What an outstanding speaker. I so appreciate your presentation. I am in advanced genealogists, and I have to say I learned a lot and I absolutely love the way you teach !
Crista, I absolutely love this presentation. You are wonderful. I always learn so much from you and appreciate it so very much. We are the storytellers of the next generation, even if my kids do not seem interested right now, hopefully one day they will realize.
Crista, thank you for this!. I Hope to make it RootsTech next year to see your presentations and meet you. Also can’t wait for the new updates to AncestryDNA. Keep up the great work.
I would love a function on Ancestry where you can print the family tree on one sheet of paper instead of it being broken down. In other words, being able to see several individuals on the same sheet of paper (aunts, uncles, cousins, ancestors----you decide who you get to see). It's okay if the portraits go away, just names and the dates of the people can be helpful.
Crista, thank you for all that you do! I enjoy every video and I learn so much. Now if I can only get my family to share what they know or heard that would be great.
Ancestry is a great site for family history but I wish they would develop a button that said "Are you sure?" So many family trees have mistakes in them that are then copied into other peoples trees. Ancestry should develop a tool that could flag up potential mistakes.
Crista love all your presentations and wish you could do longer talking every month or when you do You Tube cause I love how you explain things, thank you
Have thought about tracing my roots for a while now, but how do I know that the church records are digitized in northern Italy, southern France, Germany, for starters? Also....one thing I'm sure you're working toward......ability to upload old movies to your site......so wish to see my parents. wedding in 1946, on 16mm film, recorded by an uncle.
I love love love genealogy but I’m stuck on a few of mine and everyone that I’m linked to on ancestry’s website is stuck also. Wish I could find someone to help me just get past a couple ppl I have like that.
Thank you for the tip to go to the card catalog. On the first page I found a newspaper from my and my husband's home state. We came from a very small town in NH. One of the clippings I found told that his parents got a TV in 1953, one of about 20 in the town! What a gem!
Christa - this is my 1st time listening to you🤗👍🏻👏🏻 and I was riveted to every word you spoke! Your knowledge, insight, experience, wisdom, honesty, and tips are fascinating, logical, & extremely valuable to anyone listening to you! How fortunate I feel to be learning from all you keen experience! Your family’s extensive participation in your current & past ancestors is impressive & awe inspiring 👍🏻👏🏻! Thank you🤗🤗👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow, this was so engaging! I followed along with your prompts sitting here at home in Idaho. I love this new addition to Ancestry!!! You are truly a great storyteller! You had me enthralled from the moment you started the story about your grandmother. So much more engaging way to share our family history than just documents and dates! I didn't catch your name in order to follow you on Instagram.
wonderful presentation Crista, goodness you come from a big family! Mark and I from small and two brick walls in mine, but just having had a DNA breakthrough means so much. I love the way your family share the same love of our family histories! I wish! But hey happy to be the main keeper for now! Love your presenting, sharing and humour - keep sharing please :)
My husband and I grew up in family living rooms half listening to our elder ancestors. Time flew by until I started doing genealogy and then we shared and documented our stories and history.Soon I became the family historian for all sides and my father in law's adoptive family as we ended up with large amount of family photos and still have them shared with me today.
Wonderful presentation Crista! I love your passion- what a gift it is to share the thing you are most passionate about, knowing that it might possibly bring joy and curiosity to someone and perhaps even move them to embark on a journey of their own. Thank you I’m a big fan of your work.
Would love some kind of thing on ancestry where I could highlight somehow my favorite stories, such as a my favorites or color coded, or ?? So many in my tree it’s hard to find them easily
*How deep into the Ancient DNA does Ancestry go?* Do they make their (Ethnic Orgin Markers) clear, Example: rather than just listing Iberia, discerning that it is Basque, etc.
AncestryDNA provides an Ethnicity Estimate that looks at where you in the world your DNA was 500-1000 years ago. They also have genetic communities that show where you have family members that lived within the last 200 years.
Watched you live earlier and the repeat twice! Such wonderful and exciting information. Maybe someday, somewhere I will find family who cares about our ancestors. Thank you 💞
Thank you Christa for this amazing presentation. I learned so much today about the new features. I won't be afraid to investigate them now. Can't wait to look at more of your presentations. Great job to the background team working away on genealogy dna & more historical records. Much appreciated 😊
I truly hope you remember, and write down those wonderful memories. What a life stoty!! How great for you. I was happy to hear that you had all of those grandparents and great grandparents. How wonderful. You were born to be a genealogist! You are great. Thank you.
