Author Archives for Stefanie Condie

Including more generations in your AncestryPress book


Several people have asked whether it’s possible to include more than four generations in an AncestryPress book. The answer is yes, you can include as many ancestors as you’d like, although they won’t all appear on the same page.
When you create a book from templates, AncestryPress automatically generates a certain number of pages based on […]

Creating a family tree poster in AncestryPress


This week I’d like to offer a few tips for creating family tree posters. You can use AncestryPress to create a standard tree poster including 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 generations or a combination tree poster including 4, 5 or 7 generations (a 6-generation combination tree poster is coming soon).
Creating a poster is a […]

New AncestryPress features: print preview, page numbering and much more


Hello all…I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and that your year is off to a great start! Although you haven’t heard from me in a few weeks, the AncestryPress team has been busy putting the finishing touches on some of the items on your wish list. We launched several new features this morning […]

Sharing and collaboration in AncestryPress


We recently launched a new collaboration feature for people who are working together to build online trees on Ancestry.com. In the past, a tree owner could invite other family members to view and edit an online tree, but only the tree owner could use the data in the tree to create a project in AncestryPress. […]

New military backgrounds and descendant books in AncestryPress


I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I was on vacation the last two weeks of November, but during my absence there were several exciting improvements to AncestryPress.
Military Backgrounds 
In response to customer demand, we’ve added a series of military backgrounds based on specific wars. You can now create pages honoring family members who served […]

New poster formats and better synchronization with Ancestry trees


If you’re looking for a personalized Christmas or Hanukah gift for someone (or everyone) in your family, now is a great time to check out AncestryPress because we’ve just added two new formats for family tree posters. You can now choose from three formats: a 6-generation standard tree, a 5-generation standard tree and a 5-generation […]

Family Tree Posters now available on AncestryPress


I hope you’ve had a chance to check out the Family Tree Posters we launched last week. If so, you’ve noticed that you can use most of the same tools you’ve been using to create your family history book. The chart automatically pulls data from your online family tree. You can add and edit text, […]

New features and a few clarifications


First off, thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s AncestryPress webinar. We’ll post it in the Learning Center archive next week so that those of you who missed it can watch it at your leisure.
I’d like to clarify a couple of points that I didn’t explain quite as well as I might have during […]

AncestryPress webinar


Next Thursday, November 1, we are offering a free online seminar (webinar) on AncestryPress. The focus will be on creating family history books, but we’ll also touch on some other great holiday gift ideas. For details, and to sign up, please visit the registration page. The webinar will begin at 8:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time […]

Free shipping for AncestryPress books


I have good news for those of you who are hoping to share your family history books with your family at Thanksgiving. To encourage people to get their orders in before the holiday rush, we’re offering free shipping on all AncestryPress books from now through October 31.

Stefanie Condie

Stefanie holds masters degrees in business and journalism from Columbia University. Her areas of expertise include web publishing, marketing communications and product/brand management. In her current role as brand manager for AncestryPress, she promotes products that help people preserve and share their family stories.