Most important lesson for me is that I must use the card catalog when first researching an ancestor. You have given me the confidence I need to jump right into the catalog! Thanks for showing the examples, so I know what to do! Great video!
Thanks, Connie. I never realized that you could click on the relationship shown on a person's profile page to see the connection by ancestor! Very handy if you forget who they are and how related to you. I'm very bad about checking out site tools, and just bop around doing my own thing. 😁
@@JoanO51 Go to 15:33 in the video.. On Ancestry, where the relationship to you appears on a person's profile page, if you click on it, it shows the path.
Yes I know about that. I’m asking because when I’m in somebody else’s tree with the same ancestor, it never shows the relationship that person has to the ancestor. At least not on mine!
@@JoanO51 Oh. Yes that is true. I suppose there is no way for Ancestry to know what ancestor you want to connect someone to when you are looking at their tree. But if you make them the home person in their tree then look at the pedigree/horizontal view, you should be able to find the connection. You probably know that and were just hoping for a quick way to see it directly. It would be nice!
Great video again- learned some good tips. I do sometimes look at the suggested trees first, but never automatically save from it. By looking at it first, it can give me a heads up if there is already conflicting tree info, so that I am hyperaware of my research and analyzing it. I also like to fully capitalize only names that are direct in my direct line ( parents/grandparents,...). It helps me to follow my line and distinguish different people with the same or very similar names.
Thank you for another informative video. The tree hints are frustrating because they can be quite incorrect. My second cousin added a great-great grandfather with a common name to her tree with little verification. In fact, I have provided several reasons why this is not OUR relative. Still, it was kept in her tree and I see that it has been saved tens of times by many Ancestry users. I do have public notes on my tree that explains why I don't believe this is our relative.
I always like to read the wills and used the info to prove my gg grandmother's parents were hers by the wills and bequests of her siblings. She was not included in any family trees I have found online. I like to always verify my relatives. Great hints.
I finally started to watch your videos I started with this one for some reason it popped up today. So I decided to make you background noise while I tried a familiarize myself with chatGTP. And I heard you say Stubenville, Ohio. Like Dean Martin I was born in Gill memorial Hospital in 1958. I was born to a woman named Barbara Jean Reed at birth. Who was born to a woman named Drusilla Jean Sapp. Who went by many aliases and often gets confused with Gene Harris who murdered Dr Scarsdale diet inventor. As my grandmother also had the last name Harris. Being her first husband Reed being her second (My mother's father) Mount being her third. I live in New Mexico I do have relatives near there. But not a one of them with the understanding of what I need them to do a public records in Jefferson County. The year of my grandmother's birth for some reason the adoption records are still sealed. It is rumored in the family that my grandmother was adopted by the Sapps... But my DNA is all over the place. There is an actual book on the Sapp bloodline but it ends before mine begins. How do I find out if my grandmother was adopted The year of her birth says 1903.
Another very informative video. Thank you for taking the time to make this. I'm hoping that more people learn research skills and noting sources. I have a cousin who doesn't believe in documenting sources. But he wants me to take information he found somewhere on the internet at face value. I'm like you in wanting to verify all information before adding it to my tree. The DNA comparison to one's tree is helpful. Somewhere back in the ages I have some Russian heritage and it would be fun to find out where that came from. I did my DNA test basically to see if I was following the right path on my ancestors and so far, it has worked out to be correct.
This has made me so much more confident in using the card catalog. Even at 8 minutes in. I've tried but I've always went there trying to narrow it down in the wrong way. Thanks for the demo!!! I'm off to research with your video playing.
I often find the hints to records seem to be based on other trees, someone has inserted a middle name for one of my female ancestors, where they seemed to find it is a mystery but it's all I get in hints now. I'm creating a quick and dirty tree and I have to ignore all the hints for her beyond those I have added to the likes of findagrave. I know those should be correct as I have multiple documents relating to the death, burial and any probate documents. I have cross referenced informants, addresses and even ordered duplicate certificates from local registrars (to replace the General Register Office versions), as the local registrars variants are scans of the original documents rather than transcribed months later miles away. At least that way I can compare signatures.
