Articles by Tony Macklin
We’re launching Ancestry.com Labs – and we’d love your feedback
Today we are announcing a new “Labs” area of Ancestry.com. This is a separate site where we can give you a sneak preview of new ideas and concepts for helping family history research (but that are not yet ready for prime time). Most importantly for us, it gives us a chance to hear feedback directly… Read more
Preview of Changes to Ancestry.com Search
We’ve been working on some changes to search, and want to give you a preview before it’s finalized, so we’ve created a small guided tour. First of all, I’d like to say thanks to all of you who have put time into helping us, posting to your feedback on the blogs, on our message boards,… Read more
We are experiencing technical problems with images in search results
We are currently experiencing intermittent technical problems with the display of images within search results. This issue causes a delay of several seconds in the “preview” of newspapers and other images within the search results, it also affects the loading of the image when you “hover” over the result title. It does not affect which results… Read more
Thanks to everyone who joined us for the search webinar
Hi everyone Thanks to those who joined us for the Search webinar on Wednesday. We had more than 10,700 members registered for the event, which is a record ever for Ancestry.com. We also appreciate all of the great questions. In total, we had over 1,500, so unfortunately, we’re not going to be able to address these all… Read more
Reminder about tonight’s webinar on Search Strategies
Hi Everyone, I’d like to remind everybody that we will be running a free webinar on the best Strategies for Searching Ancestry.com this evening at 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. This webinar is designed for beginning to intermediate members of Ancestry.com. To attend the webinar, please register here. We’re delighted that we already have more… 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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