Thank you for the updates for Ancestry. Very impressive. Using the edit relationships tool is valuable for sure! I enjoy your videos, and others, to help me understand how to better do my research. Invaluble. How blessed we are in this day and age to have such learning tools!
Anita, Crista has done several about adoption, although the screens will look outdated because Ancestry has updated it a couple times. Best way to find them is to type the following in the search box on youtube: Crista Cowan adoption.
Yes I'm in ireland and it was a shock when I found so many dna matches in America who were adopted and sent there from ireland because nobody in my family seems to know how these adopted people are related to us because it could have been taboo etc. I'd love to be able to find out...I know we might never know exactly but I think ancestry could still help. For example an adopted person and a woman came up as a mutual match in my DNA matches...I dont know if that woman is that adopted persons DNA sibling??? I think ancestry could let us know what relationship the mutual DNA matches are to each other..because it would at least help eliminate or narrow down the connections potentially:)
I have a crazy question about Thrulines. I'll try to make it somewhat brief. My grandfather was adopted. When I got my DNA results about a month ago, and the Thrulines popped up, I got a 4th cousin match, suggesting that my Grandfather's adopted mother was his actual mother. So I put her on my tree and immediately started researching trees for my Grandfather's paternal side. I narrowed everything to 1 particular family, which matches a surname on some letters from the North Carolina children's home sent to my Grandfather when he was alive. The only problem is that this particular surname is his maternal side according to what was given to him. So I tore that side of the tree down and plugged in the woman who fit the age description of the records as his mother. When the Thrulines came through the next day, the lines went through what would be my Grandfather's grandparents, and a box named "Unknown 2nd Great grandfather" was put in the Thrulines. Needless to say, my Thrulines broke down. Now the question. How did Thrulines figure out that this was a paternal family and not a maternal one? If I have it right (and I'm pretty sure I do) there may be a fraudulent, sealed original birth certificate that has thrown my Grandfather off of the right trail and would suggest that his adopted mother really pulled a fast one.
Without looking at your matches (specifically how many cM you share with them and which groups you've been able to identify) and your tree, I am going to have a hard time commenting. But, ThruLines doesn't "figure out" maternal versus paternal. It simply looks at what you have put into your family tree and tries to construct a place for each of your DNA Matches based on what is in their trees. If you want to share more specifics about his particular 4th cousin match, I might be able to provide more direction.
@@CristaCowan I wouldn't think Thrulines would "figure it out" who was maternal vs. paternal. The issue is that in my tree, I put my suspected Great grandfather's sister on my tree as the parent of my Grandfather. On the Thrulines, it said "Unknown Great Grandfather" as the parent of my Grandfather instead of what I had on my tree. I got screenshots of it on my phone. I thought maybe Thrulines might sort out all of the tree matches. With 24+ matches in that part of the tree, I thought it wouldn't coordinate every Thruline correctly. I'll give you some specifics when I get a chance. I'll make my tree public, if you want to take a peak.
@@buckeyebaptist1976 - I'm a little confused about why you made your great-grandfather's sister the parent of your grandfather. I probably should look at it to understand. If/when you make your tree public, feel free to share the link here and I'll take a look.
@@CristaCowan I put his sister there because of of North Carolina children's home society had the mother being a Smoot. I appreciate your response. ancstry.me/2ZRA41i
Christa, thanks for always sharing great tips and information! When I picked my genealogy up again after over a decade hiatus, I loved binge watching your videos! Even the “outdated” ones still shared invaluable techniques. Are you considering (or would you) doing a refresh/update of some of your older videos showing the ins and outs of Ancestry that have changed since the interface has changed so much? TFS ~Linda :)
Hi Linda! Absolutely! I've put together a calendar to take us through the end of the year and many of the videos coming out in the next couple of months are updates of some of my old videos. Thanks for watching!
Hi . More fun ways to sort your DNA matches. I love the color dots. I have used all my colors up. More colors! Hey Pantone has 3000 + colors. Ha. I would like to see being able to sort my matches by ethnicity. If someone had a certain ethnicity group and wanted to see all the matches who shared that same ethnicity, that would help some find where these matches fit on their tree.
Not really thrilled with ThruLines because they are based on other family trees that may be filled with errors. They keep listing ancestors as half-this or half-that when I know they are full ancestors and not half anything. Plus the potential ancestor suggestions in the ThruLines are often way off target.
Is there an easy way to delete multiple duplicates all in one go or merge them easier in one go? It's very slow going in one by one. Some reason I've ended up with about 5 duplicates of each member. This normally happens when I copy another DNA matches tree to mine and it creates duplicates..or if another person updates my tree not knowing the person already there...or even when I add a new person.
Thank you for all your hard work. I can't wait for the new message center. Mine is still not delivering my messages since February!! Very frustrating. I am hoping the new message center will work for me. I enjoy your videos.
Is it possible to add more group options and or overlap dna matches I control or to be able to easy switch colours or overlap multiple DNA matches? I control my dads DNA match and mine. I can also log into my mothers. Is it possible to gain ownership of my mothers dna? To transfer it into my account? Also I find I am grouping my dna matches and then separately I've to group my dads DNA in his profile which I control. Is there a way to do this at the same time because obviously my DNA and his overlaps. It's slow grouping matches twice (I mean grouping into Marshall's or Marshall who married kane etc). I love the grouping idea but it's still could be improved. I end up with different colours for groups in my moms dna profile and it all becomes messy. Be nice to be able to control all of our DNA matches from a central pool???
Is there a way to colour code my tree and then match that up with the current "groups" in my dna matches...so if a dna match looks at my tree they can see very easy which part of my tree they are related to. Thanks. I've lots of queries as I use ancestry alot.
Crista, has anyone experienced any glitches with the Message Center? Mine was updated to the new format but has recently returned to the original format. Also, I noticed a reply to a message while using my phone Ancestry App, however, the same reply message did not appear online on my computer.
@@AncestryUS Thank you! I've tried 3 different browsers and cleared the history and cache. I really liked the Message Center update until it disappeared. Hopefully, it is a migration issue and will be corrected soon.
Hi Crista, always look forward to your videos. I pulled out a suggested person like your Mary Rachel Jones (around minute 11) and I do not get the ability to "select one of the trees or records above to add _____ ____ ____ to your tree." Is it still being fixed? When will it work for me. I use Mac and Google Chrome.
