The Ancestry Android app is here!
AUTHORED BY KENDALL HULET (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) For all of our Ancestry.co.uk users that have been patiently waiting for an Android app, your wait is over! We’re happy to announce the launch of our new Android app just in time for the holidays. Download the app now. The new Ancestry app for Android phones and tablets… Read more
Image Viewer Updates – Print Current View Now Available
AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Thanks to all of you who have provided feedback on the new Advanced Image Viewer on the blog, via the message boards, through the survey, and directly via email (feedback-imageviewer@ancestry.com). We appreciate the input – both positive and negative – and have used it to further improve the viewer.… Read more
Christmas Challenges Revealed: The answers
As part of this month’s Ancestry Advent Calendar we set you a series of fun and festive challenges, asking you to track down suitably seasonal entries among our records. Thousands of you joined in, so a massive THANK YOU to everyone who took part! We revealed the answers the day after each challenge on our Facebook page but in case… Read more
Postcard Poser – December
Can you guess the location of this month’s postcard poser? Seasonally-themed (but not in the obvious way), this one is also tricky for a major reason which I’m sure you clever lot will take no time to point out! For those who are new to this feature on our blog, every month we share a… Read more
Our favourite meal of the year: Christmas dinner!
On Friday evening my husband and I found ourselves watching the BBC’s ‘Stuffed: The Great British Christmas Dinner’ – a wonderful documentary looking at how our much-loved Christmas meal came to be what it is today. For the first time ever my husband and I will be spending Christmas just the two of us this year as… Read more
My story – from the Wild West to starting an online business
By our guest blogger Bryher Scudamore, who is managing director of autodotbiography ltd. I have just put my bank account, my home, life-savings and my future on the line? Why? Is it because there is insanity in my family, and I’ve inherited it? Not as far as I know. But there is adventure, and risk,… Read more
1911 Census – millions more searchable records
Good news today for millions of you tracing your ancestors in many of Britain’s most populated counties. We’ve completed the second part of our 1911 Census transcriptions, so records covering London, Lancashire, Yorkshire and 17 other crucial counties are now fully searchable! We’ve now transcribed more than half of the 35 million records that make… Read more
Advent Calendar Challenge – Day 1 answer
Yesterday we launched the Ancestry Advent Calendar and challenged you to find out, by searching our 1891 Census, what the name of Mary Christmas’s eldest son who had left home by 1901 was. The answer was JOHN. How did you get on with our festive challenge?
Victorian Christmas Traditions
The Nativity of Christ has been celebrated for centuries and yet most traditional customs were of pagan origin. There then followed a period where Christmas celebration was almost non-existent due to the condemnation of pagan customs and superstitions during the Protestant Reformation. The Puritans then abolished all public celebrations after the Civil War and Christmas… Read more
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