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Default Search Settings
With over 10 billion records on the site, utilizing our search options can help you find your ancestors quickly and easily. When you use the default settings in our search form (like the one shown below), we look through every name we have recorded in our more than 29,000 data collections, and pull out any… Read more
Tips on Finding Your Migrant Ancestor
Originally authored by Jeremy Palmer, Dip. Gen. Edited by Ancestry.com.au. From 29 August – 6 September 2011, we are giving you free access to all our immigration and travel databases from around the world on Ancestry.com.au. Here are some tips on finding your migrant ancestor. Speak to your relatives As with many aspects of family… Read more
The First World Memory Project Collection Now Available In Search
AUTHORED BY CRISTA COWAN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Three months ago, Ancestry and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched the World Memory Project. Since that time almost 2000 community contributors have indexed over 395,000 records across 15 different record collections. These records contain information about victims and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi-era persecution. We are proud to announce… Read more
Tips on Searching the new Australian Immigration Collection
As you may know, we launched our new Australian Immigration Collection last week. These records document the names and journeys of more than 14.5 million people who travelled to Australia between 1788 and 1923 in search of a new life. But how do you get the most out of this collection? It all comes down… Read more
Announcing – New Web Search
Authored by Brian Edwards, Ancestry.com Last October we launched Ancestry Labs to test a few new ideas, and we’d like to thank all those members who contributed a lot of great feedback and discussion around these. Today we’re excited to announce the introduction of one of the ideas, Web Search, into the main Ancestry.com.au search.… Read more
Tips for discovering your royal ancestors
If you’re trying to find royal or noble connections in your family tree, check out our handy hints below: 1. Explore surnames: cross-reference surnames in your family tree with those found in Burke’s Commoners and Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland as this group, mostly descended from royalty or the aristocracy, is when the… Read more
Ancestry Search: Improvements to Basic Search
Why have we changed the search form? Over the past year, we have been working with a wide range of Ancestry members, from some of our most experienced members to relative newcomers. We’ve had a lot of help (including over 10,000 responses to the preview we published in April). Based on this feedback, we’ve been… Read more
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 modified the search forms just a bit to make entering… Read more
Ancestry Search: New way to add family members
In the coming months, 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 in our Tour of Search Updates.… Read more
UPDATED: New search homepage, place pages, recent searches and 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. You asked for improved navigation, maps, shortcuts to your favourite data collections, easier access to recent searches and more browsing options. You can see screenshots of these new… Read more
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