Also is there a way to colour code adopted people or suggest how they might be related? I've found an adopted person and they are related to 4th cousins in both my mother and my fathers family- it's like their parents are connected by my mothers ancestor and my fathers ancestor getting together....is there a way to help us find out how adopted people are connected easier? I know the DNA matches but I dont know if the mutual dna matches are brothers or sisters to that adopted person...maybe it is possible to show relationships of DNA matches to each other and a function to group them. For example if my cousin and auntie match with me as DNA matches...that ancestry tells me that they are a mother/daughter connection. This might help with me know how adopted people fit in with our DNA matches.
I continue to LOATHE ThruLines because so many trees are done poorly. I had one match vie ThruLines when I guy decided he was a descendant through a sister of one of my ancestors. He had no documentation and "just a hunch". Not only was he wrong but she TOO is one of my direct ancestors because of intermarriage between second cousins and that was very well documented. The maternal/paternal sorting isn't showing up on my page. I assume that's because my father died before this type of DNA testing. My mom has done the testing and is on Ancestry so I don't know why this feature wouldn't work for me.
I dont think I ever used DNA circles but I love the Thrulines concept. I think it's bad form for you to say people do their tree "poorly"...clearly not everyone knows what the correct links are. In ireland for example we have zero documents before 1865 or very few. Most of my 4th cousin dna matches pre date a connection before 1865 but we have no knowledge of how. I have requested ancestry to allow people to join trees together but for somehow have link which says "dont know which relative we are connected to" but we know it's from the one lineage. I think that would help has I would like to have a perfect tree but then I dont always know the exact link of my DNA matches as we dont have documents in ireland beyond 1865
Hi Crista, by any chance do you have a video that talks about how to find records of ancestors that you don’t know where they come from? Also, which video do you recommend to watch to find biological ancestors? Thank you so much.
Another great video! Have you heard anything about possibly more Irish records showing up any time soon? Northern Ireland in particular and older records, say 1870 and back??
Ancestry has more than 100 million Irish records on the site. Have you looked at the Card Catalog to see if what you need is already online? www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?title=Ireland&sort=record-count
Christa, thank you so much for posting very useful information. I am wondering when the "New" ThruLines will be fixed. It worked wonderfully until the last week of August (about the time when the rolled out the Messages Beta) I called Ancestry Support and the end of August and was told it would be fixed over Labor Day Weekend. It is still not back to functioning and I was told yesterday this is a site-wide problem but should be fixed in the next couple of weeks. (Not able to pull up Maternal side) Thanks
There is no outstanding issues with ThruLines that I am aware of. You say you are missing your entire maternal side? I would recommend doing the following: 1. Go into your family tree and go into your person profile for yourself. 2. Click on EDIT | Edit Relationship. Make sure that your mother's relationship to you is set as BIOLOGICAL on the right-hand side of that screen. 3. Go into your mother's profile on the tree and do the same for both of her parents. 4a. If you had to change any of those to biological, wait 24-48 hours after making the change and the ThruLines for your mother's side should show up. 4b. If you did not have to make any changes (meaning everything was already set to biological) then please reply here with a copy of the URL to your profile in your tree and I will have someone take a look at it right away.
Hi CeeMe, The next "What's New" video will come out the first week of February. Between now and then, Crista has a couple of other videos that will be published so be sure to subscribe to the channel so you get notified when they are uploaded.
The reason I have so many questions is because in ireland our records only go back to 1865 and then it's very slow for our library to copy church records...they are also not so easy to search through online. Ancestry kinda assumes that because the USA has so many records...that i in ireland will know how I'm connected to the usa dna matches....this is not easy because in ireland we might only have photos or stories back to the late 1890s and therefore no record of what happened in 1775 or 1845 with our ancestors during famine etc. Is there a way ancestry can help irish members with our lack of records??? I'm hoping to piece together my family based on the info the usa DNA matches give me
Could you have an option to add DNA matches trees to my tree even if we do not know the exact ancestors we are linked from. For example, my granny was a Finn but our ancestor is Leonard Finn and our DNA matches ancestor is Thomas finn....because I live in Ireland I cannot find records pre 1865 for Leonard finn and how he is connected to thomas finn. Please can you let us still add them to my tree for my other relatives to look at and someone might know how the two are connected at a later date.
Also is there a feature to see if I could be related to famous americans? I looked at some distant dna matches and they have John Marshall USA secretary of state as their ancestor. I contacted the John Marshall website and they were not interested in irish relatives and only his "American descendants"....however I think it would be very interesting to know that I'm a descendant from the same family who emigrated to the usa and changed history and involved in the foundation of the usa. Could that be a feature? That well known historic or famous Americans come up as a potential DNA match?
Sorry for so many suggestions. My other suggestion is with distant relatives- I have 40,000 of these but they are not all useful to look through. Is there a way to filter distant relatives who might have 20,000 people in their tree? I'd like to filter or sort dna matches by the numbers of people they have in their trees. Therefore if I find an 8th cousin but they have 10,000 people in their tree.. they might be useful compared to an 8th cousin dna match who has no family tree information
The updates are always wonderful and appreciate your videos very much, however, I am wondering if it wouldn't make sense to prioritize shoring up the features that you have now. Every day I get these messages "Our backend services are overtaxed at the moment and we are unable to retrieve all your matches. We apologize for the inconvenience, please try again later." or ..."We apologize for the inconvience" the site isn't working right now or.. this page cannot be retrieved try to refresh or come back later. It can be extremely frustrating to be working down a list of dna matches and then be able to go no farther or to add something to your tree that won"t take after you paste, copy and type in info. Can you give us some update information about what ancestry is doing to make the site features that you already have work better?
Where can I go to get information about the New Ancestry Message system. I'm going to be one of the last but I need to be able to explain it to others.
You can see screen shots and some basic explanations here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Messaging-on-Ancestry Crista will also be doing a video about it in a few weeks.
Christa always post an edition in late December or early January about her new year's resolutions in relation to her genealogical research and studies, so if new year comes and goes and still theres no new barefoot video then perhaps we should start to worry about her. Hope it's just that she's so busy with conferences and genealogy exhibitions and stuff that she hasn't got around to a video.
