Ancestry® Announces Significant Content Additions and Improved Family History Research Tools at RootsTech, Empowering More Discoveries

Posted by Ancestry Team on February 26, 2020 in Website Today at the 10th anniversary of RootsTech, the largest family history technology conference, Ancestry® announced the release of game-changing content collections and innovative tools to help answer more questions about your family’s past. For more than 30 years, Ancestry has continued its unwavering commitment to family history. We pride […]

How to Research You Irish Genealogy

How to Research Your Irish Genealogy

How to Research You Irish Genealogy Learn about Irish Genealogy Research.  In this episode we explore the types of Irish records you can find and where to look for them online. This “footnotes” episode features expert and professional genealogist is Pamela Guye Holland from Massachusetts.  She works for the New England Historical Genealogical Society and […]

Ancestry.com: How to Share Your Tree With Another

Ancestry.com: How to Share Your Tree

Learn how to share your Ancestry.com tree the safe way. In this video I talk about the various permission levels when sharing your family history tree. There are three levels of permissions that you should be aware of when sharing your tree with someone. Sharing your tree with someone as a Guest, Contributor, or an […]

Marriage Records: Where to Find Them on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org

Marriage Records for Family History: Where to find them on Ancestry.com & FamilySearch.org

Learn about how MARRIAGE RECORDS can help you with your genealogy. Here are tips on how this research could add to your family history story and where to look for them on Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org.  Happy Valentines Day! Love it in the air… thus a video about Marriage Records. Judy G. Russell – The Ties […]

Which is the Best Genealogy Site? Ancestry.com vs. FamilySearch.org: Learn the Power of Using Both!

Which is the Best Genealogy Site? Ancestry.com vs. FamilySearch.org: Learn the Power of Using Both!

Which is the better genealogy website, Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org? In this Genealogy TV episode, I’ve got five examples demonstrating the power of using FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com together to amplify your family history search results. Here are the links from this episode. (Some are affiliate links) Ancestry Free Trial https://prf.hn/click/camref:1101l4aFW/creativeref:1011l28781 FamilySearch (always free) https://www.familysearch.org/en/ MyHeritage Free […]

Ancestry ThruLines, Are They True Lines?

Ancestry's New ThruLines on GenealogyTV.org

Learn about Ancestry’s new ThruLines and how to best use them in your family history research. Are the new ThruLines… true lines? Constance Knox, host of Genealogy TV, will review and explain some of the details and what to look out for when using the new application on the Ancestry.com website. This video was produced […]

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 […]