AUTHORED BY JIM MOSHER (FROM ANCESTRY.COM) Several years ago, we launched the Advanced Image Viewer. This viewer provided some much-needed capabilities and was welcomed by our members who could take advantage of it. Our other members – almost 50% of our total base – continued to use a basic image viewer which provided somewhat limited capabilities. Over time, as browsers Read More
Authored by Brian Edwards, Ancestry.com Last October we launched Ancestry Labs to test a few new ideas, and we’d like to thank all those members who contributed a lot of great feedback and discussion around these. Today we’re excited to announce the introduction of one of the ideas, Web Search, into the main Ancestry.com.au search. Read More
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). Based on this feedback, we’ve been Read More
Over the last year we’ve been working on a better way to let you view your Ancestry.com.au 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 your tree at once and Read More
Over the course of this year, we have been making incremental changes to our new search forms in response to your comments and suggestions. We’ve added name and place filters and changed the way you could do searches that included family members. You’ll find we’ve modified the search forms just a bit to make entering Read More
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
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 in your Ancestry.com.au Member Tree that will Read More
In the coming months, 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 these in our Tour of Search Updates. Read More
As many of you may well be aware, we now have Australian vital records available online. The Australia Birth, Marriage and Death Index spans a combined period of almost 200 years (between 1788 and 1985) and covers the entire country. Gone are the days of poring over microfiche or hopping from site to site to Read More
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 favourite data collections, easier access to recent searches and more browsing options. You can see screenshots of these new Read More