Ancestry DNA Communities Update: June 2021

Ancestry has just updated their regional Communities in the DNA Regions for your Ethnicity Estimates.  In this episode, we are getting the inside scoop from Ancestry’s superstar and corporate genealogist Crista Cowen. Ancestry now has 1400 DNA regions around the world.  Learn what new regions were create that your DNA might fall into.

Ancestry Updates + Your Questions Answered… from Rootstech 2020!

Ancestry Updates + Your Questions Answered by Crista Cowan

Learn about the latest Ancestry announcements from Rootstech 2020 including the completion of the WWII Draft Registration Cards, the NYC Birth, Marriage, and Death Records. Plus some of your Ancestry.com questions about ancestor photos, setting your tree to private vs. public, sharing your Ancestry tree, and documenting enslaved persons in your tree… all answered by […]

Ancestry.com: Free New Holocaust Records (August 2019)

Watch Crista Cowan, the Barefoot Genealogist, explain about two new very important record sets have been released by Ancestry.com for free. This is in partnership between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives, “…we are honored to announce that we have digitized millions of Holocaust and Nazi persecution related archives.” Ancestry reports in their blog.  These records […]

Thrulines™ Q&A with Crista Cowan.

Thrulines Q&A with Crista Cowan

In this “footnotes” episode I went straight to the source and interviewed Crista Cowan of Ancestry fame, to help get answers about Ancestry’s new ThruLines™. These are the questions that viewers asked from previous episodes here on Genealogy TV as well as some of the other new DNA tools.   *** SHOW NOTES *** Previous […]