Each photo you upload during the sweepstakes period will count as an entry into the sweepstakes*. We’re helping everyone that builds a family tree become familiar with the site, and how easy it is to add pictures to enrich their family’s story. Uploading a photo to your family tree is simple in 5 steps:

1. Select “Start your tree.”

2. Begin building your tree. Start with a single person and add their birth and death information. Branch out to include parents, grandparents, etc. (optional). Name your tree.

3. If you are not currently a member, create your free Ancestry.com account by filling out the online registration form. Be sure to fill in all required fields and set your Community Settings as desired.

4. On your family tree, select “Person View” of a family member, then “Add a Photo” of or relating to the applicable person*

5. Follow the instructions to upload a photo and add a description.
Family history research can be fun, rewarding, and even exciting at times. Many of our searches take us to faraway lands and distant places. Often we imagine what it would be like to live there when our relatives did, and what an ordinary day in their shoes was like. Well, now we’re offering a chance to travel back to the land of your ancestors’ heritage in the Ancestry.com Ancestral Vacation Sweepstakes!
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Visit Ancestry.com anytime between September 1 and September 30, upload up to 5 photos a day of earlier generations* of your family, and you could win an all-expense paid† trip to visit any of your ancestors’ place of origin. Register, start your tree and upload photos absolutely free. You’ll be able to learn first-hand details about their lives and their homeland that may give you a better picture of who they were, and maybe a little about yourself as well – information you can’t get from traditional research.
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In addition to the grand prize trip, each week we’ll also choose ten winners for additional prizes. Two first place winners will win a portable scanner, perfect for digitizing family photos for your album. Four second place winners will receive a free year subscription to Ancestry.com. And four third place winners will receive a personalized and unique copy of Our Name in History, a book detailing the history of their family name!

START NOW. Upload pictures to your family tree. You could be on your way to your ancestors’ homeland!

*Limit of 5 photo uploads per day. Please see Official Rules for photo eligibility requirements
†See Official Rules for details

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY.  Legal residents of the 50 United States (D.C.) and Canada, 18 years or older and who own or have access to a camera and/or a scanner before September 1, 2006.  Ends 9/30/06.  To play and for Official Rules, including odds, and prize descriptions visit www.ancestry.com.  Void in Quebec and where prohibited.