Crista - any word on the bug/feature where all line breaks are removed in profile notes? I'd love to be able to put a line break into event descriptions, but notes without line breaks are really a problem.
Is there or will there be a way to know if someone has read a message that was sent? I have a person who shows that they could be a first cousin but, they are managed by someone else. I have no way of knowing if the message was received or read. Thank you.
Crista, have they ever considered allowing people to pull up a source and filter our family tree against it? In that way, you could pull up say the source and have a list of individuals in our tree that are listed in it. Just a thought.
Hi Crista! Huge Fan and Love your videos! I have a ? Occasionally I will find a Source while searching that has absolutely nothing to do with my tree but I want to share it so someone else could use it. Do I understand correctly that a Media file MUST be attached to someone in my tree to be viewed? If so, how do I share these records? Along this same subject I spent hours collecting information on a family that I found out is not even mine. How could I split this part off into a new tree so others could use it? Thank You!
Hi Terri - You might consider creating a "People I Found Out I'm Not Related To" tree. There, you can upload any documents you may have come across while researching. In order to remove a branch of people from your tree you have two options: 1. Disconnect them from your tree by deleting the inaccurate relationship. This leaves a "floating" tree within your tree. 2. Use a software program, like Family Tree Maker, to sync with your Ancestry tree. This has a feature that allows you to split your family tree. Hope that helps!
Hey Crista, do you happen to have any videos on the Salem witch trials. I just recently discovered an ancestor that was accused. His name was Thomas Farrar Sr.
Hi Ayden - I don't have a video about the Salem Witch Trials. But, if you can get your hands on season 1 of Who Do You Think You Are, there is an episode with Sarah Jessica Parker that talks about it.
Hi Ayden - cousinly greetings! Thomas Farrar [the witch] is my 10th great uncle. His father (my 10th great grandfather) is also Thomas Farrar, so he's actually Thomas Farrar Jr - but the younger Thomas in Salem. And thanks, Crista; I'll also check out that 'Who Do You Think You Are?' episodee
Last month's update on Thru-lines disconnected me from my entire paternal side. I have over 8000 people on my tree and not any of my father's side is a match anymore (he is still living). The tree now associates me with the wrong ancestors--brother's of my great grandparents. It used to work-now it doesn't. Every single person on his side is a dotted line with "evaluate". The only people shown without those dotted lines are 5th or greater grandparents and I can't verify any of those.
Hi JM. Go into your family tree (the one that is connected to your DNA results) and click on you in the tree and go to your profile. From there, click on EDIT | Edit Relationships. On the right hand side across from your father's name, is he listed as "Biological" or "Unknown?" It needs to be biological. If you have to fix it, give ThruLines 24-48 hours to repopulate. If it already says "biological" then go to your father's profile and check the Edit Relationships screen for him. If that doesn't fix it, or if that is not the problem, be sure to reply back. I will need the URL of your profile page in your tree in order to have it investigated further. Thanks!
Also I love all of the updates with the messages and being able to search by words. I'm sad though to find I had forgotten to reply to some of my DNA matches for over a year. Could you make it easy to see who we have replied to and who we have not replied to??? I know I can click on each message and read....but if the list of messages in my inbox had "replied", "didnt reply" that would be wonderful to make sure I dont miss anyone out as I know people take their time to message me and I dont want to miss it and be rude :)
How can you tell which persons are NOT Jewish in these new records? I am interested in finding a select group other than Jewish that were also persecuted but I have no names to research. Thanks in advance.
Also I love the maps options. I notice there are now two ancestry apps for android??? The new ancestry DNA seems to be missing alot of the nice features of the original ancestry app. Is there a way to see dna matches in a map form??? So far I just see all my dna matches on the one map of the world. It would make it easier if I knew dna matches could be related through the same relatives because of where they went to. For example 8th distant cousins in Iowa contacted me because their ancestors came from my village in ireland. However I'm not familiar with usa geography. It be useful if the dna matches location was came up next to their username in the list and then I could click in...because the likely hood is that everyone from my village in Ireland all traveled to the same village in the usa .....but we in ireland never knew this!!! This would help greatly as maybe I could search graveyard records for other Marshall's in the same village in Iowa who most likely are my relatives....people from ireland stuck together in clusters going to the usa and the migration plus DNA match/grouping would be nice to label in my dna list.
When you are viewing ThruLines, you will see the path of relationship between you and a DNA Match. If anyone in that path is not already in your tree, it will have a dotted line box around their name and information. When you click on that, the Evaluation panel opens up on the right.
A Tangerine I’m not seeing the option. I don’t know how long it’s been an option, but I’ve never had it lol. I was so excited when Christa mentioned it in this video, I added it to my To Do list...
Also could you please highlight some surnames do not have the same spelling when people went to the USA. I was not aware of this until I found DNA matches with funny surnames and then realised that their surname is spelt how Americans would pronounce it and not how irish people spell the surname- hence immigration records might be different. For example Smith can be spelt Smyth. Or Coughlan in ireland is spelt Conklin in america.
How do you handle a situation where you thought the aunt was the mother's full sister and then you find out the sisters have different fathers. Thank you!
Hi Pamela, What you mean by "how do you handle" the situation? Do you mean how do you communicate it to the family? How do you enter it into your tree? How do you find out which man is the father of the two daughters? I'd love to provide you with some more guidance if you can give me a little clarification around what you are looking for.
Oh my...I just found you all... I'm not really good at searching... My husband and daughter apparently have Cherokee blood. It's said my mother in law destroyed what records they had about the Cherokee ancestry... Which makes things more difficult Thanks for your interesting video
Hi Vaye! I'm so glad you found me. If your husband has a Cherokee ancestor, they should be pretty easy to find in records. The Cherokee are one of the most well documented U.S. native tribes. Just follow the records. Look for them in the U.S. federal census every ten years, working your way back in time. Are they living in a time and place where the Cherokee were known to have lived? If so, check the records of the "Five Civilized Tribes" that Ancestry has available online for additional information about them, their ancestors, and their tribal affiliation.
