I've spent the last several days merging duplicated people on my chart that were obvious errors which I became aware of. However, I've also found quite a few that don't appear to be errors at all but simply have a lot in common with the supposed duplicate which must have been enough to generate the error. One thing that concerns me is that merging individuals could create some serious issues for your tree if you do it wrong although I feel like I've cleaned up a lot of mistakes. I've started checking my tree before I add any new individuals to it, that's how this happens in the first place.

I have a massive family tree on Ancestry, covering a lot more than just immediate blood relatives. (I even discovered an entire -- big! -- "lost" branch of the family in the US Midwest that was lost due to some disagreement in my great-grandparents' generation.) Several cousins have begun their own trees, and since those often trigger hints on mine I check them out periodically -- and I keep finding errors that I had to work to keep out of my tree. The general practice for most other "tree keepers" in my extended family is, "Ancestry suggested it so it must be correct." :-( I also use other family tree sites, and there's one that has hidden links between trees that can introduce egregiously bad & obvious errors that cannot be corrected. Apparently there was an Italian actress in the 1930s whose stage name was the same as one of my aunts' actual name, and the actress suddenly began showing up in my tree without my having anything to do with it. Shortly after deleting her (which took some real work to accomplish), I received a very angry email from someone I'd never met claiming I had deleted a whole section of her family tree. Nothing I said could convince her that her aunt and mine were NOT the same person simply because "they have the same name so they're the same!" <sigh> So now I have a permanent "ghost" in my tree that doesn't belong there. Be glad Ancestry doesn't do this...!

Excellent video, thanks! I would have liked to read more of the transcriptions but your scrolling was too fast. I've been hoping that one of the AI sites would do transcriptions of wills etc. Thanks for sharing your findings.

The price for subscription to ancestry is already high. These "pro" tools should be included in that price!

Your video is very informative, thank you.

All great suggestions

Thank you. I was not familiar with those other tree checkers. I have a massive tree, and "Thrulines" is a pain and has caused numerous issues and duplications. I have 28,000 people, with 1485 in duplicates, according to Ancestry, and 3000 people that need sources. The sources for those people are most likely in-law cousins not blood related, where I don't hold the time value for in creating my tree. I have really loved the process of this research and discovery.

I agree protocol should be 100% free regardless. And here’s the pros and cons to it. The pro side is that it tells you where to to work on. The inside it can mess up your tree very easily.As guy sends 12 hrs a day on my adopted family none made past 5 generations. I made to 12 generational this point. Were to start everything from 1950 behind should make sense. Your 1st should Something like a birth certificate or maybe first communion or something kind of tieimg you that person. This way, you can have their name and date a birth and then you should ask them hey who were you born and now you can start doing your genealogy. As you progress, you’re going to have cences 1950 to point of death. As a person who does this all the time, make sure you get there first name their last name and the city and and where they were born. Those senses reports can then make sense so you can suck one backwards don’t skip out if there is a 1950s, then a 1940s and a 1930s and a 1920s you should be able to get all those without a problem and you should not go forward until you get those. Then you’re gonna wanna tie it off with a dust certificate or something from the journal sentinel saying something about the obituary and then go to their husband or wife and start that process again. And you’re gonna write down all their first names and last names to the point where you’re gonna feel comfortable with those names and I’ll keep that in mind, I would start with two binders, one for the father one for the mother, you’re just gonna keep going back like that and when you get to the second generation, you should have no errors at this point. When you will start getting into trouble is if you go right into senses or you’re using and copying and with somebody else’s information. It’s not gonna make a big difference if you use the ProTools or not it’s gonna do it’s just aggravate you and make you wanna quit so just one person at a time and just keep going through it.

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Thanks for the great overview. I am just digging into Enhanced Shared Matches but am Definitely going to use your ThruLines suggestion to confirm.

I would like to see a step by step how to use Family Tree Analyzer and Chatgpt. Thank you for your videos they are interesting . I have learne d so much. Thank you.

For the average user it's a once in a blue moon thing as far as I can see. The enhanced shared matches is handy for pinpointing matches who are closely related to each other (usernames don't always make it obvious). Once you know x is a sibling of y and they are half sibs to z there is nothing much more to learn about them . If they get just 1% of their 25 million dna database members to pay each month they will earn $2.5 million per month. It's not like they have done much to earn it either, thy are simply selling us the info they gathered from the test kits we paid for. They've been banging on for months about free 'features' to encourage collaboration but Pro Tools does the exact opposite and makes them a hefty profit into the bargain.

You can get most of the info already on ancestry - you just have to know how to use it . This Pro Tools is Ancestry for Dummies :)

Its NOT worth, its the sam info in a different format. Do NOT Subscribe to Ancestry.

Well done John. One question - would ChatGPT be able to price the pantry items from the 50's/60's and compare to the current shopping list items?

Thank you from Texas. Exactly the info for which I was looking. Waiting for the day when Ancestry separates DNA matches by grandparents. Would be so helpful for those with endogamy and unknown ancestors.

I agree with you. They shouldn't be charging this. They aren't ProTools. They are for NON-pros. As a non-pro, I can attest to this.

Thanks for the straightforward, step-by-step video. Great tips and suggestions!

