Are you getting the most from the Ancestry website? Watch Karen Evans’s series of three webinars and learn how to use the popular family history website better! Improve your search skills, use the tools properly, find more ancestors.
Unlock the full power of Ancestry
Are you using your Ancestry subscription to its full potential?
Join family history expert Karen Evans for three recorded sessions designed to help you get more from the world’s biggest genealogy site. Learn better tools, do better searches, and get better results.
Buy now and watch more than six hours of in-depth video tutorials
Buy the video bundle now📅 Three webinar recordings
Watch all three sessions led by Karen Evans, covering tools, searches, and Ancestry strategy.
📽️ Handouts included
In addition to the session recordings you will also receive exclusive access to Karen's handy handouts.

How will the videos help you?
Ancestry is one of the main platforms genealogists use when researching their family history but there are a host of hints, tools, and resources that many researchers miss. Are you getting the most out of it?
Your tutor, Karen Evans, focuses on:
- making the tree tools work for you
- powering up your searches
- troubleshooting those areas that often cause confusion
Karen offers practical hints and tips, her own ideas and research tactics learned from using Ancestry over many years.
✅ Find records others miss
✅ Fix duplicate ancestors
✅ Make sense of DNA matches
✅ Back up your Ancestry tree securely
Why not purchase the masterclass to see how you make your Ancestry subscription work harder?
Watch the recordings now
Course was broadcast live in July 2025 - purchase includes recordings, handouts, and Start Your Family Tree digital guide.
What is included in the bundle?
The webinar series took place in July 2025, but you don't need to miss out: each session was recorded and is now available to watch in your own time.
- Recording of webinar one (2 hours)
- Recording of webinar two (2 hours)
- Recording of webinar three (2 hours, 15 minutes)
- Handouts to accompany webinars
- Your digital edition of Start Your Family Tree, 100-page guide
Once you purchase the bundle, you will receive a link and password to access the resources.
Includes digital guide, worth £14.99
Purchase the video bundle and you'll also get a digital copy of our 100-page Start Your Family Tree guide – packed with expert advice.
The new guide, published in association with Ancestry, features step-by-step guides, case studies, and tips.

How to watch the masterclass
You can access the videos via the Family Tree website. Ticket prices are:
- £55 standard ticket
- £45 for Family Tree Plus members or subscribers to Family Tree magazine
Any queries about the Masterclass, please contact [email protected] and we’ll be happy to help you.
About the speaker
Karen Evans is a long-time family historian and in recent years she has enlisted DNA to help her work on, and solve, some of her family mysteries. Karen Evans is DNA advisor to Family Tree magazine, in which she writes a monthly DNA advice column featuring step-by-step advice and reader case studies.
Karen is also the DNA Club news anchor at the monthly DNA Club meetings provided to members of Family Tree Plus.
This event is independently organised by Family Tree and is not affiliated with Ancestry.com.
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