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The following press release is from Ancestry.com Ancestry.com and the Associated Press Bring Historical AP Archives Online New Agreement Provides a View of the Past through Historical News Reports (Provo, Utah) – November 18, 2013 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest Continue reading Ancestry.com and the Associated Press Bring Historical AP Archives Online
From the November 1, 2013 posting on the Ancestry.com blog New records are piling up like the leaves on my front lawn. Veterans Day has its roots in WWI, and we added several WWI-era databases last week. Georgia was home Continue reading Ancestry.com New Content: Military Records, Virgin Islands Vaccination Journals, and the 1921 Census of Canada
Word has been received that the Danish Immigrant Museum of Elk Horn Iowa has changed its name to Museum of Danish America. They have stated that while their name is changing, their mission will still the same. The only national Continue reading Danish Immigrant Museum Changes its Name
The following News Release is from Ancestry.com: Update to AncestryDNA gives a deeper level of insight with expanded information for twenty-six regions (PROVO, Utah) – October 17, 2013 – Ancestry.com DNA, LLC announced today an update to its popular DNA Continue reading AncestryDNA™ Now a More Comprehensive DNA Test for Exploring Ethnic Origins
Ancestry.com has acquired Findagrave.com. That’s not surprising, as the Find A Grave data is essential to genealogy research. Ancestry promises to keep Find A Grave a free site – and they will build mobile apps for entering data, the same Continue reading Ancestry.com Acquires Find A Grave
The following teaser is from an article posted in the September 27, 2013 edition of Bloomberg.com. Ancestry.com, the world’s largest family history website, won the dismissal of a lawsuit filed in Delaware by investors seeking more money in a $1.6 Continue reading Ancestry.com Investor Suit Over Buyout Dismissed
PROVO, Utah, Sept. 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry.com LLC, the world’s largest online family history resource, today announced the launch of a new, upgraded version of its Ancestry App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, with features designed to Continue reading Ancestry Releases New App for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch – Supports iOS 7
This could be the most important development of the year – if not the decade. If Ancestry is helping to get records from the granite mounain vault digitized and indexed – and makes 60 million dollars available to do so, Continue reading Ancestry.com & FamilySearch to Collaborate, Making Another Billion Records Available Online For the First Time
The following is from Ancestry.com: The popularity of a royal baby’s first name increases by an average of 32 percent the year after the baby is born Historically, Prince Andrew (born in 1960) has had the biggest impact on baby Continue reading Royal Prince to Inspire an Extra 1400 Georges
I see that Ancestry.com has posted the New York Naturalization Petitions, 1794-1906. There are 1,198,635 records in the collection, wheich is from the National Archives. This is an amazing collection of records. On finding that the collection was posted, I Continue reading Ancestry.com Posts 1,198,635 New York Naturalization Petitions, 1794-1906
PROVO, Utah, July 16, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ancestry.com LLC, the world’s largest online family history resource, will release financial results for its second quarter 2013 on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, after the market closes. Following the release, the Company Continue reading Ancestry.com LLC to Announce Second Quarter 2013 Financial Results
The following teaser is from an article by Sarah Perez at the July 4, 2013 edition of Techcrunch.com: Shoebox, the mobile photo archiving app Ancestry.com acquired from San Francisco-based 1000memories last fall, has now gone live at its new home. Continue reading Shoebox 3.0 Allows Genealogists to Upload to Ancestry, and More…
Ancestry.com recently posted a number of indexed and imaged Florida censuses. The database is called Florida, State Census, 1867-1945. It’s a large database, containing 4,131,298 records, most of those records being the 1935 and 1945 censuses. Although the 1885, 1935, Continue reading Review of the Florida State Census, 1867-1945, Found at Ancestry.com
I see that Ancestry.com has just posted a new database made up of 3,784 new records from the digitized Savannah, Georgia Records of Titles 1791-1971. The data is mostly from the Laurel Grove Cemetery, although early entries also seem to Continue reading Savannah, Georgia, Records of Titles, 1791-1971 digitized and posted at Ancestry.com
Ahh… How things are evolving. The following excerpt is from an interesting article by Jordan Novet posted at gigaom.com: Sure, genealogy nerds might have fun poking through U.S. Census records, birth certificates and other documents in pursuit of information about Continue reading How Ancestry’s “Story View” Works