Articles About Site Features
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
A New Way to View Your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree
Over the last year we’ve been working on a better way to let you view your Ancestry.com.au member tree. We’ve built this new tree viewer based on feedback from members, extensive user testing and hours of development and design. We focused on finding ways to let you view more of your tree at once and… 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
We’ve launched Ancestry Labs – and we’d love your feedback
AUTHORED BY TONY MACKLIN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) We have just announced a new “Labs” area on Ancestry.com. Labs is a separate site where we can give you a sneak preview of new ideas and concepts for helping family history research (but that are not yet ready for prime time). Most importantly for us, it gives us a chance… Read more
Find out how you are related to other people in your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree
Have you ever found a person in your tree and asked yourself “how are we related”? I know I have. In fact, many of you have asked for something that would help you easily find an answer to that question and we’ve listened. We’ve just added a new feature in your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree that will… 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
Link photos to sources in your family tree
You’ve likely heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, and when it comes to creating source citations in your family tree, it is so true. We have recently added the ability to associate pictures and scanned documents to source citations you have created in your family tree: Birth Certificates Death Certificates Marriage Certificates… Read more
Tips for searching the Australia Birth, Marriage and Death Index
As many of you may well be aware, we now have Australian vital records available online. The Australia Birth, Marriage and Death Index spans a combined period of almost 200 years (between 1788 and 1985) and covers the entire country. Gone are the days of poring over microfiche or hopping from site to site to… 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
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
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