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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- Join Crista Cowan for a look at the new ThruLines for AncestryDNA. She will share how ThruLines are created and how best to use them to make new family history discoveries. She will also share some tips and best practices for getting the most out of your AncestryDNA match list.
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WHAT ARE ANCESTRY THRULINES
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I absolutely LOVE Thrulines! Most of the connections, are valid descendants. I follow each path, tracing out records for each person. Because of this tool, I was finally able to break down the brick wall of who my 3rd great grandparents were on my paternal line.. and all the other generations followed. I had suspected we went back through this particular family but had a difficult time finding the proof. With this tool it placed in the family I thought should be there.. Love it!
Hey you, where can I enter my activation code? All this cite does is brag! Where/how do you get the results. I sent my stuff and have waited. Can't find a site to enter my Activation
Code! Tadzu Kudron
cjsychowski me too!! Just broke through a twenty year brick wall!!
thru lines HAS CHANGED THE GAME... dare I say.. changed MY LIFE... I am finally beginning to break through my life long brick wall... and my favorite branch my Italian side.. But not just my Italian line... Thru lines has potentially broken several other of my brick walls and provided really good proof with matches I never seen before.. I am eternally grateful for thru lines and will forever sing the praises of ancestry and help promote. thank you guys so much for the incredible tool thru lines. Blessings
We regret hearing of the frustrations that this has caused, Graeme. We do appreciate your feedback which we've passed along to our DNA teams involved. We encourage you to use the tools that will help you to build and grow your family tree,
I watched your videos on Sorting Shared Matches, and on ThruLines and boy did I learn a lot from every one of them. Snipper is great as is the DNAPainter. I found it was surprisingly fast to break up all the Common Ancestors on the Match list into family groups based on my great grandparents. Then I found it was easy to sort out a lot of the shared matches without common ancestors (above 50 cM) into those groups by using the Shared Matches by bringing up those I was sure of and clicking on the Shared Matches at the top. Then I started using the ThruLines. I did like you and started with my parents, then grandparents and worked my way up, and up, using them to add more matches to the family groups. More people were added to the Thrulines and they yielded some significant matches. Wow! Today a couple of major brick walls just tumbled to the ground. Thank you so much.
Ok Crista, I have been less than thrilled with the ThruLines feature until today. Watched this video yesterday and decided to give it another chance and WOW! I haven't broken thru my brick wall YET, but I've spent all day getting closer based on the suggestions. A bunch of surnames that I kept running into and bumping my head against are FINALLY fleshing out (namely bc 8 children in 1 family married 5 from that mysterious surname! Duh!). I also found out how 1 match connects to my Dad on one line and to my Mom on another - thanks to the new sorting. Lol!! Keep up the great work!! 👍👐
P.S. I also loved the _____ (underscore idea) for unknown maiden names. Glad to hear it doesn't muck up the system. Unfortunately 😉 as soon as I tried it I found the maiden name.
Thrulines is one of the greatest innovations on Ancestry. I not only discovered new ancestral lines using Thrulines, I also verified existing lines. I know it to be accurate as several of my deceased 3rd and 4th cousins, who I had met in 1968 & 1969, showed up as my DNA matches along with their descendants. I began my genealogical journey long before computers or DNA testing. I can now research in a couple of hours what would have taken a decade back in the 70s and 80s.
Great info Christa. Thank you.
I love this new feature. Especially the private searchable trees. Thrulines will still gives you a way to contact the owner of that tree. It's very helpful when you are at a dead end.
One of my (and my mother’s) Thrulines gives me more confidence for the maiden name of my 3ggm Mrs. Lydia Webb. Several DNA matches converge on a grandmother of the woman I think it might be.
Hi Crista, I've only just discovered your videos and really enjoy watching you. Your commentary is clear and easy-to-follow and you are a very personable lady. I am disappointed, however, that Ancestry has not provided you with video equipment of a higher quality. Take care and keep up the good work!
