We have a few bugs with the transition from Online Family Tree that we want you to be aware of. We have fixes for some of these issues, but we won’t deploy them until early January (we won’t be making new site changes during the holiday break). In the meantime there work-arounds […]

There’s been a lot of questions and concerns raised about our announcement that the Online Family Tree system is being retired. Here’s some answers to the question you may have.
What is the Online Family Tree system?
The Online Family Tree system was started back in about 1999. It was a great tool to build […]

We’re also excited today to introduce a cool little tool that lets you add notes or annotations on photos. The tool is super handy for identifying people within a photo, since you can highlight an area of the photo and type in a name or description of the highlighted area.
The notes only appear when […]

We’re excited today to introduce a new view option for your family tree. This new “family” view shows up to two generations of ancestors and two generations of descendants for the focus person.
Also new for us on the technology side is our use of Flash to create this view, which makes it nice […]

I mentioned Monday we had some really cool features in the works that required our Trees Service to go down for a while. It has taken longer than expected to get some kinks worked out of the system, so I apologize for building excitement and then going silent. What we’ve been working on […]

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12/21/2007 Note: We’ve had many questions come up in the comments section of this post. To help address these and other questions you may have, I’ve posted answers to these questions, as well as a list of known issues. –Kenny
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12/26/2007 Note: I’ve created a follow-up post to address many of the additional questions […]

Starting at about 11:00 PM tonight (Mountain Standard Time) our Tree Service will be down—we estimate this will last a few hours.
We’re doing this because we are rolling some really cool new features to the site, but this will require some down time. We’ve chosen to do this at night in order to minimize […]

Hi there! I’m Kenny Freestone, product manager at Ancestry.com over our online family tree tools, especially the relatively new Member Trees on Ancestry.
You might not be aware of the incredibly exciting work you have all been doing in building a family tree on Ancestry.com. Since the product’s launch in July of 2006, we’ve seen tremendous […]