Ancestry.com - Webinars

Have ancestors from England? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to get started in English research, what tools you need access to, and how to find out what English records Ancestry.com has available on our website.

Some of the records you find on Ancestry.com are just indexes. The originals are held by an archive, vital records office, church or library And those original records can have a lot more valuable information to help you in your genealogy quest. Join Cris ta Cowan as she shows you how to discover which repository holds the original records you are interested in and how to contact them to order a copy of that original document.

Family Tree Maker 2012 has a power filtering option that allows you to create custom lists of people in your tree. Want to see all the men in your family tree who were eligible for the World War I Draft? You can do that in FTM. Want to find anyone in y our family tree who ever lived in a specific city? You can do that in FTM. Want to know how many descendants you have identified for a particular ancestor? Yep. You guessed it. You can do that in FTM. Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how t

Do you ever get distracted when climbing your family tree? Off you go, up branches and down limbs until you aren't quite sure just where you are or how these people are related to you. Join Crista Cowan as she shares how to set research goals and create a research plan. She'll also share some of her favorite tools and tips to keep from getting distracted but still enjoy the genealogy journey.

Join Ancestry Anne 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.

Join Crista Cowan and AncestryDNA Expert, Anna Swayne as they discuss some new filters now available to you to work with your AncestryDNA cousin matches.

Have you tried out the new Story View in your online family tree? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to use Story View to tell your family story in a way that you can share it with your whole family - even those who may be a little genealogically chal lenged.

If you haven't encountered it yet, you will. Many of our ancestors came from a time and place where there just were not that many marriage partners to choose from. So, cousins marrying cousins was a pretty common occurrence. Join Crista Cowan as she sh ows you how to handle "pedigree collapse" in your own family tree without creating duplicates of the same people.

Have ancestors from Canada? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to get started started in Canadian research, what tools you need access to, and how to find out what Canadian records Ancestry.com has available on our website.

Did you know that you can create a custom fact for just about anything that may have occurred in your ancestor's life? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you what facts already exist in Family Tree Maker 2012 and how to create a custom fact to record hair col or, alma mater, or anything else you might want to document. She'll also show you how to create a custom report for anyone in your family who shares a similar trait.