Thank you that was an excellent video. I’m going to check out your Academy. The snippets of research notes you showed looked fantastic. Do you attach your research notes as a PDF or similar to the relevant profile on your Ancestry tree or do you keep those private?
I never upload my research notes to Ancestry for a couple of reasons. Primary reason is because I'm constantly updating them and hypothesizing. Every time something changes, I'd have to upload it again... plus someone may have downloaded an older version that doesn't have the latest and greatest info. Lastly, it has my personal information on them, so I don't want the world to have my email address. If you want to learn more about the GTV Academy, go here genealogytv.org/about-genealogy-tv-academy/ Thanks for watching... great question.
Connie! We need to talk. I've seen before that you were digging around Randolph Co, and have been meaning to comment that this is one of my primary bases for ancestors... I have a very strong Quaker background. I have a connection to Dr Barnaby Nixon, as well... but not by blood. Or not that I know of. But I've been wanting to look into him some more, being as he was a Dr there in Asheboro. I have a research app't next week to spend some time at Guilford College. I also need to know more about this migration from Pasquotank to Guilford, as I have noticed the trend and this IS important to my current project family... and other parts of my ancestry as well. I will email you after my research trip next week. 📚📃📖📝✍️🤓
Yes, my Henleys came from Pasquotank to Guilford County then to Randolph County as well. Probably part of the same clan. I’ve been to Guilford College and didn’t find a lot that wasn’t already on Ancestry‘s quaker records. They have everything already uploaded there. The only thing that they have a Guilford College that, I found was some individual researchers notes, including my own. Unfortunately, for me, it wasn’t very helpful because I had already been in communication with all of those researchers.
Um... I have NEVER imported anyone or anything from another member tree. And I never will. I rarely even look at other member trees -- only when I'm stuck, and I regard everything in their tree as one giant hint that needs verification. If I can verify the information independently, I add it manually. If I can't verify the info, I'll put it into the notes for that person.
Hi. I've watched several of your videos and find them very helpful & interesting. The last one was on Family Search. I have a tree there, but I wondered if you could do a video on their latest changes which are coming at the end of August 2023. I wish they would not keep making these changes as its harder for me. Ah well. Thanks so much.
I have also taken someone else's hints and not once but twice before I learned my lesson. I was also curious as to if I should be putting in my brother in law, etc.. in my tree. They do not share my DNA but related through marriage. And then by accepting someone's hints, I also have their parents, siblings, etc., and totally not in my DNA. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can clean up my tree. I love your videos Connie, I have learned soooo much from you. Wished I would have found you before I started my tree on ancestry. Thanks much.
So, I did learn how to better use the card catalog from this video. My whole tree isn't a mess, but I did discover the other day, I'd tapped into the wrong family with a Civil War widow some years ago. Which greatly saddens me... that branch gave me 4 Mayflower connections. On the other hand, I have fresh people to start researching and learning about. Lol 💚
I think I'm still confused about going straight to the card catalog. You didn't put anything in the Title or Keywords boxes, so how did you get your Dunbar records?
And what happens if my target county doesn't even show up when I have searched for nothing, and I'm narrowing down to state and possibly county? Pasquotank doesn't show up in the counties list. I KNOW there are Pasquotank records on Ancestry.
Question…around the 16:30 point in this video you talked about the importance or value of transcribing the wills and probate records and by transcribing those records you’ve created a “searchable” document. If I heard you correctly, I could transcribe those types of records into a program like Microsoft word and then import it back into ancestry and then somehow ancestry will then scan my transcription for all the names listed and make my document searchable by those names?
Doing a Tree atm and found someone had made some headway on this person who had sailed out to Australia , married and Had 7 children but they couldnt see the other children they were adding was like the Father jumping back and forward to his Home country -during the age of sail ? How you could not see the mistakes ? Not wake up to similar names mix ups ?
