Q&A with The Barefoot Genealogist | Ancestry

The ASK inbox is getting pretty full. Join Crista Cowan for a Q&A session where she will review some of the questions she has received this month. She will provide quick answers to each of them.
The questions answered today are:
(1:45) - Where does the information in your collections come from?
(6:37) - Where can I find the Learning Center and the Wiki?
(9:47) - Will my close family members show up on my DNA Match list?
(14:37) - How do people use Shoebox?
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[@ItsNot4Nothing]

Love this Q & A!!! Thanks so much! Helps me be the family expert.

[@ruthwright6247]

Thank you so much ! This video was quite helpful for me.

[@SandyQueue]

Great idea! I look forward to more Q&As!

[@tangelineforever]

This was very helpful.Especially the third question.

[@divacassandra1]

When you mention that you have done a video on a question topic/answer, please add that to the description as well.

[@Dbaugh122]

Love your haircut!

[@FaithNchaos]

I like the Q&A video. Tried to bookmark the Wiki, but come up with an error. Is it still available?

[@AncestryUS]

Faith, Unfortunately, our Wiki was retired in the last few weeks. The information contained in the Wiki can now be found within our support center at support.ancestry.com. For some of the more specific research interests, we'd also recommend visiting Cyndi's List which contains a fantastic list of resources. www.cyndislist.com/ Good luck in your search!

[@dezzyLmc]

This was very helpful. Do you have anything on aid/hints on dealing with Mac and Mc, it seems different generations used them interchangeably. I am struggling with a macneil in my Mcneil line. No one is alive that knows anything, I have reached out to distant relatives however it seems no one dealt with that side of the family I can’t even get names or locations. I am getting my dad the dna test. Will this help in following the line? I also can’t find anything before the Dutch war for the family side Vallentgoed, where should I look for information in the Netherlands?

[@AncestryUS]

Hi Dee. It sounds like you are doing all of the right things. Getting your dad (and any relatives in that older generation) tested, is always a good idea since you only inherited half of his DNA. When it comes to spelling, keep in mind that many people did not read/write and there was no need for standardized spelling of their names until fairly recently in history (here in the U.S. it was when Social Security was implemented in the 1930s). So, it is really common to find people with a variety of spellings. Don't get too hung up on it. Look for them with all the variants. The Netherlands has great records and some great archives. Try doing some internet searches for Netherlands Archives and you will find a lot of those resources. You might want to start with this: www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/The_Netherlands_Genealogy

[@terrisaak451]

I accidentally added a bunch of children that do not belong to my family, how do I remove them

[@effiebell40]

How do I purchase forms to enter my genealogy information?

[@AncestryUS]

Ancestry has a lot of blank forms that you can print out and use if you want to record your family history by hand. Or, you can build a family tree for free on Ancestry. www.ancestry.com/cs/charts-and-forms

[@MulataLinda8]

Question about the cousin matches.. If you and a 5th cousin match up together with cousins that are 3rd and 4th cousins.. But then you go to the 4th/3rd cousin profiles and you don't "reverse" match back to the 5th cousin.. What does that mean..? What is proof that the 5th cousin is a real match?

[@AncestryUS]

The AncestryDNA Shared Matches feature only shows matches up through 4th cousins. So, a 5th cousin match will never show up on that tab.

[@frankhooper7871]

The 'proof' is that the match is there. I'm sure I've seen Christa say in other KZbin videos that if you share DNA, then you are related...although you may not now (or ever) know what that relationship is.

[@courtneybartell2010]

do you have video to help with genealogy in France or Belgium?

[@stingrayofcincinnati]

French DNA would not show up as French DNA. It shows up as Western Europe which would include Germany. With all the wars in the past 500 years between each other. Hard to tell them apart...no offense.

[@AncestryUS]

I have not done a video on French genealogy (not my area of expertise). But, here is a great article to get you started: www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/France_Genealogy

[@courtneybartell2010]

My french ancestors and belguim i have papper trail .they just came to america early 1900's .

[@bille7585]

Can you elaborate more on "Genetic Communities" please?.. (in the sense of; why you have a paticular group, yet other ethnicities that are almost same percentages you DONT have that community. Aswell as the science of retaining a specific Genetic Communities and not others in your DNA make-up). Also could we potentially get another genetic community in the future?

[@maryriser7836]

I want to be notified of the answer you get for these questions

[@AncestryUS]

Here is the information we have put together about the AncestryDNA Genetic Communities: support.ancestry.com/s/article/DNA-Migrations

[@bille7585]

Ancestry thank you for replying! So as of today... if we only have 1 genetic community... could we in the future be assigned to another aswell the one we currently have?

[@AncestryUS]

Correct.

[@MulataLinda8]

Yes, at first I started off with only 1 genetic community (got my results Feb 2017) and since then, 3 others have been added. I am expecting more..

[@HitherandYarn]

One day my son told me he'd had his DNA tested and that he was "not that related" to me. I objected, because he gets half his DNA from his father and half from me. I have never been tested. Do you know what he is talking about? He had his test about 10 years ago. Would my DNA have shown up on that? Confused.

[@2charlesbryant]

Mar Jay How old is your son? Without your dna he does not know this.

[@AncestryUS]

If he took a DNA test 10 years ago, that was not the AncestryDNA test. We have only been offering AncestryDNA for about 6 years.

[@stingrayofcincinnati]

Obviously with what Ancestry said, that it can not be with Ancestry, he must be using another site. If that is true, then, another woman showed up as Mother on the list of matches. Mind you, I'm guessing. Need to talk to your son about this.

[@Dbaugh122]

We would like a portal to Familysearch an back.

[@AncestryUS]

If you have an LDS subscription to Ancestry, you will have a FamilySearch icon on the profile page of each person in your tree.

[@stingrayofcincinnati]

Ancestry if we do, how do we link them?

[@AncestryUS]

How do you link what?

[@LynnStory2010]

I was lucky enough to have a book available for my Linkous family. In the book, the author uses a number system. My number is #11511321. I have placed other's numbers in the Note section but I am not noticing they have a number. Fact and Events have no number system. Is there a way to add the number system that will not mess up with any searches I want to do? Thank you.

[@AncestryUS]

You can add it as a note or a comment. When you do that an icon will appear in the header notifying you that that information is there.

[@catherinegardiner9816]

I have done a DNA and I am very Pleased with it that that it why I wont my husband to do his

[@lukeandolivia532]

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