8 posts and columns on Ancestry.com

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Web Sites Use DNA to Create Family Trees

in News on May 15 at 5:01 am PT

Who’s your daddy? Now a Web site may know for sure.

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Archives.com Joins the Ancestry.com Family for $100M

in News on April 25 at 2:36 pm PT

Following its high-profile release of the 1940 U.S. Census as official government partner, Archives.com is being bought by Ancestry.com for $100 million in cash. While Archives.com team members will move over with the acquisition, the company they came out of, Inflection, will stay independent and plans “a major new product offering in the online identity space.”

Digging Deeper Into Roots With Spruced-Up Ancestry.com

in The Digital Solution on January 10 at 3:59 pm PT

Katie takes a fresh look at her family tree using a revamped Ancestry.com.
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Google+ Growth Appears to Accelerate — Was It the Muppets?

in Social on December 27, 2011 at 4:09 pm PT

Google added 12 million new users to its Google+ social network in December, according to external and unofficial (but somewhat officially blessed) statistician Paul Allen.
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Better Advertising Project Raises Millions For Its Web Privacy Seal of Approval

in Media on November 21, 2010 at 9:14 pm PT

Online advertising plus privacy is a combination that freaks a lot of people out. For Better Advertising Project, it’s supposed to be a business.

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The Sluggish Pace Toward an IPO

in News on November 6, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

In light of Ancestry.com’s IPO today, tech site Vator.tv calculated the average age of the venture-backed tech companies that have gone public this year.

When the Web Becomes the Family Dinner Table

in The Mossberg Solution on October 31, 2007 at 12:01 am PT

Myfamily.com serves as a place where members can upload photos, videos, news, recipes, family-tree entries and other data in a few steps. Its ace in the hole is its popular relative, Ancestry.com.
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Building a Family Tree Using an Upgraded Site

in The Mossberg Solution on September 6, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

We tested the recently revamped Ancestry.com, which helps you build a family tree and find related digital documents, and found that it has a sensible layout and a rich variety of tools.
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