Hi. Just found your channel. My great grandfather was married at least 3 times. His 1st wife (my great grandmother) died in 1928 and his 2nd marriage ended in 1931 under the cause "Cruel and Barbarous treatment and Indignities upon a person." What could that have been in 1931? I know my great grandmother was a boarder in a home at the time of her death and I recently found out she had a baby by the son of the woman she was boarding. Unfortunately she died 1 week after having her baby and the baby died 1 month later. Anyway, I'm sure he treated her (and my grandmother) the way he treated his 2nd wife and I'm curious as to what he did to have his divorce granted upon those horrendous claims.
Hi, Connie - I am getting back into genealogy after months of Long Covid ( it stinks!!). How does one transcribe a will? Thanks for all you do. I'm a member.
After 36 years and hundreds of lessons & dollars in person and on RUclips, I still cannot find my great-great grandparents. I simply cannot accept what other people "seem" to have found because they can't prove it. Nor can I prove what they have provided. What's wrong with me?!
I was looking at a possible ancestor and when I clicked on that person in my tree to review , there was a red box by their name. Then the box opened that showed records, photos and family. When I clicked on family, all the children had a yellow box beside their names. Does anyone know what that means.
Doing my tree on ancestry today and had a problem in connecting to someone already in my tree, was wondering if others experienced this since they changed the format, so frustrating!
So the removed part is just a generational difference in either direction. So if your mother has a 2nd cousin and that 2nd cousin has a child, that child is your second cousin once removed (a.k.a. 2C1R) in the downward descendancy direction. My father's 1st cousin is my 1C1R in the upward or ascending direction.
@@GenealogyTV thank you ❣️ my mom used to tell me how I was related to her cousin's daughter being my 2nd cousin once removed confused me something fierce!🤣😂🤣
Strange question ... is there a way to check for legal name changes ... or perhaps faked name changes or legal state records all of sudden i have a relative who when from micheal to steve ??? I also may have found a criminal in my hubbys tree .. whoe do we find those court cases ?
Try the courts, but a lot of times people just started going by a new name without any legal documentation. Use other facts to help correlate and prove you have the right person
Another Great Video, Thanks for share Valuable content I really Love you passaion and your vision. If you want i will edit your video for Free just reply to this comment.
I find the hints annoying. Rarely do they help. I am also tired of ignoring census records hints for verifiably deceased members of my tree. I have the death sourced with Ancestry records and attached a copy of the death record from 1897 and 1911 but still keep getting hints for these folks in the 1920 and later census records.
Thanks!
Hey thanks for the Super Thanks!
Most important lesson for me is that I must use the card catalog when first researching an ancestor. You have given me the confidence I need to jump right into the catalog! Thanks for showing the examples, so I know what to do! Great video!
Glad it was helpful!
Loved the analysis of ethnicity percentage vs dna inheritance percentage.
Love your shows!!! I only use the sources from other people's family trees!!! I learned the HARD way!!!
Thanks, Connie. I never realized that you could click on the relationship shown on a person's profile page to see the connection by ancestor! Very handy if you forget who they are and how related to you. I'm very bad about checking out site tools, and just bop around doing my own thing. 😁
I must have missed this. How do you find another persons relationship to the ancestor?
@@JoanO51 Go to 15:33 in the video.. On Ancestry, where the relationship to you appears on a person's profile page, if you click on it, it shows the path.
Yes I know about that. I’m asking because when I’m in somebody else’s tree with the same ancestor, it never shows the relationship that person has to the ancestor. At least not on mine!
@@JoanO51 Oh. Yes that is true. I suppose there is no way for Ancestry to know what ancestor you want to connect someone to when you are looking at their tree. But if you make them the home person in their tree then look at the pedigree/horizontal view, you should be able to find the connection. You probably know that and were just hoping for a quick way to see it directly. It would be nice!
Thanks Debbie. I was hoping for a shortcut!
Great video again- learned some good tips. I do sometimes look at the suggested trees first, but never automatically save from it. By looking at it first, it can give me a heads up if there is already conflicting tree info, so that I am hyperaware of my research and analyzing it. I also like to fully capitalize only names that are direct in my direct line ( parents/grandparents,...). It helps me to follow my line and distinguish different people with the same or very similar names.