Great video. Regarding duplicates, Ancestry created most of them and now they want to charge more to take them out. That’s aggravating at best! You often must add a duplicate to get ThruLines to work. ThruLines shows the person is not in your tree when they really are. So, you add the person again to get down another level on your ThruLine and then go to merge the people. If you forget, then your duplication persists until you find it through some means. You sometimes you get dups when you merge in another users suggested tree content. Ancestry should be identifying such dups when they are entered. Right then and there. No wanting to charge you later to get them out.

I have a brick wall prior to 1841 census. He was deported to Tasmania in 1829. No record of his death or anything after ticket of leave. He married in Penicuik Showing he was a soldier in Dumfries-shire Militia. No parents or birth place. On his convict record it shows him born Dumfries and 45 years old. Can find no birth for that name in Dumfries. He was also a master shoemaker. as all his sons were. This has been a block for 20 years. Can you give me any idea if it is possible to break down this wall

Great examples of FAN research - nice case study

Nice clear & concise advice. I thought by your accent you were UK based but it would seem not 😢😢

May I ask what software you used to create the Beaumont Charles William Story video? I think that is a great way to enrich profiles in your tree.

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Nicely done-thanks

You should update this, because Ancestry announced (at RootsRech) that Protools will soon include something else: info on how our shared matches are related to each other. For many people, that makes Protools worth the price. It should enable us to figure out who some of our "mystery" matches are. That includes the ones that don't have trees, and/or those that only provide their initials, rather than a full name.

Very good presentation.

Very interesting. What was the error that Ancestry found that Family Tree Analyzer didn’t? If I know what the error it found was I can add that logic to the new version 10 for Family Tree Analyzer. Btw it’s a deliberate design decision not to edit someone’s tree in FTAnalyzer. That is because by making the user the sole arbiter of whether something should be edited or not they retain complete control over how the data appears in their tree and never need to worry about FTAnalyzer changing something they want to keep.

Thank you for this - very helpful. I use FTM instead of RootsMagic, but it also has analytics that I use regularly already.

Thanks for the comparison. Will be interesting to see if any additions/improvements to ProTools are announced at RootsTech

Thank you! I am getting fed up with Ancestry and their continual messing up of the website. Since launching their new "pro tools" the website has been very unstable and unreliable.

It needs to be brought back, perhaps then people would be more careful before choosing to borrow more than they can afford.

Debtors prison is a prostitute 😮$

How do know what people use or have forgotten in Ancestry

Your timing on the release of this video is quite fortunate. I say that because Ancestry has recently announced the release of ProTools (or something similar) which will be used to do some of the things that can be done with this free software. Of course Ancestry wants to rake in more $$$ from existing customers (by charging $10.00/month) and add to it's massive profits! Having another option beyond the money-grab from Ancestry is definitely a good thing. Thanks so much!

Great video. I have noticed that in my ThruLines hints sometimes the green dotted line boxes are already in my tree ( and sourced ) and should be colored white in my ThruLines hint. That provokes me to click the add button to turn the ThruLines green box to white. Do you see any problem doing that ?

I have heard about Family Tree Analiser on another channel, but your description on its uses is great. Thank you. I am always interested in tbe videos you put out because you explain things clearly

Amazing - thank you for sharing. I'm going to try Family Tree Analyzer and would definitely appreciate more videos.

How many DNA matches would be enough to consider that a branch of a thruline is correct or can be validated? For instance, in your case from the video, your potential grand uncle has 3x DNA matches descending from his branch ... Would those 3x DNA matches be enough to make you believe that the green/grand uncle branch is another child of your great-grand parents? Because I imagine that a branch with only 1x DNA match is probably too weak to be validated as compared with a branch that has 10x DNA matches, which possibly would have too many matches to deny any relationship?

Subscribed. I’m so pleased to have found this video and your channel today.

-- #1 - Your Results Don't Meet the Defination of Ethnicity. #2 - Your Ancestral Heritage Does Not Match Your DNA. #3 - Your DNA and Ancestral Heritage Cover Different Time Periods. #4 - Your DNA includes migration and immigration and invasions. #5 - Your DNA Does Not Favor Your Parental Lines. #6 - Most of Your Ancestors DNA is not passed to you. #7 - The very small percentages are probably just noise. #8 - The Reference Regions are Approximate. #9 - The DNA Ethnicity Ranges are Approximate. #10 - Your Results May [!Will!] Change Over Time. --

This is so useful for someone like myself - a real amateur trying to research my family history. Thank you

Really excellent video and one of the few that attempts to explain people's DNA results on all these big box autosomal DNA testing companies. Thanks for the video - well done !! Just want to point out that Ancestry tells their test takers that your results are what your ancestry looks like "hundreds of years ago". Problem is do they mean 200 years ago (1823) ? and yet they give everyone their Viking results - everyone with NW European ancestry seems to get about 7% Sweden and Denmark (trust me - I've looked at hundreds of these results) which would be well over 1,000 years ago and yet they do not give 1,000 year ago results for anything else but Viking. Kind of odd and they do not explain this.

❤❤wow beautiful coverage, very interesting

Thank you

This is excellent. Thank you.