AWESOME Genealogy Clues About My Ancestor's Story From Timelines

[@mysmithfamilyvideos]

Excellent companion video for your first timeline video from 10 months ago! I will use this tip to fact check my draft and add world wide historical content where needed. The first video of yours I watched was on pronouns and it totally made my story more understandable. I searched your past videos looking for one about professional editors versus family or friends but did not find one. Any chance of you making one? If you have already, can you direct me to it?

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Thanks P Smith! To be clear, the timeline video you mentioned and the pronoun one are on my second channel. I'm so pleased you're enjoying them. For anyone reading this comment, here are the videos he's referring to. How to Write 3X Faster - Timelines For Family History Books kzbin.info/www/bejne/n3jVc2qXrsh2brM Stop Overusing Pronouns In Your Family History kzbin.info/www/bejne/oX3ImWCOr89qj9E

[@marilyncarey7957]

My 3x g grandfather was Captain/Commender David Irons. Short version of 40 years of mystery and research. He had an interesting life already but it wasn’t until I entered all the 78 newspaper references to his timeline that I realised the gaps in his life were the 3 trips he came to Australia and Borneo bringing immigrants, including his son and a nephew we knew nothing about, who stayed in Australia and that his wife went on one voyage, leaving the children with her daughter back in England, confirming that the reason we couldn’t her death was that - she didn’t die! Timelines are amazing tools for sorting different generations with the same name, finding if records belong to one or two different people, and when I add conception dates to possible fathers, I can often eliminate the innocent. 🎉🎉

[@rover790]

This was great. Thank you for also showing how we can do timeliness in our family tree software.

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

You are so welcome! My pleasure.

[@whychromosomesmusic5766]

I am not using a database for my Italian research, but, I do use timelines quite a lot. I don't have access to a lot of records. Almost exclusively they are vital records and a few military records [Liste di Leva] for one location [City of Torino]. I agree with the idea of theories but in my particular research I look at it a bit differently. My theories primarily have to do with actual identification of the same person mentioned in different documents. I use the PROBABILITY vs. POSSIBILITY argument. If an individual is stated as being alive in previous years and earlier in a particular year and I find a death record and after the date of that record [either within the same year or in subsequent years] if the person is stated as being deceased I do presume that is PROBABLY the same person being mentioned in the documents in question. Particularly infants or children. The death records often give the age of the person including the age in hours, days, months and years of infants and children. They will even state if they were stillborn. This is definitely not the same as using most American records. Also the primary administrative division for my Italian research is on the comune [similar to a town or village here] level. Most of my American research administratively is on the county level or county cluster level. So it is really like working with a different kind of animal altogether. There are not as MANY records available BUT the records generally contain far more detailed information for each individual and that, in my opinion, requires a different approach to put the pieces together.

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

A database would not be sufficient for the timelines you need to construct, to be sure. You'd be better off creating timelines using spreadsheets, which I believe you might be doing.

[@whychromosomesmusic5766]

@@FamilyHistoryFanatics One of my friends was going to show me how to use spreadsheets in Word, but, she has been too busy lately. So I am not aware of how to use them. I just use paper notebooks for now. Which is fine because it is a kind of therapy. I have enjoyed making lists in notebooks ever since I was a boy.

[@JCK-gi2gm]

Love it! At this point, I think I'll try using this info to help with my search for the parents of my GGF by building timelines of ThruLines matches and suspects. Lots of possible uses I hadn't thought of before. BTW, is it me, or is the Audio/Video slightly out of sync?

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Was it out of sync? I didn't notice it and no one mentioned it during the premiere. But stranger things have happened.