Thank you for another informative video. The tree hints are frustrating because they can be quite incorrect. My second cousin added a great-great grandfather with a common name to her tree with little verification. In fact, I have provided several reasons why this is not OUR relative. Still, it was kept in her tree and I see that it has been saved tens of times by many Ancestry users. I do have public notes on my tree that explains why I don't believe this is our relative.
It always seems the way, the incorrect information spreads like wildfire whilst the accurate and/or verified information is overlooked all too often.
That's a good idea.
I love all the new changes. Thanks for helping and showing what is new. ❤
I always like to read the wills and used the info to prove my gg grandmother's parents were hers by the wills and bequests of her siblings. She was not included in any family trees I have found online. I like to always verify my relatives. Great hints.
I finally started to watch your videos I started with this one for some reason it popped up today. So I decided to make you background noise while I tried a familiarize myself with chatGTP. And I heard you say Stubenville, Ohio. Like Dean Martin I was born in Gill memorial Hospital in 1958. I was born to a woman named Barbara Jean Reed at birth. Who was born to a woman named Drusilla Jean Sapp. Who went by many aliases and often gets confused with Gene Harris who murdered Dr Scarsdale diet inventor. As my grandmother also had the last name Harris. Being her first husband Reed being her second (My mother's father) Mount being her third. I live in New Mexico I do have relatives near there. But not a one of them with the understanding of what I need them to do a public records in Jefferson County. The year of my grandmother's birth for some reason the adoption records are still sealed. It is rumored in the family that my grandmother was adopted by the Sapps... But my DNA is all over the place. There is an actual book on the Sapp bloodline but it ends before mine begins.
How do I find out if my grandmother was adopted The year of her birth says 1903.
I have used the card catalog for years, but always kind of randomly. You presented a very helpful strategy I will try out today! Many thanks!
Wonderful!
BEST genealogy information EVER...thanks as always...I share your channel with everyone 😊
Wow, thank you!
Excellent video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Another very informative video. Thank you for taking the time to make this. I'm hoping that more people learn research skills and noting sources. I have a cousin who doesn't believe in documenting sources. But he wants me to take information he found somewhere on the internet at face value. I'm like you in wanting to verify all information before adding it to my tree. The DNA comparison to one's tree is helpful. Somewhere back in the ages I have some Russian heritage and it would be fun to find out where that came from. I did my DNA test basically to see if I was following the right path on my ancestors and so far, it has worked out to be correct.
Thanks Janice.
Thanks for all of your hard work..
My pleasure!
Thank you Connie I haven’t been using the card catalogue .. can’t wait to use it now.
Have fun!
This has made me so much more confident in using the card catalog. Even at 8 minutes in. I've tried but I've always went there trying to narrow it down in the wrong way. Thanks for the demo!!! I'm off to research with your video playing.
You can do it!
Thanks!
Thanks again Patti for the Super Thanks!
I often find the hints to records seem to be based on other trees, someone has inserted a middle name for one of my female ancestors, where they seemed to find it is a mystery but it's all I get in hints now. I'm creating a quick and dirty tree and I have to ignore all the hints for her beyond those I have added to the likes of findagrave. I know those should be correct as I have multiple documents relating to the death, burial and any probate documents. I have cross referenced informants, addresses and even ordered duplicate certificates from local registrars (to replace the General Register Office versions), as the local registrars variants are scans of the original documents rather than transcribed months later miles away. At least that way I can compare signatures.
Great tips.
Glad it was helpful!
I need to stop grabbing and adding from green leaves as much, and seek sources myself with records. Thank you
thanks for your work madam🙏🏻
So nice of you
Thank you that was an excellent video. I’m going to check out your Academy. The snippets of research notes you showed looked fantastic. Do you attach your research notes as a PDF or similar to the relevant profile on your Ancestry tree or do you keep those private?
I never upload my research notes to Ancestry for a couple of reasons. Primary reason is because I'm constantly updating them and hypothesizing. Every time something changes, I'd have to upload it again... plus someone may have downloaded an older version that doesn't have the latest and greatest info. Lastly, it has my personal information on them, so I don't want the world to have my email address. If you want to learn more about the GTV Academy, go here genealogytv.org/about-genealogy-tv-academy/ Thanks for watching... great question.
