2 Weeks Until Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE 2012

Only two weeks left until Who Do You Think you Are? LIVE! If you’re planning on attending the world’s largest family history show then make sure you take advantage of our exclusive ticket offer at www.ancestry.co.uk/WDYTYA.
We’ll be at stand 616 with a catalogue of exciting things including:

Free computer access
You’ll be able to spend time on Ancestry.co.uk and access all our… Read more

Bastardy Orders & Certificates in Warwickshire Quarter Session Records

Authored and kindly supplied by Robert Eyre, Senior Archivist at Warwickshire County Record Office.
Bastardy records are a familiar class of record that can turn up in the parish chest.  They form part of the administrative records of a parish that began with the introduction of the Elizabethan Poor Law.
Essentially a parish was responsible for the… Read more

ENTER OUR CHARLES DICKENS-RELATED PRIZE DRAW

To celebrate Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday, our favourite Victorian literary author, we are giving away two copies of Nick Barratt’s Who Do You Think You Are? Encyclopedia of Genealogy books, signed by TV presenter and historian Tony Robinson.
This Encyclopedia of Genealogy is a step-by-step guide to tracing your family history and will help you bring… Read more

GUEST BLOGGER: When the burden of battle becomes too much to bear

Guest blogger, Ancestry.co.uk member and AncestryUK Facebook fan Rob Arguile is currently a student at the university of Hertfordshire, studying for a degree in Geography. He has been researching his family history since he was 17 years old and discovered a story of inspiration and sadness. This post is a tribute from Rob to his great… Read more

Interactive Image Viewer (Beta)

AUTHORED BY LAURA DANSBURY (FROM ANCESTRY.COM)
Record images are the foundation of your family history, and we want to create a rich viewing experience that will bring these historical documents to life. The new Interactive Image Viewer (currently in beta) includes interactive tools to help you view and interpret the information on the record as well… Read more

Postcard Poser – January

Can you guess the location of this month’s postcard poser? It has changed use over the years but this old building still has one of the best views in town…
For those who are new to this feature on our blog, every month we share a postcard-style photo taken somewhere in… Read more

130 Years of London Electoral Registers Released Today!

AUTHORED BY RUSSELL JAMES
Our NEW London, England, Electoral Registers, 1835-1965, take you back through the history of Britain and London’s democratic system. More than that, they let you trace your ancestors’ movements between census years and well into the 20th century, giving you far greater precision in your timeline of their lives.
Electoral registers listed everybody in… Read more

GUEST BLOGGER: My ancestor risked his life for horses

Guest blogger Andrew Mills is a passionate family historian and Ancestry.co.uk member who discovered this great war story of bravery in his past.

My paternal grandfather’s elder brother Bertie Sidney Mills was born during the second quarter of 1874 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Although his father’s occupation was, according to census returns, a clerk of engineers, Sidney (as… Read more

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 allows you to… 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 Beta 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.
Today, an updated… Read more