Watch Someone Build a Family Tree (Start your ancestry RIGHT)

[@AncestryAimee]

Couldn't let this one go... I found the parents of Frank. If you'd like to see how and continue to build the family, join Aimee's Crew and catch our next livestream! kzbin.infoyEj31gb-RuA?feature=share

[@LeAllysonMeyer]

Thanks for this fabulous demonstration. I tend to build out everything on one person and then go to the next. I really like how you jump back and forth among people to make sure things are connected properly. Also I like the way you validate the census information to make sure you have the right person.😊

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks so much for adding that!

[@tennesseeadventureintohistory]

Great stuff Aimee! My wife & I use a lot of your tricks to look for people, I just started up a channel & I & my wife or just me video document the cemeteries here in mid Tennessee, & while documenting one I found my 3'd great grandpa on my mom's side that was said to be buried in Missouri cause the story goes after my 4'th great grand parents passed the kids all moved to Missouri except for one that went to another state but I wasn't expecting to find my 3'd great grandpa. I have a lot more cemeteries to go too, but you do good work that has helped us out way before I planned to start up my own channel. Thank you!!

[@AncestryAimee]

That’s terrific! Finding that grandpa and your channel. Good luck with it! I subscribed. 😃

[@tennesseeadventureintohistory]

@@AncestryAimee Thank you for subscribing & helping us all out to better our search. If for some reason you have to find someone in this neck of the woods, just let us know & we’ll try to help you out.

[@shelleyjohnson5753]

Great video and demonstration. I got a little distracted as I lived on Willard St. as a young child. I had to go check and see if this was the same Willard St. It was close, but not the same I was on Willard Street in North Hollywood. Also, my mother's maiden name was Smith -

[@AncestryAimee]

Wow!! How fun. 💛

[@DeniseMSimpson]

Sometimes when adding a person who’s recent than 1800s I’ll mark them as Deceased to gain more records then once I’ve got the hints and done the research I’ll change them back to living. It yields more yearbook and directory records plus other vital records. Black Friday sales are coming!

[@AncestryAimee]

That's a terrific idea - thanks of sharing Denise! A lot of times I find those records through a manual search, but I like your suggestion! Thanks!

[@DeniseMSimpson]

@@AncestryAimee Marking deceased first saves time, and I still need some manual searches - we’re both right! You’re welcome :-)

[@constanza1648]

I love genealogy vids, but I found it is totally different approach when you tried genealogy outside US. There are not enough digitalized records and just a minimum amount are indexed. I made three trees on italian records just from scratch only checking birth, marriage and death records book by book (there are no census records digitalized and available records are not indexed, so I have to check image by image). Sooooo.... I like to check online trees when I find one. I use them as a hint, not as a match: you just need to check if the date is there and look for the record to double check the info. When you can save yourself a lot of hours searching manually on record images (not idexed) it is nice.

[@AncestryAimee]

You do need to work with different strategies outside the U.S. Thanks for sharing your experiences! I really appreciate it!

[@geneewert7591]

Loved it. Thanks. I have several Franks in my family that show up as Francis.

[@AncestryAimee]

Yes! Could be! I’m digging in again tomorrow night on my members livestream.

[@rover790]

Thank you for doing this live video Amy, it has helped me a lot because I am not very practised in using Ancestry

[@AncestryAimee]

You are so welcome!

[@lawrente]

I love this video. It answers lots of questions I have.

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks! I’m so glad to hear that!

[@Kowboy44]

Great live chat, very good information

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks for coming! And thanks for being a member of the channel!

[@jennichristie5264]

Thx Aimee. Great vid. Would you look at the suggested tree hints that you ignored initially if you’re stuck to give you clues from other people’s trees that have same people? Also do you make you’re live episodes available to watch later where you deal with brick walls in your tree for Aimee’s Crew members for when they don’t live in same time zone?

[@AncestryAimee]

Yes, I would check trees to see what they have. But I would be careful about it. All the past live episodes are available for Aimee's Crew members now.

[@GenealogyTV]

Great video!!!!!

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks Connie!

