Ancestry Search: Place Filters on New Advanced Search
AUTHORED BY ANNE MITCHELL (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) This year one of the things we are focusing on is adding new ways for you to control what’s returned in your search results. Over the past few months, we have already launched improvements to wildcards, Collection Filters, and Record Type Filters. Earlier this week Tony Macklin announced that… Read more
Ancestry Search: Name Filters on New Advanced Search
AUTHORED BY ANNE MITCHELL (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) This year one of the things we are focusing on is adding new ways for you to control what’s returned in your search results. Over the past few months, we have already launched improvements to wildcards, Collection Filters, and Record Type Filters. Earlier this week Tony Macklin announced that… Read more
Who Do You Think You ‘Ooo-argh’?
Cameron, Clegg and Brown farming roots revealed Whilst Clegg, Cameron and Brown won’t be ‘counting their chickens’ just yet, that’s exactly what their ancestors were doing 140 years ago: they were all farmers working just a few hundred miles apart. Cameron’s 3x great-grandfather, William Cameron, is listed in 1851 census as a farmer in Invernesshire,… Read more
Is this the World’s longest document?
As the guy who is responsible for finding records which will be of interest to our members and putting them online, I confess I get to visit some fantastic archives and see many great historical manuscripts. A trip to Ireland last week however, introduced me to what I think might be the most unusual historical… Read more
Preview of Changes to Ancestry.co.uk Search
AUTHORED BY TONY MACKLIN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) We’ve been working on some changes to search, and want to give you a preview before it’s finalised, so we’ve created a small guided tour. First of all, We’d like to say thanks to all of you who have put time into helping us, posting your feedback on the… Read more
We’re always working on making your family history research quicker and easier – here’s what we’ve done lately
We are always listening to our members – whether it’s by phone, email or at the shows when we meet you face to face. Based on your feedback, our research and user tests our product and development teams have created and improved a series of site features during the last year. But it is an… Read more
Save the Scholars
Another great set of records from the London Metropolitan Archives is now available in the Ancestry World Archives Project for keying. The London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1841-1911 is a collection of school admission and discharge registers for pupils who attended no less than 843 London schools in the 19th and early 20th centuries.… Read more
Modern connections with the past are sometimes the best bit!
Whilst whiling away some time over the Easter weekend I was very excited to discover that my Great Great Great Great Grandfather was born in Eastington in Gloucestershire, which is where I am getting married in July! I knew that many of my relatives on that side of the family were from Bristol but not… Read more
Shoebox Tracks Records You Print and Download
AUTHORED BY STEPHANIE CRUZ (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Have you ever lost track of a record you printed or downloaded that you want to go back to? You now have quick access to retrieve records you are storing offline. Each time you print or download a record from Ancestry.co.uk, it will appear in your Shoebox in a… Read more
Family Tree Maker: Entering Foreign Names and Locations
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN I learned an important lesson early on when I was researching my Danish ancestors: Novling is not the same as Nøvling. In fact, there is no place called Novling in all of Denmark. You may be wondering how I made this mistake. Perhaps it was inexperience. Or maybe good old… Read more
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