Wow. I will look for these places. I live in Burlington Co.

Hello, Nancy from NJ😊

One of my great grandfathers had a long affair with the wife of a great uncle. She passed off 3 children as her husband's!!! I don't even know how to explain the relation but they look so much like the "wrong" side it was scandalous. They won't talk about it.

I have a friend whose parents have passed. She is trying to find their wedding date. We can find everything about them except that date. I am excited to try the soundex. Hopefully we can solve the mystery. Thank you!

Your video is SOOO much better. Thanks. No lag, clear. You rock!

Thanks so much 🥰 . I’m so glad that you enjoy them too. They were really on tonight too. All that I can say about Andre is wow, we are so grateful to have his. The name changes were insane 😮😮

In Ontario Canada where I am, We have Regions that were formed and consist of Cities, municipalities, towns, villages and any land within the Regions' boundaries. Taxes collected are distributed to the various areas for roads, sewer, water etc.

BEST QUICK START _ Both sessions. Andre Kerns was fantastic. Alway love Jim & Michael.

Back in the 1990's and even in the 1970's in Canada we had Land Title Offices (there were variations of the name). To do a property search you would go there and look up your property address or the legal description and they would bring out huge register books in which every transaction was recorded - date, name of individual/financial institution, the instrument number etc. To obtain a copy you filed out a form with the information and paid a fee. Today when we do property searches they are all on line and the employer/individual/law firm etc has an account. We can search by name of individual and obtain an abstract of the property which lists all the transactions registered in the land titles book. To see a specific instrument number you just fill out the form and you can obtain the copy/for a fee. You also need the PIN for the property to obtain the abstract. (property identification number)

Hi = I am from Ontario Canada. I belong to many genealogy societies and groups: Ontario Ancestors; British Columbia Genealogy Society; Saskatchewan Genealogy Society; American Ancestors; plus many more in Canada and the US as well as a few groups in Britian and Euorpe. Each group is geared to a specific target. I also am subscribed to many groups that provide me with resources related to various ancestors who migrated across North American etc. Webinars are great resources and can be history lessons and fun.

Tick Mark's scare me too! 😢

Hi from Indiana- another great episode

You really need better internet and a better webcam. Your picture is always pixelated and your audio doesn’t match your video. It freezes up a lot.

We have Clarksville with one side in Tennessee and the other side in Kentucky

Great information. Most of our county record books are available on open shelves or on family search. 😊

I loved this and learned so much.

Someone needs to close the window of the show on their computer. That’s where the echo is coming from.

I loved this episode, esp the deeds

🤣 So glad ur watching, but we love having u live too 🙏🏾🥰

I keep forgetting to watch the live, sorry. 😢

'PromoSM' 🤣

I am African American with East German DNA. I've found Pennsylvania Dutch in connection's trees. I do not know any German last names to begin the research.

Oh wow. I knew I hadn't taken advantage of Ged match's tools. Thank you so much. I had to google Beringian and Baloch ethnicities. LOL

My ancestors were from the south. Once I started doing my genealogical research I was hoping I wouldn’t find enslavers and for 4 generations I didn’t find any. But in generation 5 I found them. I can’t begin to describe the horror and deep sorrow I felt when I found enslaved persons on the inventory along with the pigs, cattle, sheep and horses. They weren’t listed by name, just male or female and age. The dehumanization inflicted on these human beings was sickening. I felt deeply ashamed. I didn’t know there was anything positive I could do so thank you.

Hello ❤ we've looked at land grants and atlas's but never tried the deeds, duh. 🙄☺️

Hello from Indiana. Love cemetery research

I also loved that Jill found that (so far) unique information from a genealogy society newsletter. It's so sad how many of those resources have disappeared (same with old websites) or are difficult to track down

Jill Morelli's presentation was fascinating and enlightening. I imagine many/most didn't speak English(?) which would have added to their problems unless like Belle they were brought in by immigrants. So many other possible problems both physical and/or mental as well. So very sad too. It sounds like, at least in some cases, their childhood servitude could have been way too close to slavery, and at the very least, with no oversight. Thank you Jill for your years of effort and sharing their story!

