What annoys me is people who have trees with people connected with my ancestors, and they're not the same people. And when I tell them, they never fix it, which just confuses other people looking at the tree. Why I always try to cite multiple sources for the info.
I am a huge advocate of sharing. Right now, my ancestry tree is private, but that's because I'm in the process of transferrimg it from other software and I'm touching it up, adding records etc., to make it presentable. The way I look at it is that its not my data; I've just put it together. And any day I could leave it behind, as all those ancestors did.
Thank you, Crista! I try to reach out to people who share my ancestors. Sometimes they reply and sometimes they don't. I recently connected with a cousin on my father's side who is the son of my father's favorite aunt (his mother's half-sister). That connection took awhile because the person who started his tree is a grandchild and isn't on Ancestry very often right now. Eventually, he gave me his and his father's email addresses; within a couple of days, I was on the phone with my father's first cousin. I learned a lot about my grand-aunt as well as my great-grandmother - all because of that one connection. At this time, he is looking for a photo of my paternal grandmother, as my father (who is deceased) never had any of his own.
Could you possibly think about doing another series of these aimed at older folks who are worried about security? I have had several people who have given me copies of photos but specifically asked me not to share them on Ancestry or other public venues. Keep in mind that these are historical photos of long-dead ancestors. I would really like to leave them for my family, but really want to be respectful of their wishes. I think they may not have a thorough understanding about what's safe and what may not be. And how to keep things on a safe level. Just a thought - Thank you so much.
Great video! Unfortunately, in my experience, I've found that it's quite common for genealogists to be very unwilling to share, so it's great to have Ancestry.com make people aware how important it is to do so. The key phrase is (paraphrased) "remember, those ancestors are not yours alone."
It would be amazing if more people were open to sharing. I saw the comment in a group "my tree is private and will remain so beauce I've spent too much time and money for people to come steal what I've found, they can go just like I did and find it" and was floored that this is how others view their findings. It's great that this person has the money to country hop gathering information, most of us don't. I guess we are unworthy of knowing our ancestors 😂🤷♀️. Maybe it's just because I'm new but I never thought people would be so.. posessive, for the lack of a better word.
I do want to share. I just hate it when someone appropriates my data and then adds stuff to it in their own tree that's totally wrong. Also, nothing steams me more than someone at a family gathering telling me I am wrong.... just because I know something they have never heard about. BUT... I still share :-)
This is great in principle - but there is a serious problem. Websites offer 'hints' and, sadly, too often these are pounced on and accepted. The result is a proliferation of mistakes. And unravelling these mistakes is extremely timeconsuming. It would be a good idea for the websites to take this more seriously.
Hi Christa! Just happened up on this video. Good stuff! How did you get the report at 7:34 that shows how many generations and the number of people in each? I use FTM and haven't found it in reports.
Great video, and great message. I have had some wonderful experiences through sharing my tree. Although I too get annoyed when I suggest that others correct glaring errors, and they don't, I have had far more positive than negative encounters.
Thanks for the presentation. In connecting with older ancestors, I have found that many are not computer savvy which makes my collaborative efforts difficult (but not impossible). You've given me a few good suggestions to apply.
I know you are a proponent of Family Tree Maker. What do you think of Legacy Family Tree? Your videos are great - reawakened my interest in knowing my family and ancestors.
Sorry, Chuck. I'm an FTM user all the way. So, I have no experience with Legacy Family Tree at all. They do have a Facebook group. You might want to try to find that and ask there about others' experience with it. (Crista)
What is the best way to add things like military ranks or titles? Also, how should locations be listed when the ancestor was born in a country or settlement that no longer exists?
There is a TITLE fact that you can add, with a date they received that title and a description of the circumstances if you so wish. As for locations, I have chosen to enter the location as it is today (so that my mapping software know where it is) and I enter the historical location into the notes and/or description.
Regarding Locations I feel the issue is in what language to add the town. I would like to hear Ancestries opinion. One good point is to use the language of the town when the event occured. I have a ancestor comming from Poland and Proskau that today is called Prószków [ˈpruʂkuf] in Polish and today it is in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, But the event happened when I think this town is part of Germany. As you state the new versions of software can map the towns in a nice way. I have seen that you on www.ancestry.com has functionality like we don't have on ancestry.se like click on a place and get it mapped. So it is really intrested to get the opinion from Ancestry what is best practice. Will you be able to support the "original name" of Proskau or is it just todays name. Is it possible to have alternative names for a location and how is this alternate location supported regarding to transfer to GEDCOM, sync between the windows application Family Tree and the web version. Can we use UTF-8 now and get it synched and exported? If yes can we by selecting ASCII export UTF-8 characters in a downgrade in a graceful way ;-) www.definiteanswers.com/q/What-is-graceful-downgrading-4d271d6ca9681 BR from Sweden
Good point that same branches can have more information about the family and start asking different people who is on the photos. Still you could have a better quality regarding to resolution on your videos 480 is not nice to look at.
