Author Archives for Mike Ward
NBC Today Show “Discovering Our Roots”
NBC’s Today Show hosted a terrific five-part series this week called “Discovering Our Roots.” All week they’ve been taking their anchors on trips to discover their family history. Maureen Taylor, a regular contributor to the Ancestry Weekly Journal, Ancestry Magazine, and author of Capturing Memories: Your Family History in Photographs was on the Today Show [...]
Come see us at FGS 2008 in Philadelphia
If you’re in the Philadelphia area next week, join Ancestry.com at the 2008 Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) annual conference. We are excited for the opportunity to meet with our customers and share information about our new products and services at Ancestry.com.
Stop by our booth (#403) to take advantage of our special conference offers or visit one [...]
Join Ancestry.com at NGS
If you’re going to be in Kansas City, Missouri, next week, we’d like to invite you to join us at the Ancestry.com booth during the 2008 National Genealogical Society Conference.
The theme for this year’s show is “Show Me The Nation’s Records” and it will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, 2345 McGee Street [...]
Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites
We have recently become aware of three websites purporting to allow family history research: SearchYourGenealogy.com, Ancestry-search.com and Australian-Ancestry.com. The sites claim to have “the largest online genealogical search tool” and promote themselves as the foremost resources for genealogy, but from what we can tell, these sites are nothing more than a series of web pages [...]
