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Ancestry Monthly Update

The Ancestry Monthly is an e-mail newsletter created specifically for Ancestry.com subscribers and registered users. Each issue contains great articles that tell you what’s new on the site and explain how to get the most out of your subscription. Get tips that will help you with your family history, discover exciting new record collections, or check out interesting and humorous finds from readers just like you.

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I Found My Welsh Great-Grandfather!
This month I found two of my Welsh fourth great-grandfathers. And I found them using our FreeBMD collections–indexes to 50 percent of all birth, marriage, and death records kept by the government in Wales and England since 1837. ...
World Archives Project: Documenting the Willie Fosters of the World
Ancestry has created a new tool to allow you to transcribe records. Download a collection of records and transcribe one batch in 15 minutes. All indexes you help to create will be put online at Ancestry for free. ...
Family Tree Maker 2009
Learn what improvements and updates have been made to the latest version of our #1 selling genealogy software, Family Tree Maker.  ...
New, Improved 1900 U.S. Census
Ancestry has partnered with FamilySearch to make better images and indexes of the censuses available. Our first census to get a facelift? The 1900 U.S. census.  ...
Update Your Profile Page--Make a Connection
Some of the best success stories we hear from customers have to do with connections they’ve made with other customers. Long-lost siblings reuniting. Distant cousins breaking down each other’s research brick walls. People willing to take a ...
Household Merge: One Record, One Family, One Click
Tired of adding census record images to your tree person by person? Learn about our new Household Merge feature, which allows you to add a record image to everyone in the household at one time. ...
Ancestry Reunites Long-Lost Siblings
Four long-lost siblings find each other with the help of Ancestry. Read about their miraculous reunion. ...
Supersizing Our Newspaper Collection
The Historical Newspaper Collection has recently doubled in size from 20 million images to 40 million images. Learn more about what's available. ...
U. S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1794–1995
Did your ancestors pass through Ellis Island or another U.S. port? This collection may lead you to the paperwork your ancestors filled out to become U.S. citizens. ...
The Drouin Collection: 37 Million Names
346 years of Quebec vital records are now indexed and online for the first time ever. ...
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