I have found over 50 matches which have been suggested to be spot on and always marvel at the results Ancestry have produced. They are not always direct ancestors but connections from their siblings. How do Ancestry manage to get them all correct? It has been for me a bonus and there are still some more to work out which can be sometimes quite difficult. I will try and plod on.
This really helps. Especially, with the new features on family trees. I was able to go up 4 generations on my Maternal Grandmother's tree 👌🏽
I am working on my husband’s tree and he only knows the maternal side but so many of his dna matches seem to be on his paternal side which since he was adopted he have no clue. We have figured out now by 4 matches that he shares a common ancestor but I do not know how to get the Thru lines since we are not sure where are how he is related except 2-3 cousins, or possible aunts/ uncles. We have messaged all close matches but it has been 2 weeks and no responses.
I regret to say that I've seen quite a few ThruLine suggestions that are demonstrably wrong, and the great danger is that they seem to confirm and reinforce a lot of the questionable genealogy that abounds on Ancestry. As Crista stresses, it is important to test the validity of the hypotheses suggested by the ThruLine tool. If Ancestry offered chromosome segment matching tools, it would be easier to triangulate and test the validity and nature of many of the matches.
yeah ..put wrong people as ancestors
Blood is blood DNA dnt lie People do. About RACE ETHNICITY even their NAMES at times birthdays . so paper trail is B.S. sometimes
How can we use ThruLines with our quick and dirty mirror trees? I know we should not make this type of tree public, however, the tree MUST be public for ThruLines to work. So what to do?
This was very helpful to me...lots to go correct! Thank you very much!
In general I have found Thru Lines very helpful and interesting, but one thing I don’t like is having an ancestor listed as “Private” especially when I already have an ancestor in my tree for that relationship. I also have one listed as “dead end” from someone else’s tree.
Greetings Crista. I think I need to give some background for my question. My brickwall is my great grandfather, I can find nothing with his parents information on it. Through research, and discovering a handful of circumstantial evidence, I THINK I have figured out who his parents are. I placed them in my tree in case Ancestry was able to find something I couldn't. When I did my DNA and looked through ThruLines, something interesting popped up. The woman I am guessing is my GGGrandmother, well her father (so my assumed GGGGrandfather) is showing 24 DNA matches via 7 of his children, 4 of which are through my assumed GGGrandmother. Does this VERIFY that I am on the right track or did me putting them in my tree mess with something? Thank you. (I hope this wasn't too confusing)
Is there a "view as" feature? I'd like to see what my profile looks like to the public can and to my matches. Also, do we get notified via email when we receive a message?
Hi Gwen. Great question. The answer is YES. You can click on the link in the top left corner of your profile page in order to switch from "personal profile" view to "public profile" view in order to see how others see your profile.
I am African American, and I have European heritage in a specific line. I received a DNA circle initially that I believe I actually belonged too, but it went away. Wish there was a way to get it back, it would strengthen my discoveries with thru lines
I could still get to my DNA circles today. You probably can too. Just click on the DNA tab in the main tool bar and DNA Circles is still an option.
It’s terrific. I’ve made lots of new connections with the new match list and thrulines.
What is the best way to put in nicknames or alternate names when the person has gone by several in different records? I guess quotations isn’t the way to go?
Thanks
#Betty Grindrod I have a similar situation. A maternal aunt's birth certificate shows one name, but all of her legal documents had the abbreviated version of that name. So now what? Would love to see Crista's answer.
I have wondered the same thing. How do Ancestry's computers deal with alternate names (assuming alternate names are used at all)?
@@cecelliarogers7346 I keep a fact in the profile for each different name found. Ancestry will search the alternate names you add to the profile, even if they don't appear as part of the preferred name. For the preferred name, I personally put nicknames in quotes, and name changes as Elias/Louis. Mainly so that persons looking at my tree will see whichever name they already know. You can use parenthesis if you prefer. Ancestry will still search for both names.
another great helpful presentation Crista! thank you. I noted you put in 5 x underscores for when you don't know name. I use UNKNOWN (usually the surname), is that ok?