Hey quick question... My maternal grandfather’s DNA results came back and he’s 17% East Asian... Thats 14% China, 1% Vietnam, 1% Korea & Northern China, and 1% Japan. My mother also took the test and she is 8% from China and I am 4% China ... how far back was my Ancestor 100% Chinese/East Asian? Thank you! -Jovan
That's an interesting suggestion. I use the "New Matches" and/or "Matches I haven't Viewed" features to get to those people in my list who I haven't assigned to a particular group.
@@SheilaAsh That does make it more challenging. When working with my own matches, I just scroll through the list of "Shared Matches" each time I identify a match and look to make sure that there isn't anyone on that list that belongs in that particular family group that I haven't grouped yet.
@@CristaCowan Eusebio de Jesus Garcia is listed as the biological father of two of my great-grandfathers. Eusebio married twice. By his first wife, Petra Garza, had my great-grandfather, Manuel Garcia (father of my maternal grandfather, Jesus Garcia). By his 2nd wife, Maria de Jesus Vela, had my great-grandfather, Gaspar Garcia (father of my maternal grandmother, Juanita Garcia). Yes, really close endogamy...
@@irmaholtkamp4136 - Did you double-check the EDIT RELATIONSHIP screen for Eusebio to make sure that his relationship to both sons is listed as biological on that particular screen? That is how ThruLines determines what to show.
@@CristaCowan Yes, I double-checked Eusebio and his relationship to both sons is listed as biological. I also checked the relationship from each son to their father Eusebio and the relationship is biological. Should I send you a link to investigate further?
If he is NOT the biological father, regardless of whatever other biological relationship he has with his stepchild, you would NOT mark the parent/child relationship as biological.
ThruLines does not appear to handle multiple marriages well. I am related to a 2nd-great-grandfather thru BOTH of his wives. One of the ThruLines displays his "card" with the photo that I provided, but he appears with 2 cards in ThruLines and the 2nd "card" is to a potential ancestor that shows a DNA Match image and lots of "extra information" including the phrase "DNA Match HS" as part of this ancestor's name. Why doesn't it just show the the "card" with his photo from MY tree twice? IMHO, it would be so much better if ThruLines were presented as a standard Pedigree chart rather than as huge "cards" that do not make it easy to see the information in pedigree form.
@@CristaCowan Thanks for replying. This comment is related to the other one that I posted on this video. I find the "cards" difficult to visualize as part of my tree. If instead of "cards" they were presented in a pedigree form, I think they would be more useful and could also incorporate the multiple marriages of direct ancestors.
@@irmaholtkamp4136 - You don't have to view ThruLines from the "cards" page. Go to your tree and on the far left at the bottom of the tool bar is a little DNA icon. Use that and turn on ThruLines in your tree. This allows you to access it directly from pedigree view.
You seem to be very good at what you do,but could sure use some help. Tany ( )b, 1911 daughter name is mary peacock b. 1941 father is Theodore W (Joseph) Pavao/Peacock b. 1 april 1898 Hawii from Portugal she is listed as next of kin on WWII draft how idnk fathers listed as James C. Osborn mother Gesena Johana Wipperman then she is not on 1920 census, not on 1930 census listed as Betty Jayne Osborn on 1940 18 yrs old/b. 1922 but told she was adopted having the hardest time getting information Please help me she d. Sept 1988 AZ. cremated records only kept 7 yrs. i am at a lost have already spent's many many hrs looking
Hellow Junwell - I am a little confused about what you are asking. So, let me restate to make sure we are clear. Mary Peacock was born in 1941 to Theodore W Joseph Pavao/Peacock (b 1898) and Tany _____ (b 1911). Who are James Osborn and Gesena Johana Wipperman in relation to the Peacock family? And who are you looking for in the 1920 census? Mary wasn't born until 1941 so she wouldn't be on that census.
Hi Ron, Thank you for the feedback. One of the settings on every RUclips video is the "playback speed." If you just click the little gear icon that says SETTINGS when you hover over it, you will see that as one of the options. You can slow the video down to 3/4 or 1/2 speed in order to meet your listening needs. Me - even at the rate I talk - still speed it up to 1.5 speed when listening back. ;-)
Thank you for the updates for Ancestry. Very impressive. Using the edit relationships tool is valuable for sure! I enjoy your videos, and others, to help me understand how to better do my research. Invaluble. How blessed we are in this day and age to have such learning tools!
You are so smart and such a good communicator! Thanks!
Might be but no questions are answered 😓
🌳Can you do a video on tips making a family tree when your adopted ?
Anita, Crista has done several about adoption, although the screens will look outdated because Ancestry has updated it a couple times. Best way to find them is to type the following in the search box on youtube: Crista Cowan adoption.
@@CharLB91 Thanks 😃
And the videos are not so easy I feel to understand...no questions are answered by ancestry!
Yes I'm in ireland and it was a shock when I found so many dna matches in America who were adopted and sent there from ireland because nobody in my family seems to know how these adopted people are related to us because it could have been taboo etc. I'd love to be able to find out...I know we might never know exactly but I think ancestry could still help. For example an adopted person and a woman came up as a mutual match in my DNA matches...I dont know if that woman is that adopted persons DNA sibling??? I think ancestry could let us know what relationship the mutual DNA matches are to each other..because it would at least help eliminate or narrow down the connections potentially:)
Miss seeing these updates. It's been several months since a new one has been released. I hope a new one comes soon.
Do ancestry provide a "make a book" of our results. I'd like to gift my family tree to family members in a book :)
I like that idea
I have a crazy question about Thrulines. I'll try to make it somewhat brief.
My grandfather was adopted. When I got my DNA results about a month ago, and the Thrulines popped up, I got a 4th cousin match, suggesting that my Grandfather's adopted mother was his actual mother.
So I put her on my tree and immediately started researching trees for my Grandfather's paternal side. I narrowed everything to 1 particular family, which matches a surname on some letters from the North Carolina children's home sent to my Grandfather when he was alive. The only problem is that this particular surname is his maternal side according to what was given to him.
So I tore that side of the tree down and plugged in the woman who fit the age description of the records as his mother. When the Thrulines came through the next day, the lines went through what would be my Grandfather's grandparents, and a box named "Unknown 2nd Great grandfather" was put in the Thrulines. Needless to say, my Thrulines broke down.
