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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
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
Updated…Ask the Experts
In this month’s issue of Updated one of our resident Ask the Experts Chris Paton answers some puzzling questions. Chris Paton is an expert in English, Scottish and Irish family and runs the Scotland’s Greatest Story research service. This month he solves a puzzling census mystery and explains how a missing maiden name can be… 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
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
Ancestry Search: Improvements to Basic Search
AUTHORED BY ANNE MITCHELL (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Why have we changed the search form? Over the past year, we have been working with a wide range of Ancestry members, from some of our most experienced members to relative newcomers. We’ve had a lot of help (including over 10,000 responses to the preview we published in April).… Read more
Family Trees: New Tree Viewer Launch
AUTHORED BY JEN HODNETT (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Last November, we launched a new tree viewer in an optional preview. If you chose to view your tree using the new view, we gave you the opportunity to tell us what you thought of the changes we’ve made. Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback, we have turned off the old… Read more
It’s Christmas!
Well, nearly… Advent has arrived, and to celebrate we’ve set up a very special area of the site. We’ve provided you with your very own Ancestry Advent Calendar. Just like an ordinary advent calendar, this has 25 windows, and you can open one every day in the run-up to Christmas. However, you won’t find pieces… 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
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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