I signed up for an account; was able to add me, my parents and my parents parents ~~~ then everything I tried to do or look at up pops the 'buy an account' ... not friendly; how do they expect you to get to know if you even like what they're selling :(

They found thousands of cousins matches but except for the one cousin I did the test with none had my family last name. I understand people get married, but each new cousin had a different last name. I find no point to clicking the button that says we found a new DNA match.

Wonderful presentation. You are delightful!

There’s always something to be learned from you, Connie. I don’t know where I would be in my research without your videos. Thank you.

WOW. Now we really are into the personal lives of our ancestors. I just quickly brought up to what appears to be a mortgage between my 3 great grandparents...

I love the 1900, 1910 censuses, as they are full of information. I was able to solve a question about my GG grandfather's oldest son because GG grandma couldn't have been his mother. Beside the marital status M there was a 2. So I found ancestor's 1st marriage and much more info about him.

Then how could they go back to find most man descended from ONE male ancestor 100s of 1000s of years ago? And ditto for mDNA going back to ONE female 100s of 1000s of years ago?

Hello. I only have 10 trees showing but i know i have been invited to more. where are they. thanks

I’m trying to add all the babies in the cemetery to find a grave is that possible they don’t have names. All they have is the dates

Hi Connie I know that this is an old video so hope you will be able tp ick up my question. When recording a census on an individuals Research Notes, do you record just the individual or the whole family/Household? Thank You Ruth. P.S. I have also been researching since I was a teenager and find it adictive. Thank you for your very informative content and all though I am in the UK I have found alot of it most helpful. Still hoping to sovle one or two mysteries.

They’re dead and can’t find records

I am GOBSMACKED! I don't think I'd ever noticed the little person icon at the bottom of the census records! What an incredibly useful piece of information. Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm working on 1880 Freeborn Township in Dunklin Co, Missouri, where my brick wall lives with his wife and kids -- the only time the family show up together in the census. David and Eliza married in 1975, and by 1892 she was married to Richard, and I don't know what happened to David. The various cousins I've found on Ancestry who are also researching this branch of the family show him as dying "abt. 1889" but we don't know for sure! But I figured I would start with information that I was reasonably sure of for my first time trying this. One thing I'd like to point out: Different spreadsheet apps react differently to that little handle that you pulled down to put in the image number. I use LibreOffice, which is an open source app, and when you pull down on the little handle from a cell with a number in it, it counts up. So instead of getting a column full of 1s, I would get 1,2,3,4, etc. So that's a YMMV moment. I'm also excited to use the filters function -- I've seen it in the menu options, but didn't know how to use it, so that's another thing to say thank you for. :) (Joined Patreon, got some handouts, doing a happy dance!)

Thanks for the explanation.

I don't like connecting trees, because I found many conflicting matches and misinformation. I have nieces that made incorrect connections with families that are not ours, and they only relied on the name. They have multiple families on their tree that don't belong, and they're asking me and my sister to help fix their tree. I am not interested.

When I watch, Finding your Roots, I wonder how they keep the paper trail intact without any DNA, and we all know that documents change because people change their names. In my family, especially from Spain, they have altered their surnames. In one instance, they totally dropped a name, and used another totally different name, but our family claims that if we have this name, it's the same as that name; they're the same family lineage.

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Squaw…. Stupid…

Stupid…

Why cost on everything you look at anymore.. greedy!!!!!!!!

I was given an Ancestry DNA, I wouldn’t use it if I was looking myself. Slow to get DNA results, no post tracking, clunky website, annoying notifications, and pay AUD30 a month for the rest of the information, including which parent is which?

Great info.. I learned a ton

Hi, I was wondering why I still can’t see the new (apparently more detailed) estimate model (0,95 Beta?) of my Ethnicity Estimate on My Heritage?

please do not put me on your KZbin channel list

Fantastic

🤣 New England 1630 here, and had my family not kept stringent family 'pride' records, the states my family took root in, had no record keeping otherwise!

thanks

this is so frustrating that you can't print from ancestry

This is fun! I knew I was related to Daniel Boone ~ his brother GX? grandfather or something and a niece married the other side of my line .. also a GX? parent Mary Todd, President Lincolns wife I found later on and that did surprise me; I refused to out her in my tree until I was 100% sure. :)

Thanx from Poland

Ancestry really needs to create a way to join two trees. I've been researching another family and just found the link that joins our two families together. I was hoping to just merge the entire tree into mine, but I guess that's not happening. :( I'll continue watching.