YES on reading the instructions for the enumerators. It can really help when looking at age estimates (or births, lies, etc), and more since not all had the same official date. I even read them when I was enumerating on the 1980 Census😄

I'm an odd one so I figured this stream would be a good one and it was! Thanks to all!!!

Loved Michael's "wow" example of the Worried Bigamists. That was a good heads-up. Also appreciated Jim's reminder to not just rely on Ancestry's (and all others) summary of information but check the actual Census (and any other document for that matter). There's so much that's left out and there's so many transcription errors that aren't caught

I wish the show was longer than an hour. 😘Make sure you give Shamele a thumbs up. ❤️👍🏻👍🏻

Interesting! Thank you

I tried searching the Smithsonian transcribed database and I even used names that are in the text and it comes back with zero results. I may be doing something wrong but it's not working well for me.

Memphis

I have a question. I'm doing some African-American genealogy for my best friend. His ancestors are from Alabama and South Carolina. I found two deed records in Scott Wild's deed database that have multiple first names that are also in the family of my friend so I'm thinking these three people are probably related to him but the enslavers in the transactions I either can't find what ultimately happened to them OR they died after emancipation. So my question is, is it possible that very much like today, the deceased may have wrote a will and filed it with the court house long before emancipation but died after emancipation and the names of those enslaved might still be found on the will? Even if the person of focus died in say 1875? Considering so much was happening in those decades, they may have not got around to updating it. Or were there laws enacted that forced people to rewrite their wills to exclude the people who were no longer enslaved? I'm trying to figure out if I should even spend energy chasing down the wills of people who died after emancipation (which can take many phone calls, payments, and snail mail) if no one in my friend's ancestry will be listed as to where before 1865 they would have been (by the white family). Thank you.

Yes, I enjoyed the entire program. I plan to visit Galveston very soon. Thank you.

What does anyone think of them taking the olmec head down from the painting? That's a slap in the face. They gave us a mural with the biggest picture on it, a white man! Now they taking pics off

I worked with your Auntie in Elizabeth NJ Post Office … I didn’t know she had these experiences.. She is a dynamic person.. ❤️ Her..

I wish to request an DNA Test. I'm am very curious. I was told to reach out and start my Journey. Can you Help me in my Search.

Just getting around to watching this episode. Excellent job and very informative. I appreciate the detail of the family information that was discussed by all the participants. It was good to see Ursula as a special commingling collaborator 😀. Great show Shamele!

Shamele you are so smart I wish I was this smart, you have done fantastically. Lord Jesus, this is my cousin, what a answer to prayer, there is a God. Lord please bless me to be a whole person and a whole Christtain rightly divided in the word of God so I can find my place in life without giving others the idea that I want those who know me in feeling sorry for me when I just my living to not be in vain.

One of my German lines are said to be Jewish and settled in Germantown, PA. Do you determine the settlement and surname to determine if an ancestor was actually Jewish? Will they be listed as Jewish or just German? I seen and read about researching tombstones as well.

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I'm helping my best friend research his genealogy. It seems his great-grandparents were tenant farmers in Indian territory in the early 1900s. I can't find them documented as freedmen anywhere or natives anywhere. I'm wondering how they ended up in Indian territory (Oklahoma).

thanks for all the great genealogy content! i am new to your channel having just discovered you via someone in a FB group i'm in recommending you to me. i have a question about step 1 and 2 in finding distant ancestors (bear with me i am new to organizing my DNA matches!). in the video a pedigree was shown where patti described her labeling system of colored symbols---- where was she doing the labeling? is this the same as adding them to a group? the next slide showed a list of DNA matches with green hearts next to them---- was this an auto-generated list that auto-generated the green hearts? or did patti label all of the people on that list? thanks so much for any insight you can provide, and thanks again for your great content. do you have a patreon or something like that?

Why can’t I see when this originally played?

Jacquelin Harrs - Chicago, IL

Excellent

Thanks for this information. Figuring what to do with my DNA has been difficult. This presentation has helped me begin to see how to use it.