The Drouin Collection is temporarily unavailable. No other collections are affected, however please do not hesitate to contact Member Services if you have any questions. Further updates will be provided in due course.

I posted yesterday about how we were going to perform some site maintenance on Thursday morning at 1am MDT.  We have postponed this planned site maintenance until next Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 1am MDT.  We apologize if this change causes you any inconvenience.
The Ancestry.com site (and its related Ancestry international sites) will undergo scheduled [...]

This is a follow-up to my original post introducing Member Connect.  The area of the site with the most Member Connect features is family trees, so I wanted to give some more details and tips about those features.  I hope it is useful to those of you starting to test out this new feature in [...]

If you haven’t seen the enhanced image page yet, you can take a look at this image from the US 1860 census. And to get you started with the basics, here are a few tips.
Viewing just the image
If you want to view just the image, click on the link. Until you click the [...]

We are excited to announce the launch of the new site-wide navigation at the top of every Ancestry.com page.    This change came about after a lot of research and gathering feedback from people who use the site every day.
You will find that it is quicker and easier for you to get where you want to go on [...]

Ancestry.com is proud to be a part of these upcoming conferences and expos. Visit the Ancestry.com booth where you can ask our experts questions about the website; sit in on tutorials covering Ancestry.com, Family Tree Maker, MyCanvas and more; and take advantage of special conference discounts on various Ancestry.com products. We hope to see you [...]

I wanted to give everyone a quick update on a few of the changes that have been made to improve site performance over the past few weeks.  We recognize we are by no means done.  These represent our first set of improvements:
1. Compression:  Across the site we’ve compressed the code that has to be downloaded [...]

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 you have [...]