Articles About Social Media
Using Facebook to Grow Your Family Tree
We are excited to announce the release of a new feature that allows Ancestry members to use Facebook to add information and new people to family trees quickly and easily. When you attach Facebook information to someone in your tree you’ll get the following: Photos: We’ll pull the most recent profile photo from Facebook into… Read more
Kris Williams: The Importance of Knowing Your Family’s Medical History
I can still remember the look on my doctor’s face when she asked me for my family’s medical history. All she saw was this teenage girl sitting in front of her; I can tell you she did not expect the laundry list of information that came out of me. I rattled off all the information… Read more
Genealogy Goals: 3rd Quarter Report
We are headed into the last few months of 2012. Kids are headed back to school. Fall is in the air. And I thought it was a good time to revisit our goals for the year. If you remember, I shared mine at the beginning of the year. Some of you shared yours in the… Read more
Kris Williams: Importance of the U.S. Census Collections
Since 1790, the United States census has supplied our government with important information about changing population trends every decade. Serving as an official population count, the information collected by the census directly affects our House of Representatives, Electoral College and federal funding. While the census was meant to periodically track the overall state of our country,… Read more
Labor Day Celebration: Jump In the 1940 Time Machine, Search All U.S. Censuses Free
Summer is winding down, but things are still pretty hot around here. With the completion of the 1940 census index we now have more than 713 million U.S. Federal Census records online and fully searchable from 1790 through 1940. To celebrate this unprecedented access to all publicly available censuses, Ancestry.com has cooked up some pretty… Read more
Infographics: What Was Life Like in 1940?
As you know, earlier this month, we completed the 1940 U.S. Census index on Ancestry.com. You can now look for a parent, grandparent—maybe even yourself—in every state and territory. In addition, we also created different infographics that creatively display each state and what life was like in 1940. See all the images below, and feel… Read more
Andy Griffith’s Legacy
My heart fell this morning when I heard the news that the beloved actor, Andy Griffith, had passed. Through the cold Chicago winters, and hot summers as well, my sisters and I would park in front of the TV when the The Andy Griffith Show would come on. Decades later, I remember telling my daughter… Read more
Seven Reasons To Share Your Family History
In the Barefoot Genealogist broadcast this morning, I shared a few ideas for publishing your family history. The two most important things I shared had nothing at all to do with the actual process of creating the chart or book. Don’t wait until you are finished! If you wait until you are “finished” with your… Read more
One Hundred Years of Social Media
An interesting thing has happened in the last few years: the explosion of social networking and social media. We have been able to be constantly updated about the activities of our friends and relatives like never before…but it’s only a 21st Century manifestation of our tendency to spy on each other. In historical newspapers, many… Read more
Uncovering Family History in the New Film For Greater Glory
For Greater Glory, opening in theaters June 1st, tells the never-before-told story of Mexico’s Cristero War. There’s been increasing excitement around the film here in the US among the Mexican-American community, many of whom have ties to the real historical characters featured in the film. Mexican actress Karyme Lozano, who plays the mother of the… 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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