Hi Christa, I live in the UK and have a sister living on the south coast. I know that a friend of hers carried out a lot of research into our mutual family on her behalf. I know that she produced a family tree on Ancestry. My question is, If I become a subscriber to Ancestry, would i be able to access that information and possibly download it to my account to save myself a lot of work?
Great questions, Wilf. On the TREE SETTINGS, your sister's friend should be able to download the family tree. This will create a copy on her computer in a GEDCOM format. She can then email that to you and you can upload it to your own Ancestry account. The other option is for her to invite you to the tree through TREE SHARING. Then you can copy the information from the tree on her account to the tree on your account, one family at a time.
Hi Christa, thanks for a very quick reply, I assumed it would be months Ha ha. I am impressed with your answer, it seems Ancestry program is very versatile and even I might be able to sort that out. Thanks again Wilf.
I'm a newb on this and use a different software then you do. But I got some questions how to enter information. For example. # I got a few ppl in a tree that changed last names not by marriage. How do I write that down. A few did that a couple of times. It gets confusing. # Women married a couple of times keeping their maiden names. # A man married and took his wifes last name. # How do I write down marriages of two men or by two women? My software doesn't support that. # ppl who changes their first names? # How to mark the first name they are called? For example if someone is called Louise instead of Anna, Sofia, Britt-Louise?
Most genealogy software allows you to enter "Alternate Names" or "AKA" facts. You can enter a primary name in the name field and then enter these variations in one of those fields. I use their name at birth as their primary name. (Crista)
Great video, as usual. I am unable to find information about publishing a family history for profit. I've been compiling information for my local historical society and I would love to create a book about them as a fundraiser for the historical society but I would also like to earn a little money for it considering all the time that will be involved. The most recent photo is circa 1935 of a girl who is my husband's great grandmother's sister in law, so they are very slightly related. Any help, thoughts, advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I think your cast would be better if we had a blog associated with and a discussion group where we can active ask questions. I have question like how to add maiden names etc. in non ISO Latin (ASCII character set) compared Farsi. I feel your point on dates is good, but why use that standard? I feel the iso standard is a good start en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
RE: how to enter surnames/maiden names, do you think that soon(er than later) not entering married names for women, specifically, is going to age out? Not just in regards to women, but men, too, make decisions to keep their own surnames or hyphenate names-- I know this is the standard, but if I don't enter, for example, a woman's married name as "Madien Name-Spouse's surname", and that is her name, then you're not entering her right name?
I use a different site than Ancestry.com but I agree that people should share their tree. That said, I am far more secretive with my biological father's side simply because most of them don't know about me and I don't want to be the bearer of uncomfortable news. Not through a random Google search anyway. But, I do leave open the further back generations. Typically the people that contact me are far enough out that they won't care anyway.
I like sharing information but what I was peeved about was an individual on ancestry.com highjacking a picture of my great grandmother without asking or ever contacting me as I do not know who they are. It was sentimental and a picture I found in my home and for this person to effortlessly attach to their tree was annoying to me.
If your tree is public, the picture was likely shown to this other user as a hint. They do not need to contact you to copy the picture. They would just have accepted the hint. If you feel that they have attached it to the wrong person in their tree, just make a comment on the photo with your great-grandmother's information. Then anyone who sees the photo will have that information available.
Many of the old photographs I put on my tree have been scanned (at 600dpi, as a .tff file) and digitally restored through many long hours' work at the computer...only to find other people hijacking the photos and adding them to their trees without so-much as a 'thank you'. When I peruse their trees, I find they've basically stolen everything from my tree (including the exact wording on the individual entries). Any information they've added themselves is grossly inaccurate - essentially, their trees are of no value to me - it's just that they've grabbed something I've worked hard on, to make presentable, without a simple act of gratitude. It's for that reason I've considered making my tree 'private', although I know that this might block somebody I might actually be able to get information from.
That is the number of people (including yourself) in a 10 generation pedigree. blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/16/family-history-all-done-whats-your-number/
What annoys me is people who have trees with people connected with my ancestors, and they're not the same people. And when I tell them, they never fix it, which just confuses other people looking at the tree. Why I always try to cite multiple sources for the info.
I completely agree with you. This is a serious problem. It leads ultimately to widespread confusion and error.
