Dean Foster

   Ancestry and Legacy.com have announced that they have reached an agreement for the sale of Adpay to Legacy.com. Adpay is an Ancestry subsidiary and provides mobile solutions to media companies. Adpay is known for its Memoriams platform that enables people to publish or print obituaries in newspapers conveniently. Legacy.com founder Stopher Bartol says we are happy with Ancestry’s work for the Adpay business. We are very happy to partner with the Adpay business to make our shared mission to help funeral homes and peoples publish obituaries on newspapers everywhere, in every format. Howard Hochhauser, CEO, Adpay says, Adpay has been helping consumers publish obituaries on newspapers, and it has grown obituary submission on newspapers through its national network model over the past years. We are looking forward to continuing that race or momentum that serves both family history researchers and newspaper publishers. Howard also says that as the global leader, Ancestry understa...

Ancestry has released a Scandinavian and Portuguese communities list for members who have ties with these areas and helping people learn more about their family history. To provide better quality updates to our customers, we pull the DNA science to improve our products, resulting in meaningful and highly detailed historical insights. Ancestry has a network of over 15 million people that has a great collection of family trees and patented Genetic Communities technology. Ancestry can identify people with shared DNA and helps in determining where their ancestors lived in the past 300 years. Scandinavian Communities Ancestry has released around 200 new Scandinavian Communities to discover a link to family in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway. Some Ancestry members will try to find new connections in Eastern Norway and learn more about their ancestors who migrated to America in the past. Many city residents and farmers living in Eastern Norway regions began feeling crowded becau...

 On average, one out of every eight women gets affected by breast cancer. It’s a heartbreaking statistic. And learning about it is important to spread awareness among women. Ancestry joined hands with Bright Pink to launch the Breast Cancer Awareness Month partnership in October 2020. It’s a national and non-profit program to prevent or detect breast or ovarian cancer at an early stage. Ancestry is feeling honored to work with Bright Pink on its mission to empower women to browse breast cancer risks with ease and confidence. The Bright Pink and Ancestry has an information center. This center’s name is  The Pink Door , and it provides free access to educational stuff about genetic testing, breast cancer screening, and what actions one should take against potential risks. The Bright Pink and Ancestry together have introduced a new video series. It’s called  Real Conversations About Breast Cancer . This video series will feature conversations with genetic counselors...

 Ancestry has taken a significant step to make essential records available to everyone online. Ancestry has done this as part of its philanthropic initiative and has made online millions of Nazi and Holocaust persecution-related archives. These records will be accessible to anybody on https://www.ancestry.com/alwaysremember . Ancestry has done a partnership with Aroslen archives; it is an international center on Nazi along with the victims of National Socialism. The archive contains millions of name and other information about those affected by Nazi and Holocaust persecution. Ancestry has made these records online now. Before, the process was complicated and requires manual requests of copies, and that takes time to search and provide the information. It has been 70 seen since the people faced Nazi and Holocaust persecution, and there are many living witnesses but, now the numbers have dropped to around 4,00,000. We believe that the Nazi and Holocaust incidents do not become a remo...

For 30+ years, Ancestry has been adding family history content and developing research tools to its historical records collection to help people discover their family’s past. People around the world have been using AncestryDNA services to find out critical details about their ancestors. To take its historical record collection a step further, Ancestry recently announced the first phase of the published historical wedding collection. Ancestry trained its AI to find key facts from engagement and marriage announcements after researching through over 600 million pages of digital historical newspapers. Adding More Family History Content Ancestry is using Newspapers.com Marriage Index data to find and add more family history content to its collection. Newspapers.com Marriage Index has the largest collection of searchable digital newspaper published historical engagement and wedding announcements. It contains rich information about marriage applications, engagements, and wedding announcements...

Personal preventive practices matter a lot when it comes to safeguarding yourself against coronavirus. Ancestry did a research study on the trending preventive practices people are using to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ancestry researched over 750,000 of its volunteering clients and found clear-cut insights about the severity of COVID-19 infection. Let’s have an in-depth look on the trending preventive measures during this COVID-19 pandemic. Ancestry’s Research Study on wearing masks indoors AncestryDNA launched the  COVID-19 Research Study  in April 2020 to see the response of individuals to the coronavirus infection. This study helped AncestryDNA understand why some individuals have high chances of getting a severe infection while others suffer only mild effects. AncestryDNA has included volunteers in this study from all 50 states in both rural and urban areas. After researching for some time on 3000 individuals, Ancestry DNA found that the individuals wh...