Searching Successfully to Reveal Your Ancestor's Story on Ancestry.com

Date:

Saturday, Mar 23

Time:

9:45 - 10:45 am

Room:

255E

Session ID:

G64

Type:

Presentation

Difficulty:

TBD

Track:

Genealogist

Syllabi:

2013_Syllabus_--_Searching_Succ (DOCX)
2013_Syllabus_--_Searching_Succ (PDF)

Description

Learn to use Ancestry.com search tools to extract your ancestor’s records out of the billions of records available on Ancestry.com. learn to use the newly discovered records to tell the story of your ancestor’s life.

Presenters

Anne Mitchell

Anne Gillespie Mitchell is a Senior Product Manager at Ancestry.com. She is an active blogger for FindingForgottenStories and Ancestry.com and writes the Ancestry Anne column for the monthly member newsletter.
She has been chasing her ancestors through Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina for many years, and is pursuing her CG certification. She also has earned Boston University’s CPE Genealogical Research Certificate.
Before joining the Ancestry.com team, she worked in the internet industry as a software engineer and a product manager for companies including CNET, Webshots and Excite@Home. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, where she also taught Computer Science instructor for 8 years. Anne’s passion for history and computers merged into a lifelong fascination of genealogy and developing advanced search techniques to carve important clues out of historical documents.