I am a huge advocate of sharing. Right now, my ancestry tree is private, but that's because I'm in the process of transferrimg it from other software and I'm touching it up, adding records etc., to make it presentable. The way I look at it is that its not my data; I've just put it together. And any day I could leave it behind, as all those ancestors did.
Thank you, Crista! I try to reach out to people who share my ancestors. Sometimes they reply and sometimes they don't. I recently connected with a cousin on my father's side who is the son of my father's favorite aunt (his mother's half-sister). That connection took awhile because the person who started his tree is a grandchild and isn't on Ancestry very often right now. Eventually, he gave me his and his father's email addresses; within a couple of days, I was on the phone with my father's first cousin. I learned a lot about my grand-aunt as well as my great-grandmother - all because of that one connection. At this time, he is looking for a photo of my paternal grandmother, as my father (who is deceased) never had any of his own.
Could you possibly think about doing another series of these aimed at older folks who are worried about security? I have had several people who have given me copies of photos but specifically asked me not to share them on Ancestry or other public venues. Keep in mind that these are historical photos of long-dead ancestors. I would really like to leave them for my family, but really want to be respectful of their wishes. I think they may not have a thorough understanding about what's safe and what may not be. And how to keep things on a safe level. Just a thought - Thank you so much.
Great video! Unfortunately, in my experience, I've found that it's quite common for genealogists to be very unwilling to share, so it's great to have Ancestry.com make people aware how important it is to do so. The key phrase is (paraphrased) "remember, those ancestors are not yours alone."
It would be amazing if more people were open to sharing. I saw the comment in a group "my tree is private and will remain so beauce I've spent too much time and money for people to come steal what I've found, they can go just like I did and find it" and was floored that this is how others view their findings. It's great that this person has the money to country hop gathering information, most of us don't. I guess we are unworthy of knowing our ancestors 😂🤷♀️. Maybe it's just because I'm new but I never thought people would be so.. posessive, for the lack of a better word.
I do want to share. I just hate it when someone appropriates my data and then adds stuff to it in their own tree that's totally wrong. Also, nothing steams me more than someone at a family gathering telling me I am wrong.... just because I know something they have never heard about. BUT... I still share :-)
This is great in principle - but there is a serious problem. Websites offer 'hints' and, sadly, too often these are pounced on and accepted. The result is a proliferation of mistakes. And unravelling these mistakes is extremely timeconsuming. It would be a good idea for the websites to take this more seriously.
Hi Christa! Just happened up on this video. Good stuff! How did you get the report at 7:34 that shows how many generations and the number of people in each? I use FTM and haven't found it in reports.
I manually created this chart by creating an Ahnentafel report and counting the people in each generation. (Crista)
Great video, and great message. I have had some wonderful experiences through sharing my tree. Although I too get annoyed when I suggest that others correct glaring errors, and they don't, I have had far more positive than negative encounters.
Great tips as always! Thank you!
Thanks for the presentation. In connecting with older ancestors, I have found that many are not computer savvy which makes my collaborative efforts difficult (but not impossible). You've given me a few good suggestions to apply.
I know you are a proponent of Family Tree Maker. What do you think of Legacy Family Tree?
Your videos are great - reawakened my interest in knowing my family and ancestors.
Sorry, Chuck. I'm an FTM user all the way. So, I have no experience with Legacy Family Tree at all. They do have a Facebook group. You might want to try to find that and ask there about others' experience with it. (Crista)
What is the best way to add things like military ranks or titles? Also, how should locations be listed when the ancestor was born in a country or settlement that no longer exists?
There is a TITLE fact that you can add, with a date they received that title and a description of the circumstances if you so wish. As for locations, I have chosen to enter the location as it is today (so that my mapping software know where it is) and I enter the historical location into the notes and/or description.
Regarding Locations I feel the issue is in what language to add the town. I would like to hear Ancestries opinion. One good point is to use the language of the town when the event occured. I have a ancestor comming from Poland and Proskau that today is called Prószków [ˈpruʂkuf] in Polish and today it is in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland,
But the event happened when I think this town is part of Germany.
As you state the new versions of software can map the towns in a nice way. I have seen that you on www.ancestry.com has functionality like we don't have on ancestry.se like click on a place and get it mapped. So it is really intrested to get the opinion from Ancestry what is best practice. Will you be able to support the "original name" of Proskau or is it just todays name. Is it possible to have alternative names for a location and how is this alternate location supported regarding to transfer to GEDCOM, sync between the windows application Family Tree and the web version.
Can we use UTF-8 now and get it synched and exported?
