Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the upcoming genealogy events she'll be attending. You'll also get a look at new features and tools available to make your family history easier and more fun. Then she will review the databases full of new content r eleased in the past month and show you how best to search them to find the stories of your ancestors' lives.

Still looking for that elusive ancestor who "crossed the pond?" Join Crista Cowan for a look at immigration into the United States throughout history and where the best places are to look for information regarding their immigration.

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at the upcoming genealogy events around the world. You'll also get a look at new features and tools available to help make your family history easier and more fun. Then she will review some of 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.

It's been three years since we launched AncestryDNA. Now, with more than 800,000 people in our database, and new cousins connections being made every day, there are lots of questions about how to get the most out of your AncestryDNA experience. Join Cri sta Cowan and Anna Swayne as they revisit some AncestryDNA frequently asked questions. In this episode, they discuss how to purchase and activate a kit, provide some basic information about genetic inheritance, and answer some of our most freq

When you attach a record directly from Ancestry into your online family tree, the source citation is created for you. But, what about those records that you upload yourself? Join Crista Cowan as she reviews the basics of crafting a genealogy source cita tion in your online tree or in Family Tree Maker.

Like all hobbies, there are some expenses involved in family history. Order a couple of birth certificates from a state vital records office or make one trip to an archive and your Ancestry subscription may look like the most inexpensive tool you use for genealogy research. Join Crista Cowan as she shares some of her favorite tips for getting the most out of your family history dollars.

Join Crista Cowan for a quick look at upcoming events, new features and tools to help make your family history easier and more fun, and databases full of new content released in the past month. She'll give you her best tips for using all of these things t o find and share the stories of your ancestors' lives.

With more than 15 billion records now online at Ancestry.com, doing a global search might not be the most effective way to locate records about your ancestors. Join Crista Cowan for a look at some smarter searching tips and tricks, including one little s hift in your perspective that could open up a whole new worlds of records.

One of the great things about Family Tree Maker is the ability to explore your tree by location. Join Crista Cowan for a look at HOW to enter locations so you can get the most out of them later, WHY you want to do this and WHERE you can access features t hat allow you use locations to accelerate your family history research.

There are millions of new records being put online every single week. Some of these records are what we call, "Index Only." Join Crista Cowan for a discussion about what exactly these records are, what they do and do not tell you and what to do next to continue climbing your family tree.

If you have the World Explorer Plus subscription to Ancestry, then you also have access to Fold3. Join Crista Cowan for an introductory look at the great resources available on this website, particularly for U.S. military research.