Family Tree Maker: Improving Performance
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) We all wish we had an unlimited amount of time to work on our family history. But since none of us do, it can be frustrating when the software you’re using seems to get in the way instead of helping. If Family Tree Maker starts running more slowly… Read more
How we restored more than 16,500 water-damaged records from the 1851 Census
Authored by Jack Reese from Ancestry In 2005 we finished scanning the UK Census collection from the microfilm reels that were available at the time and discovered that the writing on many of the images was very faint and unreadable in many cases. Certified genealogist and then-head of Ancestry’s Indexing department, noted that as many… Read more
Playing hide and seek with my Manchester ancestors
By Claire Vaughan, Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine Discovering my great great grandparents, Frederick and Mary Bland, in the 1891 Manchester census at the Family Records Centre in London was my first real genealogical hit. That was 13 years ago and I’ve been a family history devotee ever since. But I had no… Read more
Family Tree Maker for Mac is Here!
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Got a Mac? Ancestry.co.uk announced the launch of Family Tree Maker for Mac, the new Mac version of the world’s No.-1 selling family history software. It is available for purchase online starting at £59.99. The program is also available in select retail stores, including Apple Stores, Amazon, Office Depot, and… Read more
Member Trees: A New Way to View Your Ancestry.co.uk Member Tree
AUTHORED BY JEN HODNETT (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Over the last year we’ve been working on a better way to let you view your Ancestry.co.uk 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… Read more
Ancestry Search: Searching using Birth, Death and other Life Events
AUTHORED BY ANNE MITCHELL (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) 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… Read more
Family Tree Maker: Embellish Your Charts
AUTHORED BY TANA L. PEDERSEN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) One of my favourite enhancements in Family Tree Maker 2011 is the ability to add photos and embellishments to charts—anywhere I want. It’s a simple thing, but the result is beautiful family trees I can’t wait to share. You can use your own backgrounds, borders, and embellishments (basically any… Read more
Remembrance Sunday – a national event
At 11am today, the nation will come together to remember those in the Armed Forces who have given so much for their country. Events all over the country will commemorate heroes past and present as we mark Remembrance Sunday. The national Remembrance service is the Cenotaph Parade in Whitehall. Two minutes’ silence at 11am will… Read more
Family at war
Remembrance Day provokes a lot of strong memories for my family. My great-grandfather Alfred fought at the Battle of the Somme in World War I, and died during the 1920s of his gas injuries. And my grandfather Eric belonged to one of the Airfield Construction Units, part of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Europe… Read more
Military communications
On Tuesday I spent a morning at a London studio doing what our PR team call a ‘Radio Day’; which essentially involves doing lots of different radio interviews on different stations back to back The subject of the interviews was the release that day of our military medals collections that I blogged about here earlier… Read more
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