Lisa, I believe that I am a victim of child trafficking. Documents on my name wouldn't help much, but, I am doing research on the criminal group who took me in as a guinea pig and there are a lot of inconsistencies, I appreciate any help on how to unravel their true identities, it's been a very complex and chaotic research.

I want my own french birth certificate. I chased down the online form but it wants to know the municipality in france I was born and I dont know that. How do I get that information? By the way i left france when i was 5 months old, never became a french citizen and have no parents around to ask

Related Faces would be great, but at $64.99 for 6 months. I just can't justify the cost to see if it works.

I can't wait to try out this new tool!

Ciao sono kevin ho un gruppo triangolazione su mhyeritage tra loro e con me.i segmenti triangolati sono io e due matches ha volte e 8cM poi ha volte e 8cM ha volte e 7,5cM ma quando inserisco 7 matches nel browser cromosomi di mhyeritage il segmento triangolati diventa 7,1cM cosa vuol dire?queste corrispondenza hanno in comune tra loro gruppi genetici della popolazione dei rom cosa vuol dire?

My maternal side are Scottish. I hit a brick wall with my 2x gr grandfather’s parents and the naming pattern seems a bit off. I see middle names that could possibly be surnames, one surname used was first born son the middle and first name of his mother’s father. I do know that the 2x’s gr grandfather had an affair with his sister in law and a child was born from that affair. Could an affair back then disrupt the naming pattern, giving his wife the right to name the first born and second? Other son’s middle names were Murray and MacAulay. It’s possible those names would be the gr grandfather’s mother side??

When you're military it doesn't work that way. It was all bags boxes and cans. Gag. But I like the idea presented. Certainly, my recipe books have such pages thay are more loved.

Merry Christmas Madam 💐🎄🎂🎉🎊🙏

Great information. Thanks for giving some new ideas

Merry Christmas Lisa!!! Thank you for sharing such great ideas. I especially love a family history night. Since my family lives in diverse locations, we may do this as a zoom-call. I know some platforms allow for the sharing of notes and photos.

love these gift ideas :0

I love digging out those details. There's nothing on the sheet that may not prove useful. But the date of the census is the important one. The date the enumerator visited is only useful if the people didn't follow the directions. If you use that date in the column about the individuals names, it will often correct the wrong ages, especially the 1920 census. And I am fine with your videos the way they are.

Thanks for the overview. I'm just now getting the "it" about possibilities of AI generally but for the reasons you mention at the beginning there's definitely fertile ground for mining general and specific info for genealogists. Suggest you and/or/with your fellow pros start collecting proven queries and prompts for getting best results. Might be a differentiator among the best.

The oral history from my mom before she died said the family changed the sir name to Richter on immigration in 1906. They never naturalized. They were from Russia according to census speaking Lettish. Later a death record said Riga Latvia there were 4 boys and 4 different names/spellings of mother maiden name on the death records. This is a dead end area in my research. What can I look for to help? DNA is not back yet.

How do you find tin type photos? Our family albums have been missing since 1985. My other inquiry how do you find them in Eastern European countries?

You've had her on as a guest before. Maybe she knows what she's doing, but she's incoherent, and isn't capable of carrying a topic through in a logical manner.

Trying to identify the GGF of a friend using DNA matches (Ancestry and MyHeritage) and having little to no luck. Family is of Norwegian descent (mid-to-late 1800s immigration to WI/MN), so using family surnames is off the table. I also believe that my friend's GGF was a 1st/2nd cousin of her GGM...if not closer. I believe this is reinforced by her DNA cluster chart that shows one huge red cluster of 52 people, then ten-twelve other clusters of 4-7 people...some of those sharing matches with people in the large red cluster. Leads me to think that a Y-DNA test of a male cousin from the same male line using a company that has a Scandinavian database might be the only answer. Any recommendations?

Multiple pictures at an antique store!

How many photos of one person should I put up on Ancestry or family search? I have hundreds of my mom and dad.

Very interesting my family are all from England, I just wish more genealogists from there would do you tube advice like you do. Thanks for your advice.

I was asked to help clear out a relative’s belongings when they died. As I was going through their book collection I noticed something nestled between the pages of one of them. There were several family photos hidden there!

Funerals are when the relatives bring out the old photos!

With the Ancestry Pro Tools Shared Matches it's not just being able to see how much DNA your matches share with each other but that you get all your matches and not just those over 20cM. This really helps identify more matches on the same branch and thus more potential matches with trees with which to identify how they may link up to your tree. What is implied in this presentation, but i don't think is that clear, is that by testing (or even just being able to see shared matches of) close relations (siblings, children, parents, grandparents, cousins) means that by seeing how many cMs everyone shares with a match you may be able to narrow down how they are related to you, because some of your known matches may have wildly different amounts to you thus showing you that a match is a lot closer than you previously thought (they obviously by chance inherited more DNA from the common ancestors than you did). Great presentation though. The matches in investigating are more distant than using the WATO tool allows for (i think) but this is all very useful information and it's very useful to see how a professional uses these tools.

