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Ancestry app hits 1 million downloads
I’m excited to announce that the Ancestry mobile app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod has been downloaded over 1 million times! Many of you are finding the app to be a great way to interact with your family tree on Ancestry.com, share records and photos with others (I’ve personally really enjoyed sitting down with my relatives to… Read more
New iPad and iPhone app
How would you like to be able to see and navigate your Ancestry.com family tree on your iPhone or iPad so you can more easily share family stories visually? How would you like to be able to view the Census and other records you’ve attached to people in your Ancestry.com family tree on your iPhone… Read more
Ancestry.com Gift Memberships Now Available
Dreading the long shopping lines during Black Friday? Wish you could give a gift this holiday season that is meaningful and will impact your family in a powerful way? As many of you know, there’s nothing like the feeling of discovering your family story. And now you can share that feeling with your loved ones… Read more
Ancestry.com Search: New way to add Family Members to your search
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making a number of changes to the new search forms. We hope to make searches more flexible, and in response to your feedback we have improved some searches that were hard to do. You can get a sneak preview of some of these at the search update guided… Read more
RSS Feed For Your Member Connect Activity
We recently introduced an RSS feed for your Member Connect Activity so that you can receive updates even when you’re not on Ancestry.com. If you use an RSS reader, this is a great way to easily check your latest Member Connect Activity alongside your other favorite news (learn more about RSS here). The RSS feed… Read more
Site Navigation Clean-Up for Account Settings, Alerts, and Message Board Favorites
To make it easier to navigate to your account information (such as site preferences, email preferences, and alerts), we’ve created quick links in a drop down menu from the My Account link. With this change, account settings are now one click away from any page on the site. These links replace the ones that used… Read more
Ancestry.com Monthly Newsletter in Your Online Messages Inbox
Today, for the first time, you should notice an important email communication delivered to your Ancestry.com Messages inbox: the Ancestry.com Monthly Update, our monthly newsletter. The online Messages feature is a place where members can anonymously contact one another to share research about common ancestors, as well as where we can send important company communications to… Read more
Retiring Member Connections from Ancestry.com
As we continue to offer better ways for you to find members who share your research interests, our job is to make sure that the tools we provide on Ancestry.com are useful and easy. One feature that we’ve looked at closely in this regard is an older feature called “Member Connections” (not to be confused… Read more
Take the Ancestry.com Blog Survey
In 2007, we introduced the Ancestry.com Blog as a place to keep you connected with what’s going on at Ancestry.com. It’s become a place to learn about new additions – our products, content, features and other services – as we develop them, and hear from the people who create and develop these products and features… Read more
Video: Behind the Scenes at Ancestry.com
Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes at Ancestry.com? Take a look at the people and thinking behind our company and how Ancestry.com helps you easily discover your story online.
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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