Articles About Family Trees
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
Family Trees: New Tree Viewer Tips and FAQs
As I mentioned in a blog post last week, we’ve launched a new way to view your tree. A few of you have been asking me about features that were available on the previous version of the tree viewer. I thought other members might have some of the same questions, so I put together a… Read more
Family Trees: New Tree Viewer Launch
Last November, we launched a new tree viewer in an optional preview. If you chose to view your tree using the new view, we gave you the opportunity to tell us what you thought of the changes we’ve made. Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback, we’re turning off the old view and making the new… Read more
Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (6 January, 1:00-2:00 AM MST)
Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance early Thursday morning, 6 January 2011, from about 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM Mountain Standard Time. This downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member Trees, and the sections of… Read more
Family Tree Maker: The Web Dashboard
When you’re online Family Tree Maker connects directly to Ancestry.com so you can take advantage of the website’s valuable genealogy resources without ever leaving the software. One of these resources is the Web Dashboard. In versions 2010 and 2011 it gives you quick access to your Ancestry.com subscription; you can log in to your account,… Read more
Family Tree Maker: Downloading Your Ancestry Member Tree
Two weeks ago at Boston Ancestry Day, I was asked a lot of questions about how to download an Ancestry Member Tree into Family Tree Maker. I think there are many of us who have a main “working” Family Tree Maker database but also have trees on Ancestry.com that we use for sharing and gathering information.… Read more
In Minutes You Can Preserve Centuries
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Some pictures, however, are priceless. For example, these photos of my grandpa Jerry Ogden (who died when I was too young to have any memory of him) are priceless to me. Our ancestors were living, breathing people. And they left behind visual cues to their… Read more
Link photos to sources in your family tree
You’ve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to creating source citations in your family tree, it is so true. We have recently added the ability to associate pictures and scanned documents to source citations you have created in your family tree: Birth Certificates Death Certificates Marriage Certificates… Read more
New Photo Upload Tool
Today we added to the site a new tool to help you quickly and simply upload multiple family history photos and documents at one time. To try this out in your own family tree, you’ll want to click the “add media” or “add photo” links, just as you would have before this change. What you… Read more
Family Tree Maintenance Tonight (27 April 11:30 PM MST)
The Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance tonight for a short time beginning at about 11:30 PM Mountain Standard Time. During this time Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member Trees, and the sections of MyFamily.com that are related to Member… 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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