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Ancestry.com launches DNA service

Last updated Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 11:46am

PROVO -- Ancestry.com has launched AncestryDNA, a new affordable DNA test that enables purchasers of the DNA test and subscribers of Ancestry.com to combine new state-of-the-art DNA science with the world's largest online family history resource and a broad global database of DNA samples.

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Rachel Denning, Dan Lynch and Brian Speckart browse the recently released 1940s census data at the Find My Past booth during the RootsTech conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City this week. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Pay-as-you-go U.K. company entering U.S. genealogy market

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Evidence of an explosion of interest and technology is the best way to describe the RootsTech genealogy conference, which runs through today at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

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Genealogy techies to swap secrets at RootsTech Conference

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 11:06am

SALT LAKE CITY -- The public is invited to register for next week's RootsTech Conference, sponsored by FamilySearch, at the Salt Lake City Convention Center.

A family history and technology conference, the Thursday through Saturday event is designed to bring developers and users of technology together in one venue.

More than 3,000 participants have signed up for the conference. Representatives from Google+, Instructure, Ancestry.com, FindmyPast.com (the United Kingdom's largest genealogy service provider, debuting in America) and FamilySearch are participating in this year's conference.

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Ancestry.com opens WWII rolls for free viewing

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 2, 2011 - 1:10pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Ancestry.com is offering free use of a database with 60 million records on U.S. servicemen of World War II to mark the Dec. 7 anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.

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Helen Wright holds a phone showing a picture of her and her twin, Peter, who were adopted as infants. Wright and her husband, Robert, seen here Tuesday at their Bountiful home, recently tracked down the twins’ biological family. The family reunited last June in New Hampshire, and Helen says it feels like they have never been apart. (MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Bountiful woman credits Ancestry.com for finding family

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 10:46pm

BOUNTIFUL -- Helen Wright wasn't ever one of those adopted children carrying with them a sense of loss. After all, she and her twin, Peter, were raised as the only children of a storekeeper in Massachusetts.

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Ancestry.com prices stock offering at $42 a share

The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 9:39am

PROVO, Utah — Ancestry.com, a family history website, said Wednesday it priced a secondary offering of about 4.4 million shares at $42 per share, a discount of 1 percent from the stock's latest closing price.

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Sarah Palin and President Barack Obama share an ancestry that dates back to the 1600s with a Massachusetts settler and Protestant pastor named John Smith, according to Ancestry.com. The president and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh also share a common ancestor, a Virginia settler from 1656 named Richmond Terrell.

Ancestry.com links President with both Palin and Limbaugh

Margaret Talev

Last updated Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - 9:20pm

WASHINGTON -- Rush Limbaugh calls President Barack Obama "imam," even though he knows the president isn't a Muslim. Sarah Palin has openly doubted the president's "cojones."

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