Loved the ritual you and your Dad have!
Thank you Wendy, we're very happy to hear you enjoyed so much Crista's presentation! Regarding your question using UNKNOWN as a placeholder for people of whom you don't yet know their names: That seems logical and you can also filter these names easily in the List of all People in your family tree. We wish you all the best with your continued research and please let us know if you have more questions for us! 🌳
You mentioned early on that you do not need a DNA match for thrulines to work yet DNA matches are what seems to be the norm for all findings of common ancestors. Help me to understand your point.
Crista, thanks so much for the great video. Could Ancestry please add a check box so we can dismiss Potential Ancestors that we know are wrong?
Hello! Thanks for the kind words. ThruLines will always follow your tree first. So, if you have Potential Ancestors that you know are not right, you have two choices at this point - 1) Put the correct parents into your tree for that particular ancestor or 2) Pay it no mind. I will submit a "reject" or "remove" suggestion to our product team over ThruLines. Thanks.
I wish I could use this feature. I have a regular Ancestry account for myself, but I don't have a full Ancestry account for each of my parents' accounts created by testing their DNA with Ancestry. When I try to evaluate thru lines one their accounts, I am blocked by a paywall. Frustrating. I just cannot afford three full Ancestry accounts. One is costly enough for me.
Never found a single connection using family trees. I have also used Familysearch and no matches there either. Not really surprised, with a lot of adoptees there are not many trees.
Hi Christ’s
Thank you for your very informative videos. I just jumped into Ancestry recently. You talked about private/public and searchable/unsearchable settings. Please could you share the relevant link where you have discussed these items? Many thanks. 🦋
The ThruLines Icons will not let me click it on! Not sure why? Can you help?
Crista, I watched your video today it is was helpful. The issue I am having is that I have a DNA match that say I have a common ancestor with this person. When I click on the common ancestor link it gives that names of the 4th great grandparents then when I click on view relationships it goes to the thru lines page for that 4th GGP but does not show the link of potential link between the DNA match and the GGP. I have contacted Ancestry and I can not get an answer why this is. Can you help,
thanks Pat
Talking about step-parents: DNA Thru-lines (& family tree Y DNA) has narrowed my search to 5 possible candidates for the illegitimate father of a Great Grandfather. One of these characters happens to be the theoretical step-father of the same Great Grandad. The baby was adopted by the married sister. However, whom she married is a mystery despite the wedding certificate. I theorised that he (a commercial traveller) was a bigamist. There is a very close dead-ringer, another commercial traveller, whose wife disowned him. It turns out that the latter is related to us by thru-lines! I had already considered surrogacy as the married sister had no children after 8 years of marriage....eerie!
I am so confused. There is controversy over two potential ancestors. Can't be both. I pretty much proved one of them. Then I connected my dad's DNA to the wrong line just to "prove" there would be no DNA connections. But there are thru lines all over the place. Arhg! I think I have faulty logic here somewhere. Someone please help un-confuse me.
Great video on a great new feature. I am trying to find the parents of my maternal grandmother. I know her surname and have tons of DNA matches to that name. So for example, I have great confidence that I know who her possible 2nd great grandfather was with the same surname just because of the number and sizes of the matches. But I don't know who her parents are. I'm analyzing the matches shown in the Thrulines charts. I started with a suggestion that someone made as to who her parents were, but the cM counts of the matches are too low to support that placement in my tree. I got a suggestion from someone else about another couple who may have been her parents, so I temporarily changed her parents in my tree to the new couple (Edit Relationships). I went to look at ThruLines and the charts have not changed since I made that change in my tree, so I am assuming that the Ancestry computers have not recalculated the ThruLines charts yet. Does anyone know when I might expect to see new Thruline charts?... for example, who are my 3rd great grandparents, etc.
The answer in my case... it took two days for the ThruLines to update showing the new ancestors. Reasonable, considering the Ancestry computers have to search millions of trees to accomplish the update.
