Ancestry.com - Webinars

Do you want to know what birth records exist for a specific county? Did you just discover that your ancestor was in the military and need to know what military records might give you the most information about him? The answers to these (and MANY other) ge nealogy questions can be found in the Ancestry.com Family History Wiki. Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to find the wiki, how to search it, and how to explore it because "we don't know what we don't know."

As we head into summer you may have plans to head out on a vacation. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some tips and tricks for turning any family vacation into a family history vacation - without boring your children or spouse senseless.

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 moth and show you how to best search them to find t he stories of your ancestors' lives.

More than 120,000 of you have joined our exciting, new AncestryDNA program. You have received your ethnicity breakdown. You have looked at your cousin matches. You continue to get new cousin matches every week as new people take the test and their resu lts are compared to yours. But, some of you still have questions about how to work with your results to grow your family tree. Join Crista Cowan as she interviews AncestryDNA expert, Anna Swayne, in part two of our AncestryDNA FAQ series. Wat

Black sheep. Family skeletons. Living people. We all have them - even if we haven't discovered them yet. Someone in the family may have shared sensitive information with you and asked you to keep it private. Maybe you discovered that grandpa had anoth er family or that Uncle Charlie was in prison for a while. And, what about information on living people? Join Crista Cowan as she talks about some of the things that come up as we dig into our family history and suggests some of the ethical c

Did you know that Ancestry.com has a large collection of prison records? Did you know that newspapers often published information about local crimes, criminal trials and sentencing? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to find these records and how to search them. You may discover a black sheep in your family tree after all.

Here in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day on the last Monday in May. Not to be confused with Veteran's Day which honors all who have served in the armed forces Memorial Day is a special day set aside to remember those who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces. Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to find records on Ancestry.com that will help you tell the story of our fallen military men and women. She will also share with you some ways you can honor their memory t

Have ancestors from Germany? Join Crista Cowan as she shows you how to get started in German research, what tools you need access to, and how to find out what German records are available on Ancestry.com.

There are a lot of different ways to collaborate with others to grow your family tree. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of her favorite tools, tips and tricks for reaching out and working together. She even has a few secrets for getting information out of family members who might not be all that interested in family history. Want to learn how to use Message Boards to connect with other users? Check out this video: http://ancstry.me/YZz3iw

Women present a unique challenge in family history because their surname changes - from their maiden name to their married name, and maybe again as a husband dies and they remarry. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some additional tips and tricks to findin g the women in your family tree. View our previous video for Finding the Maiden Names of Women here: http://ancstry.me/rEQvss