You’ll find elements of Member Connect throughout Ancestry.com.au, including within your family tree, while viewing historical records, and in a list of recent research activity about your ancestors on your homepage.

Where you’ll notice Member Connect

1. Viewing Historical Records

When you find a historical record for one of your ancestors, you’ll also be able to see who else has saved the record or made comments or corrections to it.

2. Your Family Tree

If you have a family tree on Ancestry.com.au, we’ll show you who else potentially has your ancestor in their public member tree. You can choose who you connect with, and when you connect you can compare the information in their tree with yours, contact the other member, update your tree with new discoveries, and be notified about new information they find about your shared ancestor.

3. Recent Activity Lists

On profile pages in your tree you’ll have a Recent Activity list showing all of the public research being done on Ancestry.com.au that relates to your specific ancestor.

On your homepage, the Collaborate tab, and the Recent Member Connect Activity page you’ll find a full list of all of the site activity related to your ancestors, including activity around records you have saved, corrected, or commented on as well as activity from connections made in your family tree.  

You Choose How Much To Share

Member Connect brings you new content about your ancestors, but you decide what you want to add to your family tree. Ancestry.com.au will never automatically save information from your network to your tree. You can also choose which of your research activities other members can see.

You can also connect with Ancestry.com.au and our other members on our Facebook page.

Click here for more information on Member Connect.

With the updated Member Directory, now you can. From the Collaborate tab, select Member Directory. Then choose exactly the criteria you’re looking for, whether it falls under Research Interests, Basic Information, and Experience – or all of the above.

You can also now search for members by their username in the Basic Information tab.

The RSS feed is available from the Recent Member Connect Activity page. You can subscribe to the RSS feed in 3 easy steps:

1. Click on the “See more activity” link in the Recent Member Connect Activity on your homepage or click on “Recent Member Connect Activity” in the sub menu under the Collaborate main navigation (these links take you to the same page).



2. At the bottom of the right column on the Recent Member Connect Activity page, you’ll find a link to subscribe to the RSS feed.



3. When you click on the link, you will navigate to the RSS feed (XML) page. There are two ways to subscribe to the RSS feed. If your browser supports this, you can click on the “subscribe” link/button at the top of the page to add the RSS feed to your RSS reader. Otherwise, you can manually subscribe to the RSS feed by copying and pasting the URL from your web browser address bar into your RSS reader.

Whether you’re scouring the research library or getting together to share family stories with relatives, you’ll never miss a chance to add to your Ancestry.com family tree with this handy app. Log in to your Ancestry.com.au account from anywhere to access your tree, edit information, upload photos – even add a long-lost family member you find on your way. You never know where or when you’ll discover something to help you grow your Ancestry.com.au family tree.

With this helpful mobile tree tool, you can see all the family trees you’ve already created on Ancestry.com.au. Just download the app to your iPhone or iPod^® Touch, log in to your Ancestry.com.au account and choose a family tree.

You can:

• Browse names in your tree
• Search for a specific person in your tree
• Click on a relative to view, then edit or add vital information, immediate family members, life events, notes or new ancestors.
• Take photos of your relatives, historical documents, keepsakes,  buildings and more and upload them directly to your tree.

Just discovered a treasure trove of family heirlooms at your second cousin’s house? Take pictures and upload them to your tree with stories about each one. Found a forgotten family member’s headstone as you traverse an 18^th century cemetery? Add this new person and upload an image of their gravesite. Now when you’re on the go, your family tree – and all your history – goes with you.

For more details about the new Ancestry.com Tree To Go iPhone app visit www.ancestry.com/iphone