Fascinating video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you.

Very clear and informative . Thank you.

A very thoughtful and very helpful video. Thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Sorry to be that nitpicker, but at 1:29 and 2:16 you say 'true lines' instead of 'Thrulines', and as this is a common mispronunciation of Thrulines, and often leads to people believing that it is actually called 'Trulines' and that all Thrulines are thus meant to be true, it's worth pointing it out..

Very interesting run through. Will check out more of your contributions. Slower mouse movement always helpful.

Thanks John - helpful consolidation of things that aren't so obvious. I especially appreciate the tips on interpreting the numeric codes. Regarding the deferred census date, I assume the enumerator would have given instructions upon delivery and collection, that it was June, not April. Your thoughts: how many might have followed the printed instructions anyway, recalling where they were in April?

Thank you for sharing. It may hold the reason I cannot find a relative born in 1869.

Fascinating and thanks for all of the information

The 1931 census was destroyed and no 1941 census but there was the 1939 ID card info which is very useful.

Very informative. Many thanks

Thank you - very useful.

Brilliant information, Huge thanks.

Totally agree. I just got it to try it but will be cancelling before next month exp date. I am comfortable enough with basic matches & maps to not make this worth $10 month. The 7 generation fan chart is nice but not worth extra $.

Thank you, very useful

Thanks, that was really helpful, I’ve just started going through my family entries on Ancestry. I have had to correct so many transcription errors already but I suppose it’s easier to see what a place name or name is supposed to be if you already have background knowledge.

Thank you for an excellent video - loads of tips, information and guidance all delivered in an engaging way! I think that this video should required viewing for all family historians

Thank you. That’s very helpful. I was wondering if there is any mention of men with disabilities or shell shock after the war. I’ve tried looking up a few but so far nothing come up to suggest it was affecting their lives

When I looked for the 1921 census I could not find it some searches I made said there was no 1921 census because of the aftermath of WW1. thanks for this information.

Did respondents have to declare their ethnicity?

My grandmother not on there as the address that she may have lived in, has no census listed.

The dates now make sense as many of the entries focusing on occupations and employers named but stated unemployed.

Thank you for this video. I've been a casual family tree "researcher" for some years, (about 2008 when my mother was still alive - I'm 71 now), building my tree only from what's on Ancestry. I'm not really interested in going way back (so with the 1841 census I guess back to 1800). I've been waiting for the 1921 census for some time, thanks to this video I understand why it's taken so long. It's a shame about the 1931 census, the 1941 having no census is understandable but I know some of that period on my mothers side (born 1927) from stories she'd tell us. My fathers side is less clear for he died in 1972 when I was 19, he was a merchant seaman and not home 6 weeks out of 8 so far less family stories. In 1931 he would have been in his apprenticeship as a shipwright, I do know some of the war years stuff from the ships he served on from his ships papers and some published articles of one of his ships. I think now I consider my family tree complete, or as complete as it is going to be and I need it for my satisfaction, but I continue to check Ancestry for hints, it's interesting to see connections to other trees.

Really helpful. Been using the 1921 for ages but didnt know some of these things. Thanks!

Thank you so much! Very interesting and helpful information and I actually learnt a lot! I have subscribed!!

I did not understand the reference to the 1926 General Strike at all. How did that impact the 1921 census even if it was delayed by 2 months?

From my experience there have been far more transcription errors in the 1921 census than in any other census. It seems that many of those who did it had no knowledge of common English names, towns or occupations.

Nice job, thank you. The bit about private schedules is useful. I found an entry where the confidentiality of a victim of serious crime was accidentally compromised by the Enumerator, so their training was not all that it could have been. I've have not been able to find the perpetrator that the victim feared, so I guess he had assumed a new name after release from prison.

Very interesting information. Thank you so much.❤❤

Very good, I learnt a lot

Very I interesting information - thank you.

Thank you. Very helpful and well explained 😊

What was meant to happen with those British Nationals who were at sea; sailors/fisherman, passengers, on British ships or foreign registered.

This was so interesting. I definitely learned some things I didn't know before. I actually went through the 1921 census looking at every entry for my village. I was amazed to find so many names that I knew whose descendents I went to school with.

Great help, thanks

Interesting explanation

Informative episode, so interesting about the ships in port. Thanks!

Thank you so much. Your information is very helpful, with context as well as details.

Whilst the recorded ages should, as you say, correspond to the revised 19th June date there were nonetheless many households that followed the original printed rules to the letter and thus mistakenly worked out what their ages had been on 24th April. That also implies that in at least some instances those returns may potentially have included people who were alive on 24th April but had passed by 19th June, or may have failed to include a baby who was born after 24th April and before 19th June, or they may have missed off someone in the household who had been elsewhere on the 24th April but was actually there on the 19th June and thus not recorded anywhere else either. Basically it's something to have in the back of your mind if the household you are viewing on the 1921 census seems to be just a little bit off from what you expected in terms of their precise ages and/or exactly who is or isn't recorded.

This was really helpful - thank you!

Fantastic video on a fantasic tool... thank you

Great video. Thanks. I agree that it's disappointing that Ancestry doesn't include some of these features in the normal subscription. It's a dangerous business model to package up basic tools and minor enhancements into a paid add-on, rather than considering them part of the normal evolution of the service.

I would always take the next steps and investigate and add the correct people down to the match. Adding matches to my tree enables me to use ALL the DNA tools that Ancestry provides, including notes on the DNA match page, added a DNA fact to the match's profile in my tree, and the DNA tree tags back to the most recent common ancestor(s). It does increase the size of the tree, but Anc. doesn't charge extra for huge trees. It has helped me immensely especially where there is pedigree collapse. Thanks for the video! Much appreciated.

Hints can be ignored. Thrulines can't. Its all based on the errors of other trees. If hundreds of people put their grandfather as Mickey Mouse, Thrulines will use that.

Nice job John. Thank you for your continued analysis and review of these tools!

Great content and explanation.

I just looked at my tree and I don't see "ADD DNA matches descending from xxxx" link. Where do I find that?

Like you, I plan to only subscribe sporadically. I feel like what we could really use is a browser extension that copies the cMs that they share with our other matches into the Notes field, so we can refer to it later (obviously only info about a few will fit). Or it could record the info and make a local database with it, to be referred to later. Do you know if anyone has taken on such a project?

Thank you for the video and using the new feature, I enjoy finding descendants in thru lines and this is much quicker!

HAPPY🎉NEW YEAR 2025 BLESSINGS HELLO COUSIN!! GREETINGS FROM CHICAGO. Thanks for the RESEARCH info. What program do you use to share Video examples of your Ancestry pages in your videos??

Nice explanation. You also take care several times to remind people NOT to just add someone else's tree work without really checking. I am finding about 10% of the ThruLines are based on the tree builder's fiction. This is NOT a criticism of ThriLines. It remains a solid tool for adding in correctly documented lines down to matches. If the builder of a tree adds no documentation, then it us up to us to find it and add it. What the new feature ADDS is quick access to the docomentation that was used. Check it that is i the correct 'John Smith' though. This new feature does save me lots of time. It also needs to said that Ancestry jist says to match someone...and NOT where on which chromesome. This not a whine to get AC to add a chromosome browser....but any serious genetic Genealogist needs to either upload their digital results to another service that has one, or test again withn that company to get access to a chromosome browser. Why? Because the atDNA match may have come from the 'milkman' whose name was name documented.....on another branch. Shared matches CAN help indicate that the match you are looking at has shared matches consistent with ThruLines....or not. Once a matches' location in your tree is verified, it becomes a strong tool to test other matches.