Trading cards: Ancestry
AI provides faster access to historical sources at Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com uses artificial intelligence to make historical sources available faster. Census records that previously took months to digitize can now be made searchable...
More and more companies want to tell you which diseases you are predisposed...
23andMe and MyHeritage have done it, now Ancestry is doing it too. The companies that offer genetic DNA testing aim to give you insight into your...
Church records from York 1538-1995, now online
More than two million parish register entries from York, England, are now available online. The entries span baptismal records, marriages and burials.
The publications that...
Ancestry scrolls up for Geneanet
In return, they get 4 million members and 30 billion records of family history data, from more than 80 countries.
The US-based genealogy company Ancestry has...
Warns against uncritical use of transcribed material from the Digital Archive
A few years ago, the National Archives initiated a collaboration with Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch (AMF) to transcribe large parts of the scanned sources....
Dismissed lawsuit against Ancestry
Ancestry, the American service provider for genealogists, has recently come under fire for its database of American school textbooks.
Recently, the company was sued for using...
New CEO wants to take Ancestry in a more social direction
Recently, Ancestry hijacked one of Facebook's vice presidents, Deborah Liu. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Liu tells us that she wants to drag Ancestry across...
Ancestry.com takes up the fight against COVID-19
Although several countries are now gradually opening up to a normalization of society, we will have to live with the coronavirus around us for...
You can now search Danish church records
Last year, Slekt1 reported that the Danish National Archives had partnered with American Ancestry to have Danish church records digitized and indexed....
Launching the world's largest database of death notices and obituaries
The database, which contains 262 million obituaries and death notices, is run by the well-known company Ancestry.
Since close relatives are often mentioned by name...