Hopefully you see this soon. On Thrulines, I do not see a dna helix attached to my husband. He is definitely related to the common ancestor. The reason I know that he is related to the common ancestor is because his granddaughter shows up underneath of him with the dna helix. Could you explain please.
Don't have DNA Helix Icon on left. WHY???? How do I get that. What is wrong here? My subscription is paid, and tree is connected.
Hello! You may have covered this in a video. I have been trying to view them. My father was married and divorced without children before I was born and before he married my mom. She comes up as a step parent. She is not! At least in my eyes. How do I fix this. I have been monitoring the Facebook group and it seems others are having this problem. I have tried what some suggested, but to no avail. Is there a work around? Thanks! I thoroughly enjoy your videos!
This looks great IF you have Ancestry information that goes back far enough. However, I am Native American, and those records do not go back far enough. I have DNA matches with other Native Americans that do NOT fall into my direct family tree due to those non-existent records. So my question is - How can ThruLines help out with finding out Ancestry information, ie where the DNA connection is? Will this help determine if it is from my Great great Grandmother's side, or my Great great Grandfather's side, etc (those being as high as records go)?
How accurate are potential relatives in being our real relatives?
I wish I had had my grandfather taken the test before he passed away, he would have connected to so many of our family...
BTW, ThruLines has been a great help in verifying some of my questionable connections.
The ThruLines Icons slider button is greyed out. Why is that?
How did you get the Suffix block in the great grandparents profiles to accept the colored heart emojis? Have not been successful in doing that.
How do you add nicknames if you're not using quotes? How do you handle people who's name changed due to adoption or immigration? I've been putting the former name in parentheses.
If you want to keep your names clear of punctuation so you get better search results for DNA research, you can use add a Fact such as "Also known as" which is one of the choices.qq
Or you can create a custom fact such as Nickname
I am 23 years now doing geology and my advice, avoid Ancestry like the plague. You will never be more frustrated with their antiquated search engine, inability to save results fast, always re-authenticating every click of the button that makes it sloooooow. Just a junk site anymore, look at others out there, there are some great alternatives.
Thank you, Crista, for teaching about Thrulines!! I have heard some feedback in regards, which hasn't positive, and I was waiting to hear from you about it. You covered it so well that I am feeling much about it and am looking forward to trying it out! :-)
Hi Crista
Was thoroughly enjoying Common Ancestors and Thrulines, and now;
My Thrulines and Common Ancestors have disappeared. When I oops deleted my Father from my tree 6 days ago, it deleted the whole Paternal side of my family. I figured out how to retrieve all the lost people on my Fathers side @ 4 generations back, and rebuilt my tree. I still don't have Common ancestors or Thrulines. I have called Ancestry twice with no resolve. Perhaps time will get my Common Ancestors and Thrulines running again.🙏
Any ideas?
Is "coming out of Beta" possibly relevant to my problems ?
I made corrections to my tree when I found out that an female ancestor’s name was a married name, not her maiden name. How long before Thru lines will update and remove the incorrect ancestors and add the correct ones? Also, my gg-grandfather had has mother’s maiden name not her husband’s last name but now I am showing dna matches in his step-great grandfather thru-lines. Is is possible that his step-father was actually his biological father ?
My father was illegitimate. How should I link him. I have him attached to his mother and her to a blank icon box. Should I add underscores in his father's name spaces? or leave blank. Thanks.
has the helix symbol on the tree gone away or do you have to do something to get it to come up?
I always enjoy your chats and learn something new each time. I am a Woodruff also, as I guess your mothers side of the family is. I noticed you have Davis's in your tree. One of my brick walls is a 3rd great grandmother who was a Davis. Abbie Davis, born 1825 in New York, but was in Vermont by 1830. Long shot, do any of your Davis relatives hale from New York or Vermont. I've located someone I think is her brother, David Jeff Davis, born 1828 in Poultney, Rutland Vermont, but I cannot find their parents. Any help or suggestions please? Thank you..
