Family Tree Maker 2011 is here!
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) You’ve been waiting patiently and it’s finally here! Family Tree Maker 2011 introduces more than 100 enhancements (many based on customer requests) to help you create your family story like never before. Here are just a few of the exciting new features you’ll enjoy: Smart Stories—a narrative tool. If you’ve always… Read more
Records of the U.S.’s hardest historical villains now online!
I’ve always had a strange fascination with the underworld. Criminals, prisons, gangsters – you name it, I’m interested. So you can imagine my delight when I learnt that we were to publish 75,000 prison records from four of the US’s most notorious penitentiaries! Alcatraz, Leavenworth, McNeil Island and Atlanta – if buildings could tell a… 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
Were your ancestors students at the University of London?
By Richard Temple, Archivist of Senate House Library, University of London One of my responsibilities since becoming the archivist at Senate House Library, University of London has been to answer queries from family historians. We are limited in terms of the amount of research we can do for genealogical researchers by restrictions on the use… Read more
London parish records: the capital laid bare
All hail the arrival of the indexes to the early London parish registers in our LMA collections. Now all those who claim their ancestors were proper Londoners can check this out and see whether they can push their tree back all the way to the era of Henry VIII, or even earlier. From Edmonton to Battersea… Read more
Find out how you are related to other people in your Ancestry.co.uk Member Tree
AUTHORED BY JEN HODNETT (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) 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… Read more
Who Do You Think You Are? – Matthew Broderick’s family heroes
The USA is among the most patriotic of the world’s nations. With that in mind, it’s perhaps surprising that the American Who Do You Think You Are? has taken so long to bring us a celebrity with a war veteran relative. Matthew Broderick’s programme last night made up for the delay, by providing not one… Read more
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