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.

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

Almost daily someone posts an image snippet in a genealogy group or message board asking for some assistance reading a record. They can't tell what the surname is or what occupation their grandfather was engaged in. They can't read the cause of death or the city their immigrant ancestor came from. Join Crista Cowan for a look at some basic tips and tricks for improving your paleography skills so you can read your genealogy record like a pro.

Join Crista Cowan for the sixth video in our series on the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS). Step five is creating a "soundly reasoned, coherently written conclusion." You will learn both WHY this is such an important step in your family history resear ch process and HOW to do it.

With more than 15 billion records now available for searching on Ancestry.com, we want to provide you with as many ways to discover your ancestors and their stories as we can. Shaky leaf hints. Suggested records. And several different ways to search. Join Crista Cowan for a sneak peek at the updated search forms you will soon have available to you on Ancestry.com.

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.

Do you have Mexican ancestry? Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of the top tools and record collections that will help you find success in tracing your Mexican ancestors.

Have you looked for your ancestor coming into the Port of New York/Ellis Island and come up empty? What about Boston? Philadelphia? Baltimore? Join Crista Cowan for a look at the "lesser known" ports of immigration that your ancestor might have used on their journey into the United States.

You have searched and searched and searched and are still coming up empty when looking for information about a particular family line. Join Crista Cowan for a look at five possible reasons why you might not be finding your ancestor. Even one of them cou ld provide you with the spark of an idea you need to bust right through that #genealogy brick wall.

Join Crista Cowan for the fifth in our series on the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS). Step four is "resolution of conflicting evidence." You will learn both WHY this is such an important step in your research process and HOW to do it.