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Title: 7:00 PM: Ancestry Today


1
700 PM Ancestry Today
  • A talk about Ancestry.com content

2
Ancestry Today
  • What is online,
  • how to use it and
  • whats new within the last few months

3
Good news / bad news
  • Every issue about ancestry is a mixed bag
  • If youre a glass is half empty guy you wont
    like them

4
MyFamily.com
  • Soon to be Heritas.
  • Ancestry.com
  • Genealogy.com
  • MyFamily.com (the website)
  • Rootsweb.com
  • And lots of things like ourfamilyhistory.com

5
A Tale of Two Islands
Ancestry Island
Census
Business Practices
Vital Records
Search
Military
Trees
Immigration
Message Boards
Methods
Genealogy Island
6
A Bit about how Ancestry works
Board of Directors
Ads on the site
Sr Management
Product Mgmt
Marketing
Development
Guys who design pages
Guys who talk to customers
7
Basic User Experience
Google or affiliate link
Landing Page / Search Template
Search result list
Pay Wall
Single Record Page
Image (where available)
8
Whats online
  • The best census collection anywhere
  • Immigration
  • Military
  • Other record types
  • User content
  • SSDI Comments

9
How to use it
  • The high points on search
  • Correcting the site
  • Message boards

10
Whats New
  • New Look
  • 57
  • New Tree Product
  • Broader and deeper content

11
How Content is chosen
  • No one knows
  • Lou Szucs has asked for naturalizations for
    years, without results
  • Most recent Canadian census
  • Inconsistent field keying and search

12
1000 AM Getting the Most From Ancestry.com.
  • Organizing, finding, and sharing information
    about your family using this site.

13
Finding
  • Recent changes
  • Exact Search
  • Ranked Search
  • Searching from a PILF
  • Searching from a tree

14
Organizing
  • My Ancestry
  • New Tree Product
  • Old Tree Product and tree strategies

15
Sharing
  • Send to a friend
  • Publish
  • AWT / Worldconnect
  • Message Boards

16
1130 AM Rootsweb The Best-Kept Secret in
Genealogy.
  • Rootsweb, one of the first Internet genealogy
    sites, has not lost its luster.

17
200 PM Online Databases Fact or Fiction.
  • A talk about databases the good and the bad,
    what to believe, what not to believe, where
    pitfalls lie, and discoveries out there waiting
    for you.
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