Connie! We need to talk. I've seen before that you were digging around Randolph Co, and have been meaning to comment that this is one of my primary bases for ancestors... I have a very strong Quaker background.
I have a connection to Dr Barnaby Nixon, as well... but not by blood. Or not that I know of. But I've been wanting to look into him some more, being as he was a Dr there in Asheboro. I have a research app't next week to spend some time at Guilford College.
I also need to know more about this migration from Pasquotank to Guilford, as I have noticed the trend and this IS important to my current project family... and other parts of my ancestry as well.
I will email you after my research trip next week.
📚📃📖📝✍️🤓
Yes, my Henleys came from Pasquotank to Guilford County then to Randolph County as well. Probably part of the same clan. I’ve been to Guilford College and didn’t find a lot that wasn’t already on Ancestry‘s quaker records. They have everything already uploaded there. The only thing that they have a Guilford College that, I found was some individual researchers notes, including my own. Unfortunately, for me, it wasn’t very helpful because I had already been in communication with all of those researchers.
Um... I have NEVER imported anyone or anything from another member tree. And I never will. I rarely even look at other member trees -- only when I'm stuck, and I regard everything in their tree as one giant hint that needs verification. If I can verify the information independently, I add it manually. If I can't verify the info, I'll put it into the notes for that person.
Hi. I've watched several of your videos and find them very helpful & interesting. The last one was on Family Search. I have a tree there, but I wondered if you could do a video on their latest changes which are coming at the end of August 2023. I wish they would not keep making these changes as its harder for me. Ah well. Thanks so much.
I’m assuming you’re talking about changes on FamilySearch?
@@GenealogyTV yes
@@GenealogyTV yes
I have also taken someone else's hints and not once but twice before I learned my lesson. I was also curious as to if I should be putting in my brother in law, etc.. in my tree. They do not share my DNA but related through marriage. And then by accepting someone's hints, I also have their parents, siblings, etc., and totally not in my DNA. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can clean up my tree. I love your videos Connie, I have learned soooo much from you. Wished I would have found you before I started my tree on ancestry. Thanks much.
Well you found me now. :) Thanks for the compliments.
So, I did learn how to better use the card catalog from this video.
My whole tree isn't a mess, but I did discover the other day, I'd tapped into the wrong family with a Civil War widow some years ago. Which greatly saddens me... that branch gave me 4 Mayflower connections. On the other hand, I have fresh people to start researching and learning about. Lol 💚
I think I'm still confused about going straight to the card catalog. You didn't put anything in the Title or Keywords boxes, so how did you get your Dunbar records?
And what happens if my target county doesn't even show up when I have searched for nothing, and I'm narrowing down to state and possibly county? Pasquotank doesn't show up in the counties list. I KNOW there are Pasquotank records on Ancestry.
Question…around the 16:30 point in this video you talked about the importance or value of transcribing the wills and probate records and by transcribing those records you’ve created a “searchable” document. If I heard you correctly, I could transcribe those types of records into a program like Microsoft word and then import it back into ancestry and then somehow ancestry will then scan my transcription for all the names listed and make my document searchable by those names?
Not exactly. You can upload to Ancestry... and in the description box you can add some or all of the transcription and then it is searchable.
Doing a Tree atm and found someone had made some headway on this person who had sailed out to Australia , married and Had 7 children but they couldnt see the other children they were adding was like the Father jumping back and forward to his Home country -during the age of sail ? How you could not see the mistakes ? Not wake up to similar names mix ups ?
😂 raking leaves 🍃 🍂 😂
Unrelated to genealogy question. Where is that first background picture from? It looks like my idea of the perfect home library. ❤
Yeah, I know right. I wish that was my personal library. I believe it is a university campus, but its stock photography, so I'm not sure.