My grandfather’s family went to Clio, Al, in 1823. The 200th anniversary was 2023, so I made 19 short videos. They came from Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church in NORTH CAROLINA. In 2026 the Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church will be 250 years old. It was started in 1776. They sent people to Clio, Alabama in 1823. Pea River Presbyterian in Clio, Alabama has hundreds of copies of the church history and 3000 people buried there. Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church has one copy of their history!

Great Info! I have a question or two. Is there anyway to tell if a DNA match is down the line, that is not a direct ancestor with DNA? I have some matches where my GG grandmothers sister married a brother of my GG Grandfather, and then one of the children married say a Campbell. I keep showing all these strong DNA matches to this Campbell family. However, it makes me wonder if there is some other direct connection or is it just down the line, and a non blood Uncle or Aunt? It would be great if there was some type of rule of thumb to go by to separate situations like this? Also, it makes alot of sense when you get out to 4 or 5 and beyond ancestors and how in the weeds it gets. What about when it comes to uncommon names, locations, ethnicity and time frames? I try to use that combination with DNA to zero in on ancestors. It is a difficult task, but it seems to help. Curious if you have any thoughts or tips about scenarios like that?

We have frequently found ancestors going back two hundred years and more that were known about other than through a DNA match so I don't see the difficulty.

my DNA shows i am 72% Scottish, 22% Irish and 4% Welsh. my haplogroups are T2B1 and R-S660.

KZbin nvked one of my channels out of the blue for spam. That's code for their tech bros didn't like your con-Y T comments you made on other videos. Fortunately it had only 25 videos on it and was not my main channel either. That was my own wake up call. After that, I downloaded all my videos and all my thumbnails across all my channels, created a backup channel with zero views, and now I'm doing my best to get Od y see to automatically replicate most of my content. For them to do that your extra channels have to have over 100 subscribers, and I'm still working towards that on them.

When I click on Filter I get the options of Family Events and Name and Gender but I do not have alternate facts?? When I go to Add, Name I do not get preferred option ? I am working online on Win 11. Any suggestions. Thank you Bob

I was so happy when I found my 3 siblings in the 1950. They were born in 1946, 47 & 49. I might not live long enough to ever see the 1950's census. I was born Aug 53. By the time that census is released, I will be gone.

The census is great, only if those filling them out, are reporting accurate information. I have heard of certain families reporting all their children, but half of them were not living in their household. For economic reasons, the children were living with other family members. Those family members also listed them as living in their household as dependents. To me, the children were counted twice. Were the census corrected?

Thanks for another great episode. I always learn so much from your videos. One thing I want to share is that one of my husband's uncles had an older sister who was present at both her brother's birth and death (and remembered both events clearly!). I'm not sure whether or not she was the Informant on the death certificate, however if she was, she pesumably would have been a primary source for both date of birth and date of death!

If you change the relationships of your matches, does it potentially affect the relationships of shared matches and would those updates show for those shared matches?

QUESTION: at the 4:30 spot on the video you have a map on the left of the screen and the census on the right that you are comparing it to. Where did you find a map that aligns with the census where the ancestors lived at the time? Great info, thank you.

more like that please

Fantastic! Not only did you find a missing puzzle piece, but a significant chapter in Nannie's life. I've never used full text search. I'll have to try it.

I spent over 30 years researching and I'm still not 100% sure who my own Great Grandmother is! Don't even trust yourself with your own research 😂

Super work! I found that my grandfather's first wife had a child. This wife had died in childbirth. My grandfather's sister (who had a different ((married)) surname had taken her in. The baby was not doing well - but in the 1901 census, I saw that she was living with my grandfather's sister. Unfortunately, this baby died a month later. But I think having my grandfather's sister and her married name helped me find out where the baby had gone.

US is better than 🇨🇦. The last census opened was for 1931.