How Ancestry Scans Records | Between the Leaves with The Barefoot Genealogist | Ep 3 | Ancestry®
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- Ever wonder how the family history magic unfolds at Ancestry®? Join The Barefoot Genealogist
Crista Cowan for a peek between the leaves of how we deliver for our Ancestry customers.
Crista is joined by Sally Trahan, Director of Content Production Services to discuss the behind the scenes magic that goes into taking irreplaceable records and preserving them through high quality images.
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Watching the replay... great information
I am really enjoying the "behind the scenes" discussions!! Thank you--it is all very interesting!!
Millions of records a month!? It's good to know that these records get saved for the long term.
It's tremendously appreciated, all your work, Ancestry! Thank you and thank God for you.
Thank you, Yvonne.
Really enjoying these behind the scenes videos. So great to get an insight into all the hard work that goes on and the specialities of the team. Excellent questions too Crista! :-)
So glad you are enjoying this series. 😊
Enjoying these behind the scene segments. Thanks
Great interview. You provide an amazing service to society and posterity!
I love this interview! Thank you for your behind the scenes insights!
Thank you for sharing with us. It is very interesting to see what goes into getting the images for us.
The Ancestry is really amazing 👏and great sharing people with stories.
I love seeing behind the scenes!
Hi, Jeans. We're glad to hear from you. We recognize that these records are very important. We know how difficult it can be to work with those fragile records. We can tell you that we are always looking for the best ways and technology to preserve and share these records.
I so enjoyed this video. She's amazing 👏 Tell her thank you!
Thank you! Will do!
Hello Crista, I am looking forward to your next segment on the indexing process. Regarding indexing many times a record shows up and the name is misspelled due to an misinterpretation of the handwriting. In times past a person could submit a correction to the record and I don't see that feature any longer. Is this something you would consider by allowing users to suggest changes to what was indexed? Also, another item I would like to see is having the ability to adjust the positioning of name tags of people in photos by dragging them so they are better aligned in relationship not only to the subject of the tag, but also in relative position with the other tags you've added to the photo. The present tool doesn't give you precise control of where the tag is placed so the ability of dragging it to a slightly different position would help with alignment issues.
Hi Darek - Ancestry still allows you to "add or update information" to records on the site. Look for a link by that name on the record page (prior to clicking through to view the image).
@@CristaCowan Thanks Crista!
@@darekzaun4427 You are welcome.
The family tree is really really impressive
Love to see it!! Please look into adding records for Sri Lanka :)
Great video
Thank you for your quality checks, as signatures are so meaningful when you don't have a photograph. I was lucky enough to have access to a letter my great grandfather handwrote to the Australian Military regarding the death of his son during WW1. The content of the letter was important but so was seeing his handwriting. If I don't have a photograph I select a record with their signature as the profile pic. It is the next best thing!
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Handwritings = We now have a generation of children who are not learning cursive writing in school. Will there ever be a time that things handwritten be scribed/typed for easy reading?
Love the ending! 😁
Thanks, Donna.
Common Ancestors in DNA Match = Is it possible to sort the DNA matches in a category that have common ancestors?
Yes. There is a Common Ancestors filter on the AncestryDNA Match List.
I was hoping to see some b-roll of people actually doing the scanning or quality checks.
Please make a video explaining the new Geneanet hints that are appearing. Where is this data from? Is it fact? Can we base major additions to our Ancestry tree based on it alone? Thanks as always for your great videos!
Sally is my very smart daughter-in-law!
I love this series, but I have a question on indexing. I use City Directories extensively and add corrections when I find errors. However there are often names that are skipped in the indexing. Sometimes large sections of a page or even entire pages are omitted. I would love to add the information for these names but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. I would be willing to help add to the indexing for these omitted names. Am I missing a way to do it, or can I submit a spreadsheet or document with the data?
Social Security Death Index = Only the date issued/applied with the social security number is available via Ancestry records. It's my opinion that more of the application should be available that would possibly indicate spouse, divorce, children & other family connected information that could link the person to the family. Would this type of information ever be available to the public?
Pension Information = would you ever copy & make pension Information available other than military?
Once you find an entry in the SSDI, you can then use that to make a FOIA request to the Social Security Administration to receive a complete copy of the person's application.
This is a topic area where a 'field trip' to their location would have been great. That way you/we would get to see in action. I am curious as to the technologies now used to capture images for both archiving and uploading to Ancestry's image database. Have we progressed to any type of multi-spectral imaging in hopes of teasing out hard to read manuscript material? Is there any newer technology available to revisit microfilmed US Federal census records? As most/all of the original census forms are not available, the NARA microfilm is all we have and sometimes the image quality is poor. I find this whole area fascinating both in the process and shear scale. Thanks
My brick walls are all in southern US, is Ancestry still going back to those county courthouses and scanning old records?
Hi Crista.
