Introducing Member Connect
Connecting you to others researching your ancestors
Millions of people are discovering their family stories on Ancestry. Member Connect helps you stay in touch with other members who also happen to be researching your ancestors. You can contact them, share research and be notified when they add new content about your ancestors to their public family trees.
How to build your network of researchers in Ancestry Member Trees
We scan public member trees on Ancestry to find members researching the people in your tree. You can decide if you want to connect to matching ancestors in other trees to build a network for each ancestor in your tree.
You choose how much to share
Member Connect brings you new content about your ancestors, but you decide what you want to add to your family tree. Ancestry will never automatically save information from your network to your tree. You can also choose which of your research activities other members can see.
Once you connect a matching ancestor from another member’s tree to one of your ancestors, we let you know when that member adds new life events, source records, photos or stories featuring your ancestor.
You choose how much to share
Member Connect brings you new content about your ancestors, but you decide what you want to add to your family tree. Ancestry will never automatically save information from your network to your tree. You can also choose which of your research activities other members can see.
You can easily save new information you discover from other members to your tree. You choose exactly what new life events, source records, photos and stories to add.
You choose how much to share
Member Connect brings you new content about your ancestors, but you decide what you want to add to your family tree. Ancestry will never automatically save information from your network to your tree. You can also choose which of your research activities other members can see.
Connect through historical records
Member Connect not only shows you the member activity on the ancestors in your family tree, it also shows you who has saved or commented on records featuring your ancestors.
Stay up to date from your home page
A box on your home page will show you all of the Member Connect activity surrounding your ancestors. This includes activity around records you’ve saved or commented on and members you’ve connected to through your family tree.
Do you have any feedback about Member Connect? Please email us and let us know what you think.