Now the question. How did Thrulines figure out that this was a paternal family and not a maternal one? If I have it right (and I'm pretty sure I do) there may be a fraudulent, sealed original birth certificate that has thrown my Grandfather off of the right trail and would suggest that his adopted mother really pulled a fast one.
Without looking at your matches (specifically how many cM you share with them and which groups you've been able to identify) and your tree, I am going to have a hard time commenting. But, ThruLines doesn't "figure out" maternal versus paternal. It simply looks at what you have put into your family tree and tries to construct a place for each of your DNA Matches based on what is in their trees.
If you want to share more specifics about his particular 4th cousin match, I might be able to provide more direction.
@@CristaCowan I wouldn't think Thrulines would "figure it out" who was maternal vs. paternal. The issue is that in my tree, I put my suspected Great grandfather's sister on my tree as the parent of my Grandfather. On the Thrulines, it said "Unknown Great Grandfather" as the parent of my Grandfather instead of what I had on my tree. I got screenshots of it on my phone.
I thought maybe Thrulines might sort out all of the tree matches. With 24+ matches in that part of the tree, I thought it wouldn't coordinate every Thruline correctly.
I'll give you some specifics when I get a chance. I'll make my tree public, if you want to take a peak.
@@buckeyebaptist1976 - I'm a little confused about why you made your great-grandfather's sister the parent of your grandfather. I probably should look at it to understand. If/when you make your tree public, feel free to share the link here and I'll take a look.
@@CristaCowan I put his sister there because of of North Carolina children's home society had the mother being a Smoot.
I appreciate your response.
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Christa, thanks for always sharing great tips and information! When I picked my genealogy up again after over a decade hiatus, I loved binge watching your videos! Even the “outdated” ones still shared invaluable techniques. Are you considering (or would you) doing a refresh/update of some of your older videos showing the ins and outs of Ancestry that have changed since the interface has changed so much? TFS ~Linda :)
Hi Linda! Absolutely! I've put together a calendar to take us through the end of the year and many of the videos coming out in the next couple of months are updates of some of my old videos. Thanks for watching!
Crista Cowan that’s awesome news! I love you and your videos! Your personality and ways of teaching are the best! 😊
When is Ancestry going to allow viewing of Chromosome exact data( range if matches in each Chromosome and number of SNP's) for matches?
Hi . More fun ways to sort your DNA matches. I love the color dots. I have used all my colors up. More colors! Hey Pantone has 3000 + colors. Ha. I would like to see being able to sort my matches by ethnicity. If someone had a certain ethnicity group and wanted to see all the matches who shared that same ethnicity, that would help some find where these matches fit on their tree.
Not really thrilled with ThruLines because they are based on other family trees that may be filled with errors. They keep listing ancestors as half-this or half-that when I know they are full ancestors and not half anything. Plus the potential ancestor suggestions in the ThruLines are often way off target.
Thank you! Very informative!
Is there an easy way to delete multiple duplicates all in one go or merge them easier in one go? It's very slow going in one by one. Some reason I've ended up with about 5 duplicates of each member. This normally happens when I copy another DNA matches tree to mine and it creates duplicates..or if another person updates my tree not knowing the person already there...or even when I add a new person.
Thank you for all your hard work. I can't wait for the new message center. Mine is still not delivering my messages since February!! Very frustrating. I am hoping the new message center will work for me. I enjoy your videos.
Is it possible to add more group options and or overlap dna matches I control or to be able to easy switch colours or overlap multiple DNA matches? I control my dads DNA match and mine. I can also log into my mothers. Is it possible to gain ownership of my mothers dna? To transfer it into my account? Also I find I am grouping my dna matches and then separately I've to group my dads DNA in his profile which I control. Is there a way to do this at the same time because obviously my DNA and his overlaps. It's slow grouping matches twice (I mean grouping into Marshall's or Marshall who married kane etc). I love the grouping idea but it's still could be improved. I end up with different colours for groups in my moms dna profile and it all becomes messy. Be nice to be able to control all of our DNA matches from a central pool???
Is there a way to colour code my tree and then match that up with the current "groups" in my dna matches...so if a dna match looks at my tree they can see very easy which part of my tree they are related to. Thanks. I've lots of queries as I use ancestry alot.
Crista, has anyone experienced any glitches with the Message Center? Mine was updated to the new format but has recently returned to the original format. Also, I noticed a reply to a message while using my phone Ancestry App, however, the same reply message did not appear online on my computer.
It is possible that your account is in the middle of being migrated. It should be reflected the same across all devices once that is complete.
@@AncestryUS Thank you! I've tried 3 different browsers and cleared the history and cache. I really liked the Message Center update until it disappeared. Hopefully, it is a migration issue and will be corrected soon.
Hi Crista, always look forward to your videos. I pulled out a suggested person like your Mary Rachel Jones (around minute 11) and I do not get the ability to "select one of the trees or records above to add _____ ____ ____ to your tree." Is it still being fixed? When will it work for me. I use Mac and Google Chrome.
It is still being rolled out to users. You should have it soon.
Also is there a way to colour code adopted people or suggest how they might be related? I've found an adopted person and they are related to 4th cousins in both my mother and my fathers family- it's like their parents are connected by my mothers ancestor and my fathers ancestor getting together....is there a way to help us find out how adopted people are connected easier? I know the DNA matches but I dont know if the mutual dna matches are brothers or sisters to that adopted person...maybe it is possible to show relationships of DNA matches to each other and a function to group them. For example if my cousin and auntie match with me as DNA matches...that ancestry tells me that they are a mother/daughter connection. This might help with me know how adopted people fit in with our DNA matches.
I continue to LOATHE ThruLines because so many trees are done poorly. I had one match vie ThruLines when I guy decided he was a descendant through a sister of one of my ancestors. He had no documentation and "just a hunch". Not only was he wrong but she TOO is one of my direct ancestors because of intermarriage between second cousins and that was very well documented.
The maternal/paternal sorting isn't showing up on my page. I assume that's because my father died before this type of DNA testing. My mom has done the testing and is on Ancestry so I don't know why this feature wouldn't work for me.
I much preferred Dna circles over the Thrulines, wish they never got rid of them.
