This document provides an overview of the genealogy resources available on Ancestry.com, the world's largest family history website. It allows users to build family trees, search census records, and find birth, marriage, death records and more from various countries. Ancestry.com contains billions of records across collections including census data, military records, immigration records, photos, maps, and user-submitted family trees. The website provides tips for advanced searching and filtering search results.

1. Discover your ancestors with the world's largest family history website. Start a family tree, browse census records and more online at Ancestry .com

3. Find census, birth, marriage, death records and more. Historical Records Stories & Publications Photos & Maps

4. Search tips… Exact matches only (Spelling) First & Middle Name (s) Last Name Year & Country of Birth Year & Country of Death Country Lived and Years Lived in

6. Ways of Searching First Name Last Name Keywords You can now use quotation marks to search for exact phrases… Example: "Lincoln Assassination" or "World War “Country, State, Province, County, State/Province, County &Year Range to e.g. 1827 to 1903

7. Looking at the Census Document US CENSUS Years…

8. Searching US Census Family Name: Father Given Mother Given Spouse Given

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10. View All Ancestry Titles Census & Voter Lists - U.S. Federal Census - UK Census Collection Birth, Marriage & Death - Social Security Death Index - UK & Ireland Parish & Probate Immigration & Emigration - New York Passenger Lists - Military - WWI Draft Registration Cards - Civil War Service Records Directories & Member Lists - New York City Directory, 1890 - Early UK and U.S. Directories Court, Land, Wills & Financial - Texas Land Title Abstracts - Middlesex, MA Probate Index Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Reference - Genealogical Library Master Index

11. Stories & Publications Stories, Memories & Histories - AGBI - Slave Narratives - more... Newspapers & Periodicals - Virginia Genealogical Society Qtrly - Railway Gazetter Worldwide - more...

12. Photos & Maps Pictures - U.S. School Yearbooks Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

13. Trees & Community - Ancestry World Tree The Ancestry World Tree contains nearly 400 million names in family trees submitted by our users. The Ancestry World Tree is the largest collection of its kind on the Internet. - Message Boards The world's largest online genealogy community with over 17 Million posts on more than 161,000 boards.

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16. Narrow Your Search Record Type: All Titles Census & Voter Lists Birth, Marriage & Death Military Immigration & Emigration Family Trees Newspapers & Periodicals Directories & Member Lists Stories, Memories & Histories Court, Land, Wills & Financial Reference Materials & Finding Aids Pictures Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers

17. Questions? There are so many features in this database that would take too long to explore. I would recommend exploring either at the library or at home.