[@patranye]

That was an awesome demonstration of building a tree from scratch! I've thought about doing something like that with someone from a document that isn't related but they've been found in other sources together with my relative. Looking forward to getting something like this done!

[@AncestryAimee]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you!! And thanks for being a member of the channel!!

[@DeniseMSimpson]

@@patranye One record for an extended relative by marriage had a dog mentioned in the obituary so it showed up in the Indexed record. I was confused at first thinking it was a new person then figured it out. LOL I added his dog anyway with Bella The Dog as the first name. What a hoot!

[@bernarddoddemajr9455]

Thank you for this video. I had a few questions. Do you use the alternate name fact? If no, why? Wouldn't you be able to add the married name as an alternate name? Or for those names with different spellings or transcription errors? Do you download the images of let's say the census and stuff? Please do more tutorials on photos and one on Family Tree Maker. I'm thinking of switching over from RootsMagic 9. Like to know if it would be worth my time since FTM is so expensive. How does FTM work with FamilySearch? Does FTM have LDS facts?

[@AncestryAimee]

I do the alternate name fact. I use it for other names I find or for nicknames. I don't use it for the married name or for transcription errors. I don't bother worrying about transcription errors. I know the married name is evident in the spouse's name. If I don't know the husband's full name, I just add a spouse with the known surname or last name. I don't download census images - they are everywhere (on all sites) and I don't expect them to disappear. Other records I do download though for my direct line of lines I'm working on. I'll add your suggestions to my list. Family Tree Maker doesn't work with FamilySearch though, so keep that in mind if you are looking to switch. There are other programs that do work with FamilySearch.

[@sandyhadveck6866]

Learning a lot watching the replay. don't know if it will show up in the chat but you assumed residence date for Draft Card was 1914. Frank was born in 1918 and the Draft Card is for WWII not WWI On a different note-I like how you ignore the hints from other trees!

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks - someone else mentioned that too. What was I thinking??? :)

[@MarchaBeane]

I noticed on Frank P. Smith you had the period after the P for his middle name in your tree. From what I have experienced, that period limits the search. It’s better to not put the period, rather leaving the P sort of open for possibilities. A suggestion is to leave off the punctuation as such!

[@AncestryAimee]

Terrific suggestion! Thanks so much! Always learning something new!!

[@SusanG-qv2wr]

About the Shoebox: is there any way to organize it or search it via Ancestry? Once you have 100 or more items there, it's useless. I have resorted to printing any data that I'm tempted to put in the Shoebox, because at least I can organize sheets of paper by name or family. And eventually recycle the trails that don't work out.... love your work, and following along is great!

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks Susan! I don't think there is a way to search the shoebox. They are, by default, listed in order by date you added them. I think it's designed as more of a holding place, not a permanent storage - it's better to link the records to individuals in the tree. Great question!

[@DeniseMSimpson]

@@AncestryAimee @SusanG Is this where creating a research notes document to cite the sources and web links going directly to a document is the most effective way? Or download every source record and organize into folders on PC/device? I’m only been at this a few months, and am amazed at the number of documents I’ve downloaded and need to organize. @SusanG - good question for me to learn from too.

[@aimeec2313]

@@DeniseMSimpson sorry for the delay in replying - I download special things, but not everything or it's overwhelming - you can relocate census records, etc. I attache them to my tree digitally and put many of thel documents in a notes document. I've found that if I keep it simple, I actually look at it again. I think the best strategy is to have you digital tree as complete as possible.

[@bv2858]

Thank you so much for this. Needed this today, not only for the help with research, we found out this morning we lost a good friend. I have a couple questions. How do you put things in another tab up top and how can I find out about Aimee's Crew? Thank you .

[@AncestryAimee]

I’m so sorry for your loss. Glad this has helped today. To add another tab on the top right click with your mouse and you can choose to open in a new tab. To join Aimee’s Crew visit Join this channel kzbin.info/door/_Xc7ATShOd-8odaTDhO7GAjoin. 😃

[@DravenAutoDIY]

Is there a pro/con to using the Census fact for census records as opposed to the Residence fact? Besides it automatically putting census records as a Residence fact.