I dont think I ever used DNA circles but I love the Thrulines concept. I think it's bad form for you to say people do their tree "poorly"...clearly not everyone knows what the correct links are. In ireland for example we have zero documents before 1865 or very few. Most of my 4th cousin dna matches pre date a connection before 1865 but we have no knowledge of how. I have requested ancestry to allow people to join trees together but for somehow have link which says "dont know which relative we are connected to" but we know it's from the one lineage. I think that would help has I would like to have a perfect tree but then I dont always know the exact link of my DNA matches as we dont have documents in ireland beyond 1865
Hi Crista, by any chance do you have a video that talks about how to find records of ancestors that you don’t know where they come from? Also, which video do you recommend to watch to find biological ancestors? Thank you so much.
Another great video! Have you heard anything about possibly more Irish records showing up any time soon? Northern Ireland in particular and older records, say 1870 and back??
Ancestry has more than 100 million Irish records on the site. Have you looked at the Card Catalog to see if what you need is already online? www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?title=Ireland&sort=record-count
Christa, thank you so much for posting very useful information. I am wondering when the "New" ThruLines will be fixed. It worked wonderfully until the last week of August (about the time when the rolled out the Messages Beta) I called Ancestry Support and the end of August and was told it would be fixed over Labor Day Weekend. It is still not back to functioning and I was told yesterday this is a site-wide problem but should be fixed in the next couple of weeks. (Not able to pull up Maternal side) Thanks
There is no outstanding issues with ThruLines that I am aware of. You say you are missing your entire maternal side? I would recommend doing the following:
1. Go into your family tree and go into your person profile for yourself.
2. Click on EDIT | Edit Relationship. Make sure that your mother's relationship to you is set as BIOLOGICAL on the right-hand side of that screen.
3. Go into your mother's profile on the tree and do the same for both of her parents.
4a. If you had to change any of those to biological, wait 24-48 hours after making the change and the ThruLines for your mother's side should show up.
4b. If you did not have to make any changes (meaning everything was already set to biological) then please reply here with a copy of the URL to your profile in your tree and I will have someone take a look at it right away.
I have an issue with two factor authentication. When I have this applied. I"m unable to log into FTM. Can you please advise why?
Questions are never answered!Its all promotion..
Is there an October, November or December edition? It is not showing in my search
Hi CeeMe, The next "What's New" video will come out the first week of February. Between now and then, Crista has a couple of other videos that will be published so be sure to subscribe to the channel so you get notified when they are uploaded.
The reason I have so many questions is because in ireland our records only go back to 1865 and then it's very slow for our library to copy church records...they are also not so easy to search through online. Ancestry kinda assumes that because the USA has so many records...that i in ireland will know how I'm connected to the usa dna matches....this is not easy because in ireland we might only have photos or stories back to the late 1890s and therefore no record of what happened in 1775 or 1845 with our ancestors during famine etc. Is there a way ancestry can help irish members with our lack of records??? I'm hoping to piece together my family based on the info the usa DNA matches give me
Could you have an option to add DNA matches trees to my tree even if we do not know the exact ancestors we are linked from. For example, my granny was a Finn but our ancestor is Leonard Finn and our DNA matches ancestor is Thomas finn....because I live in Ireland I cannot find records pre 1865 for Leonard finn and how he is connected to thomas finn. Please can you let us still add them to my tree for my other relatives to look at and someone might know how the two are connected at a later date.
Also is there a feature to see if I could be related to famous americans? I looked at some distant dna matches and they have John Marshall USA secretary of state as their ancestor. I contacted the John Marshall website and they were not interested in irish relatives and only his "American descendants"....however I think it would be very interesting to know that I'm a descendant from the same family who emigrated to the usa and changed history and involved in the foundation of the usa. Could that be a feature? That well known historic or famous Americans come up as a potential DNA match?
Thank you for your help.
In the past I.ve put questions up and no answers!!!We can not go always to Ancestry.com talks!Very frustrating...
Sorry for so many suggestions. My other suggestion is with distant relatives- I have 40,000 of these but they are not all useful to look through. Is there a way to filter distant relatives who might have 20,000 people in their tree? I'd like to filter or sort dna matches by the numbers of people they have in their trees. Therefore if I find an 8th cousin but they have 10,000 people in their tree.. they might be useful compared to an 8th cousin dna match who has no family tree information
Hi Christa, Do you know when you will be filming the next monthly episode of "What's New at Ancestry?" Thanks! Nancy
Hi Nancy, I am actually filming it today. Hopefully it will be edited and published online within the next couple of days.
@@CristaCowan Yay - thanks so much for all you do to help people research their ancestry. Everything is greatly appreciated!
@@irondequoitlibrary4139 - The new episode is up. Be sure to check it out.
The updates are always wonderful and appreciate your videos very much, however, I am wondering if it wouldn't make sense to prioritize shoring up the features that you have now. Every day I get these messages "Our backend services are overtaxed at the moment and we are unable to retrieve all your matches. We apologize for the inconvenience, please try again later." or ..."We apologize for the inconvience" the site isn't working right now or.. this page cannot be retrieved try to refresh or come back later. It can be extremely frustrating to be working down a list of dna matches and then be able to go no farther or to add something to your tree that won"t take after you paste, copy and type in info. Can you give us some update information about what ancestry is doing to make the site features that you already have work better?
Where can I go to get information about the New Ancestry Message system. I'm going to be one of the last but I need to be able to explain it to others.
You can see screen shots and some basic explanations here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Messaging-on-Ancestry
Crista will also be doing a video about it in a few weeks.
I thought you said a week ago that there would be a new video coming out in a few days, for October 2019. Eagerly waiting.
I cant wait till you are in utah feb
Are there October and/or November edition? I can't find them :(
They have not uploaded one for October and November
Christa always post an edition in late December or early January about her new year's resolutions in relation to her genealogical research and studies, so if new year comes and goes and still theres no new barefoot video then perhaps we should start to worry about her. Hope it's just that she's so busy with conferences and genealogy exhibitions and stuff that she hasn't got around to a video.
@@MrDannyDetail hopefully
Crista - any word on the bug/feature where all line breaks are removed in profile notes? I'd love to be able to put a line break into event descriptions, but notes without line breaks are really a problem.
I'm pretty sure that was fixed this week. If you are still having a problem with it, let me know and I'll have someone look into it.
