Articles About Searching for Records
Ancestry Search: Searching using Birth, Death and other Life Events
Over the course of this year, we have been making incremental changes to our new search forms in response to your comments and suggestions. We’ve added name and place filters and changed the way you could do searches that included family members. You’ll find we’ve modifed the search forms just a bit to make entering… Read more
Issues with US 1850, 1860 Census and UK 1871 census.
We are aware of the issues with the US 1850 and 1860 census as well as the UK 1871 census producing strange results in search and having bad links in online trees. We are working on resolving it as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. Update: The issue has been resolved, links and… Read more
Browse the Place Pages
I posted a blog about the new pages in new search a few weeks ago. But there were so many changes that I think each one should have a dedicated post. The location of an Ancestor’s birth or residence greatly influenced their life story. By browsing by location, I found a book about Hopewell New… 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
Updated new search homepage, place pages, recent searches & recently viewed collections
We listened to your feedback and we are updating our search pages (New Search only). We gathered input from members through many sources and consolidated your feedback. Based on your feedback, new search pages will have improved navigation, maps, shortcuts to your favorite data collections, easier access to recent searches, and more browsing options.
Ancestry search: Intermittent problems with place type-ahead
We are currently experience intermittent delays in the place type-ahead and are working on the issue. We appreciate your patience.
New search category pages
With feedback and beta testing from members, we’re working on updates to many areas of Ancestry.com search. Our newest update enhances the category pages. The forms themselves on the category pages haven’t changed and will continue to work in the familiar way. But we’ve made several enhancements in the content surrounding the forms. The new features you’ll see… Read more
Ancestry Search: Name and Place Filters coming to New Advanced Search this week!
This year one of the things we are focusing on is adding new ways for you to control what’s returned in your search results. Over the past few months, we have already launched improvements to wildcards, Collection Filters, and Record Type Filters Earlier today Tony Macklin announced that we will be launching a tour to give… Read more
Preview of Changes to Ancestry.com Search
We’ve been working on some changes to search, and want to give you a preview before it’s finalized, so we’ve created a small guided tour. First of all, I’d like to say thanks to all of you who have put time into helping us, posting to your feedback on the blogs, on our message boards,… Read more
New filtering options coming to new search
You’ve been asking for better ways to control your results. Over the next couple of months, we will be launching two new sets of filters in new search. One will be a name filter, with specific options for first and last names, and the other will be a place filter. Here’s a quick preview: Name… 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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