Thank you! Such a great idea, and it never occurred to me!

new sub, very helpful, thankyou x

Thank you Mary and Lisa. You always give me great ideas for my DNA list. Sorry I missed you live.

Thanks for the passport idea! My mom’s family had a 200 anniversary at Pea River Presbyterian Church in Clio, Alabama. The parent church has a history book which includes a complete list of people buried at this church cemetery to the time of 2005 or so. The parent church still has their book from 1776 until their book was published. In 2026 I plan to go and give a copy of the Pea River Presbyterian church to the Mt. Carmel Presbyterian church.

I have found pictures I had never seen of ancestors on Find a Grave that distant family have added to an individual page.

Other than Ancestry, where can we find mug shots and prison records?

I actually found a picture of my grandpa on Ebay! I was scrolling through one day and was floored! 😮

Antique stores often have a good selection of old photos. Many are not labeled, but a good number are labeled. Check the stores in the area where the ancestor lived. Sometimes they can be found at any location. I've even seen labeled photos at Cracker Barrel.

One area you missed is Facebook. I run a group that returns memorabilia to family members (close or not so close) free of charge. If someone has already accepted the photo, we do have a digital backup on the site. I know several groups on Facebook do the same thing. We have given back over 1900 individual items.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

While looking through a box of taxes and papers that my grandpa had saved from his job, at the bottom was a very old postcard photo from the 20's of his cousin when she was a baby. So far that is the strangest place I have found a photo.

One other resource that I would add is trade journals and company magazines. There are a bunch of older trade journals and magazines archived on Google Books. They sometimes included biographical sketches of prominent people in the trade, often with photographs. Similarly, if an employer was big enough, they may have had a company magazine. Many of the railroad and streetcar companies in the U.S. had company magazines that would have pages dedicated to the people who worked there; the Key System magazine, for example, had a section where they would show photos and descriptions of their employees who were enlisted for service in World War II.

You didn't show any early cabinet cards. From what you said though I think I have an early one. It is on cream color card stock, it has a single line border that is red metallic, the photographer mark is on the front in the same metallic ink. I looked up the photographer. They were in operation before cabinet cards and for years after. They were kind of famous for cabinet cards in their area. With all that I think this one might be 1880 or so. Does that sound kind of accurate to you?

This is common on Madeira Island. I found a marriage record where the wife has 3 different names on the same document.

Thank you! I never realized all the possibilities found in vertical files.

you clearly have a lot of great knowledge but remember to breathe when presenting it...

why are the links all tinyurl?

I haven't been overly successful with vertical files, but I keep looking!

I use OneNote, both as note taking and to capture web content. I also keep my ancestor chronology there for quick reference.

These suggestions are all great. The tech bag and joining a geneology society are the ones i am driven to now.

Kinda off topic but just started a KZbin channel about family history Any tips or tricks ??

Hi, I am watching from Sydney Australia. For the first time. Looking forward to your stream.

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I have a friend who is trying to identify her great grandfather...father of her father's father.....male line up to her. She knows who her great grandmother was and has taken Ancestry and MyHeritage DNA tests. I have plotted many of her DNA matches in her tree and have been able to group her matches to some extent, but think the great grandfather in question was her great grandmother's first or second cousin. Her MyHeritage AutoCluster contains 13 clusters....the largest group takes up about 25% of the square and has 52 members. The remaining clusters have 3 or 4 members except for one that has 10. The puzzle is complicated by the fact that this branch of the family is made up of predominately Norwegian immigrants to the US and the surname naming convention is Scandinavian, so identifying family line by surname is all but impossible. As such, I recommended she get her uncle's son to take a Y-DNA test to see if that would provided any insight. Given the Norwegian focus, do you recommend a particular company and, if so, which test? Do you have any recommendations beyond that?

Please, please, don't take this as a negative comment. I've been watching your videos for a long time. Your content is extremely useful and I get a lot out of it. My issue is that you seem to be over editing your videos. You may be trying to reduce the length of the videos, but the constant jumping makes it hard to view. I would rather see the videos be longer than watching the editing jumps in the video. Keep the content coming. We need this information from someone who cares, which is you. Thank you!

And also remember to go a page forward or backward to make sure part of the family is not on a page before or after

But sometimes I find birthplaces and those of parents and ages are not always correct or sometimes vary from year to year