Is there or will there be a way to know if someone has read a message that was sent? I have a person who shows that they could be a first cousin but, they are managed by someone else. I have no way of knowing if the message was received or read. Thank you.
Once all accounts are migrated over to the new message center, read receipts will be available for everyone.
Crista, have they ever considered allowing people to pull up a source and filter our family tree against it? In that way, you could pull up say the source and have a list of individuals in our tree that are listed in it. Just a thought.
That's an interesting idea.
Hi Crista! Huge Fan and Love your videos! I have a ? Occasionally I will find a Source while searching that has absolutely nothing to do with my tree but I want to share it so someone else could use it. Do I understand correctly that a Media file MUST be attached to someone in my tree to be viewed? If so, how do I share these records? Along this same subject I spent hours collecting information on a family that I found out is not even mine. How could I split this part off into a new tree so others could use it? Thank You!
Hi Terri - You might consider creating a "People I Found Out I'm Not Related To" tree. There, you can upload any documents you may have come across while researching.
In order to remove a branch of people from your tree you have two options:
1. Disconnect them from your tree by deleting the inaccurate relationship. This leaves a "floating" tree within your tree.
2. Use a software program, like Family Tree Maker, to sync with your Ancestry tree. This has a feature that allows you to split your family tree.
Hope that helps!
Is there any place to add personal stories for particular people on my tree profiles? Thanks for all your videos, I look forward to each one!!!!
Hey Crista, do you happen to have any videos on the Salem witch trials. I just recently discovered an ancestor that was accused. His name was Thomas Farrar Sr.
Hi Ayden - I don't have a video about the Salem Witch Trials. But, if you can get your hands on season 1 of Who Do You Think You Are, there is an episode with Sarah Jessica Parker that talks about it.
Hi Ayden - cousinly greetings! Thomas Farrar [the witch] is my 10th great uncle. His father (my 10th great grandfather) is also Thomas Farrar, so he's actually Thomas Farrar Jr - but the younger Thomas in Salem.
And thanks, Crista; I'll also check out that 'Who Do You Think You Are?' episodee
Last month's update on Thru-lines disconnected me from my entire paternal side. I have over 8000 people on my tree and not any of my father's side is a match anymore (he is still living). The tree now associates me with the wrong ancestors--brother's of my great grandparents. It used to work-now it doesn't. Every single person on his side is a dotted line with "evaluate". The only people shown without those dotted lines are 5th or greater grandparents and I can't verify any of those.
Hi JM. Go into your family tree (the one that is connected to your DNA results) and click on you in the tree and go to your profile. From there, click on EDIT | Edit Relationships. On the right hand side across from your father's name, is he listed as "Biological" or "Unknown?" It needs to be biological. If you have to fix it, give ThruLines 24-48 hours to repopulate. If it already says "biological" then go to your father's profile and check the Edit Relationships screen for him.
If that doesn't fix it, or if that is not the problem, be sure to reply back. I will need the URL of your profile page in your tree in order to have it investigated further. Thanks!
Also I love all of the updates with the messages and being able to search by words. I'm sad though to find I had forgotten to reply to some of my DNA matches for over a year. Could you make it easy to see who we have replied to and who we have not replied to??? I know I can click on each message and read....but if the list of messages in my inbox had "replied", "didnt reply" that would be wonderful to make sure I dont miss anyone out as I know people take their time to message me and I dont want to miss it and be rude :)
Thank you.
How can you tell which persons are NOT Jewish in these new records? I am interested in finding a select group other than Jewish that were also persecuted but I have no names to research. Thanks in advance.
The displaced persons lists have a column for religion.
@@CristaCowan Thank you. I must have been looking at the wrong records or just missed the religion column. Will check again.
Hi Crista,
How can i see who has been DNA tested?
Hi Gwen, If you have taken the AncestryDNA test, you can view your DNA Match List to see who has tested that is connected to you genetically.
Also I love the maps options. I notice there are now two ancestry apps for android??? The new ancestry DNA seems to be missing alot of the nice features of the original ancestry app. Is there a way to see dna matches in a map form??? So far I just see all my dna matches on the one map of the world. It would make it easier if I knew dna matches could be related through the same relatives because of where they went to. For example 8th distant cousins in Iowa contacted me because their ancestors came from my village in ireland. However I'm not familiar with usa geography. It be useful if the dna matches location was came up next to their username in the list and then I could click in...because the likely hood is that everyone from my village in Ireland all traveled to the same village in the usa .....but we in ireland never knew this!!! This would help greatly as maybe I could search graveyard records for other Marshall's in the same village in Iowa who most likely are my relatives....people from ireland stuck together in clusters going to the usa and the migration plus DNA match/grouping would be nice to label in my dna list.
How do I find the evaluation tool on ThruLines? Thanks.
When you are viewing ThruLines, you will see the path of relationship between you and a DNA Match. If anyone in that path is not already in your tree, it will have a dotted line box around their name and information. When you click on that, the Evaluation panel opens up on the right.
I’m climbing my tree and went to change relationships to “Divorced” and can’t find the list of options. Please help lol Thanks ~Linda :)
A Tangerine I’m not seeing the option. I don’t know how long it’s been an option, but I’ve never had it lol. I was so excited when Christa mentioned it in this video, I added it to my To Do list...
Also could you please highlight some surnames do not have the same spelling when people went to the USA. I was not aware of this until I found DNA matches with funny surnames and then realised that their surname is spelt how Americans would pronounce it and not how irish people spell the surname- hence immigration records might be different. For example Smith can be spelt Smyth. Or Coughlan in ireland is spelt Conklin in america.
How do I get to the footnotes?
How do you handle a situation where you thought the aunt was the mother's full sister and then you find out the sisters have different fathers. Thank you!
Hi Pamela, What you mean by "how do you handle" the situation? Do you mean how do you communicate it to the family? How do you enter it into your tree? How do you find out which man is the father of the two daughters? I'd love to provide you with some more guidance if you can give me a little clarification around what you are looking for.
Oh my...I just found you all...
I'm not really good at searching... My husband and daughter apparently have Cherokee blood.
