Articles About Site Features
We’ve launched Ancestry Labs – and we’d love your feedback
AUTHORED BY TONY MACKLIN (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) We have just announced a new “Labs” area on Ancestry.com. Labs is a separate site where we can give you a sneak preview of new ideas and concepts for helping family history research (but that are not yet ready for prime time). Most importantly for us, it gives us a chance… Read more
Find out how you are related to other people in your Ancestry.co.uk Member Tree
AUTHORED BY JEN HODNETT (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Have you ever found a person in your tree and asked yourself “how are we related”? I know I have. In fact, many of you have asked for something that would help you easily find an answer to that question and we’ve listened. We’ve just added a new feature… Read more
Browse the Place Pages
AUTHORED BY LAURA DANSBURY (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) I posted a blog about the new pages in new search a while ago. But there were so many changes that I think each one should have a dedicated post. The location of an Ancestor’s birth or residence greatly influenced their life story. By browsing by location, I found… Read more
Family Tree Maintenance on Wednesday the 25th August at 07:01 GMT.
The Ancestry.co.uk Family Tree Service will undergo scheduled maintenance Wednesday for about 3 hours beginning at 07:01 AM GMT. During this time Ancestry Member Trees, OneWorldTree, some portions of My Canvas, the sections of the Home Page that are related to Member Trees and the sections of MyFamily.com that are related to Member Trees will… Read more
Ancestry.co.uk Search: New way to add Family Members to your search
AUTHORED BY ANNE MITCHELL (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making a number of changes to the new search forms. We hope to make searches more flexible, and in response to your feedback we have improved some searches that were hard to do. You can get a sneak preview of some of… Read more
Find more records with help from the Ancestry.co.uk community
AUTHORED BY STEPHANIE CRUZ (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) It’s always fun to find records about your ancestors. It’s even more exciting to discover records that you never knew existed. But how do you find these records when you didn’t even know to look for them? Here’s where the Ancestry.co.uk community can help you. Ever notice the Member… Read more
Updated new search homepage, place pages, recent searches & recently viewed collections
AUTHORED BY LAURA DANSBURY (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) We listened to your feedback and we are updating our search pages (New Search only). We gathered input from members through many sources and consolidated your feedback. You asked for improved navigation, maps, shortcuts to your favorite data collections, easier access to recent searches and more browsing options. You… Read more
Ancestry Member Trees Up and Running
Hi everyone, I’m happy to let you know that the Ancestry Member Trees are now up and running again. We were making some upgrades in the tree system last night and encountered bugs that took us a few hours to work through. Our only solution was to take down the trees to fix the problem. It… Read more
New Photo Upload Tool
AUTHORED BY KENNY FREESTONE (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Today we added to the site a new tool to help you quickly and simply upload multiple family history photos and documents at one time. To try this out in your own family tree, you’ll want to click the “add media” or “add photo” links, just as you would… Read more
New search category pages
AUTHORED BY LAURA DANSBURY (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) With feedback and beta testing from members, we’re working on updates to many areas of Ancestry.co.uk search. Our newest update enhances the category pages. The forms themselves on the category pages haven’t changed and will continue to work in the familiar way. But we’ve made several enhancements in the content surrounding the… 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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