How do you connect a Floating tree to your main tree on Ancestry.com? (A viewer asked). In this episode, I’ll demonstrate how to use floating trees, branches, or floating ancestors which can be a huge advantage when researching your family history. This genealogy tutorial answers the questions… What is aContinue Reading
In the last episode we created a checklist of places to look for records to help you formulate a genealogy research plan. In this episode we’ll talk about where to find some of those records.Continue Reading
Today we’re going to talk about how to extract US Census information from the 1940 and the 1950 U.S. census into Excel spreadsheets so that you can filter them quickly by surname to help find more family members. In previous episodes, I had been using this little trick I createdContinue Reading
In this 300th Episode we’re celebrating with a contest and learning about how you can find other records to substitute what was lost in the 1890 U.S. Census. Enter to win a free subscription to Ancestry.com and the Genealogy TV Academy. HOW TO ENTER and RULES FOR THE 300th EpisodeContinue Reading
AncestryDNA® has come out with another DNA update where they are dividing our DNA cousin matches by our parents’ sides of the family. This is another step forward in genetic genealogy at Ancestry. With no effort at all, we can now see your DNA cousin matches divided by the paternal andContinue Reading
Learn how and why you should use the Floating Trees on Ancestry.com. This is one of the best genealogy strategies. It will help you further your family history research with this powerful trick to help connect your FAN Club (Friends Associates and Neighbors) along with other suspected family members, DNAContinue Reading
Learn how to use MS Excel to extract your ancestors in the U.S. Census to help find other family members living around your target ancestor. Even if you have never used Excel before, this is a step-by-step guide to how to import census data into Excel so you can filterContinue Reading
Learn how to fix the facts in the Ancestry.com ancestor profile. Learn why you can’t edit some of the items seen in the facts column and how to fix them. Learn how the facts filters work and how to edit and remove duplicated facts, merge or remove sources attached toContinue Reading
Learn how to build your family tree for free on Ancestry.com. I’m going to show you how I built a family history tree back to the 1700’s, without spending a dime. No credit card required. No kidding. In this episode, I’ll show you step by step how to create aContinue Reading
Ancestry has a brand new chromosome painter that shows your ethnicity regions painted on each of the 22 pairs of chromosomes. This is the next step from their new SideView(R) technology announced a few months ago. Get the scoop here.Continue Reading