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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.

As the database of AncestryDNA users grows, you likely have more and more DNA cousin matches on your list with new ones showing up every week. It would be easy to get overwhelmed. Join Crista Cowan as show shows you how she uses the surname and location filters to focus her family history research and grow her family tree.

City directories are a very rich genealogy research. But, you may wonder just what they could possibly tell you besides your ancestors name and address. Join Crista Cowan as she explains how to use city directories to trace your ancestors' residences, o ccupations, and even, possibly when and where they died. She'll also show you how to use city directories as a tool to differentiate between your ancestor and someone with a similar name.

Did you know that not all records on Ancestry.com are indexed? Even when there is an index available, sometimes it is useful to view an entire set of passenger lists or a whole neighborhood in the census. Join Crista Cowan as she shares with you how to us e the "browse" features for any collection of images on Ancestry.com. You'll discover how to understand records in context and gain another tool for finding those obscure relatives that might help you break through a genealogy brick wall.