A new look for Ancestry Member Trees is now live on Ancestry.com.  We’ve updated the design and navigation to help you find what you’re looking for quickly and rebuilt the pages so they load faster.
In early June, we launched a preview of these enhancements to the family tree.   Our goal was to help you become [...]

Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance on Thursday, 18 June 2009, from 1 AM to 2 AM Mountain Daylight Time.
This maintenance will support upcoming features for Ancestry Member Trees and Family Tree Maker.
This tree service downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the [...]

NEW LOOK- AND MORE SPEED
Today we launched in a “preview” mode several enhancements (with more coming soon) designed to make your family tree experience faster and easier. These changes will remain in preview for the next several weeks before they become permanent.
The family tree pages will load faster and we’ve introduced some key navigation improvements to help you find what [...]

Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 12 May 2009, from 1 AM to 3 AM Mountain Daylight Time.
This maintenance will support the continued growth in Ancestry Member Trees traffic.
This tree service downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of [...]

We plan to upgrade our trees service tonight, adding some fancy new hardware and software.  We expect that the service will be unavailable for about 2 hours starting around 1:00 AM mountain time.
This tree service downtime will affect Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member [...]

Our trees service will be unavailable early tomorrow morning for (we hope!) about 30 minutes starting around 1:30 AM mountain time.
We apologize for this downtime, but hope you take comfort knowing it should result in better performance for the more than 13 million photos you and other members have submitted.
This tree service downtime will affect [...]

Ancestry.com now helps you visualize where important events occurred in the lives of your ancestors by placing their events on a map.

How do I use it?
We’ve updated the family tree so that just about anywhere we show a place, you can click on that place and see the link on the map.  When we display [...]

We’re excited to introduce a new tool which will help you find information from across the web and organize it back inside your family tree on Ancestry.
What is it?
It’s called the “Ancestry Toolbar”.  It’s a toolbar you can install and add to your browser (If you use IE or Firefox), adding an instant connection to [...]

 
Starting at about 11:00 PM tonight (Mountain Daylight Time) our Tree Service will be down—we estimate this will last about 30 minutes.
We’re doing this to accommodate the tremendous growth we’re experiencing.
This tree service downtime will affect Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of Ancestry Press, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member [...]

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, [...]