I was wondering if Ancestry would consider adding a feature where as in a profile it states the relationship of that person to whoever you have set as you home person. Some can be hard to track backwards to see how exactly. It would be great to have a button to click that would show on family view the home person then every person in the link to the current person. Example I have the relationship of "paternal 1st cousin of husband of stepdaughter of husband of 1st cousin 3x removed", to try to find how that person connects to me is daunting. Thanks
If you click on that relationship label it will show you the path. 😊
The family tree 🌳has building a tree for your family 👪.
Thank you for sharing!
Will you open local kit sales in latinamerican countries? There is some difficulty sending the saliva sample through normal mail (DHL, Fedex, etc.) due to restrictions...
AncestryDNA is currently available in 89 countries around the world. You can see the complete list here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Countries-Where-AncestryDNA-is-Available?language=en_US
Errors = if I find errors (race/ethnicity) how can I report it?
My dad and I went to the courthouse in Sherman, Texas to look up records. They sent us to the land records, which were nicely stored in cloth covered books on rolling racks. But we wanted to look at the tax records. They reluctantly let us go to the other side of the basement where most things were tossed around on scattered tables and file cabinets (not in them) and in no order. Some of the covers, that contained content information, were broken off. No quality control in that side of the basement.
It's always so shocking to see historic records that we, as genealogist, find valuable, being treated that way.
How do you get rid of the “add to the story…” pop up? Irritating…… but otherwise I love Ancestry, all the info available, and improvements as they are developed and implemented. I really appreciate the colorize photo feature as the ancestor features are enhanced. Keep on rolling forward. Thank you for all you do.
Where are you seeing a pop up? Are you on a particular screen? Are you on the mobile app or a web browser? I've not seen that so I'm not familiar with what you are asking about.
@@CristaCowan i am on an iPad. Working from the app. When I have finished going through the hints on a person, the next I get, before I have time to click out of that person, it gives me that message. If I accidentally click it, it accumulates a row of different ancestors at the top of the Home Screen. Idk how to stop this or to get rid of the row at the top. I can send you an example if you send me an email. Thanks so much
@@CristaCowan maybe I am ignorant- probably am! I seem to be stuck in the iPad ancestry app and can’t get to the regular website to do research.
Hi Crista, I wonder if you have any digitized information from Argentina, I never met my father and I know he emigrated to Argentina from Italy so finding something on him there would be great for me.
If you go into the Ancestry Card Catalog (found under the SEARCH menu on a web browser) and do a search for Argentina you will see a list of the available databases. There appear to be about 13 million records.
When an Ancestry account goes dormant, does the clock stop on the privacy status of living persons in that tree, or will the Private designations be removed when those individuals age out? You might want to talk about legacy issues and the death of account holders. Does Ancestry have staff who handle those issues? I've read the page about access upon the death of a user.
Assuming a person has a year of birth entered into a profile when that person is detected to be over 100 years old that profile will be made public no matter how long that account has been dormant.
Anyone marked in an Ancestry tree as "LIVING" will remain privatized indefinitely.
@@CristaCowan That’s what I figured. Ancestry should offer a paid service, like insurance or prepaid grave maintenance, that would release those records over time once certification of the death or incapacity of the user is received from the executor. Of course the user’s account should be in good standing at the time of such a certification. I’d pay for that service.
I'm always wondering why the query function doesn't work like a real database query. For example, I want only records with an exact name spelling from an exact spelling state I get nothing; but when I allow everything or looser queries, I get hundreds or thousands of pages of information I can't possibly search through in one lifetime. Ironically, I get hits with the exact spelling I'm looking for scattered all about but no way to sort alphabetically. The ability to sort this information would be greatly appreciated.
I use the exact filters in my searches to great success. Could you maybe provide the URL of a search query that is not returning expected results and I can have someone on our SEARCH team take a look at it?
How does one send you something to digitize?
You can send an email to Content@Ancestry.com.
When pulling up information from the 1950 census, I can see a side view but am unable to open the image for more detailed information. Is this user error or are the images unable to open at this time. Thank you.
I've used the 1950 census images several times today with no problem. Are you using a web browser or the Ancestry mobile app?
I am using my desktop and Family Tree program to access the census, through Ancestry.
@@joanporter2010 You are trying to access them through Family Tree Maker? I wonder if you need to update your web browser.
Ok Crista
I will try that, next.
Browser is up to date. FAMILY TREE Maker is up to date. I resyniced my tree.
I then logged out, waited and then logged back in.
Ancestry is NOT shows ANY hints and I still cannot see images.
Please advise.
Is ancestry is a show with different people about their stories.
Ancestry is a website where you can collect information about your family and build out your family tree. You can also take an AncestryDNA test to connect with cousins who might be able to provide you with some additional family history information about your ancestors.
Why is it so extremely difficult to get records from New York. I went back to my great great grandfather with no problems but my grandfather I have to the exact year he died?
