Articles About Family Trees
Lessons in Genealogy Collaboration
I got an Ancestry.com Message today from a woman related to a man in my family tree. In her research she had come to a conclusion regarding the identity of his wife that was different from mine. . When was the last time you read and responded to your Ancestry.com messages? . Of course, my… Read more
Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 Update Is Available
A free update for Family Tree Maker for Mac 2 is now available. It contains improvements to TreeSync and a number of new features. When you open Family Tree Maker for Mac 2, you should be notified that an update is available. If you aren’t, go to the Family Tree Maker 2 menu and select… Read more
Member Trees: Merge Duplicate People
A lot of people have asked over the years how to clean up duplicates in their Ancestry Member Tree. If you are one of the people who discovered that your mysterious distant cousin Mary was really the same person as Uncle George’s wife Mary, then you’ll be happy to learn that we have a solution that… Read more
Ancestry Member Trees – A New Look for the Person Overview or Profile Page
You may have noticed that the Person Overview page has a new look (the page with the details for an ancestor in your tree). The intent of these visual changes is to start moving toward a simpler design that is more subtle than the previous design so that it more effectively showcases the content about your ancestor. This… Read more
Using Facebook to Grow Your Family Tree
We are excited to announce the release of a new feature that allows Ancestry members to use Facebook to add information and new people to family trees quickly and easily. When you attach Facebook information to someone in your tree you’ll get the following: Photos: We’ll pull the most recent profile photo from Facebook into… Read more
Genealogy Goals: 3rd Quarter Report
We are headed into the last few months of 2012. Kids are headed back to school. Fall is in the air. And I thought it was a good time to revisit our goals for the year. If you remember, I shared mine at the beginning of the year. Some of you shared yours in the… Read more
Five Genealogy Goals For The New Year
The first week of the new year is now behind us. I know it took me a few extra days to recover from the holiday. In fact, my mom just flew home yesterday. We had a wonderful December full of family and food and fun. I hope you did, too. Now life is now back… Read more
Family Tree Maker: TreeSync
By now you’ve probably heard about TreeSync. It’s the latest innovative tool available in Family Tree Maker 2012, which gives you the ability to sync one Family Tree Maker tree and one online Ancestry tree. Now you can make changes to your tree anytime, anywhere. Maybe you’re at the library and you find your grandma’s… Read more
Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (24 Aug, 1:00-3:00 AM MDT)
Please be aware that Ancestry.com Member Trees will undergo scheduled maintenance early Wednesday morning, 24 August 2011, from about 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM Mountain Daylight Time. We will be updating the servers that provide member uploaded photos, so some portions of Ancestry Member Trees, My Canvas, and any other areas of the site that display member contributed images, will… Read more
Family Trees: We’re giving you control of family merges
Family merge is a great feature that we’ve had on the site for a number of years. This feature makes it easy to save family trees and certain census records to multiple people in your tree—without having to save the record separately for each person. However, the merge has had one particular limitation that we have now… Read more
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