The Eliis Island Oral Histories are now available at Ancestry.com. There will be no charge for accessing these files. In addition, Ancestry.com is making their immigration records available to the public at NO CHARGE through September 6 - that’s all the way through the Labor Day weekend.
The following news release was received from Heather [...]
The following news release was received from Heather Erickson at 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 [...]
The following news release was received from Jim Ericson, FamilySearch. It sounds terrific! I will be there for sure…
SALT LAKE CITY —Technologists and genealogists from around the world will gather at the first annual RootsTech Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, February 10-12, 2011. The new conference, hosted by FamilySearch and [...]
It’s amazing the stuff you find on the Internet. I just ran across a site with a few details and a picture of the new home belonging to Ancestry.com VP, Josh Hanna. Following is a teaser.
Congrats to Josh and Halicue…
Halicue Hanna and Joshua J. Hanna bought a five-bedroom, three-bath home at 198 Lovell Ave. [...]
Following is an excerpt from a fascinating article dealing with various “famous folks” wills. Ancestry.co.uk is posting 6 million English & Welsh wills running from 1861 to 1941. If you do a Google News search, you’ll come up with all kinds of articles about this. However, this exceprt is from the best one I could [...]
Interesting…
Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM) [Chart - Analysis - News] established a new 52-week high yesterday at $21.21. Clearly investors are enthusiastic about the firm’s prospects. The rally was accompanied by higher than average volume, which adds to the momentum behind yesterday’s move
See the full article at the August 11, 2010 learningmarkets.com.
I’ll admit to being surprised by the press release this morning announcing the acquisition of ProGenealogists, Inc. by Ancestry.com. However, it makes a lot of business sense.
ProGenealogists has been known for doing a lot of the research for the popular NBC program, Who Do You Think You Are? They are also a company whose financial [...]
The following was received from APG. Note that this is just one of 31 positions that Ancestry.com currently has posted at their website.
A Content Acquisitionist is a consultative-sales and business development role working within the U.S. Content Acquisition team to bring a steady stream of high-value historical records to Ancestry.com members in the U.S. and [...]
Randy Seaver posted an interesting blog about Ancestry.com’s second quarter 2010 financial results. Check it out.
LONDON and PROVO, Utah, Jul 15, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM 17.50, -0.56, -3.10%) today announced the closing of its acquisition of Genline.se, the leading Swedish family history Web site.
Genline currently has more than 17,000 paying members with access to 26 million pages of digitized Swedish church records spanning more than [...]
The following news release was received from Ancestry.com:
No. 1 Selling Family Tree Software Planned for Mac Users By The End of the Year
PROVO, Utah, April 28, 2010 – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family resource, today revealed a Mac® version of Family Tree Maker® at the 2010 National Genealogical Society Family History Conference in Salt [...]
The “Who Do You Think You Are?” schedule has been extended by one week. The season finale, an episode focusing on Spike Lee, will be shown on April 30 (previously scheduled for April 24).
The updated schedule follows:
April 2nd – Brooke Shields
April 9th – Sarah Jessica Parker (Repeat)
April 16th – No episode
April 23rd – Susan Sarandon
April [...]
I believe that Friday’s airing of “Who Do You Think You You?” was about as compelling a story as is possible. Matthew Broderick found out that his grandfather was a medic in WWI, wounded in battle in France and gassed as well. He then went on to find that his great-grandfather died in [...]
It’s been announced that Turner Publishing has taken over the publishing and distribution of Ancestry.com’s books. I’ve been wondering what would happen to Ancestry’s book business ever since they announced that they were ceasing publication of Ancestry magazine. Turner has been publishing books with a genealogical side to them forever… Although they aren’t known for [...]
The following announcement was just received:
National Genealogical Society is excited to announce a Free Tour of Ancestry.com and an opportunity to Digitize Your Family Records at the NGS 2010 Family History Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah 28 April—1 May 2010.
Take a Free Tour of Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com is thrilled to offer complimentary tours of Ancestry.com [...]
