Crista Cowan has been employed by Ancestry since 2004. Her involvement in family history reaches all the way back to childhood. From being parked under a microfilm reader at the Family History Library in her baby carrier to her current career as a professional genealogist, Crista has spent thousands of hours discovering, documenting and telling family stories. She is known as the Barefoot Genealogist and has a YouTube show designed to help people discover their family history.