(Records can be magnified on a computer screen as well, which is helpful when studying small cursive writing or type, like a 1935 passenger list for a cruise to Bermuda that included my Great Aunt Romayne’s name.) A pinch-to-zoom gesture let me clearly read names and details in each record. Using the iPad on my lap, related records from Ancestry felt more personal than seeing them on a computer. In four swipes, I dove back in time to read about my mother’s father’s mother’s mother, Florence Antonia Ford, and her family in the 1910 Census record. The site’s pricing can be confusing given the various membership and access levels.Ī simple right-to-left swipe on the iPad screen shifted my view of the tree from one branch to the next. The iPad app was the most enjoyable way of exploring my family-tree records. I found a computer to be the best tool for inputting family information like names, birth dates, death dates and locations using and the Family Tree Maker software. I tested, its iPhone and iPad apps and the Family Tree Maker desktop software on a Mac.
I found several new things on Ancestry this time around, including more census data, ship manifests for two cruises an aunt took, and more suggested family-tree data from other users. The addition of mobile apps plus the syncing feature make more useful and will bring me back to the site more often.
And the site holds over eight billion records, including content from a partnership with the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. It’s now available as a mobile app for the iPhone, iPad and Android phones. Since I last tested Ancestry in 2006, the company has revamped its desktop software program, Family Tree Maker, so the program can synchronize with Web-based data on. The World War I draft card for the author’s great grandfather.
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