An Unofficial Guide to Navigating Ancestry.com

Your family history is out there. The challenge is knowing how to find it.

Ancestry.com contains an enormous collection of records, family trees, photographs, military files, census documents, DNA matches and historical clues—but for many users, the sheer volume of information can quickly become overwhelming.

An Unofficial Guide to Navigating Ancestry.com is designed to help you move beyond random searching and start researching your family history with greater confidence, organization and purpose.

This practical guide explains how to use Ancestry’s major research tools more effectively, including record searches, family trees, hints, the card catalog, military collections, DNA results and match information. It also shows you how to evaluate what you find, avoid common mistakes and combine multiple sources to build a more accurate picture of your ancestors’ lives.

Rather than simply collecting names and dates, you’ll learn how to connect records, photographs, locations, military service, historical events and family relationships to uncover the larger story behind your family tree.

Whether you are brand new to genealogy or have been researching for years, this guide can help you make better use of the information already available to you—and discover records you may not have known how to find.

Because genealogy is about more than filling in boxes on a family tree.

It’s about discovering the people behind the names.

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