How Ancestry Indexes Records | Between the Leaves with The Barefoot Genealogist | Ep 4 | Ancestry®
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- 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.
In this episode of Between the Leaves, Crista is joined by Lisa Cook, Program Manager Content Strategy, to reveal the indexing process behind making records searchable and hintable.
If you missed the first videos in this series, you can watch them here:
Introduction: • Between the Leaves wit...
Ep 1 - How Ancestry Gets Records: • How Ancestry Gets Reco...
Ep 2 - How Ancestry Scans Records: • How Ancestry Scans Rec...
What was life like for your family? Use Ancestry to explore their past, and share their stories with the next generation. - บันเทิง
Without Lisa & team, the entire Search function wouldn't work. BIG shout-out 📣and thank you 🙏🏻to them!
The ancestry is so amazing and wonderful because their stories.
50's census is wonderful. Thank you.
The Ancestry is really important to community and the ancestry of stories that different people.
I am amazed by all of the updates and new features that have been added to ancestry in the last year. I would love it if they added the ability to see the amount of shared dna between two dna matches. Thank you for all of the hard work that you all do.
Even though both of those people are related to you, sharing how much DNA two other people share with one another is a bit of a privacy violation. You can, however, ask them.
Fantastic and amazing hard work thanks Ancestry for all you do to preserve history from all over the world ❤️❤️❤️
So glad you guys are here to help. Learning how this works is amazing. Thank you so much.
You are very welcome!
This is such an interesting series you are doing, sometimes I think it is all taken for granted what it takes to bring theses records to us, they don’t just magically appear with the twitch of a nose. Thank you.
You are very welcome. (And, well done on the Bewitched reference!) 🪄
Nevermind the old German script. That bends my brain. I haven't read it in a long time, and getting used to it is entertaining.
Right?!
Great info....How are you coming on looking at your Shipman Connection to wrong FM Chaney? Surely you could find a few minutes to check it.
on correcting indexes, i've noticed many of your Irish RC Baptism records have Heas (Hayes) transcribed as "Hear". Any chance of a bulk update of the surnames?
Hi! Your videos are wonderful! I'm new at genealogy 😀
Lisa, do you work in the Lehi office?
Would you please put links to videos you mention, ie past videos in this series.
Thank you
Hi Cheryl - We're so glad you found us here. Yes. Lisa does work out of our corporate headquarters here in Lehi. I'll add links to the previous videos in this series to the description above.
@@CristaCowan Thank you for your reply & ty for adding the links.
My daughter lives in Lehi so I just might stop by sometime when I'm there to visit
My experience has been that some indexed items are not searchable using Ancestry's search engine. Would be interested in how the process works to maximize the benefit of the indexing when it comes to making adjustments to the search engine by adding new search fields. Keyword searches can only get you so far sometimes...
Ancestry with Kristin and taking with the different people also have stories of history. The first Ancestry that Henry can tell within stories is people.
Would you ever do this with old records? Like the Birth, marriage death records in German? They're written not only in German but in an old handwriting style? But if you can read the original you get additional location information.
Sorry needed to watch further...lol
Wondering if finding old images or pages why thrifting or antiquing is there a way to send it to you guys ?
The best thing to do in this case would be to create a small family tree for the person or people in the photo and upload the image attached to them in that tree.
Shoot! Missed the live show. Lisa, you seem to be such a sweetie!! I'm wondering with the invention of OCR, will collections that are not searchable (name wise) be looked at again and possible re-indexed with searchable names?
OCR is primarily for typed records - like yearbooks and city directories. The new handwriting recognition algorithms are being trained and who knows what is possible with them for the future.
When humans are transcribing old handwritten records is Ancestry making sure the people speak/read the language in the records? Because I've seen some records that there is no way a native English speaker (or English speaker at all) would transcribe those records that way.
how can one person upload personal records to your site for popular use? For example close relatives death certificates.
If you create a public family tree on Ancestry (which is free to do) and add those people to your tree, you can then upload those documents to those people. Those documents will then be hinted out to other users who have those same people in their trees.
How many people are involved in indexing? Do you use locals to decipher the local names.
Ancestry has a large in house team of project managers, indexing staff, data scientists, and others who work on indexing projects. We also contract with about a dozen different keying vendors who, collectively, have thousands of employees.
@@CristaCowan I still come across data which I know is incorrectly transcribed due to not being a local. I hope you dont mind our corrections.
@@carolcoopertaylor Not at all. We welcome them.
