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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 […]
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
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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 […]
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 […]
In this episode I was trying to identify how many John Henley’s there were in Perquimans and Pasquotank Counties (North Carolina) in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. In this research I was using Quaker Records to do this, then outlined what I found in an Excel spreadsheet to keep track.
If you’ve ever added information to the FamilySearch Family Tree only to have someone change it later, this episode will help you bring clarity and confidence to your conclusions. Today we’re talking about proof summaries—what they are, when to use them, and how they can help you “prove yourself” on FamilySearch’s world collaborative tree. When […]
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