Articles About Site Features
Bookmarking Ancestry.com.au
We know many of you visit Ancestry.com.au frequently. To make it even quicker to get to our site, you can add Ancestry to your browser “favourites” so you can access the site in just one click. Adding websites to your Favourites list in your browser is easy. Simply follow the steps below for the browser… Read more
Interactive Image Viewer – Coming Soon to More Collections!
ORIGINALLY AUTHORED BY ANCESTRY.COM Last year, we launched the Interactive Image Viewer as an interactive tool to help you view and interpret information from many of the Census records available online. We’re excited to announce that the Interactive Image Viewer will now be available for several more collections in the coming weeks. Finding and understanding… Read more
Interactive Image Viewer Update
AUTHORED BY LAURA DANSBURY (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) In January, we began testing a new version of our image viewer to improve consistency and reliability for many different types of browsers, with a cleaner look and interactive features. It is a Flash based experience that provides tools to help you get the most out of census documents. … Read more
Introducing Hint Notifications and Preferences
ORIGINALLY AUTHORED BY AARON ORR, ANCESTRY.COM Ever wonder if there are new hints you haven’t seen hiding in your family tree? Now it’s easy to see new hints when they come your way—we’ve just released a feature to notify you when you get new hints. You may have noticed when you last visited Ancestry.com.au that… Read more
Interactive Image Viewer (Beta)
Record images are the foundation of your family history, and we want to create a rich viewing experience that will bring these historical documents to life. The new Interactive Image Viewer (currently in beta) includes interactive tools to help you view and interpret the information on the record as well as navigation controls that make… Read more
All Hints Page – New Ways to View Your Hints
One of the best things about having an online family tree is taking advantage of Ancestry.com.au Hints that could lead you to new facts about your ancestors. Now we’ve made it even easier to see all your hints with our new All Hints page. You can find hints that have been generated in the last… Read more
Image Viewer Updates – Print Current View Now Available
AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Thanks to all of you who have provided feedback on the Beta Image Viewer on the blog, via the message boards, through the survey, and directly via email (feedback-imageviewer@ancestry.com). We appreciate the input – both positive and negative – and have used it to further improve the viewer. Today,… Read more
Beta Image Viewer now available
AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Several years ago, we launched the Advanced Image Viewer. This viewer provided some much-needed capabilities and was welcomed by our members who could take advantage of it. Our other members – almost 50% of our total base – continued to use a basic image viewer which provided somewhat limited capabilities. Over time, as browsers… 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
Take your Ancestry.com.au family tree with you everywhere you go
Our updated Ancestry app for iPhone®, iPod® Touch or iPad® gives you an even better way to take your Ancestry.com.au family tree with you. Now you can see your entire tree — not just names — in a more intuitive way. Using the app, just log in to your Ancestry.com.au account from anywhere to access… Read more
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