I messed up my tree and deleted it. Starting over from scratch this time with more accurate information... will the thru lines be re set?
I can't seem to find the answer to this exact question anywhere. Hopefully someone will respond.
Green Sky the answer is yes it did fill in again
Great info, but I don't seem to have the dna icon underneath the plus/minus on my tree. And, many of my ancestors who are on my tree, have dashed/dotted borders on thru lines. I wonder if because this is still in beta, not everything working as planned?
When looking at ThruLines, the dashed borders are for the persons who are NOT yet in your tree. The tree the person came from is named in the box. You can click on the box to go to that tree.
Is there a genealogy standard for places when the name of the place changes over time?
For example, the province of Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, and changed it's name to "Newfoundland and Labrador" in 2001.
Is it correct to record the name as at the date of event as follows:
1948 - St. John's, Newfoundland
2000 - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
2019 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Is there a way to add a potential ancestor to my tree from the ThruLines page? Or do I have to add them separately? For instance, when it shows the dotted line box and I've done the research and want to add them, can I click on that Ancestor and add them from ThruLines? Or do I need to manually add that person and their descendants manually to my tree?
Christa: I live in Canada and on my family tree if I go to Pedigree View there is no DNA helix to click on to open the ThruLines DNA Discoveries. I love this feature. Why is it not on Canadian Ancestry? I even logged into my Ancestry USA account to see if it was there for me and it is not. Any help you can offer me? thanks Marilyn
Hi Dana, Can we clarify a couple of things?
1. Have you attached your DNA results to the specific tree that you are looking at? Or, is it, possibly, attached to a different tree on your account?
2. Is your tree public or private/searchable? Or, is your tree private/unsearchable? If it is private/unsearchable, you will not have access to ThruLines.
DNA Circles suggested several known unrelated folks; however, looking at photos of the potential folks, I can see the genetic similarity.
One 19th century photo of a female DNA Circle potential ancestor looked like an 1800’s version of my father in DRAG.
The family got a chuckle on that one.
(All of the potential ancestors are just that: possible. Regardless, the potential match is a distant cousin at the very least.)
ThruLines is great, but PLEASE don’t take away DNA Circles!! It has helped me a lot, to locate other family members trees, with info I hadn’t been able to find otherwise! Keep & “refresh” DNA Circles, PRETTY PLEASE!!!
Don't count on Ancestry or any of the other companies to preserve information forever. Any of the tools or databases you use can be taken away at any time. You have to save everything that is important to you. Take screen shots if necessary.
If your circles data was correct, the same information should show up in thrulines. However, thrulines function depends on your free having the same data as any other trees it may find that have the person who is the subject of your search. It works by matching. Even the slightest differences may make thrulines unable to match your data.
Thank you for showing how you do your color coding. I'm still trying to figure out how I want to do that. My problem is that on my dad's side, I can go back to the 10th generation before I start missing grandparents. (Believe it or not, the Thru Lines confirmed a lot of the grandparents in my tree.) I'm thinking if I start coding at my ggg-grandparents? That would start at the fifth generation back from me, so I would put the little colored hearts on the fourth generation. Do you have any other suggestions? I also use the notes section to say who they were descended from and which child.
Question One - I use the "nee" (without the quotes) as the surname for those females who's maiden name I don't know, does this affect the DNA system match analysis? - should I be putting this in the suffix box. I use it so that at some point I can identify all those females that I need to research Surnames by finding the marriage (if there is one).
Question 2 - should I make the biological parents the preferred ones - does this make your computer analysis system give me better results when searching for DNA matches in ThruLines?
How much will it cost for Ancestry to do the research and family tree?
