4 Ancestry Genealogy Archival Tricks You Probably Never Knew

Thousands of people, including Historical Archaeologists, use Ancestry and similar platforms to research people of the past 250 years or so. But sometimes there are obstacles that make these searches unproductive. Here I provide some tips on how to get around those obstacles to find the more elusive individuals or families.
Here are some useful links (note that some of them require paid subscriptions):
Ancestry: www.ancestry.ca/
Internet Archive (free): archive.org/
Newspapers: www.newspapers...
00:05 Introduction
02:10 Common problems
02:44 When there are multiple people with the same name
06:45 When you don't know the birth year
08:13 When you can't find someone in the census
12:52 When you can't find anything very interesting
17:43 Conclusions
18:31 Credits
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[@maureentaphouse5206]

I had a superb example of missing people on a UK Census. In the South Wales Mining towns my grandfather had lived there for most of his adult life . Upon remarriage his daughter my great aunt. remained in the same area However I couldn't find her on any record after childhood until her death record. The details for her section of a road was missing. I had to search starting with the District working down to the road name. the whole page had been written as 2 words instead of 1 word, a common problem with welsh names. Once I found that I had to find the house number , the lady never married , and then I found her name was completely mis written so searching would NEVER have found her. The hand written name for "Lawrence" had been subscribed as "Zavinger". Fortunately Find My Past in this case had the correction on the site within a few days so it is worth doing .

[@bonnie_stuff]

or you can collaborate with a genealogist to do research for you - like me!