page. In honor of Henry… Read more
American Baby Names are ‘All in the Family’
It turns out the trend of keeping baby names ‘all in the family’ is more popular than you might think. We were curious to see how many parents turned to their family tree for inspiration when choosing a baby name, so we conducted an independent survey to find out. Check out what we learned: Nearly half of… Read more
U.S. Content Update: Obituaries, Naturalizations, City Directories, New Census Images and More
It’s been a while since my last post, so let me take you through some of the new U.S. content released on Ancestry.com since then: United States Obituary Collection – This database continues to grow weekly. Plus, beginning this year, it now contains more extracted fields, and in some cases, photographs. Jewish Collection – Several… Read more
MyCanvas webinar on descendant books and posters
If you missed last Thursday’s webinar, Using MyCanvas to Make Descendant Family History Books and Posters, you can view the program at your convenience in the archive. Many thanks to everyone who participated and submitted questions and comments. Several participants mentioned that they would have appreciated a more detailed demonstration of the image and text… 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
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
Canadian Census Complete 1851-1916
We just released the final 3 census years to complete the Canadian Census collection from 1851 to 1916. The Canadian Census Collection represents the first time ever that the 1851/2, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916 censuses will be fully searchable online. For those of us that have some Canadian roots this… Read more
New Site Navigation
We are excited to announce the launch of the new site-wide navigation at the top of every Ancestry.com page. This change came about after a lot of research and gathering feedback from people who use the site every day. You will find that it is quicker and easier for you to get where you want to go… Read more
Good Way to Learn About New Content
A great way to keep up-to-date with the latest content we’ve released on Ancestry.com is to subscribe to our monthly newsletter, the Ancestry Monthly Update. This email newsletter lists all the latest U.S. and international records launched on the site in the previous month, along with some of the larger collections scheduled to be released in the coming month(s).… 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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