Ancestry.com - Webinars

Don't search for something that just isn't there. Spend 5 minutes with Anne Gillespie Mitchell aka Ancestry Anne and learn how you can determine when vital records were recorded in your ancestors' states and counties.

We all make mistakes - especially when we are brand new to family history. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some best practices for identifying and correcting common mistakes in your family tree. She'll also share a few bonus tips for correcting mistakes in the trees of others.

You took the AncestryDNA test. You got back a list of cousin matches. But, you're not quite sure how you are related to them or what to do with that information. Join Crista Cowan and AncestryDNA Program Manager, Anna Swayne, for a discussion about bes t practices for contacting your DNA cousin matches. They'll also share some of their tips for collaboration so you can work together to discover who your common ancestors might be.

Valentine's Day is just around the corner. What better time to pause and preserve the love stories in your family tree? Join Crista Cowan as she shares how to discover, preserve, and share the love stories that brought you into existence.

RootsTech is a genealogy conference that combines the best of technology and genealogy into a four day event. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of her favorite moments from the conference. She'll also share with you how you can access some of the bes t classes from the event in RootsTech video archives.

The 1870 U.S. Federal Census was the first time freed African Americans were enumerated with their complete names, ages and birthplaces. They were grouped together in households and had occupations listed. Prior to that enslaved blacks were only listed by age and gender. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some tried and true tips and tricks for identifying your enslaved African American ancestors in slave schedules, wills, estate inventories, and plantation records.

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the new features and tools available to help make your family history easier and fun She'll also review the databases full of new content released in the past month and show you how to best search them to find the st ories of your ancestors' lives.

Many of our ancestors had surnames that could be spelled a variety of ways. Add to that illiteracy, sloppy record keeping and poor handwriting and you may wonder if you will ever find them in the records you are searching. Join Crista Cowan as she share s how Soundex works and explains how to use wildcards on Ancestry.com.

Many of our ancestors lived in times and places where birth records were not created. However, baptismal or christening records often lend clues to birth information. Join Crista Cowan for a look at these valuable records and how to use them to further your family history research.

If you've been doing family history for any length of time, you've come across conflicting evidence. Family names spelled different ways in different records. Ages and birthplaces varying wildly from census to census. That inevitably leads to the quest ion - what do I enter in my family tree? Join Crista Cowan for a look at recording and resolving conflicting evidence.