We’re excited today to be rolling a long-awaited and much-requested feature for family trees.
Many of our historical records on Ancestry have information in them about other members of the family—not just the one person. Previously when you saved a record, you could only save it to one person at a time, […]

Yesterday between about 11:30 PM and 2:00 AM we did some work to improve our trees service database.
An unfortunate side affect of this work is that a few features of the system will be down for (we anticipate) a few days while we get everything caught up with new changes. During this time you […]

Are you going to the NGS conference this month? Come visit me at the Ancestry booth–I’d love to meet and listen to your thoughts on Ancestry Family Trees.
Here’s the conference details:
2008 National Genealogical Society Conference
Kansas City, Missouri, 14 - 17 May 2008
http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/

We’ve hit another milestone recently, reaching 500 million names added to the system.
This is remarkable especially considering the relatively short time frame we’ve been at this–about 19 months. During that time, more than 4.5 million people have created a family tree, more than 7 million photos have been uploaded, and more than 1 […]

This might be something you already use, or maybe something you haven’t tried much yet. In the top right corner of most family tree pages we have a little tool that lets you find or quickly jump to any person in your tree. Today we made some changes to it, and want to […]

We’ve been doing a fair amount of work lately to make it easier to add information you find in other public family trees into your own. Starting back in December we began including information about other public member trees in the ancestry hints(tm). Before then, the hints only included information from OneWorldTree. […]

You may have noticed that the “New content has been added to your family tree” emails haven’t been coming to your inbox lately. These are on hold while we’re ramping up new capacity for the trees service. The pause happens because we’re replicating the live data to an additional service system so we […]

Starting at about 1:00 PM today (Mountain Standard Time) our Tree Service will be down—we estimate this will last about 30 minutes.
We’re doing this because we are adding increased capacity to the portion of our system that enables Ancestry Hints. We also expect this project to improve the speed of the overall trees service. […]

I’ve just returned to the office after a very nice holiday break, and found there are some additional outstanding questions and concerns about our OFT announcement.
I’ve posted your questions and concerns (sometimes paraphrased) in bold below, with my answer or thoughts below it.
Which system am I using? Do I need to do anything?
A […]

We have a few bugs with the transition from Online Family Tree that we want you to be aware of. We have fixes for some of these issues, but we won’t deploy them until early January (we won’t be making new site changes during the holiday break). In the meantime there work-arounds […]