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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 […]
Academy members – Use this link to watch this YouTube video now available on the Academy dashboard. Grab the handout from either the Materials Tab or below the video as well. https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-youtube-videos/lessons/targeted-genealogical-research-probate-example/
Academy members use this link to watch the presentation from guest speaker, Annette Burke Lyttle on the case study of Tillie Cigrand. This video is in the 2025 Live Classroom folder. https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-live-classroom/lessons/parents-for-tillie-with-annette-burke-lyttle/
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.