Ancestry’s New Icons and Menus for the Tree View: July-August 2023

Ancestry has a new look on their Ancestry tree. They have moved some features and created some new ones. If you’ve been wondering what some of these icons and menus do, you’re in the right place. I’ll cover all of the new icons, menus, and where to find things on the Ancestry tree view.

Connecting & Disconnecting Ancestors + Floating Trees on Ancestry

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Learn how to connect and disconnect ancestors that are “floating” in your family tree on Ancestry.com. Also, more about what and why to use floating trees or floating ancestors. It’s a great genealogy research strategy for keeping track of the Friends, Associates, and Neighbors, a.k.a. “The FAN Club.”

Ancestry ThruLines(R) Explained 2023

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Learn how to use AncestryDNA’s ThruLines.  Here I’ll explain how ThruLines is built so that you can use it for your family history strategies when doing your genealogy.

Ancestry ThruLines(R) Explained 2023

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Learn how to use AncestryDNA’s ThruLines.  Here I’ll explain how ThruLines is built so that you can use it for your family history strategies when doing your genealogy.

Ancestry New Features: June 2023 with Crista Cowan

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Right now (June 2023) Ancestry is rolling out some new features. Some of these are based on your requests. In this interview with Ancestry’s own Crista Cowan, we demonstrate the newest features and product releases, some of which are so new, not even Crista had access to some of them… but I did!

Ancestry, If You’re Listening….

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Ancestry, If You’re Listening… After an interview with Ancestry’s own Crista Cowan (while at RootsTech 2023) we talked about all of the new features and some coming soon at Ancestry.com. There were tens of thousands of views and hundreds of comments and feature requests. In this episode I culled those down to about a dozen […]

AncestryDNA(R) Results

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Learn all about AncestryDNA including ethnicity estimates, cousin matches, and Thrulines(R) and how to use it all to help you with your family history research.