Articles About Family Trees
Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (18 June 2009, 1-2 AM MDT)
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… Read more
New Family Tree Enhancements in “Preview Mode”
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… Read more
Scheduled Family Tree Maintenance (12 May 2009, 1-3 AM MDT)
Please be aware that the Ancestry.com Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 12 May 2009, from 1 AM to 3 AM Mountain Daylight Time. This maintenance will support the continued growth in Ancestry Member Trees traffic. This tree service downtime will affect Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the… Read more
Planned Maintenance For Family Trees Service Tonight
We plan to upgrade our trees service tonight, adding some fancy new hardware and software. We expect that the service will be unavailable for about 2 hours starting around 1:00 AM mountain time. This tree service downtime will affect Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to… Read more
Creating family tree posters from your online tree
If you have an online family tree on Ancestry.com, you know that this free service provides many, many benefits. You can connect with other researchers whose family trees overlap with yours. You get automatic “hints” of records that may contain information about your ancestors. You can easily attach records you find on Ancestry.com to your… Read more
Move A Pin and Other Mapping Improvements
Just to introduce myself, I’m Jen Curry, a product manager here at Ancestry. Last month I started working full-time on the maps feature, which is why this post is coming from me instead of Kenny. As most of you know, last November we launched a new feature to Ancestry Member Trees which allows you to see the life… Read more
Ancestry Member Trees Featured in the Family History: Genealogy Made Easy Podcast
Kenny Freestone, Trees Product Manager for Ancestry.com, recently chatted about Ancestry Member Trees with Lisa Louise Cook on the “Family History: Genealogy “Made Easy” podcast. During the interview, Kenny offers his Top Five Tips for making the most of Ancestry Member Trees. You can listen to the podcast here.
Saved indicator and trees person card
Something new for those of you who store your trees on the site while you are searching: person card and saved indicator. If you look at this snippet from a search for my great uncle Ashby: You’ll notice the green check next to records you’ve already saved to that person, which I truly love. If… Read more
Trees Service will be down tonight
Our trees service will be unavailable early tomorrow morning for (we hope!) about 30 minutes starting around 1:30 AM mountain time. We apologize for this downtime, but hope you take comfort knowing it should result in better performance for the more than 13 million photos you and other members have submitted. This tree service downtime… Read more
See the people in your tree on a map
Ancestry.com now helps you visualize where important events occurred in the lives of your ancestors by placing their events on a map. How do I use it? We’ve updated the family tree so that just about anywhere we show a place, you can click on that place and see the link on the map. When… 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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