Are you looking for living or recently deceased family members? Join Crista Cowan for a look at The Obituary Times Daily Index and the U.S. Obituary Collection. With more than 44 million records (and more being added every day), these two collections ar e vital to descendancy research.

Did you know that not all records on Ancestry.com are indexed. Without an index these records will never show up in a search but they could be just the key you are looking for to learn more about your ancestors. Join Crista Cowan for a demonstration of how to locate these records and how to save them to your tree.

When would your ancestors' births, marriages, and deaths be recorded by the government and when would they be recorded by the church? Join Crista Cowan for an answer to this question. She'll explain some basic differences between civil registration and church records and what you might expect to find in both that will help you learn more about your ancestors and their families.

Knowing more about the religious beliefs of your ancestors can help you understand them better and can often lead to more genealogy records. Those records can help you understand even more about them and their lives. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some tips and tricks for working with the Quaker records now available 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.

Take a quick research time out and do a little family tree spring cleaning. Join Crista Cowan for five tips to cleaning up your family tree. You might be surprised at how it refreshes and revitalizes your family history research when you learn to look a t it in a different way.

Just because your ancestor may have a unique name does not make him the only person in the world with that name. He might not even be the only one in his town with that name. Join Crista Cowan for some quick tips about how to know if the John Smith you are tracking is YOUR John Smith.

Tax day is upon us! Our ancestors had to pay taxes, too. Some of those records have been left behind and can offer up some great family history clues. Join Crista Cowan as she shares where to find tax records on Ancestry.com and what they can tell you about your ancestors.

There are a lot of different ways to do family history research. Many of you are familiar with ancestry or pedigree based research where you identify the parents and the grandparents and the great-grandparents and so on back through time. But, you could also do descendancy research - identifying the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of your ancestors. Join Crista Cowan for some of her best tips about this fun and fascinating kind of research.

Probate records are one of the richest sources of family history information in existence. Join Crista Cowan for this beginner's look at what's in a will.