Learn about where to find U.S. Military Records, most of which are free to search. We’ll explore Military Records for your genealogy research on Ancestry, FamilySearch, Fold3, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Continue Reading
In this Users Guide to FamilySearch, we’ll talk about some tricks when using FamilySearch. Here I share my top 5 best practices when using FamilySearch.Continue Reading
What day is today? It’s TINY TIP TUESDAY! Did you know that the hints on Ancestry are not all the records available there? In this Tiny Tip Tuesday episode, I’ll show you how to find all the records available for your ancestors on Ancestry.com.Continue Reading
Learn how you can add video to an ancestors profile on Ancestry.com. Preserving film and video in your family tree is important. There are several tricks I’ll show you so you can share your family’s videos with others to help preserve those videos and old films for future generations. EveryoneContinue Reading
Ancestry.com has hints and clues all over their platform. Some are obvious and others are not. In this episode I’m revealing 20 hints and clues that you may have overlooked. This is everything from the obvious leafy hints to finding potential ancestors. ? There is a HANDOUT for INFO ACCESSContinue Reading
NEW TODAY! Learn my genealogy workflow from how my computer is arranged, my filing system, keeping your genealogy files organized, and the proper genealogy research process. From top to bottom in one episode.Continue Reading
NEW TODAY! Ancestry has several new mobile app updates to both their family tree app and the AncestryDNA app as well as two new widgets called Events and Discovery. Some updates and widgets have already been released, some are coming soon. Continue Reading
Your comments and questions are answered by Ancestry’s own Corporate Genealogist, Crista Cowan. ? AncestryDNA Communities Update: June 2021 – https://youtu.be/jwFIw2CtgBk ? Ancestry New Features May 2021 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpJr1w6g-Kc ? Ancestry StoryScout June 2020 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2gq81k4dmQ I took some of your comments from the May 2021 Ancestry Updates and presentedContinue Reading
If you are not familiar with the WikiTree Challenge, check it out. The volunteer WikiTreer’s invited me to be on their live show as a guest. Volunteer genealogists went nuts researching my family tree. It felt like I was a winner on a game show. Genealogists compete to find theContinue Reading
Ancestry has just updated their regional Communities in the DNA Regions for your Ethnicity Estimates. In this episode, we are getting the inside scoop from Ancestry’s superstar and corporate genealogist Crista Cowen. Ancestry now has 1400 DNA regions around the world. Learn what new regions were create that your DNAContinue Reading