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Religious Freedom, Anti-Slavery & Workers’ Rights: Non-conformist records now online

Posted by Ancestry Australia and New Zealand on May 27, 2010 in Content

Ancestry.com.au is excited to announce the launch of the first tranche of London Non-conformist Registers 1694-1921. For the first time ever the names and details of hundreds of thousands of UK radicals and religious dissenters from over 225 years are available online. This collection is essential for all those tracing non-conformist ancestors born before civil… Read more

Who Do You Think You Are? US series: Susan Sarandon

From New York to Italy and back again – all to find a single mystery relative in the family tree. For Susan Sarandon, whose quest to learn more about her grandmother on Who Do You Think You Are? took her to two separate continents and through dozens of records, the hard work and research paid… Read more

Who Do You Think You Are? US series: Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields always felt her parents were from separate worlds, but when she dug into her family history on Who Do You Think You Are?, she realised how true this really was. Her mother was from a working-class New Jersey household, and her father’s family stemmed from European aristocracy. Researching the pair, however, gave Brooke… Read more

New photo upload tool

Today we added to the site a new tool to help you quickly and simply upload multiple family history photos and documents at one time. To try this out in your own family tree, click the “add media” or “add photo” links, just as you would have before this change.  What you will see next is… Read more

Who Do You Think You Are? US series: Lisa Kudrow

It was a tough journey for actress Lisa Kudrow. On Who Do You Think You Are?, Lisa returned to the place where members of her family – her great-grandmother included – had been murdered in the Holocaust. But she ends on a high note: a reconnection to an ancestor Lisa and her father had believed… Read more