If yes can we by selecting ASCII export UTF-8 characters in a downgrade in a graceful way ;-)
www.definiteanswers.com/q/What-is-graceful-downgrading-4d271d6ca9681
BR from Sweden
Good point that same branches can have more information about the family and start asking different people who is on the photos. Still you could have a better quality regarding to resolution on your videos 480 is not nice to look at.
Hi Christa, I live in the UK and have a sister living on the south coast. I know that a friend of hers carried out a lot of research into our mutual family on her behalf. I know that she produced a family tree on Ancestry. My question is, If I become a subscriber to Ancestry, would i be able to access that information and possibly download it to my account to save myself a lot of work?
Great questions, Wilf. On the TREE SETTINGS, your sister's friend should be able to download the family tree. This will create a copy on her computer in a GEDCOM format. She can then email that to you and you can upload it to your own Ancestry account. The other option is for her to invite you to the tree through TREE SHARING. Then you can copy the information from the tree on her account to the tree on your account, one family at a time.
Hi Christa, thanks for a very quick reply, I assumed it would be months Ha ha. I am impressed with your answer, it seems Ancestry program is very versatile and even I might be able to sort that out. Thanks again Wilf.
I'm a newb on this and use a different software then you do. But I got some questions how to enter information.
For example.
# I got a few ppl in a tree that changed last names not by marriage. How do I write that down. A few did that a couple of times. It gets confusing.
# Women married a couple of times keeping their maiden names.
# A man married and took his wifes last name.
# How do I write down marriages of two men or by two women? My software doesn't support that.
# ppl who changes their first names?
# How to mark the first name they are called? For example if someone is called Louise instead of Anna, Sofia, Britt-Louise?
Most genealogy software allows you to enter "Alternate Names" or "AKA" facts. You can enter a primary name in the name field and then enter these variations in one of those fields. I use their name at birth as their primary name. (Crista)
Great video, as usual. I am unable to find information about publishing a family history for profit. I've been compiling information for my local historical society and I would love to create a book about them as a fundraiser for the historical society but I would also like to earn a little money for it considering all the time that will be involved. The most recent photo is circa 1935 of a girl who is my husband's great grandmother's sister in law, so they are very slightly related. Any help, thoughts, advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I think your cast would be better if we had a blog associated with and a discussion group where we can active ask questions. I have question like how to add maiden names etc. in non ISO Latin (ASCII character set) compared Farsi. I feel your point on dates is good, but why use that standard? I feel the iso standard is a good start en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
RE: how to enter surnames/maiden names, do you think that soon(er than later) not entering married names for women, specifically, is going to age out? Not just in regards to women, but men, too, make decisions to keep their own surnames or hyphenate names-- I know this is the standard, but if I don't enter, for example, a woman's married name as "Madien Name-Spouse's surname", and that is her name, then you're not entering her right name?
Thanks for this video 😁👍🇺🇸
I use a different site than Ancestry.com but I agree that people should share their tree. That said, I am far more secretive with my biological father's side simply because most of them don't know about me and I don't want to be the bearer of uncomfortable news. Not through a random Google search anyway. But, I do leave open the further back generations. Typically the people that contact me are far enough out that they won't care anyway.
I like sharing information but what I was peeved about was an individual on ancestry.com highjacking a picture of my great grandmother without asking or ever contacting me as I do not know who they are. It was sentimental and a picture I found in my home and for this person to effortlessly attach to their tree was annoying to me.
If your tree is public, the picture was likely shown to this other user as a hint. They do not need to contact you to copy the picture. They would just have accepted the hint. If you feel that they have attached it to the wrong person in their tree, just make a comment on the photo with your great-grandmother's information. Then anyone who sees the photo will have that information available.
Many of the old photographs I put on my tree have been scanned (at 600dpi, as a .tff file) and digitally restored through many long hours' work at the computer...only to find other people hijacking the photos and adding them to their trees without so-much as a 'thank you'. When I peruse their trees, I find they've basically stolen everything from my tree (including the exact wording on the individual entries). Any information they've added themselves is grossly inaccurate - essentially, their trees are of no value to me - it's just that they've grabbed something I've worked hard on, to make presentable, without a simple act of gratitude. It's for that reason I've considered making my tree 'private', although I know that this might block somebody I might actually be able to get information from.
@@meanderer06513 Ha ha ha ha Dave stop, you're killing me ha ha ha ha.....
1,023???
That is the number of people (including yourself) in a 10 generation pedigree.
blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2012/08/16/family-history-all-done-whats-your-number/
Ancestry 1024???
@@chikakomode7591 No, 1023. 1024 = 2^10 but the first generation has one person, not two. So 1024 - 1 = 1023.