Ancestry used AI to uncover a mind-blowing family connection. Now the company is trying to do it again

Kyle Miller, the VP of product at Ancestry—the online genealogy company that also operates Newspapers.com and Find A Grave, among other sub-brands—has worked for the company for more than a decade. But it was just recently that AI tools were able to surface a mind-blowing connection to his past. Miller and his wife were married in Provo, Utah, in a building that, when he was young, had burned down and since been replaced. He had seen the fire himself and, with his father, even watched the…