Thank you Crista for your information. I've noticed on my Trulines a few ancestors have been changed. Some have had their lines cleaned up. One ancestor has changed for Aisley Andi Wadi to Elizabeth Cherokee Reed. I don't recognize Reed being married to Tah Chee but Andi Wadi was. I've sent ancestory a message to research it so hopefully they are. My 5th ggrandparents Crow have changed also and will let ancestry clean it up. My other 5th ggrandparents T.Lassetter and Sarah Bushyhead have been confirmed to be accurate. It can get confusing sometimes. Thanks again!
Great knowledge. Question please I am unable to get into my DNA thru lines. They need more data on families. I know no more, than listed. Help please?
Question. It appears that my thrulines show up only through the 1700s. I tried to confirm this on the website, but have not been able. Is this true? When I look at my tree the generations after the 1700s do not have the truline Mark. Thank you for your help
I had my DNA by some other place then Ancestry. Can I put this information in or do I need to go too Ancestry?
Thank you so much for the video. I haven't dabbled in the Thrulines, yet. But I now understand how helpful it is to my research!
Is there a way to turn on the double helix icon on the family view page?... it's not there on mine
I need help !!! On through line's why would my 4th great aunts husband be next to her under my 4th grandfather grandfather as my half uncle.
Maybe you could have linked the video we should have watched first below
Very well presented. I use ThruLines every day and it is the best tool Ancestry has added for genealogy since DNA testing. I wish everyone who has done a test would at the very least connect the test to a very simple tree with parents and grandparents because then all these otherwise useless DNA matches would become useful genealogy footprint tools.
Do I have to have already gotten my DNA results to use ThruLines? Because I'm not seeing it.
Another great and informative video. Thanks.
I find ThruLines interesting, but confusing! How are your DNA matches and your ThruLines different? I'm adopted - I've been able to reconnect with the maternal side of my birth family, but know NOTHING about my birth father. My birth parents weren't married, but could have been a one-night stand in May 1960 in Cleveland, OH. When I look at my ThruLines and DNA matches, nothing "adds up" so to speak. The research I have done has been fruitless because I have no surnames to base anything on. I cannot confirm relationships at all because of this missing info. When I try to contact my DNA cousins, many of whom haven't linked their trees or have private trees, I don't get a reply. How should I proceed?
Hi Bonnie, Great question. Since you have identified your birth mother, you should be able to create a custom group on your DNA Match list and put all of your maternal relatives in it. That will leave you with a list of your paternal relatives. How many centimorgans of DNA do you share with the top DNA match on the paternal side?
@@CristaCowan Crista - Yes, I did filter the paternal side. The highest DNA match I have is a first-second cousin - 470 cM across 20 segments. He has an unlinked tree - and hasn't answered my messages. In my ThruLines (paternal side) all of my supposed ancestors/matches are always ZERO - 0? I did have one ancestor that I had one DNA match with - but I really think I'm climbing someone else's family tree. I can't believe that NONE of my paternal cousins have submitted DNA tests - so I know there must be something wrong. Maternal side, I get 5 or 6 DNA matches on each ancestor. I did delete one paternal ancestor (2nd great grandfather) from my tree because I didn't think I'm in the right gene pool. He disappeared from ThruLines - and I probably shouldn't have "confirmed" his relatives, either - and I don't know how to switch it back to the dotted green "potential ancestor" status. As I told you, I'm not getting any responses from cousins I message. My email is correct. What should I do? Thanks for your help thus far! Bonnie
@@ClarisseRockinThatBow - That 470cM is a fantastic match. You said they have an unlinked tree. Have you viewed that tree? Do they have deceased grandparents in the tree? When you view Shared Matches with that person, how many centimorgans do you share with the top five matches on that list?
@@CristaCowan Update - Matches #2, #5 and #6 are sisters. See earlier reply. Thank you!
@@ClarisseRockinThatBow OK. Great. Are they full sisters or half-sisters? Do any of them have a family tree? Can you tell who their four grandparents are? Or figure it out?
Is it normal to not have any people from my mother’s side on Thrulines
? Parents, grandparents, etc. My online tree on my mother’s side goes back 7-8 generations or more. All my father’s side is listed.