@@CristaCowan because Britain has some strange place names let's face it :)
Are you aware that your Playlist for Barefoot Genealogist has 374 videos? The only way for us to find specific videos is to search by keyword. We may use the wrong keyword., I think it would be helpful for your Playlist to be split into smaller ones, maybe Between the Leaves, How to use Online Ancestry, and other series you have taped, like 1950 weekly series, What's new at Ancestry, DNA, Family Tree Maker. ethereal things like Proof Standard, finding biological family (watched last night), etc., what's new at Ancestry (do people really watch these from 2016 in 2022). Anyway, if you could get one of your staff to separate them that would be wonderful for those of us that have specific needs, like helping my students in my genealogy class.
If I had staff, I would love to do that. But, I am mostly a one woman show when it comes to producing these videos. 😉 All videos get added to The Barefoot Genealogist playlist. And, I have tried to create smaller playlists as I go by adding them to other playlists as appropriate. For example, this series has its own playlist, there is a What's New playlist, and there is a 1950 census playlist as well. If you click on the Ancestry channel and select PLAYLISTS, you should see them all listed there.
Could someone please tell me what does
It means that they are seeing a very small, but noticeable, similarity between your DNA and the results of others from that same area.
Think of it this way ... Let's say that you're an apple, and most of your skin is red. You look mostly like the red apple group, so your percentage of red apple will be very high. But there is this tiny spot that is bright green. You would have an equally tiny percentage of green apple group on your percentage results too.
Having that very tiny percentage means that, probably, somewhere pretty far back in time, one of your ancestors came from that place. Remember that each successive generation divides the amount of DNA you have from an ancestor. 50/50 from your mom & dad; 25 each from your grandparents and so forth. So, to get down to
@@KimberlyGreen Thank you so much that was very well explained and greatly appreciated. I guessed it would be from an ancestor way down the line, now I need to do a bit more research. 😊
Are there any image record sets on Ancestry that are not indexed? For example, record sets that are images that can are only browsable without any index associated with the image?
There are a few - mostly Italian records. Use the Card Catalog on Ancestry to see what is available for the location you are interested in. Then, when you click through to the specific database, if there is not search form, those are image only collections.
I know this is totally unrelated but I didn't know where to write to you. Why would the census OMIT an entire community? I cannot find my father, his parents, siblings, children or cousins in one specific area in Perry county Mississippi. It was very disheartening as my dad passed in 2017 and I was looking forward to finding him in the census.
Hi Melissa - Have you gone page by page through that county to see if they are there but their names were misspelled?
@@CristaCowan yes i have. I'm so sad. It's like they skipped an entire black community in the town my father lived in
@@melissahinton8928 😥😥
Crista I think everyone is related to you!
I sure hope so! 💗
Your "Scout" has my relatives wrongly in the wrong 'position' . My great grandmother is named as my grandmother and my 2x grandfather as my grandfather !. how do we get the real relationships through to you?.
Do you have these people in the correct position in your family tree on Ancestry?
Hello, I get frustrated, on finding the correct records for birth, marriage and death in England!
Hi Lila - What seems to be causing the frustration?
@@CristaCowan because trying to piece together families from England, with so little information on their birth death and marriage records.
Trying to help my husband find his English paternal grandfather through DNA and records.
@@CristaCowan because trying to piece together families from England, with so little information on their birth death and marriage records.
Trying to help my husband find his English paternal grandfather through DNA and records.
@@lilalay5586 Many Americans don't realise that the post-1837 BMD records you see on Ancestry are only the indexes. You need to apply to the UK GRO (General Register Office) to get a copy of the actual register entry, which will supply all the detailed information you require. You can do this online, it's very easy. When I last did it, the cost I think was either £7 approx or £11 approx, depending on whether you have an electronic copy or a paper copy. I'm English by the way, so I'm very familiar with all this stuff; it's the American records I struggle with!
Ancestry for community service and service for black people.
My great grandfather is William Monroe Buck Hicks can anyone help me find out about my heritage
Hi Bobby - Have you started a family tree on Ancestry and added him in? Are you getting any hints or search results when you look for him on the site?
For giggles I did a quick Ancestry general search. There are several William Monroe Hicks records that pop up, including some pictures. (The power of indexing from Lisa's team!)
Do like Crista suggested & get your tree started. You can get started for free. Then when you're ready, It's worth the membership cost to search deeper. (I've found oodles and great gobs in my own family search.)
You shouldn't have any trouble finding the same records I did. I won't spoil your fun of discovery with any specific details. Just know that your treasure hunt should be pretty easy and happy.