With 4 billion records available on Ancestry.com, discovering your family’s story is easier than ever. Join our Ancestry.com experts as they teach you the best ways to search for—and find—your ancestors.  

New to Ancestry.com? Long-term genealogist and author of the Ancestry Weekly Discovery, Juliana Smith, will help you find your first family member on a historical record. Note: This webinar is intended for those who are new to Ancestry.com but can also be used as a refresher course for more experienced users. 

Learn about the new features in Family Tree Maker 2010 with our product experts. Join us, and we’ll show you how to make the most of your new Family Tree Maker. Additionally, we will have some of our developers from the Family Tree Maker team to help with answer some of your questions. We encourage you to submit questions in advance by visiting our Family Tree Maker blog. We hope you will join our team and the Family Tree Maker community as we try to give you the tools to get the most out of Family Tree Maker.

Between 1820 and 1920 over 82% of immigrants to the United States came through the port of New York. Even if they migrated elsewhere, over 100,000,000 Americans have an ancestral paper trail that involves New York City. Learn how to trace your New York ancestors, whether they were passing through or called it home.

We've made a few changes! Join Anna and Crista for a demonstration of the new features in the keying tool and to learn a few tips and tricks to improve your keying and arbitration experience. If you have questions you would like the World Archives Project team to answer please submit them in an email with "webinar" in the subject line to worldarchivesproject@ancestry.com.

Ancestry.com invites you to attend a free, one-hour online seminar regarding Expert Connect, an innovative family history service that links you to family history experts around the world. If you have ever hit a brick wall in family history research or have the desire, but no time for family history, help is at your fingertips. This is your chance to become familiar with all that Expert Connect has to offer. Learn about the services offered and how easy it is to engage a professional to help you accomplish your family history goals.

We hear from our members all the time that some of their most meaningful family history experiences have come from connecting with another Ancestry.com member. That’s why we created Member Connect—a set of features designed to vastly improve your ability to collaborate with your fellow family historians. You’ll find elements of Member Connect throughout Ancestry.com, including within your family tree, while viewing census images and other historical records, and in a list of recent research activity about your ancestors that is available on your homepage. In this one-hour online presentation, David Graham, Member Connect product manager, will show you how to use Member Connect to discover who else is researching your ancestors, connect and share with them, save new information from other members to your tree, and manage your profile and privacy settings.

International research doesn’t have to be foreign to you. Your ancestor’s homeland may seem far, far away, and your goals of researching those Old World ancestors may seem just as distant. But there has never been a better time for family historians embarking on international research. There are many new tools at your fingertips that can help you overcome many of the challenges inherent in international research.

Make a lasting impression at this year’s family reunion with a descendant family tree poster or descendant-based family history book. In this hour-long webinar, you’ll learn how to create a book or poster that your relatives will be talking about long after the reunion’s over. Descendant books and posters also make great birthday and anniversary gifts. During the webinar, three randomly chosen participants will receive coupons for a free 36"x24" poster (a $39.95 value).

If you discovered a dusty set of 1852 county courthouse records in your grandmother's attic, you'd take a look, right? Not getting a DNA test is like leaving those records unexplored--you may be missing out on amazing leads. Our panel explains the basics of Ancestry.com DNA testing. We'll present a simple science overview, how to take the test, and the payoffs for family history. Learn how: - DNA testing for genealogy works--in easy terms. - To understand and apply your results to grow your tree. - Ancestry.com DNA testing can continue to pay off for years. - Women can benefit from a paternal lineage test. - To use Ancestry.com DNA features: Groups, Transfer to Tree, and Ancient Ancestry.