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.

The New England states have excellent birth, marriage and death records, often recorded at a town level extending back into the 1600s. Join Crista Cowan as she reviews several databases worth of New England vital records and shows you how to be successfu l in searching them to find your family.

Historical newspapers were the Facebook of their day - recording the comings and goings of everyone in town. Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to find newspapers on Ancestry.com and how best to search them.

The War of 1812 is an often overlooked conflict in history. You may have ancestors that participated or were affected. Join Crista Cowan as she shares information about the records created as a result of the War of 1812 and how they can help with your f amily history.

Growing your family tree often means you end up with a lot of pictures and documents. Join Crista Cowan as she shares how you can categorize your media in Family Tree Maker. This allows you to find it quickly and keep track of what you have and haven't up loaded.

How does the saying go? There are only two things certain in life - death and taxes. Join Crista Cowan as she helps you discover how tax records can help you find your dead ancestors. Here is a link to read more about these excellent records: http://www.archives.com/experts/jackm...

You can upload your own photos and documents to your online family tree (or through Family Tree Maker). You can attach a single picture or document to multiple people. And, in FTM you can even mark specific pieces of media private. Join Crista Cowan fo r this episode of The Barefoot Genealogist and she will show you how to do all of these things.

When you understand what was happening in the your ancestors' world, it helps you to understand them better. Understanding them better often leads to additional records that help grow your family tree. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of her favorite resources for historical research.

Some of you haven't put your family tree online yet due to privacy concerns. Some of you have put your family tree online but don't know that you can share it with family members who do not need an Ancestry.com subscription in order to view it and contrib ute. Join Crista Cowan as she explains the privacy rules for Ancestry.com online family trees and then shows you how to share your tree with others. About the presenter: Crista Cowan has been with Ancestry.com since 2004; her interest in family

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 t he stories of your ancestors' lives.