Tuesday's Tip - Check Education Offerings in the Ancestry Academy

This week's Tuesday's Tip is:  Ancestry Academy is a subscription website of Ancestry's that has educational courses on specific subjects;  some of them are free.

The Ancestry Academy website is at https://www.ancestry.com/academy/:

The courses are in categories in the "Course Library."  As of today, the categories are:

1)  Featured (5):

*  Learn About Your Ancestors Using the Latest from Ancestry (New, Free)
*  Navigating Wills and Probates on Ancestry (Free)
*  Exploring Your English Roots on Ancestry (New, Free)
*  The Reconstruction Era: Refugees, Claims and Conscription (New)
*  Mining Obituaries for New Evidence (New)

2)  Ancestry Products (12):

*  Learn About Your Ancestors Using the Latest from Ancestry (New, Free)
*  Finding Your Military Veterans on Fold3 (Free)
*  Exploring Your English Roots on Ancestry (New, Free)
*  Newspapers.com: Getting the Scoop on Your Ancestors (Free)
*  DNA 101: An Insider's Scoop on AncestryDNA (Free)
*  Expand and Support Your Genealogy Research with DNA (Free)
*  Getting the Most Out of Family Tree Maker (Free)
*  Digging for Answers with Find A Grave (Free)
*  Seek and Ye Shall Find: Become an Ancestry Search Expert (Free)
*  Your Family History Online: Laying the Foundation (Free)
*  Navigating Wills and Probates on Ancestry (Free)

3)  Records (11):

*  Who is That Tick Mark? Using Early Census Records
*  Exploring Pension Application Files
*  The Reconstruction Era: Refugees, Claims and Conscription (New)
*  The Records of Death: Using Probates in Family History
*  Navigating Wills and Probates on Ancestry (Free)
*  You Found What in the 1940 Census? (Free)
*  Brother vs. Brother: Exploring Civil War Ancestors
*  Non-Population Schedules: Your Next Step in Census Research
*  Finding Ethnic Origins and Passenger Arrival Records
*  Homesteads: An American Treasure
*  The Mystery of Manuscripts

4)  Methodology and Skills (6)

*  Mining Obituaries for New Evidence (New)
*  How Do I Know When I Am Right?
*  Public Libraries: Mining Untapped Genealogy Resources
*  Street Smarts: Finding Your Ancestor in the Big City
*  Cousin Bait: Make Social Media Work for You (Free)
*  Your Family History Online: Laying the Foundation (Free)

5)  Localities and Ethnic Research (4):

*  Tracing French-Canadian Ancestors and Learning Their Stories
*  The Buckeye State: Researching Your Ohio Ancestors
*  Native-American Ancestry? Steps to Learn More
*  The Old Dominion State: Virginia Genealogy Research

Some of the classes are listed twice - once in the "Featured" list and once in the other Category list.

Note that all of the Free classes deal with working in Ancestry owned products - that is a smart marketing move on the part of Ancestry.

Each class is made up of a number of small segments, and most classes run between 40 and 90 minutes total.  Laura Prescott is the host for the classes, and an expert in the topic makes the presentations.  Students can take one class segment if they desire as time permits.

After the class is finished, there is a quiz and the student can download a certificate of completion.

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