And my mom took a DNA test, her tree has the same info as mine, and she has Thrulines.
@@meemawscraftin Hello. If you go into your family tree and click on your person profile in the tree. Then click on EDIT | Edit Relationships. What is listed as your mother's relationship status to you?
What would be the reason Thrulines only connects to one side of my family? There is nothing on my mother's side. There are DNA matches on my mother's side.
I wanted to know why the different ancestors in family are labeled differently when I click on my family tree and on great grandfather and it says 2nd great grandson how can that be when it's my great grandfather
Quick question when I see a potential ancestor as a fifth great ; and I see potential children of that possible fifth great they are called fifth aunts and uncles ... why aren’t they fourth aunt and uncles since they are on the same generation as my fourth great?
Here’s what ancestry needs to do. Let people be able to add videos to their media, and voice recordings can be added right? Just let me know where. Also tagging people in photos should be sort of like how Instagram is. When I tap on a picture the names of the people should pop up under them so I can remember who is who when I look back or when I am showing other people or if someone is looking st my tree can see. Also my family had friends and my grandparents remember who the people in the 70 year old pictures are. I can only imagine the amount of pictures of family members people might have. With the tagging, people could get potential leaves leading them to pictures they have never seen before and maybe even stories or reconnecting of friends. Consider this because I believe this will make ancestry that much better
I do not have any Thrulines and I turned on the ability for it to work. My tree is out to 4 generations for paternal side and 5 for maternal side.
How do you go and order a death certificate? I am trying to get as much information as I can from these, my family history will die if I don’t get these right and I want to get as much right as I can. I don’t want to just find a name and call it good. In my family along there is 20 Micheal Patton and most are still living ; just an example
Thanks very much for stopping by, Tammy! The availability of records and when they become available to the public will vary from state to state and country to country. Generally speaking you can order records from the Vitalchek site for vital records in the USA. You may also have luck in contacting the archive or repository where the death was recorded. Crista has a great video on requesting information from archives that we'll link here in case you'd like to check it out as well: ruclips.net/video/01IwjnaTwPc/видео.html
Thanks so much for dropping by so we could provide this insight!
Really love the new feature, likely your best to date. Thanks.
I have two sisters who were my great-great grandmothers--long story I won't get into right now. I have been trying to find their parents but so far I have not been successful. The older was married prior to 1850 so no names in census records. The younger was married in 1854 and "should" be in the 1850 census with her parents, but no luck there either. Now enter ThruLines. Ancestry has been trying to give me a potential father for the older sister Catharine. So in clicking on the evaluate button, it takes me to all the tree hints, etc. However, there is a statement there saying that there are no trees that place Catharine as this man's (William's) daughter. And it is true. If you go through all the trees listed, none of them list Catharine as one of William's children. I've searched for years to find any possible parent who had both a Catharine and an Elizabeth (younger sister) of the right time period, age, location, etc. and I have found nothing. So my question is this: If Ancestry is using our trees, our DNA, our matches, and matches' trees, how do they come up with a potential parent if there are no records or trees listing this man as the potential parent? Nobody who has the same descendants of these two ladies in their trees has any parents listed. It's like they truly did come from another planet and were just dropped there. The same is true of my great great grandfather who was married to both sisters (at different times and after deaths of original spouses). I cannot find his parents either. I took the DNA test mostly to find these two sets of parents, but having no luck at all. LOL It just boggles my mind how Ancestry keeps making connections without any help from the other trees. The same kind of question applies to the DNA Match list page where it will list common ancestors between me and people who do not have any trees on Ancestry. In this case, I am NOT even using the ThruLines page. I am only referring to the DNA Matches list page. I'm not looking at my tree, or any other tree at that point. The match has no tree, yet Ancestry has common ancestors.
do the color differences on the thrulines indicate anything?
Hi there, I’ve got a really good idea how people can build there trees a lot faster with two new features that would integrate well with Ancestry. com’s system. How can I get this idea across to you guys and who am I best telling it to?
