1911 Census images online today
I’m pleased to announce that we’ve completed the first stage of our 1911 Census release. Any of our members can log in to the site right now, and browse the scanned record images from all over England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. If you’ve already traced your tree up to 1901,… Read more
Share your Tree with Friends and Family
AUTHORED BY STEPHANIE CRUZ (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Did you know that you can share your member tree with friends and family for free? Send them an email invitation and they can see your tree once they register for an Ancestry.co.uk account. A subscription is not required for them to see your tree. A new and easier… Read more
Ancestry Guest Blogger Kate Lloyd: Finding my real mother…
By Kate Lloyd, Ancestry.co.uk member All my life my mother refused to talk about her family except to say that she had a twin sister, tall brothers and had been an orphan. On going through her documents after she died I found no birth certificate and so I sent off for it from the Public… Read more
Updates made to our England & Wales BMD Indexes
A brief post to let you know that we recently updated the following collections: England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005 Like with our Marriage collections earlier this month, the majority of updates focused on updating the County Field to be a more… Read more
Postcard Posers – May
Can you guess the location of this month’s postcard poser? It may look easy at first glance but there’s a twist, can you spot what it is? For those who are new to this feature on our blog, every month we share a postcard-style photo taken somewhere in the UK. It could be a particular… Read more
Exciting new feature: Ancestry Web Search
Last October we launched ‘Ancestry Labs’ to test a few of our new ideas and would like to thank all our members who contributed with their fantastic feedback and suggestions. Today we’re very excited to announce the introduction of one of the ideas, Web Search, into the main Ancestry.co.uk search. Why are we launching Web Search?… Read more
Family Trees: We’re giving you control of family merges
AUTHORED BY JEN HODNETT (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Family merge is a great feature that we’ve had on the site for a number of years. This feature makes it easy to save family trees and certain census records to multiple people in your tree—without having to save the record separately for each person. However, the merge has had one… Read more
Introducing…The World Memory Project
Almost three years ago we started the Ancestry World Archives Project with a vision of involving the genealogy community to make more records accessible and free. Since that time more than 76,000 of you have helped index over 71 million records! As collections of records are completed we’ve been putting them online for free for anyone to… 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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