Ancestry Member Connect

Ancestry has pre-announced their member connect social network and posted an image of their screen design. It's well worth taking a look. It certainly is an exciting time as leading web sites in the genealogy and family history industry try to move into the social networking world. Ancestry's blog post - http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2009/06/19/coming-soon-a-new-way-to-connect-with-others-researching-your-ancestors/. A partially functional preview of FamilySearch (Alpha) is also showing at http://labs.familysearch.org/alpha/index.php.