November 25, 2019
Write About A Day in the Life of Your Ancestors Using Newspapers
November 8, 2019
How to work around OCR errors in newspaper research
October 28, 2019
Googling Your Genealogy For Great Finds
October 5, 2019
5 Tips For Writing About Your Immigrant Ancestor
September 21, 2019
5 Videos to Help You Understand Ancestry ThruLines
With Ancestry ThruLines, you can combine your DNA results with member trees to generate possible paths of relationships between you and your DNA matches. The following videos help explain this innovative yet confusing tool for your genealogy toolbox. 1. Ancestry ThruLine Basics Discover how to access your ThruLines from your DNA Discovery Pages and your […]
In a previous post, I covered the basics of how to add Ancestry’s MyTreeTags to your ancestor’s profile and hinted at how they can help you sort our ancestors. This post will dive deep into the various tags and make sense of them. The Need to Understand the Definitions Behind Each MyTreeTag Before you add […]
Wouldn’t it be great if we had a way to label our ancestors so that we can find people in our tree who have things in common or jump to your current research tasks on Ancestry? Ancestry MyTree Tags offers subscribers a way to do just that. MyTreeTags is Ancestry’s solution to a problem that […]
Are you confused about how to transfer your information between two online trees, namely FamilySearch and Ancestry? You’re not alone and it’s time to talk about how to keep the trees somewhat compatible. Terry wrote, “I’m a relative newcomer to this. I have some info stored on Ancestry.com, but want to transfer it to FamilySearch. […]
Ancestry.com member trees provide a useful platform to share genealogical data. However, not everything in an online tree is accurate and you shouldn’t accept information without validation. What do you do when you encounter individuals who post inaccurate information in online trees? Double check the accuracy of all information before you add it to your […]
When you use Newspapers.com, you can gather articles and entries you discover about your ancestors into a clippings file. Since Newspapers.com is a subsidiary of Ancestry.com, the coolest feature is that you can then save those newspaper clippings to your Ancestry tree. Finding newspaper clippings on Ancestry.com is pretty cool. Thus far, I have found […]
Wednesday morning of RootsTech kicked off with a cheerful breakfast hosted by Ancestry.com. Their CEO Margo Georgiadis, who joins the company from previously serving as CEO of Mattel Inc, welcomed us. With a tech industry background, Margo says she’s excited to join her passion for genealogy with her career as CEO. Many of Ancestry’s product […]
If you’ve looked at Ancestry recently, then you may have noticed that your ethnicity results have changed. Does that mean that you’ve changed as well?
Are you ever frustrated when there are multiple copies of your relatives on Ancestry.com, but they’re variations of what you put online? Frequently on Ancestry, you’ll find a hint which you initially want to be excited about. Many people love photos, so a photo hint is especially exciting, that is until you see what it […]
Online genealogy is a wonderful way to collaborate, and I highly encourage you to put your trees online and take advantage of the research hints that many database services provide. I love receiving clues about new-to-me records about my ancestors. I am especially ecstatic when there is a newly discovered photo of my ancestor in […]