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Questions tagged [ancestry.com]

Effective use of the website and products of this commercial genealogy company and its subsidiaries (Ancestry.co.uk, Ancestry.ca, etc.) for your research. Please direct customer service issues (billing issues, questions about your personal subscription, the status of your DNA test kit, etc.) directly to the company.

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Does Ancestry.com have a developer API?

I'd like to access to access data programmatically on Ancestry.com. Other sites provide their own APIs for this: e.g. MyHerigate has the Family Graph API http://www.familygraph.com/. I can't find any indication that such an API exists on the…
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Searching through family tree on Ancestry.com by LOCATION?

If I want to find a particular person in my family tree on Ancestry, I use the field in the top right-hand corner of the screen that says "Find a person in this tree". A drop-down menu then appears, matching whatever I type, that can lead me to that…
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How can I get a link to an Ancestry.com record that doesn't contain search data?

When I find a record on Ancestry.com, the link contains data about the search I performed to find it, presumably so that Ancestry can provide a link to return to the search results. Here's an…
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Downloading images from Ancestry trees?

How to download images from those I have personally added to my Ancestry.com tree? I currently do not own or plan on purchasing the now discontinued FamilyTreeMaker. As mentioned in this "What do FamilyTree Maker users do" question one way is to…
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Separating trees on ancestry.com

I have been working on my family tree on ancestry.com for almost two years. Recently I've expanded the tree to include the ancestors of my brother's wife. However, this new part of my tree has now become very large, and since I am not directly…
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Can I register for ancestry.co.uk if I live somewhere else?

Is it possible to register for an ancestry.co.uk account if I live in a different country? What would be the benefit of doing so? Would my tree connect better to UK member trees? I can't afford the world subscription right now, so am wondering if my…
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My family tree on Ancestry..I cannot find this feature any more "Find a person in this tree"

If I want to find a particular person in my family tree on Ancestry, I use the field in the top right-hand corner of the screen that says "Find a person in this tree". However, I cannot find the feature any more. How can I find a particular person…
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Is there a way to get an overview of ancestry.com member trees?

I recently started on ancestry.com building my family history, starting from nothing to over 150 people in about a month. I see a number of member tree "hints" of interest but is there any way to tell how much data (people, etc.) another person has…
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Viewing relationship to me on Ancestry.com profiles?

Does anyone know whether there is a setting on Ancestry.com to control whether the "view relationship to me" shows on profiles? John Smyth (below) is my 5th great grandfather, and until recently that was written under his name on his profile page,…
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How to incorporate large amounts of data from Ancestry.com

I have found three separate family trees on Ancestry.com that include my ancestor. Each covers branches that the others don't. I would like to incorporate that data into my own database (RootsMagic). Ancestry.com doesn't let you download exports of…
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Hiding an individual person in an Ancestry.com tree

I'm 99% sure the answer is that's it's not possible, but in the off chance that it is: I have someone in my family tree who I really want to include because she is the mother of some of my 3rd cousins. However, many people in the family don't want…
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Searching shoebox on Ancestry.com sites?

My shoebox on Ancestry.com.au now has about 280 items in it. Sometimes I would like to review just those for a particular surname. Is there a way to search your own shoebox on Ancestry.com sites?
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How do I find Haplogroup X from AncestryDNA raw data?

I just received my AncestryDNA raw data and I'm trying to find my Haplogroup X. I used the "ytree.morleydna.com" and I have that data. Can that data be used to determine X? There are specific areas of Central Asia associated with Haplogroup X and I…
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X DNA match without autosomal match but no match with his mother

My husband and I have an X DNA match of 190cM but no autosomal. His mother and I don't match unless you put it down to 3. This doesn't seem to follow any pattern.
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How should I show my step-mother?

I am using an online service for my family tree, and this got me wondering. How should I show my step-mother and my half-siblings? I mean, will my father's marriage to my step-mother be on the same level, underneath or something else?
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