Ancestry



– Tips and Tricks

Susan LeBlanc, AG®

November 1, 2014

Tips and Tricks for discovering your relatives while exploring on the top genealogy online website. We will walk through the collections and discover tools for researching within collections. This will be an online presentation so please bring some of your research questions and we will try to discover the answers.

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