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: 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.

MyHeritage.com Website Tour (2019)

NEW VIDEO EPISODE ON GENEALOGY TV – Learn all about MyHeritage.com with a website tour from Daniel Horowitz (Genealogy Expert at MyHeritage). He gives us a tour of their website, services, and the many resources,. He talks about all of the family history records, along with the many languages available on the site. Also… MyHeritage […]

Correlation of Evidence

Correlation of Evidence in Genealogy

In this video learn how to map out the facts from all of your genealogical evidence in an easy to read way so that you can prove or disprove your family history hypothesis. This helps resolve your family history questions and resolve conflicting evidence. This is a clip from a recent Insiders Group Coaching Session. […]

Thrulines™ Q&A with Crista Cowan.

Thrulines Q&A with Crista Cowan

In this “footnotes” episode I went straight to the source and interviewed Crista Cowan of Ancestry fame, to help get answers about Ancestry’s new ThruLines™. These are the questions that viewers asked from previous episodes here on Genealogy TV as well as some of the other new DNA tools.   *** SHOW NOTES *** Previous […]

Research with Purpose and Location First!

Research with Purpose and Location First

https://youtu.be/ljBFbcA-FpQ Research with Purpose and Location First! When you’re researching your family history, are you researching by your ancestors name first?  Consider researching by location first. In this episode I explain some of the advantages of researching by place before researching your ancestors name. *** SHOW NOTES *** Resources used in this episode… Find A […]

Rootstech London Fall 2019 Courses Announced & More

Rootstech London on Genealogy TV

Rootstech London has just released the course and information you’ll want to know even if you’re not going to Rootstech, because there are virtual passes available. Either way, you’ll want to see this video first before you buy your passes, because Genealogy TV viewers can get a discount on any pass.   In this episode […]