New York records have always been difficult to access. You often have to go directly to the county where the family lived and work with the local record holders.
Hopefully you can help me on this question. I had my DNA done and I had no Native American in my DNA. My results were mainly Western European and Ireland and Scotland. I have pictures of my 3rd great grandmother (on my mother's side) and it is clear that she is Native American. I was told that Cherokee Indians are the only group not listed as Native American. Is this accurate?
Hi, thank you for the question. If you have Native American DNA, it will appear in your ethnicity results as the Indigenous Americas region. It is important to note that not everyone with an Indigenous American ancestor has Indigenous American DNA. Only half of a person’s DNA is passed on to their child, so with each generation that passes, the potential exists for DNA from any given ancestor to be lost. If you have Indigenous American ancestors, but Indigenous American ethnicity doesn't appear in your DNA results, it may be worthwhile to test your grandparent, parent, or sibling.
I wanted to ask your advice, or others...when a DNA relative is searching for a parent, and requests that you share your tree with them, would you allow them to see the living people in your tree or not. That's an option when sharing and I don't know what's best. I know it would be helpful for her search, but should I keep my living family tree relatives private, out of respect for them? Ugg, not sure. Thanks!
Personally, my tree is public, so they can see all of the deceased people already, if they have an Ancestry subscription. I don't share information on living people but do offer to help them figure it out.
@@CristaCowan great, very helpful - thank you!!
Thrulines = excellent excellent excellent!
So little content from Italy, why?
Ancestry has more than 150 million records from Italy. Are you familiar with how to use the Ancestry Card Catalog?
So stop putting green boxes over the face of the person. Or mark the wrong person as the sought person. Also resolution needs to be better. Some are so blurry they are unreadable. But it is amazing what you do get right.
Where are you seeing "green boxes over the face of the person?"
@@CristaCowan when I click on hints, then if the item comes up, it is school years pictures. The person is box-highlighted in green (if they highlight the right person- they don’t about 30% of the time.) often the green is over their face, cheekbone and above. I can send you an example if you give me an email.
Asked during the chat, but wasn't able to get a reply: is there an Imaging Dept person that partners with Acquisitions during the acquisition process ... to get those relationships started & handed-off smoothly with archives, etc?
Yes. They all work closely together under the same CONTENT department at Ancestry.
@@CristaCowan Thanks for the reply, and this cool series, Crista 👍🏻☺. I'm looking forward to the Indexing topic because we'll hear more about the 1950 census epic success.
Hey vistapon I just need some more accessory responses from you I have been waiting and I just need more I only got one response I need two or three responses
I have a question..I was told by a great genealogist that any images we add to our trees becomes the property of Ancestry and they can use them..and you don't need our permission as Ancestry owns the site..I am no longer adding imagines to my tree.
I'm sorry you were misinformed. If you own the image, then you still own the image even if you upload it to Ancestry. If your tree is public, other Ancestry members may get hints to that image if they have the same person in their tree. By uploading the image, you have given Ancestry permission to show that image as a hint and to allow other users to save that image to their own tree.
@@CristaCowan thank you for clarifying this
@@debbiecarroll5672 You are very welcome.
Why has Ancestry blocked my Thru Lines recently unless I make my tree public? I should have the right to keep it private.
Hi, Daisy. Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and suggestions with us, we will be happy to forward this to the appropriate department. If you would like to share additional suggestions or feedback with us, please click here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry
You got the same answer I did when I asked about adding a chromosome browser 3years ago ...they give us an ethnicity painter instead ...like that's gonna help anyone with their dna matches .
My hunch is that each individual Thruline, being a connection between two people, is something that can only exist if both people are legally consenting for the other to see it. In other words if you make your tree private and unsearchable then that also has the effect of you not allowing the other person to use any element of your tree to know how they might be related to you (and Thrulines would be using at least some element of your tree in order to work for everyone you'd have a Thruline with), which prevents the Thruline from being able to exist, which in turn means that none of your Thrulines can exist, whilst each of your matches that would have had it are only missing the one involving you. If you change your tree to 'private searchable' rather than 'private unsearchable' then I believe that allows you to have Thrulines working, whilst keeping your tree private. An alternative is to create a very basic public tree of just ancestor names and birth/death years (and make sure any living ancestors are entered as living, and maybe ungendered, to keep them privatised), and connect your DNA to that rather than to your detailed private tree.
@@terrybrown7601 I suppose though, that if there aren’t enough people requesting the same thing, then it probably won’t be considered. This isn’t a family business in the shed if you know what I mean. I agree with your suggestions though 100%
@@StuartFuckingLittle I guarantee I'm not the only one asking I've mentioned it on media sites and lots have people have told me asked them the same question...Ancestry uses ethnicity as a advertisement to the masses to sell DNA kits ...my ethnicity is British isles and European that is also proven by geological research ....I don't need a painter telling me what my parents ethnicity is ...it's just bell's and whistles with no geological help