Best Websites: Ancestry.com Card Catalog Walk-Through with Lisa Louise Cooke
In this episode of Best Websites, Lisa Louise Cooke walks us through Ancestry.com’s expansive card catalog and reveals how this resource can be used to find valuable records for free. https://media.blubrry.com/family_tree_magazine/content.blubrry.com/family_tree_magazine/2023-01-18-Updated_Bw_1_2023.mp3 Best Genealogy Websites: Ancestry.com Card Catalog (00:18) Ancestry.com is one of the world’s most popular genealogy websites. The card catalog at Ancestry.com can make it much easier to find records, even if you’re not a subscriber. The Card Catalog helps you determine whether Ancestry.com has a particular record you need, and then allows you to search that specific collection. Resources Mentioned in This Episode: * Ancestry.com Card Catalog Read Finding Collections with the Ancestry.com Card Catalog by Sunny Jane Morton in the January / February 2023 issue of Family Tree Magazine. How to Use the Ancestry.com Card Catalog How do you find more ancestor answers in the genealogy collections at Ancestry.com? Follow these tips to master the Ancestry.com Card Catalog. Family Tree Magazine /* Embedded-box css */ .embedded-box{ padding: 25px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; color: #82878c; background: #fff; border: 1px solid #e5e5e5; box-shadow: 0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.05); overflow: auto; zoom: 1; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; } .acf-embed-title{ margin: 0 0 15px; font-weight: 600; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.3; } .acf-embed-description { display: inline-block; } .acf-embed-description img { float: left; max-width: 160px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; } .wp-embed-site-title a{ position: relative; display: inline-block; padding-left: 35px; } .wp-embed-site-title span { color: #82878c; text-decoration: none; font-weight: 600; } .wp-embed-site-icon { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 0; transform: translateY(-50%); height: 25px; width: 25px; border: 0; padding-bottom: 0px!important; } Sign up for Our Free Genealogy Newsletter: The Genealogy Insider email newsletter includes a digest of articles, including one or two free articles in each newsletter. Daily and weekly options. Join the conversation – Follow Family Tree Magazine on social: