Find A Grave Engineering

Posted by Ancestry Team on May 21, 2014 in Development, Mobile Development, Web

Last October Ancestry.com acquired a very exciting property called Find A Grave which focused on collecting content around the graves of family, loved ones and famous people. With the acquisition we wanted to take Find A Grave to the next level and provide the current users new and better experiences around consuming and contributing content. Read More

Ancestry.com to Present Jermline on DNA Day at the Global Big Data Conference

Posted by Ancestry Team on April 9, 2014 in Big Data, Data Science, Development, DNA Tech, Science

Interested in genealogy?  Curious about DNA?  Fascinated by the world of big data?  If so, come check out my talk  at the Global Big Data Conference on DNA day this Friday, April 25 at 4pmPT in the Santa Clara Convention Center!  I’ll cover Jermline, our massively-scalable DNA matching application.  I’ll talk about our business, give a run-through Read More

Throwing Dynamite into the Log Jam

Posted by Ancestry Team on February 6, 2014 in Development, Inside our Offices

I changed teams at the beginning of the year from search services to an R&D team working on some exciting projects. The team has created a distributed system to repeatedly process and analyze many billions of family history records using a complex and time consuming algorithm that has been challenging to scale up and out. Read More

Imagine Future Technology for Family History Simulations

Posted by on November 19, 2013 in Development, Machine Learning, Science

Ancestry.com is a technology company that knows family history – not just a family history company, and not even a family history company that just happens to use technology. Technology, and particularly computing, is essential to our mission to help everyone discover, preserve and share family history. Without it, we could still tell family stories Read More

The Platform Initiative at Ancestry.com

Posted by Ancestry Team on November 18, 2013 in API, Development

Ancestry.com has been operating a massive data service and website for over 17 years. As you might imagine, the needs of the business 17 years ago were much different from what they are now. Currently supporting over two million subscribers and providing access to more than 12 billion records in over 30,000 historical collections, Ancestry.com Read More