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Find a More Complete Story of Your Ancestors’ Lives | Ancestry Webinar with Crista Cowan

Ready to go beyond names, dates, and family trees? Join Crista Cowan, Corporate Genealogist at Ancestry^®, as she introduces Ancestry Networks—a powerful new feature that lets you uncover the deeper connections that shaped your ancestors’ lives. Learn how to organize and explore the friends, associates, neighbors, military units, and communities that influenced your family story.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

Use Ancestry Networks to break through brick walls in your family tree

Apply the FAN Club method (Friends, Associates, Neighbors) to deepen your research

Organize heirloom photos, DNA clues, and records into interactive networks

Use new tools like photo recognition and sticky notes for streamlined research

Build collaborative projects around migrations, military service, enslaved communities, and more

Crista shares personal stories—like researching her grandfather’s WWII unit and tracing a ship of 800 immigrants—to show how Networks can unlock stories you’ve never heard before.

Chapters:

0:00 – Welcome and Intro to Ancestry Networks

5:00 – What Makes a Complete Story? (The FAN Club Concept)

15:00 – Real-Life Examples: WWII, Photo Albums, Migration Groups

30:00 – Demo: How to Create and Use a Network

45:00 – Tips, Tricks & What’s Coming Next

Start using Ancestry Networks today and discover new paths to understanding your ancestors—and yourself.'