I received this press release from Ancestry.com today: “Over a year ago Ancestry.com created Expert Connect as a way to expand its service offerings and provide additional assistance for members through an elite group of professional genealogists and researchers. Through this service, customers were given the opportunity to hire genealogists to retrieve records, perform research […]
ANCESTRY.COM RELEASES FAMILY TREE MAKER FOR MAC ON THE MAC APP STORE Downloadable Version of the #1-Selling Family History Software Available Today SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., January 6, 2011– Ancestry.com today announced the launch of Family Tree Maker® for Mac on the Mac App Store. Family Tree Maker for Mac provides an easy way to save […]
WEST POINT U.S. MILITARY CADET APPLICATION PAPERS, INCLUDING THOSE OF ‘STONEWALL’ JACKSON, COLONEL CUSTER AND GENERAL SHERMAN, RELEASED BY ANCESTRY.COM Site Commemorates Veterans Day with Free Access to Entire U.S. Military Records Collection PROVO, UTAH, November 10, 2010 – Ancestry.com, which has the largest online collection of historical military records, today added more than 115,000 […]
Ancestry.com provided this press release today. Check out the advertising in Times Square two postings below this one! LIFE STORIES OF ELLIS ISLAND IMMIGRANTS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR THE FIRST TIME AT ANCESTRY.COM More than 1,700 first-hand audio recordings now available for free online. PROVO, Utah, September 1, 2010—Ancestry.com announced today it has launched a […]
W A neat way to find out that Ancestry.com is offering free access to Immigration Records this Labor Day weekend! Times Square in NYC is certainly showing how mainstream genealogy has become!
This press release just arrived from Ancestry.com. NEW ANCESTRY.COM FAMILY TREE MAKER 2011 INTRODUCES MORE THAN 100 ENHANCEMENTS TO SOFTWARE No. 1 Selling Family Tree Software Offers Simplicity and Depth for Recording Family HistoriesPROVO, Utah, August 31, 2010 – Ancestry.com today announced the release of Ancestry.com Family Tree Maker® 2011, an improved version of the […]
A press release from Ancestry.com: World’s Largest Family History Web Site Continues Sponsorship of Critically Acclaimed TV Series That Takes a Personal Look at Celebrity Family Histories PROVO, Utah, August 25, 2010 – Ancestry.com is pleased to announce it has extended its relationship with NBC for the second season of the “Who Do You Think […]
FGS 2010 welcomed more than 1800 participants throughout the week’s activities. Participants included more than 1000 conference registrants, 169 librarians, and nearly 100 volunteers. We were also joined by 500 eager beginning genealogists during Saturday’s Ancestry.com events. Others included 102 registrants at the Association of Professional Genealogists Professional Management Conference and countless area residents who […]
This message just received from Suzanne Russo at Ancestry.com. I am glad to see that at least some are being repeated. “As you may have already heard, NBC is planning to re-air four episodes of the Who Do You Think You Are? series starting on Friday, August 13 at 8/7c. As a sponsor of NBC […]
Late this afternoon, MarketWatch carried a press release showing that Ancestry.com has completed the acquisition of the large Swedish research website Genline.se. I am speculating that this will soon give Ancestry World Deluxe subscribers access to “26 million pages of digitized Swedish church records spanning more than 400 years from the 17th to the 20th […]