I can count my first cousins on one hand and still have a thumb to spare. So when author and family historian Crista Cowan told me how many living cousins she had tracked down in the course of just a handful of years, I was floored. 
Crista would have needed nearly 1,000 of my hands – [...]

We have just launched the beta version of a new service called Expert Connect. This new service connects Ancestry.com members and visitors with some of the world’s best independent professional genealogists and local researchers. The initial services available include:
Record Pickup – Hire a researcher in another state or country to visit a specific archive, collect the [...]