Postcard Posers – March
Can you guess the location of this month’s special St Patrick’s Day Irish postcard poser? For those who are new to this feature on our blog, every month we share a postcard-style photo taken somewhere in the UK, or in this case in Ireland. It could be a particular property, a famous landmark, or just… Read more
Find your living relatives with help from Peopletracer
If you were lucky enough to make it to the world’s largest family history event, Who Do You Think You Are? Live at London’s Olympia, you may have met some of the Peopletracer team who were presenting on the ancestryshop stand. As data specialists, they’ve been able to help us provide you with an extremely… Read more
Irish records – a history unlocked
We took a trip over the Irish Sea this morning, and released a raft of new records that will help people all over the world to uncover their Irish roots. Our four new collections date from the 19th century, providing a detailed view of life before and during the Great Famine. This tragedy brought about mass… Read more
Advocating Ancestry at Who Do You Think You Are? Live
“My mother always said we were related to a mayor of Cape Town in the 1930s, can we find out more about him?” It’s a slightly exotic enquiry from my first visitor at the Who Do You Think You Are? Live show, and it yields some colourful snippets. Within about 10 minutes, we’ve tracked the… Read more
The story of The Foundling Hospital in 18th Century London
I recently visited the fascinating Threads of Feeling exhibition at The Foundling Museum near Russell Square in London. The museum provides an absorbing insight into 18th century London and tells of the work of the Foundling Hospital, which took in children whose parents could not support them or who were abandoned, from 1739 through to the… Read more
Census unplugged: how census looks on the inside
By Helen Fisher, the 2011 Census Digital Marketing Team Content Editor When I first came to work for the census back in 2009, my knowledge of it was limited. All I knew was that it was about a big form that everyone had to fill in, was taken once every ten years and helped the… Read more
New iPad and iPhone app
How would you like to be able to see and navigate your Ancestry.co.uk family tree on your iPhone or iPad so you can more easily share family stories visually? How would you like to be able to view the Census and other records you’ve attached to people in your Ancestry.co.uk family tree on your iPhone… Read more
Don’t forget you can search records, build your family tree and discover more about your family history over on the main site.
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