Hi. Just found your channel. My great grandfather was married at least 3 times. His 1st wife (my great grandmother) died in 1928 and his 2nd marriage ended in 1931 under the cause "Cruel and Barbarous treatment and Indignities upon a person." What could that have been in 1931? I know my great grandmother was a boarder in a home at the time of her death and I recently found out she had a baby by the son of the woman she was boarding. Unfortunately she died 1 week after having her baby and the baby died 1 month later. Anyway, I'm sure he treated her (and my grandmother) the way he treated his 2nd wife and I'm curious as to what he did to have his divorce granted upon those horrendous claims.
I'm wondering if there was anything about it in the newspapers.
At "Minute 11:00" we see Sources and Records. Please describe the difference between Sources and Records.
The record is the document, the source is where it came from.
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Hi, Connie - I am getting back into genealogy after months of Long Covid ( it stinks!!). How does one transcribe a will? Thanks for all you do. I'm a member.
See if this video helps. ruclips.net/video/_tJJuVhOy1k/видео.html Thanks for supporting the channel!
After 36 years and hundreds of lessons & dollars in person and on RUclips, I still cannot find my great-great grandparents. I simply cannot accept what other people "seem" to have found because they can't prove it. Nor can I prove what they have provided. What's wrong with me?!
I was looking at a possible ancestor and when I clicked on that person in my tree to review , there was a red box by their name. Then the box opened that showed records, photos and family. When I clicked on family, all the children had a yellow box beside their names. Does anyone know what that means.
Thanks! How do you find SC marriages
See this page www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/South_Carolina_Vital_Records#Marriage_Records
I followed this video exactly as u did it, what happens when the city doesn't pop up , ? Does that mean theirs no matches ?
Back up to a larger territory... county or state.
Connie, what Knox family are you from or is that your husband's line? Mine come via Maine and Massachusetts.
Knox is from NC. Yes that was my husbands line.
Doing my tree on ancestry today and had a problem in connecting to someone already in my tree, was wondering if others experienced this since they changed the format, so frustrating!
I've not had any issues, although one of my students is having issues with multiple duplications of a fact.
@@GenealogyTV ty Connie
Question: what does it mean 1st cousin & removed? Who would be my mother's cousin to me?
So the removed part is just a generational difference in either direction. So if your mother has a 2nd cousin and that 2nd cousin has a child, that child is your second cousin once removed (a.k.a. 2C1R) in the downward descendancy direction. My father's 1st cousin is my 1C1R in the upward or ascending direction.
Your Mother's first cousin would be your "1 st Cousin once removed" meaning a generation away. That cousin's children would be your Second Cousins!
@@lauriegreen6888 thank you very much 😇
@@GenealogyTV thank you ❣️ my mom used to tell me how I was related to her cousin's daughter being my 2nd cousin once removed confused me something fierce!🤣😂🤣
I’m combining a duplicate did you mean to one sure
I have never imported a tree without verification.
Strange question ... is there a way to check for legal name changes ... or perhaps faked name changes or legal state records all of sudden i have a relative who when from micheal to steve ??? I also may have found a criminal in my hubbys tree .. whoe do we find those court cases ?
Try the courts, but a lot of times people just started going by a new name without any legal documentation. Use other facts to help correlate and prove you have the right person
I don't take 'Ancestry' to seriously, I've discovered at least two, maybe three errors concerning my family.
Another Great Video, Thanks for share Valuable content I really Love you passaion and your vision. If you want i will edit your video for Free just reply to this comment.
Thanke @Keyur7859. I would never ask someone to edit my videos for free. I think you found me through YTJobs. I am looking for an editor.
@@GenealogyTV I love that you are sharing knowledge of free
@@GenealogyTV I am a video editor
Hi mam, do you need an editor? I edit great videoes.
I find the hints annoying. Rarely do they help. I am also tired of ignoring census records hints for verifiably deceased members of my tree. I have the death sourced with Ancestry records and attached a copy of the death record from 1897 and 1911 but still keep getting hints for these folks in the 1920 and later census records.
How would I contact you privately?
@@bridgetnimtz9318 I have tried to 2x to leave my e-mail and it is not here so I reckon that is not allowed.
$44.25 a month? Wow!
No kidding!
Oh and I pay for everything ancestry has to offer 23andMe my family......