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 [...]

The size of Ancestry.com’s record collection is a fascinating topic. As of June 2009, subscribers to Ancestry.com and our international sites can search the historical censuses for the U.S., UK and Canada, U.S. and international vital records, amazing collections of military and immigration records, and many others, not to mention the 10 million family trees [...]

We have been working on a few enhancements for the image page to make it easier for you to read what is on the page, and then to add your own knowledge about your ancestors to our indexes.
Here’s a preview (click the image to see a larger version):

First, we’ve added some tools to help you [...]

We experienced some temporary issues on the site earlier today that may have caused errors when trying to log in or when using other portions of the website.  We worked to resolve these problems as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.  We believe these issues lasted less than an [...]

Collaborating with others who are also researching your ancestors can provide truly amazing experiences.  Here are just a couple experiences I heard about from two Ancestry.com members in the last couple weeks.

One member whose grandmother was adopted and had never known her mother was contacted by a descendant of his grandmother’s brother and his family [...]

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 [...]

We just released the final 3 census years to complete the Canadian Census collection from 1851 to 1916.  The Canadian Census Collection represents the first time ever that the 1851/2, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916 censuses will be fully searchable online. 
For those of us that have some Canadian roots this is [...]

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 [...]

If you missed the military webinar on Tuesday evening, the cached version of it is now available here.  Brian Peterson, Chris Lydiksen, and I had so much to cover that we did not have much time to answer the questions that came in during the webinar.  Since many of those questions are on topics that I [...]

A great way to keep up-to-date with the latest content we’ve released on Ancestry.com is to subscribe to our monthly newsletter, the Ancestry Monthly Update. This email newsletter lists all the latest U.S. and international records launched on the site in the previous month, along with some of the larger collections scheduled to be released in the coming month(s). [...]