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.
This episode is available to watch, ad-free on the Academy dashboard in the 2025 YouTube videos folder. Use this link to navigate directly to the lesson and don’t forget the handout in the Materials Tab. https://genealogytv.org/courses/2025-youtube-videos/lessons/proof-summaries-familysearch/
