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The is no question as to the fact that Ancestry.com is the world's largest (commercial) genealogical company in the world, and there is also no doubt that it is hard to research your family history without at the very least, checking their website for a few things here and there, if not checking it daily.

Designed specifically to complement their various international websites 'The Official Guide to Ancestry.com' provides a nice overview of the major features of their site, providing examples and search tips. If you're an Ancestry subscriber you may find some things from reading this book that you perhaps hadn't tried out, such as the Learning Center or their fairly new Database Card Catalog. The Learning Center has articles and tips about a variety of topics to help you learn more about records sources and genealogical resources both inside and outside of Ancestry. The Database Card Catalog helps you search for Ancestry databases by record type, keyword and geographical location. Have you ever tried the "My Ancestry" section? There's a whole chapter on it in the book.

Whether you are coming to Ancestry.com for the first time or have used it for years, you need The Official Guide to Ancestry.com. Written by noted genealogist and lecturer George G. Morgan, this official guide takes you inside the #1 website for family history research for an unprecedented tour. This second edition includes chapters on the new search at Ancestry, MyCanvas, and Ancestry DNA. In addition, it helps you create and develop your own Family Tree, explore obscure databases you didn’t know existed, and more. You’ve always known Ancestry.com was a valuable resource. Now you can learn to use it like never before.

Contents:
Introduction
 - What is Ancestry.com
 - What This Book Will Do for You
 - What's New in th e Second Edition
1. Getting Around the Site
 - Logging In
 - Navigating the Site
 - The Tabs
 - Search
 - Summary
2. Searching for Your Ancestors
 - The Search Basics
 - New Search Overview
 - Searching
 - Finding a Specific Database Title
 - Search Strategy
 - Summary
3. Working With Digitized Image Collections
 - How to Access a Digital Image
 - View Record
 - View Image
 - The Toolbar
 - Summary
4. Family Trees
 - Creating a New Family Tree
 - Working With Your Family Trees
 - Summary
5. Working with Census Records
 - United State Federal Census Records
 - Searching the Census Records
 - US State and County Census Records
 - UK Census Records
 - Canadian Census Records
 - Summary
6. Birth, Marriage and Death Records
 - The Major Record Types
 - The Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
 - A Sample Marriage Database: Maryland 1655-1850
 - Banffshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
 - England and Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index: 1837-1893
  - Summary
7. Military Records
 - Early American Military Databases
 - American Civil War Records
 - World War I Draft Registration Cards 1917-1918
 - US World War II Army Enlistment Records 1938-1946
 - WWII United News Newsreels 1942-1946
8. Immigration Records
 - Immigration Records at Ancestry.com
 - Searching the Collections
 - Sample Irrigation Databases and Titles
 - Summary
9. Pictures, Newspapers and Maps
 - Searching for Pictures
 - Member Photos
 - Searching Newspapers and Periodicals
 - Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers
 - Working with the Maps, Atlases and Gazetteers
 - Summary
10.Stories,