Ancestry.co.uk 1851 Census Press Release

ANCESTRY.CO.UK LAUNCHES THE LONG AWAITED 1851 CENSUS ONLINE WITH THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Ancestry.co.uk has launched the first ever complete 1851 England and Wales Census online in association with The National Archives. In compiling an additional 17.7 million names, six of the seven publicly available censuses are now online through Ancestry.co.uk. As a result, the database now boasts more than 300 million entries, making it easier to trace your ancestors back through six consecutive decades from 1901.

While the 1851 Census has been the most eagerly awaited by family history researchers, Ancestry.co.uk has already begun work on the 1841 Census and aims to complete the series before the end of 2006.

*Familiar and famous names within this Census include:

· Charles Darwin had returned home from his discoveries in the Galapagos Islands and published The Voyage of the Beagle, to be found at home with his wife and children.

· Florence Nightingale had yet to embark on her nursing career and still lived at home with her parents at the age of thirty four.

· Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer and builder of tunnels, bridges, railways and ships, was living with his wife, children and mother at 17 and 18 Duke Street in Westminster, London – above his design offices.


Josh Hanna, Managing Director of Ancestry.co.uk said; “We’ve never seen such anticipation for a collection as we have for the 1851 census. We know census records are a great starting point and the most popular way to search for your relatives because they contain so much information that really brings your ancestors to life.”

Hanna continues; “The interest has always been there as we know 25 million people are doing or are interested in doing their family history but not everybody has always had the opportunity. We want to deliver a good quality and reliable service to our members, which include adding these new collections as soon as we can to assist in their research. For beginners, with all the content in one place, it’s the perfect way to start and continue on the journey of your family history.”

In addition to the 1851 Census, Ancestry.co.uk is the only online resource working with The National Archives that offers six complete Censuses dating from 1851 to 1901. These were previously only available by trawling through records offices. Every single record has been carefully indexed so you can search by first name, surname, birthplace, county and date, all helping to paint the picture of how your family lived. Once you’ve tracked them down you can find out where they were living and who with, and how they made a living.
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About Ancestry.co.uk:
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Ancestry.co.uk is part of the MyFamily network of websites. MyFamily.com, Inc. is the leading online network connecting families, present and past. MyFamily’s tools, content and community empower individuals to find the people most important to them — and discover and share their unique family stories. The MyFamily network includes MyFamily.com, Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com and RootsWeb.com. MyFamily also publishes Family Tree Maker®, the #1 selling family tree software, Who Do You Think You Are Family Tree Maker, Ancestry Magazine, Genealogical Computing Magazine, over 50 book titles and numerous databases on CD-ROM.

Hi Everyone,

Just to let you know (as if you didn't already know) that the UK 1851 Census is now live.

You can find some new banners on the CJ interface together with some text links (don't forget you can also use the re-direct link now available).

In the UK we have already had an absolutely HUGE day with people coming to the site to view the 1851 Census so make sure you get some content and links up to ride the new census wave.

Thanks

Paul.

Re-Directs and Deeplinking on Ancestry.co.uk

Hello all,

GREAT news.

Re-Directing/Deeplinking links on the Ancestry.co.uk affiliate programme is now possible. Many of you have been asking for this functionality to deeplink to your desired pages within Ancestry and the other Myfamily.com sites.

Sign in to your CJ interface (www.cj.com) and go to the GET LINKS section. Click on TEXT LINKS and you'll find the new link added, number 10402952.

Click GET HTML and you'll be shown an overview of the link. Here you can encrypt links, set links to open in a new browser or hide the tracking code in the link. Just below these options click SHOW ADVANCED OPTIONS.

Showing the advanced options allows you to add your own SID tracking but most importantly this is where you add the destination URL - The place where you want to click through to. Don't worry. This will initially be populated with a default URL but you just have to replace it.

Depending on where you are redirecting or deeplinking make sure you replace the text link message. It currently says REDIRECTING TEXT LINK.

You'll then have your trackable Ancestry.co.uk affiliate programme url ready to use.
Any questions then please just ask.

Paul.

Fantastic Ancestry News and New Christmas Banners

Hi All,

Wanted to let you know the good news…

In the month of September Ancestry was the top ranked Genealogy site by ComScore with over 1.75 MILLION unique users, 1.1 Million of which were driven from the Ancestry.co.uk site.

A huge thank you to all the UK affiliates who have been driving this traffic to Ancestry.co.uk – let’s keep it going.

Other good news is that we now have the Ancestry.co.uk Christmas banners up and running so please sign in to CJ.com and take a look (They can be found under Hot Products).

Christmas is a good time for sales and with the forthcoming release of the 1851 UK census (England & Wales) demand is going to be huge so it’s a great time to ensure you have your links up and running!!

Keep checking back as we are due a number of other changes/releases soon – all that are going to help the Ancestry.co.uk affiliate programme continue it’s unprecedented growth.

Thanks

Paul.