[@AncestryAimee]

That’s a terrific question. I don’t know why it automatically does that but I will say when you click search at the top right it takes into account the residence facts but I’m not sure it would a census facts. Meaning it uses the residences in the search function.

[@sharonloomis5264]

Oh wow. There is a lot to learn. Thinking maybe I should have a computer. Have a tablet. Not sure if there are tabs to open?

[@AncestryAimee]

If you don’t have a computer you use what you have. The strategy of how to weed through the records works on either device. Good luck!

[@Jaxon_Flett-Kent]

Hello Aimee! Can you help me out and give me some tips I live in Canada but most of my Ancestors lived in England

[@AncestryAimee]

I would start in wiki pages on FamilySearch to help you. Check out their tutorials too.

[@Jaxon_Flett-Kent]

@@AncestryAimee Okay Thanks!

[@jpshaw55]

I had to bail at the one hour point. You kept messing up dates. I'm sure you get them right if you're not doing a livestream, but it makes me crazy. I still got a lot of good tips for using Ancestry. I've been chasing my family history for 45 years. And I'm obsessive about dates. I remember birthdays going back six generations because my brain works that way. Anyway, thanks for the good video.

[@AncestryAimee]

My bad

[@bernarddoddemajr9455]

I'm trying to find the video where you talk about the tree tags. Would you point me in the right direction?

[@AncestryAimee]

Should be in this video How to Use Ancestry.com (+ Tour of Features) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX-nqp2qrdGAns0

[@katherinelamothe5353]

When should you deleted old tree when redoing a tree?

[@AncestryAimee]

That's a great question. I wouldn't often. It can reset hints if you think you may have made mistakes and give you a fresh start to proof the tree.

[@robertahakala8428]

Shouldn't the wwii draft be oct 1940? He would have only been a few months old in 1918

[@AncestryAimee]

Yes! I misspoke. Thanks!

[@suevize6853]

The golf article is in fact interesting as it used name Oxender. If it’s the same person, maybe they were divorced.

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks Sue for adding that!!

[@MusicInMotion_67]

Mom Stella,'s husband could have been serving in the military. WWII started in September of 1939 so I would have looked at that military registration card again to see what date it was. He could have very well been gone off to war during that time.

[@AncestryAimee]

Great thought!

[@DeniseMSimpson]

@@MusicInMotion_67 I’ve noticed that 50% of the military registration cards or records I look at don’t have a date for the specific person, just the date range printed at the top. Drives me crazy. I’m fortunate if there is a rubber stamped date on page 2 (back side) of the card so I always use the arrow to page forward. I’m thinking one approach I can take is to use the beginning date of the war for registration and the end date of the war for pension or other records with no dates. As long as I’m consistent, that might work.

[@arsmytube9820]

Hi Ms. Aimee, I took a DNA Test and got a result based on DNA we're father/child matched we shared the same DNA but there's a problem the last time he open his ancestry account was over a year ago, I think he lost his access on his account. How can I find his contact no. or address so I can reconnect with him. I hope you can help me re this matter. Thanks much!! Ronald

[@AncestryAimee]

I would contact him through ancestry and if nothing, if he has a name start tracing him. Look on social media and on sites like white pages. Feel free to reach out through my website if you want more help through a coaching session. Good luck!

[@arsmytube9820]

@@AncestryAimee Yes, his name is Kenneth Hawkins I guess he lives in Texas, USA and she has a daughter whose name is Rose Mary Hawkins-Augustine which I suspected tobe my half sibling coz we shared 28% of our DNA. Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas resettlers from Scotland Ireland england ancestors.

[@paulhartman5076]

Hi from Colorado.

[@AncestryAimee]

Hello there!

[@peggybogar3059]

I am in Australia

[@AncestryAimee]

So glad you were able to see the recording!

[@timorr6507]

Indiana.....usa

[@morrisonmonogramming1461]

Smith

[@BobTheSchipperke]

I often make fast and dirty trees for all sorts of reasons. I agree that if you are not sure about one record DO NOT ADD IT or your hints will change and often not for the better. 🩵

[@AncestryAimee]

Thanks! I appreciate you adding your experience too!