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There are endless on ancestry also who know everything about there trees for several generations and they dont respond to people and some them create this massive void in our own experience! If people are not interested in helping family members _ new arrivals. Than they should be forced to at least provide the link that supports someone elses existence

Had that problem. I found her obit that mentions my Grandfather as her son by her first hudband

Very, very interesting and helpful! Thank you!

Just finished the book, loved it, can’t wait to see the movie

Thank you,read the book, it was a great read! Love knowing a little more a boy each of the guys.

Sadly, so much is actually USA nor worldwide.

The answer to how to organize digital files is not, "It depends." This video is vague to the point of being useless.

Wow that last tip re the table was really useful. thanks!

I heard a story for years about an ancestor who died young from a parrot bite. When I discovered Find-A-Grave and traced my father's relatives, there was an uncle of my great aunt whose record contained a newspaper obituary. John was bitten by his pet parrot and the infection took him out in days. He was only 39. But I also learned he was a much liked train engineer of the local narrow gauge railroad.

thank you!

thank you!

My Dad served on one ship during the whole of WW2. The ship was involved in many D-Days in the Mediterranean and in the Pacific. I recently found a book written about his ship the USS Biscayne. How would I get the records of the ship? Ship's log ect?

I restarted my tree last year and haven't added any unsourced ancestors, which made me realize most of the Family Search lines are unverifiable at some point and I had just taken them for granted as they made sense.

The book outshines the movie.

Enjoyed this video, but not all ancestral dirty laundry needs to be aired. We can never know the whole story, and those that went before us are not here to defend themselves. Charity and discretion should always come before our desire to share everything we learn.

The Boys in the Boat is one of my favorite books. The movie didn’t do it justice.

I found this *very* helpful! I have been trying to find out where a particular ancestor lived and died, and even though I can't find her death record (she died in 1836 or 1837 in rural Tennessee) I found out where the family lived then by looking at her children's obituaries. I might even be able to get their certificates since they died so much later, and in a more populated area. Thanks!

It's amazing how many people have ancestors who came over on the Mayflower. The false information is frustrating and really time consuming. I found an ancestor who was 7 and died in Plymouth and she was the mother of a another person and she was 7! Fun travelling through this stuff, but glad I'm retired. Thanks.

I think it is a big waste of time to try and trace a family link with someone who is a 4th or 5th cousin. You are talking about dozens of grandparents they have which have nothing to do with you. This basically just makes us all strangers; related but NOT REALLY. Give it UP!!!

What if you don't have family members to talk to

Great book, there was a book mobile come to my grandsons school and was giving away books. He went into the truck and grabbed two. Not long after we had a wind storm in our small town 50 miles from Seattle. We grabbed flashlights and he gave me "The Boys in the Boat".

Thank you so much! I have been researching people in my tree for decades, but when I get back into the middle 1700s. Even death records in Tennessee as early as 1837, there is very little. I'm so glad to know about these other resources! I have always been on Ancestry, and I can't always find what I am looking for there.

but what if I've done this and still haven't found anything i didn't already know where do i go now?

Custom entry that title says “widow and family in census” if one so chooses to help keep it visually inline for immediate family

There are other ideas: bad transcription of the record (the paleographer couldn't read the name properly); a lot of places have online records not indexed yet (specially outside US). You should be careful about that and try to go directly to the images and look for the record one by one.

Amy, I love the new setup!

Pass the microphone 8-)

All it takes is one person to claim that the husband of so and so had two different sir names and was the same person without any proof whatsoever. They just want it to be that way so they can claim they are related to the Lord mayor of London in 1600s!! It drives me insane because it screws up everybody’s research! Researching this far back takes great care and patience because a. Record keeping wasn’t that great, b. Nearly Every first born son had the same names as the father so unless they were wealthy, really tricky to sort out.

Dear Amy, Thank you for your post. I was getting all excited about the new Ancestry "Pro Tools", but then your clarification at the end of your post, while depressing, was MOST appreciated. (Honesty and integrity in this day and age are sadly lacking.) I am in my 8th decade. Adding a monthly charge to my "World Explorer" account would not be frugal. Yes, it would be wonderful to have these tools, but I must respectfully decline. I WOULD consider paying for one (1) month, but must be able to cancel at the end of it. Is that possible?

Plot numbers and grave numbers can help too. I have several ancestors that have erroneous information about who they are or connected to. For example… the husband is plot J grave 256. His wife’s memorial is the same plot and grave number. Usually meaning they are buried together. But someone else has her listed as the wife of someone else and that persons grave is in a different plot. So anyone who looks her up is seeing a listing for the wrong maiden name. I can’t prove it until there’s a photo of the headstones so they won’t change it.

I've done genealogy for over 30 years, but don't call myself a professional. I paid for this feature, but every time I go into it I just feel lost. I got more information from you on UA-cam that I dreamed was available. I'm going to cancel this $10 a month subscription I've had for a couple of months, but it's too technical for me and I haven't been able to get a handle on it. Thanks for doing this truthful informative information.

I just want to thank you so much for saying people were enslaved instead of calling them "slaves" because they were not. Sometimes people don't understand the importance of verbiage and how damaging it can be. You were very respectful in the language you chose and I appreciate you for that.

This book should be a must read book in every school in the USA and Canada. It represents what people went thru and what people can accomplish.

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My grandfather made up a lot of BS it seems but he at least gave the correct names allowing me to open up the tree online..

I had a problem with a woman volunteer on Family Search web page: She took my tree and attached a lot of persons WITHOUT SUPPORT DOCUMENTS. I warned her about it but she not stopped. In the end i took the case to Family Search administrator, cuz she was running so fast and she wasn't working using the cientific method in files and records for genealogy: you need gather so many documents to probe just one relationship, then another and another, if u aren't sure is better create a personal record with that hypotesis and work on it to test if is true or false, if true u can added that person to your tree.

Thank you for your video and I agree with many other comments below. I will not be subscribing to this feature as I believe that Ancestry are getting greedy for something that they should include as a standard software upgrade. I pay enough now for the subscription let alone start paying more. Thank you again.