Do you know the Big Four record groups you should search for every ancestor? If you can remember Census, Vital, Land, and Probate, you can build and prove your lineage generation after generation. In this episode of Genealogy TV, we break down: ? What the Big Four are? Why they matter for evidence-based genealogy? How […]
Watch a walk-about at the RootsTech Expo Hall, see some interviews with genealogy industry experts and consumers. If you were not able to attend this year’s RootsTech conference, this video will give you a sense of just how big this conference is… and I wasn’t able to get to all of it in this video. […]
Ancestry just rolled out several significant updates, and I sat down with Crista to walk through all of them. Here’s what we cover: – Fold3’s 2.4 million Revolutionary War pension images are now full-text searchable thanks to handwriting recognition. That means you can search for any name mentioned in a pension, not just the pensioner. […]
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Do you know the Big Four record groups you should search for every ancestor? If you can remember Census, Vital, Land, and Probate, you can build and prove your lineage generation after generation. In this episode of Genealogy TV, we break down: ? What the Big Four are? Why they matter for evidence-based genealogy? How […]
Nancy Guthrie has now been missing for several weeks from Tucson, Arizona. As genealogists, there may be a meaningful way we can help. In this video, I walk you step-by-step through how to download your raw DNA data from AncestryDNA and upload it to GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA. Both of these platforms allow users […]
FamilySearch is one of the most powerful — and most overlooked — tools in genealogy. In this video, I walk you through the best features of FamilySearch in 2026, focusing on the tools I believe every serious family historian should know how to use. This is not a full tour of the website. Instead, we’ll […]
Research Plan Checklist – 2026 Update | How Genealogists Really Think If you’ve ever wondered “What am I missing?” or “Where do I look next?” when researching an ancestor, this video is for you. In this updated 2026 version of my Research Plan Checklist, I walk you through a gap-driven approach to genealogy research—one that […]
AncestryDNA has updated its Origins (Ethnicity Estimates) once again, and genealogists everywhere are reacting! Some are thrilled, others… not so much. In this episode, professional genealogist Connie Knox explains what’s really going on with these new DNA results, how Ancestry builds their reference panels, and why your percentages may have changed. We’ll talk about what […]
This is a video where I’m researching Hardy G. Winslow of Randolph Co. North Carolina. At this point I was wrapping up his research and talking about how I used ChatGPT and Notebook LM to help research, transcribe and understand his probate and land records. I also demonstrated how to use the county register of […]