Crista - Thank you for the tears.... It warms my heart to realize that I am NOT the only one that is so incredibly moved by this work and that values the family stories as gems of real connection. Lynn
While I'm not a huge fan right now of this new addition (maybe later), I am a fan of Christa's and I found her shortness of breath at times concerning. Being the face and heart of Ancestry (or almost any corporate entity) is 24/7 and so demanding and wearing on so many levels and she's done this with great delight, passion, and professionalism for so many years. Even in the most supportive and healthy corporate environment, let alone the average, toxic workplace, the increasing demands from so many sides take a toll. That toll can be a big one, especially if the person is someone (I imagine, as I don't know or had contact with her) that loves what she does and in most cases, can't imagine saying "no", and perhaps brushes off any efforts by others to help. I hope she has people around her (including her boss!) that are making that effort and don't give up trying. Part of the difficulty may be that she's the type of person who minimizes any kind of personal issue, puts on that smile, and just keeps on going until she can't. The "I'm just fine" or "I'll do something soon" type" who keeps kicking the can down the road, until there's no more road. I think many of us know or have known that kind of person who doesn't want to let anybody down, even at great cost to themselves, and doesn't act on the concerns others express and that she has herself. I could be completely wrong, I'm no doctor or clairvoyant but there appear to be warning signs that need attention or more attention, soon.
@@nancid5265 or perhaps you are projecting your response on the speaker because you really don't know if the speaker would have taken offense or not, which would render you just as much of a busy body as the poster your are complaining about. I have no way of knowing the sincerity of anything anybody writes down nor what their motivations really are. You, to the contrary, claim to have a degree of clairvoyance in your spirit that allows you to judge and condemn the thoughts of others, in which case I can not wait for your response.
As a parent of only one child, with similar issues, I am a bit surprised that the two people who have replied to your post so far can't seem to believe that some people really do want those we value to have the longest and happiest life possible. While I understand their feeling that this was not the time or place, or even anyone else's business, I do take issue with them assuming the worst about the person who made the observation. Physician heal thy self.
I love Ancestry but it’s not affordable for those of us who don’t buy in dollars. Why not cost membership in SA Rands, we have a contribution to make !
A low carb diet should help Crista. I can tell her metabolic system is upside down and a low card diet will repair that. I lost 50 seven years ago and my blood work is good despite all my relatives having serious issues.
Although this was way too boring to watch, even at 1.75 speed, it seems as though Ancestry's new products are designed to give people more ways to share copyrighted information, sticking it behind a paywall. That's Ancestry's true Motto--If you pay us, we'll steal information from somewhere and let you take a look.
Wow! I've never been accused of being boring before. That's a first. 😉 Seems like you've got some misinformation fueling a lot of emotion. If you've got specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them and clear some of that up.
If it is family it is not copyright information the same way a book or a song etc where you have to have an owner's permission to access or to find out about since it would be a family thing not an exclusive property created by someone and their personal or intellectual property exclusively. You have to remember that it is a subscription service that you pay for to have full access to and if it is not a subscription and you don't pay for the access your access to everything is limited and it is a service and if you want to have full access you pay to get the service.
Oh wow Crista that was amazing! Thank you!
Thank you!
What an outstanding speaker. I so appreciate your presentation. I am in advanced genealogists, and I have to say I learned a lot and I absolutely love the way you teach !
Crista, I absolutely love this presentation. You are wonderful. I always learn so much from you and appreciate it so very much. We are the storytellers of the next generation, even if my kids do not seem interested right now, hopefully one day they will realize.
Thank you so much!
Crista, thank you for this!. I Hope to make it RootsTech next year to see your presentations and meet you. Also can’t wait for the new updates to AncestryDNA. Keep up the great work.
Wow! So many exciting advancements! Thank you for explaining all this!
You are so welcome!
I would love a function on Ancestry where you can print the family tree on one sheet of paper instead of it being broken down. In other words, being able to see several individuals on the same sheet of paper (aunts, uncles, cousins, ancestors----you decide who you get to see).
It's okay if the portraits go away, just names and the dates of the people can be helpful.
Crista, thank you for all that you do! I enjoy every video and I learn so much. Now if I can only get my family to share what they know or heard that would be great.
