Still looking for that elusive ancestor who "crossed the pond?"  Join Crista Cowan for a look at immigration into the United States throughout history and where the best places are to look for information regarding their immigration.

Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the upcoming genealogy events she'll be attending.  You'll also get a look at new features and tools available to make your family history easier and more fun.  Then she will review the databases full of new content r eleased in the past month and show you how best to search them to find the stories of your ancestors' lives.

What's New at Ancestry:  May 2015 Edition

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the upcoming genealogy events around the world.  You'll also get a look at new features and tools available to help make your family history easier and more fun.  Then she will review some of the databases full of new  content released in the past month and show you how best to search them to find the stories of your ancestors' lives.

What's New at Ancestry:  April 2015 Edition

It's been three years since we launched AncestryDNA.  Now, with more than 800,000 people in our database, and new cousins connections being made every day, there are lots of questions about how to get the most out of your AncestryDNA experience.  Join Cri sta Cowan and Anna Swayne as they revisit some AncestryDNA frequently asked questions.  In this episode, they discuss how to purchase and activate a kit, provide some basic information about genetic inheritance, and answer some of our most freq

AncestryDNA FAQ:  Revisited

When you attach a record directly from Ancestry into your online family tree, the source citation is created for you.  But, what about those records that you upload yourself?  Join Crista Cowan as she reviews the basics of crafting a genealogy source cita tion in your online tree or in Family Tree Maker.

Basics of a Genealogy Source Citation

Like all hobbies, there are some expenses involved in family history.  Order a couple of birth certificates from a state vital records office or make one trip to an archive and your Ancestry subscription may look like the most inexpensive tool you use for  genealogy research.  Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of her favorite tips for getting the most out of your family history dollars.

Genealogy on a Budget

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at upcoming events, new features and tools to help make your family history easier and more fun, and databases full of new content released in the past month. She'll give you her best tips for using all of these things t o find and share the stories of your ancestors' lives.

What's New at Ancestry:  March 2015 Edition

With more than 15 billion records now online at Ancestry.com, doing a global search might not be the most effective way to locate records about your ancestors.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at some smarter searching tips and tricks, including one little s hift in your perspective that could open up a whole new worlds of records.

With more than 15 billion records now online at <a href="http://Ancestry.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>, doing a global search might not be the most effective way to locate records about your ancestors.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at some smarter searching tips and tricks, including one little s hift in your perspective that could open up a whole new worlds of records.

Smarter Searching:  Look for Records Not People

One of the great things about Family Tree Maker is the ability to explore your tree by location.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at HOW to enter locations so you can get the most out of them later, WHY you want to do this and WHERE you can access features t hat allow you use locations to accelerate your family history research.

Family Tree Maker:  Exploring Locations to Enhance Your Research

There are millions of new records being put online every single week.  Some of these records are what we call, "Index Only."  Join Crista Cowan for a discussion about what exactly these records are, what they do and do not tell you and what to do next to  continue climbing your family tree.

Index Only Records

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If you have the World Explorer Plus subscription to Ancestry, then you also have access to Fold3.  Join Crista Cowan for an introductory look at the great resources available on this website, particularly for U.S. military research.

Introduction to Fold3

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at upcoming events, new features and tools to help make your family history easier and more fun, and databases full of new content released in the past month.  She'll give you her best tips for using all of these things  to find and share the stories of your ancestors' lives.

What's New at Ancestry:  February 2015 Edition

You might know that the 1890 U.S. Federal Census was destroyed.  But, did you know that there are other missing records due to fires, floods, time and a plain old lack of record keeping.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at some of the missing records that af fect many genealogists and how to get around some of those losses.

Missing Records

Join Crista Cowan for a review of the new records and tools that came online in 2014.  Then she will walk you through some great ideas for genealogy goals that will carry you into the new year.

Genealogy Goals for the New Year

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the new features and tools available to help make your family history easier and more fun.  She'll also review the databases full of new content released in the past month and show you how best to search them to find  the stories of your ancestors' lives.

What's New at Ancestry.com:  January 2015 Edition

FindAGrave.com is an amazing resource for genealogists.  It is made even more useful when you can link the memorials for family members together.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at how you can contribute to making this FREE resource even more valuable.

<a href="http://FindAGrave.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FindAGrave.com</a> is an amazing resource for genealogists.  It is made even more useful when you can link the memorials for family members together.  Join Crista Cowan for a look at how you can contribute to making this FREE resource even more valuable.

Find A Grave:  Linking Families

You've spent thousands of hours researching your family tree.  You've collected documents and scanned old photographs.  What happens to all of your hard work after you die?  What happens to your Ancestry account?  Join Crista Cowan for a look at some opti ons for genealogy estate planning.  You're never too young to think about it.

Genealogy Estate Planning

In your online tree at Ancestry and in Family Tree Maker there are dozens of life events that you can choose from to document the lives of your family members.  Join Crista Cowan as she walks through the options and circumstances under which you might use  them.  You'll have a whole new appreciation for the way you can share the stories of your ancestors' lives.

Life Events:  Telling the Stories of Their Lives

What's New at Ancestry.com:  December 2014 Edition

You get those shaky leaf hints and then you do a few searches.  But, with more than 15 billion records now available online at Ancestry.com and billions more available at archives, libraries and courthouses around the world, how do you know when you've do ne a "reasonably exhaustive search?"  How do you even know what records you should be looking for to document the lives of your ancestors?  Join Crista Cowan for a look at WHY you want to create a source checklist.  Then she'll share one of her

You get those shaky leaf hints and then you do a few searches.  But, with more than 15 billion records now available online at <a href="http://Ancestry.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a> and billions more available at archives, libraries and courthouses around the world, how do you know when you've do ne a "reasonably exhaustive search?"  How do you even know what records you should be looking for to document the lives of your ancestors?  Join Crista Cowan for a look at WHY you want to create a source checklist.  Then she'll share one of her

Genealogy Source Checklists

An expert leads this podcast with great information. Lately it seems the podcast narrowing its focus from general skills to specific items found on Ancestry. I understand why but  the system was not broken, stay global please. And I agree that the production needs vast improvement.

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Webinars that were presented by <a href="http://Ancestry.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a> using streaming media technologies to broadcast audio and video with power point slides over the Internet to a large audience.

Ancestry.com - Webinars

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