Ancestry.com in the News

Gather 'round the Web 2.0: Seven tips for Wholesome Online Family Fun

Dec 6, 2007 — Webware
Ancestry.com is the top tip of family-oriented websites that can bring families together during the holidays.

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Digging into family roots, beware of thorns, worms

Dec 5, 2007 — Montreal Gazette
Ancestry.ca, a newly launched online service, can provide insights into your family's past, but you might just uncover knaves and bounders and reprobates lurking near the trunk.

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When the Web Becomes The Family Dinner Table

Oct 31, 2007 — Wall Street Journal
MyFamily.com is a place where family members can upload and share photos, videos, news, recipes, family-tree entries and other data in a few steps.

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Bush's Surprising Family Tree

Oct 29, 2007 — CBS Early Show
Ancestry.com uncovers some surprising relations in President Bush's family tree.

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Cousins by Dozens: Fruitful Search through Family Trees

Oct 29, 2007 — New York Post
Ancestry.com reveals unexpected family relations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama

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Marie Antoinette, Is That You?

Oct 25, 2007 — New York Times
Ancestry.com DNA helps reporter Michelle Slatalla discover whether she's related to Marie Antoinette, Jesse James of Genghis Khan.

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Family trees flourish on the Internet

Oct 18, 2007 — Agence France Presse
Spectrum Equity Investors underscores success of online family history by purchasing a majority stake in The Generations Network

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Ancestry.com parent sold for $300 million

Oct 17, 2007 — Reuters
Spectrum Equity Investors purchases majority stake in The Generations Network

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"Roots" searches dig into DNA

Oct 16, 2007 — Paul Foy — Associated Press
Ancestry.com DNA helps Chris Haley, nephew of author Alex Haley, discover that a branch of his family extends to a white European man

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Research Your Family Roots

Aug 20, 2007 — Melissa Perenson — PC World
Revew of Family Tree Maker 2008, noting that this is the first version of the software that has truly been seamlessly integrated with Ancestry.com.

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Latest Genealogy Tools Create a Need to Know

Aug 18, 2007 — Ellen Rosen — New York Times
Ancestry.com is the most widely used of several website that help users create family trees

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Searching for Family Roots

Aug 6, 2007 — AOL Black Voices
Ancestry.com is a resource useful in tracing African American family trees.

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Genealogy - A swab-in-cheek look at your family

Jul 10, 2007 — Associated Press Podcast
Podcast discussing DNA and family history

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Discover Your Family's Past With Today's Technology

Jul 3, 2007 — ABC News - Good Morning America
Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com are featured tools that help you discover your heritage

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Putting the 'Genes' Back into Genealogy

Jun 22, 2007 — NPR - Talk of the Nation
Ancestry.com is teaming with a genetics lab to offer DNA testing kits to help people trace their heritage.

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Ancestry.com adding DNA test results

Jun 18, 2007 — Donna Borak — Associated Press
Ancestry.com to help amateur historians add DNA results to their family trees

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Family Trees 2.0

Jun 18, 2007 — Douglas MacMillan — BusinessWeek
Ancestry.com is among websites designed to recharge the oldest social network in human history: the family

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Web Site Provides Millions of Military Records

May 25, 2007 — Newshour with Jim Lehrer - PBS
CEO Tim Sullivan discusses the recent Ancestry.com launch of 90 million military documents dating back to the first English settlement in Jamestown, Va.

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Ancestry Site Opens Index of War Records

May 25, 2007 — Elizabeth Blair — NPR, Morning Edition
Ancestry.com is making millions of U.S. military records available online for free through June 6, the anniversary of D-Day in Europe

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Ancestry.com Puts Free Military Records Online

May 24, 2007 — Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ancestry.com unveils some 90 million war records, such as draft cards and muster rolls, from the 1600s through the Vietnam War.

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Site Gives Free Access to U.S. Military Records

May 24, 2007 — PC World
Ancestry.com unveils some 90 million war records, such as draft cards and muster rolls, from the 1600s through the Vietnam War.

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War records reveal America's past

May 24, 2007 — Laura Smith-Spark — BBC News, Washington
Ancestry.com brings together military records featuring 90 million Americans who have fought in wars from the 1600s through the American Civil War to Korea and Vietnam.

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Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online

May 24, 2007 — Donna Borak — Associated Press
Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam .

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Black Roots Seekers Face Hurdles

Mar 21, 2007 — BBC News - Washington
Now, websites and the digitization of records once confined to dusty books - have made roots research easier for African-Americans.

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Sharpton Case Drives More to Find Roots on Web Site

Mar 13, 2007 — Pittsburgh Post Gazette
The recently discovered Al Sharpton/Strom Thurmond connection has more people shaking the branches of their family trees.

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