What are the caveats of this tool? If I have a match with someone who was sloppy in their research, could I be climbing the wrong tree if I accept the information as valid?
My neice did a family tree and cited my grandfather.After 5 of us tested.We do not believe he was our biological granfather.Yet true lines shows his name. so are tru lines based on dna or on a matches tree?
How do you correct an error in Trulines? I only have the name of the tree and not the administrator contact info. The error was placing a father and daughter in the same generation. The father also appears in the correct generation along with his wife.
If the name of the tree is there, click on the tree, then on the tree owner's name to send an Ancestry message. Or you can leave a comment at the appropriate profile in the other person's tree.
Is there a reason my dad dosnt show up in thru lines.
My mum dose.
Im confused..
Go into your family tree. Click to view your profile in that tree. Go to EDIT | Edit Relationships. On that screen is your father listed as "biological?"
@Crista Cowan, My youngest son has three grandparents who are descendants of the same common ancestor. ThruLines will only recognize his connection through his paternal grandmother and grandfather's line who are descendants of that common ancestor. It will not recognize my connection to him through my paternal line.
how do you get to the common ancestor page to visit the connections
how come it shows i have someone under me in blue ???
I do not have the "Looking for DNA Circles?" link that you spoke about at 5:10. There's nothing there but the button that says to Explore ThruLines. There's also no other link to it in the DNA dropdown category.
Why aren't my thrulines coming up? I have my public tree connected with thousands of names.
Why does ThruLines put an icon on every direct ancestor from my parents to 5 generations back?
Question: my first cousin does not show up on my Thru Lines. Her husband manages the tree she is on. We are soooo very much alike like she is my sister so why does she not show up on my Thru Lines?
I would gues one of two things: either she has no tree linked to her or a linked tree is private/unsearcable. Ancestry can't match you through Common Ancestors if there is no info (ie trees) to guide it.
Standardized dates...when I started my tree way back when, I entered month-day-year; is there a way to do a mass conversation to day-month-year? Would really hate to manually convert 6000+ people!
The easiest way to do this would be with a desktop genealogy software program like Family Tree Maker or RootsMagic. I use Family Tree Maker and they have a date standardization feature.
Cool video loved it
How do I enter a last name when there are 2 ways it is spelled for various records for the same people. The name is mcginniss and/or mckinniss
Hi Kathy - Great question. I usually just pick the most common or prevalent spelling. Then, I put the spelling variants in my notes so I can remember to search for those as well when I get stuck. If it is an entire name change - then I might put it in the AKA fact field.
@@CristaCowan thank you. I wouldn't mind so much but the name switches are constant all the way through the records for over 100 years.
Good input as far as what the computers are thinking, but I have a bone to pick with that. I refuse to remove nicknames, because they are HUGE at identifying people at times. I do get that they're unofficial, but at times that might be all you have to go on. I would've guessed by now after ALL these years Ancestry would've added a separate box for AKA's or nicknames, etc. I have a great grandmother with a death certificate that has her "go-by" name as her first name. Just have programmers add a separate box and eliminate from the computer algorithm...or create a better one (or someone who knows how to do it). As far as step/adopted, etc. I feel it's important to be able to link a biological and a adopted. I know of a girl who was adopted by her step father....I am not going to go in the semantics of ethics....but I refuse to remove that relationship. It's essential to display BOTH, you need better programmers to figure out how to write better programs to figure it out. Sounds mad, but I am not (truly)...just frustrated of the lack and apparent disregard for something as useful as a AKA. That AKA might not of started as biological, but has a chance to be official.
Will Trulines work if you don't know your biological parent?
Thanks, I learned a lot.
Thank you for this video, it's very helpful. I have a potential ancestor that shows on my Thru-lines that has potential. I believe Ancestry has given him the wrong relationship but still has potential as an ancestor. Unfortunately, I've emailed the two descendants (matches) to this person but haven't heard back from either one of them, lol.
5:41 Julius Noack there is one snappy dresser