MyHeritage DNA Website Tutorial (2019)

Did you know that MyHeritage.com does DNA testing? Did you know they have cross matching with other company ancestral trees? Did you know they have a chromosome browser? In this “footnotes” episode we’re talking with Daniel Horowitz with MyHeritage.com about the DNA side of their services. They have some very unique tools on the website […]

Ancestry.com: Free New Holocaust Records (August 2019)

Watch Crista Cowan, the Barefoot Genealogist, explain about two new very important record sets have been released by Ancestry.com for free. This is in partnership between Ancestry and the Arolsen Archives, “…we are honored to announce that we have digitized millions of Holocaust and Nazi persecution related archives.” Ancestry reports in their blog.  These records […]

FamilySearch.org: Vital Records and Evidence

FamilySearch.org Vital Records Birth Marriage Death records

Learn how to find vital records and evidence of birth, marriage, and death records on FamilySearch.org for free. In this video I demonstrate two ways to search for vital records and other evidence of those vital events on FamilySearch.org.

Ancestry.com: New Hint Trick

Ancestry.com: Hint Trick

NEW – Learn more about the new hint features released in July 2019 on Ancestry.com and some tricks I’ve discovered to work through your family history records and evidence. This will also help you with your cluster genealogy strategies.

Ancestry.com: Merging Duplicate People

Learn how to merge duplicate people in your family tree on Ancestry.com and learn how to avoid duplicating people in the first place. Ancestry.com is not a sponsor of this video. Click the image to go to the video.

French-Canadian Genealogy

French-Canadian Genealogy

Learn about French-Canadian Genealogy and how to research it from professional genealogist Margaret R. Fortier, CG® in this new “footnotes” episode Genealogy TVs YouTube channel.  Margaret shares a ton of resources, history of the area, migration patterns, records, record locations, French-Canadian name changes, and cultural influences. Specifically Margaret talks about Drouin Collection as she notes […]