Ancestry is a great site for family history but I wish they would develop a button that said "Are you sure?" So many family trees have mistakes in them that are then copied into other peoples trees. Ancestry should develop a tool that could flag up potential mistakes.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Crista love all your presentations and wish you could do longer talking every month or when you do You Tube cause I love how you explain things, thank you
Thank you, Linda.
I really enjoyed listening to you Crista. You are a wonderful storyteller.
Thank you!
Have thought about tracing my roots for a while now, but how do I know that the church records are digitized in northern Italy, southern France, Germany, for starters? Also....one thing I'm sure you're working toward......ability to upload old movies to your site......so wish to see my parents. wedding in 1946, on 16mm film, recorded by an uncle.
I love love love genealogy but I’m stuck on a few of mine and everyone that I’m linked to on ancestry’s website is stuck also. Wish I could find someone to help me just get past a couple ppl I have like that.
Thank you for the tip to go to the card catalog. On the first page I found a newspaper from my and my husband's home state. We came from a very small town in NH. One of the clippings I found told that his parents got a TV in 1953, one of about 20 in the town! What a gem!
That's so fun!
As i watch this presentation ,I learn more things pertaining family history,thanks for this wonderful shared topics..
Christa - this is my 1st time listening to you🤗👍🏻👏🏻 and I was riveted to every word you spoke! Your knowledge, insight, experience, wisdom, honesty, and tips are fascinating, logical, & extremely valuable to anyone listening to you! How fortunate I feel to be learning from all you keen experience! Your family’s extensive participation in your current & past ancestors is impressive & awe inspiring 👍🏻👏🏻!
Thank you🤗🤗👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thank you so much for such a beautiful compliment, Sonia.
"Old newspapers are the Facebook of their day." Love this and thank you for making the connection.
Wow, this was so engaging! I followed along with your prompts sitting here at home in Idaho. I love this new addition to Ancestry!!! You are truly a great storyteller! You had me enthralled from the moment you started the story about your grandmother. So much more engaging way to share our family history than just documents and dates! I didn't catch your name in order to follow you on Instagram.
Hi Sammie - You can find me there @CristaCowan.
wonderful presentation Crista, goodness you come from a big family! Mark and I from small and two brick walls in mine, but just having had a DNA breakthrough means so much. I love the way your family share the same love of our family histories! I wish! But hey happy to be the main keeper for now! Love your presenting, sharing and humour - keep sharing please :)
My husband and I grew up in family living rooms half listening to our elder ancestors. Time flew by until I started doing genealogy and then we shared and documented our stories and history.Soon I became the family historian for all sides and my father in law's adoptive family as we ended up with large amount of family photos and still have them shared with me today.
Such a gift you were given by those ancestors.
You are lucky.
Wonderful presentation Crista!
I love your passion- what a gift it is to share the thing you are most passionate about, knowing that it might possibly bring joy and curiosity to someone and perhaps even move them to embark on
a journey of their own. Thank you
I’m a big fan of your work.
Good morning Ancestry.
Hello!
Would love some kind of thing on ancestry where I could highlight somehow my favorite stories, such as a my favorites or color coded, or ?? So many in my tree it’s hard to find them easily
I have created a custom MyTreeTag in my Ancestry tree called, "Interesting Story." I add that to people I want to quickly find again.
*How deep into the Ancient DNA does Ancestry go?* Do they make their (Ethnic Orgin Markers) clear, Example: rather than just listing Iberia, discerning that it is Basque, etc.
AncestryDNA provides an Ethnicity Estimate that looks at where you in the world your DNA was 500-1000 years ago. They also have genetic communities that show where you have family members that lived within the last 200 years.
Watched you live earlier and the repeat twice!
Such wonderful and exciting information.
Maybe someday, somewhere I will find family who cares about our ancestors.
Thank you 💞
🤞🤞🤞
I wish this for you, too.
Great presentation, lots to learn for sure !
Great talk! I also have family from Arkansas. I wonder if we're related.
Thank you Christa for this amazing presentation. I learned so much today about the new features. I won't be afraid to investigate them now. Can't wait to look at more of your presentations. Great job to the background team working away on genealogy dna & more historical records. Much appreciated 😊
Great presentation 👏 thank you Ansestry
I truly hope you remember, and write down those wonderful memories. What a life stoty!! How great for you.