It's said my mother in law destroyed what records they had about the Cherokee ancestry... Which makes things more difficult
Thanks for your interesting video
Hi Vaye! I'm so glad you found me. If your husband has a Cherokee ancestor, they should be pretty easy to find in records. The Cherokee are one of the most well documented U.S. native tribes. Just follow the records. Look for them in the U.S. federal census every ten years, working your way back in time. Are they living in a time and place where the Cherokee were known to have lived? If so, check the records of the "Five Civilized Tribes" that Ancestry has available online for additional information about them, their ancestors, and their tribal affiliation.
Hey quick question... My maternal grandfather’s DNA results came back and he’s 17% East Asian...
Thats 14% China, 1% Vietnam, 1% Korea & Northern China, and 1% Japan.
My mother also took the test and she is 8% from China and I am 4% China ...
how far back was my Ancestor 100% Chinese/East Asian?
Thank you!
-Jovan
need to ID all matches NOT grouped - what's the best way?
That's an interesting suggestion. I use the "New Matches" and/or "Matches I haven't Viewed" features to get to those people in my list who I haven't assigned to a particular group.
@@CristaCowan trouble is I browsed loads that are not grouped before I realised I needed to do this :(
@@SheilaAsh That does make it more challenging. When working with my own matches, I just scroll through the list of "Shared Matches" each time I identify a match and look to make sure that there isn't anyone on that list that belongs in that particular family group that I haven't grouped yet.
Why does ThruLines show someone else's information in the path of a common ancestor instead of the information from my tree?
Do you have that ancestor in your tree already? Is that ancestor listed in the EDIT RELATIONSHIP screen as the "biological" parent of their child?
@@CristaCowan Eusebio de Jesus Garcia is listed as the biological father of two of my great-grandfathers. Eusebio married twice. By his first wife, Petra Garza, had my great-grandfather, Manuel Garcia (father of my maternal grandfather, Jesus Garcia). By his 2nd wife, Maria de Jesus Vela, had my great-grandfather, Gaspar Garcia (father of my maternal grandmother, Juanita Garcia). Yes, really close endogamy...
@@irmaholtkamp4136 - Did you double-check the EDIT RELATIONSHIP screen for Eusebio to make sure that his relationship to both sons is listed as biological on that particular screen? That is how ThruLines determines what to show.
@@CristaCowan Yes, I double-checked Eusebio and his relationship to both sons is listed as biological. I also checked the relationship from each son to their father Eusebio and the relationship is biological. Should I send you a link to investigate further?
Thrulines doesn’t allow you to ad a person from the side panel!
when a step father ( the step mother is NOT biologicaly connected) is actually the uncle is tagging the relationship Biological the best way?
If he is NOT the biological father, regardless of whatever other biological relationship he has with his stepchild, you would NOT mark the parent/child relationship as biological.
When will FTM 2019 be available?
You would have to ask the owners of FTM, Software MacKiev. But, I suspect it will be released when it is ready. ;-)
Did you say...are the Arolsen records in English?
The column headings are in German but Ancestry has translated them.
ThruLines does not appear to handle multiple marriages well. I am related to a 2nd-great-grandfather thru BOTH of his wives. One of the ThruLines displays his "card" with the photo that I provided, but he appears with 2 cards in ThruLines and the 2nd "card" is to a potential ancestor that shows a DNA Match image and lots of "extra information" including the phrase "DNA Match HS" as part of this ancestor's name. Why doesn't it just show the the "card" with his photo from MY tree twice? IMHO, it would be so much better if ThruLines were presented as a standard Pedigree chart rather than as huge "cards" that do not make it easy to see the information in pedigree form.
Thank you for the feedback, Irma. Being related to some of our ancestors in multiple ways does cause lots of interesting challenges.
@@CristaCowan Thanks for replying. This comment is related to the other one that I posted on this video. I find the "cards" difficult to visualize as part of my tree. If instead of "cards" they were presented in a pedigree form, I think they would be more useful and could also incorporate the multiple marriages of direct ancestors.
@@irmaholtkamp4136 - You don't have to view ThruLines from the "cards" page. Go to your tree and on the far left at the bottom of the tool bar is a little DNA icon. Use that and turn on ThruLines in your tree. This allows you to access it directly from pedigree view.
When DNA for people living in Mexico? Anothers genealogy compamies already offers the service.....
It's coming soon! Get on the VIP list here: www.ancestry.mx/dna/
Wondering if you are related to Martha Mattie Cowan Arthur
Hi BK - I do have a Martha Cowan in my tree but she is not married to an Arthur. (~Crista)
I used to have the new message system and now I do not.
It is still being rolled out. I suspect it will show back up for you in the next few weeks.
Crista Cowan hopefully
You seem to be very good at what you do,but could sure use some help. Tany ( )b, 1911 daughter name is mary peacock b. 1941 father is Theodore W (Joseph) Pavao/Peacock b. 1 april 1898 Hawii from Portugal she is listed as next of kin on WWII draft how idnk fathers listed as James C. Osborn mother Gesena Johana Wipperman then she is not on 1920 census, not on 1930 census listed as Betty Jayne Osborn on 1940 18 yrs old/b. 1922 but told she was adopted having the hardest time getting information Please help me she d. Sept 1988 AZ. cremated records only kept 7 yrs. i am at a lost have already spent's many many hrs looking
Hellow Junwell - I am a little confused about what you are asking. So, let me restate to make sure we are clear.
Mary Peacock was born in 1941 to Theodore W Joseph Pavao/Peacock (b 1898) and Tany _____ (b 1911).
Who are James Osborn and Gesena Johana Wipperman in relation to the Peacock family?
And who are you looking for in the 1920 census? Mary wasn't born until 1941 so she wouldn't be on that census.
Would Crista please slow her speech. She talks too fast.
Hi Ron, Thank you for the feedback. One of the settings on every RUclips video is the "playback speed." If you just click the little gear icon that says SETTINGS when you hover over it, you will see that as one of the options. You can slow the video down to 3/4 or 1/2 speed in order to meet your listening needs.
Me - even at the rate I talk - still speed it up to 1.5 speed when listening back. ;-)
Please speak up, thanks.
What do you mean?
I mean to talk louder.😁
Peggy Mattie, it’s called turn up the volume on your device lol
Why don’t you simply turn up your VOLUME!
@@MKB0720 I did turn it up all the way.