Power users of Ancestry are aware of the many features and tools available to help organize their family history research, collaborate with others, and continue to make meaningful discoveries. Join Crista Cowan for a look at some of the feature you might not know even exist.

Crista Cowan has been employed by Ancestry.com since 2004; her involvement in family history, however, reaches all the way back to childhood.  From being parked under a microfilm reader at the Family History Library in her baby carrier to her current career as a professional genealogist, Crista has spent thousands of hours discovering, documenting and telling family stories.

In her time at Ancestry she has been a European Content Acquisition Manager, the Digital Preservation Indexing Manager and the Community Alliance Manager for the Ancestry World
Archives Project.  For the past several years she has been the Corporate Genealogist, with responsibilities for speaking and teaching at genealogy conferences around the world and helping with family history research for public relations stories.  Known online as The Barefoot Genealogist with a weekly internet show designed to help people discover their family history.