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In this episode of Genealogy TV, Connie Knox welcomes Doyle Glaze, creator of CemeteryRegistry.us, for an in-depth tour of a powerful and underused resource for genealogists. Unlike burial databases that focus on individuals, CemeteryRegistry.us is designed to help researchers accurately locate cemeteries themselves—especially forgotten, renamed, rural, or family cemeteries that can be difficult to find. […]
In this video, I walk you through a major change I made to my genealogy workflow as I prepare for more travel in 2026. For years, my entire genealogy archive lived on my desktop computer, and before each research trip I manually uploaded only the files I thought I’d need. That worked—until it didn’t. I […]
Academy Members – We’ve added this video to the Academy dashboard for you all to enjoy. Be sure to grab the associated handout too. Check the Materials tab or below the lesson to download the document. Enjoy! https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-youtube-videos/lessons/new-workflow-2026-avoiding-disaster/
In this episode we discover, evaluate, and review the new AI feature on Ancestry. This is focused on individual records giving you an audio file about the record, your ancestors within it, and additional context about the place and time. Check out this new feature at Ancestry. Ancestry’s Blog about the AI Stories – https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/ancestry-brings-family-history-to-life-with-new-ai-powered-stori
Replay of the last Q&A Session of 2025 is now available on the dashboard. Use this link below to watch now, ad-free on the dashboard. No handout(s) for this session, as usual. Enjoy! https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-live-classroom/lessons/qa-session-12-17-25/
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Here is the link to the dashboard lesson. Be sure you’re logged into watch now. No handout for this episode. https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-youtube-videos/lessons/ancestrys-new-ai-stories-it-talks-to-you-2026/
Probate inventories are one of the most overlooked — and most revealing — records in family history research. In this episode, we take a close look at probate inventories and the terminology commonly found within them. Using a real nineteenth-century estate inventory, we explore the everyday household, farming, and trade items our ancestors owned, why […]
Academy Members can now watch and listen to an early release of the latest Genealogy TV Podcast episode, Probate Inventories. To watch ad-free on the dashboard use this link: ttps://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-youtube-videos/lessons/probate-inventories-podcast/ If you’d like to listen – Search Apple Podcast or find us on Spotify with this link: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/0FOvyZLc16iG76KAuPnxmH/episode/0Dgqy9jd1KUHDn5jCj4QGD/wizard
Targeted Research: How to Find Full Probate Packages on FamilySearch and MoreIn this episode, I walk you through a real-time example of how I conduct what I call targeted research—zeroing in on a single record type for a single ancestor. In this case, we’re hunting for the full probate package for Benjamin Franklin Booth of […]