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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.

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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?

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.

Thank you, I will turn it on but probably turn off in the future. It's on sale so I am researching, too many changes in the last year - I joined ancestry because I had some information on my mothers side from family reunion but nothing on father's side. Even on mother's side I can't see my history on 4th great grandgather and same with father's side - some blanks filled in but missing English-Irish-Scottish background. DNA doesn't show my 4th great grandfather married an indian VERY UPSET Adkins in West Virginia is a common indian name?????

This is so annoying. They should just give them all to us.

I was looking for the attached file you mentioned in your video that would have 5 tips for researching. I do not see it.

I have the son's marriage records that list the parents name. So I know her original first and last name and her married name but so many people lived in the same state the son was born. I have one record that list, the husband and the wife but says his mom was mixed race but the son is only 1 years old on the record which is 4 year younger then what it should according to his marriage license that listed him as 25.

No, I am not going to pay extra for this feature. There are several reasons that I keep my work in a stand-alone database and these features are in that database at no additional cost. If I get a record from Ancestry, then I will attach it to my Ancestry tree, but any record that I have that doesn't come from Ancestry I don't try and go through the hoops to attach it there.

As an amateur genealogist who's been working on my family tree for a couple of decades, this was such a satisfying story, with all the evidence falling into place! When I first got into online genealogy, I started pulling in all the family trees i could find, without really checking the source information, and quickly found my tree had all sorts of errors -- names of people that I knew personally that were misspelled in other people's trees, dates that didn't line up, so many problems! I eventually dumped the whole thing and started over, being MUCH pickier about what I add to my tree. I really enjoy watching your videos -- I learn a lot from you!

🎯 You hit the Nail on the Head. We already pay high enough prices for subcription so why do we have to pay EXTRA for features that should be there to begin with and we have been asking for for years. There are programs already in place that we can acomplish what Ancestry is offering with NO monthly subscription. By now I should own stocks on Ancestry. Thank you for your honesty. You gained a subscriber!

Well i hear what you are driving at Yet isnt it conceivable that. All with the same surname does eventually lead back to a single source

Im not a person that is posting too much in UA-cam but I LOVE YOU BECAUSE OF THIS VIDEOOO! Thanks, many thanks!!!

My extended family cousins have attached the wrong parents to my gggrandfather. I have shown them with documentation why it is the wrong record. But, because it is so each to perpetuate it as fact on both Ancestry and Family Tree, it is now attached to dozens of other persons trees despite the fact that there is no record proving it but several records refuting it.

One of the biggest issues with accuracy of family trees on Ancestry is the failure to prove the relationship between parent and child. It negatively affects ThruLines, and when someone makes an erroneous and unproved guess as to the identity of an ancestor, and everyone copies it, research ends. I don't agree with the statement that "everyone on Ancestry wants accurate family trees," as the level of professional standards is not high on Ancestry. MyHeritage has an error checker built into the subscription, and my genealogy software at home gives a wide range of reports, which include references, so I don't see a need for these expensive add-ons at Ancestry. What Ancestry really needs is a chromosome browser.

It's for the reasons noted that a lot of the information that comes up as hints on Ancestry end up in the Undecided pile with the 'I don't know how to verify this information' notation. I don't use information on other people's trees without verifying their research before adding it to my trees anymore. I made huge messes at the beginning of my journey and am still working to fix some of them! I'm not sure why things like, "A person cannot have been born in 1902 and be on the 1900 census" don't register with some folks. :(

So many people have added kids to my great grandfather Samuel Black. He has an uncommon middle name. I know every place that he’s been to (Indiana and Nebraska). I know that he was married twice, divorced once (my great grandmother was his 2nd marriage. His first wife had been his cousin and none of their 3 children survived past toddlerhood/infancy). I’ve seen people add children born elsewhere and not in Nebraska (where his first 3 children and my grandma and her 3 sisters were born. Also none in Indiana). I’ve made notes on him and have contacted those that kept adding children to him to recheck the sources.

I have two Achilles (Killis) Woodys on my tree... One is my 4x great grandfather, the other is a cousin. Both born in the same year, one stayed in Tennessee, one went to Missouri-he disappeared around 1850 when the other established residence and showed up with a different wife in Tennessee, where they show up on censuses there in 1850. I personally think my Killis died a pauper in Missouri as his wife was an indentured servant for the next decade, but there's no documentation and burial record.

This is even harder as an African American. Names & DOB change. Census records are either sparse or non existent. 😑

The danish change their last names. They are naned for their father adding sen or dotter. And way back women didn't have any thing in their name it all belongeg to their husbands.

I’m finding that family stories blended with actual documentation is clearing up a lot of questions. Your channel is an excellent resource for genealogy. Thank you!

I think there are a lot of people paying to make trees that please them by copying nonsense, and they don't actually want to know the truth. Giving them access to this would annoy them to know that they aren't actually related to Jesus 12 ways from Sunday or a direct descendent of King Arthur. They might not be as willing to pay even the standard price anymore. This at least limits the info to people who are actually interested in knowing the truth and willing to pay for it.

Wow, funny!! My gg grand father was JOHN DEFENBAUGH!! So crazy researching this family name!! Thanks for the tips!!

Great points!

I’ve given up with Ancestry family trees, they give loads of false information and in many cases people just accept the hints without verifying them. In many instances not all records are accurate or reliable and you can be set upon a wrong course especially when going back many centuries. I’ve found that some American families are especially swayed by British titles and are easily influenced into accepting their ancestors are titled. It’s these that you have to sense check especially, because if your ancestors were mainly agricultural people it’s unlikely they suddenly became titled gentry with estates. You have to be so careful about this trap which is why I’ve now given up my family search as Ancestry is so littered with errors and wrong hints it keeps pushing you in wrong directions to make wrong decisions. It’s not easy to get around.