I was happy to hear that you had all of those grandparents and great grandparents. How wonderful. You were born to be a genealogist! You are great. Thank you.
Enjoyed your presentation and the information provided 👍🏼👍🏼😊
Thank you.
Thank you so much for this.
You are so welcome!
Love hearing your stories, I am writing my family history and including stories. You inspire me, I am touched by the emotion you put in telling them.
excellent, thank you
Crista - Thank you for the tears.... It warms my heart to realize that I am NOT the only one that is so incredibly moved by this work and that values the family stories as gems of real connection. Lynn
You are so welcome. It is very close to my heart.
Hard to not squeal like a manic!
😉
What does knapping mean in this context? I'm confused.
While I'm not a huge fan right now of this new addition (maybe later), I am a fan of Christa's and I found her shortness of breath at times concerning. Being the face and heart of Ancestry (or almost any corporate entity) is 24/7 and so demanding and wearing on so many levels and she's done this with great delight, passion, and professionalism for so many years. Even in the most supportive and healthy corporate environment, let alone the average, toxic workplace, the increasing demands from so many sides take a toll. That toll can be a big one, especially if the person is someone (I imagine, as I don't know or had contact with her) that loves what she does and in most cases, can't imagine saying "no", and perhaps brushes off any efforts by others to help. I hope she has people around her (including her boss!) that are making that effort and don't give up trying. Part of the difficulty may be that she's the type of person who minimizes any kind of personal issue, puts on that smile, and just keeps on going until she can't. The "I'm just fine" or "I'll do something soon" type" who keeps kicking the can down the road, until there's no more road. I think many of us know or have known that kind of person who doesn't want to let anybody down, even at great cost to themselves, and doesn't act on the concerns others express and that she has herself. I could be completely wrong, I'm no doctor or clairvoyant but there appear to be warning signs that need attention or more attention, soon.
@@nancid5265 or perhaps you are projecting your response on the speaker because you really don't know if the speaker would have taken offense or not, which would render you just as much of a busy body as the poster your are complaining about. I have no way of knowing the sincerity of anything anybody writes down nor what their motivations really are. You, to the contrary, claim to have a degree of clairvoyance in your spirit that allows you to judge and condemn the thoughts of others, in which case I can not wait for your response.
As a parent of only one child, with similar issues, I am a bit surprised that the two people who have replied to your post so far can't seem to believe that some people really do want those we value to have the longest and happiest life possible. While I understand their feeling that this was not the time or place, or even anyone else's business, I do take issue with them assuming the worst about the person who made the observation. Physician heal thy self.
Thanks for the information I'm excited.
Yay!!
#Community Stories? Will this new feature ever be available for desktop? If so, when?
They are currently available to VIEW on desktop. They will, hopefully, be available to create on desktop sometime in the near future.
Great presentation, Crista! As always, you're the best!
Thanks, Kimberly. 😉
Write them down. Keep a journal.
I love Ancestry but it’s not affordable for those of us who don’t buy in dollars. Why not cost membership in SA Rands, we have a contribution to make !
hey Elaine
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We need delete messages feature please!
You can ARCHIVE messages in the message center to remove them from your inbox.
@@CristaCowan Thanks!!!!! I appreciate everything you all do.
What is your name? I must have missed it; you are such a good presenter.
Hi Laurene! It's Crista Cowan.
❤️😊❤️
A low carb diet should help Crista. I can tell her metabolic system is upside down and a low card diet will repair that. I lost 50 seven years ago and my blood work is good despite all my relatives having serious issues.
Although this was way too boring to watch, even at 1.75 speed, it seems as though Ancestry's new products are designed to give people more ways to share copyrighted information, sticking it behind a paywall. That's Ancestry's true Motto--If you pay us, we'll steal information from somewhere and let you take a look.
Wow! I've never been accused of being boring before. That's a first. 😉 Seems like you've got some misinformation fueling a lot of emotion. If you've got specific questions, I'd be happy to answer them and clear some of that up.
If it is family it is not copyright information the same way a book or a song etc where you have to have an owner's permission to access or to find out about since it would be a family thing not an exclusive property created by someone and their personal or intellectual property exclusively. You have to remember that it is a subscription service that you pay for to have full access to and if it is not a subscription and you don't pay for the access your access to everything is limited and it is a service and if you want to have full access you pay to get the service.