February 2020 Edition: What's New at Ancestry | Ancestry
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- Join Crista Cowan for an updated episode of “What’s New at Ancestry.” She will give a quick review of the genealogy events Ancestry will be attending this year. You'll also get a look at new features and tools now available on Ancestry that will help make your family history research easier and more fun. Then, Crista will review some of the the databases full of new content released recently and explain how they can help you find the stories of your ancestors' lives.
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Introduction: 0:00-0:53
Events: 0:53-8:19
Site Updates: 8:19-20:12
New Records: 20:12-30:28
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Yay! Christa is back! I have missed your videos SO much! Please don't wait this long again.
Happy to be back, Reenie!
Regarding the newspapers.com resource. I don’t have a subscription but thankfully I do my research. A distant relative was listed as having survivors Max and Turner. I eventually found the obituary and Max and Turner were her DOGS! She had never married. I have never seen an obituary listing animals as survivors so your subscribers should be extra thorough with their research after finding these hints.
Absolutely love the lines leading from sources to family members that indicate evidence for relationships among family members!
Good to hear you again Christa.
Thank you Ancestry. I was contacted by a gentleman who was matched as a half sibling. I don't know if my dad knew about him or not as he was given up for adoption but I now have 4 half brothers❤
Wow congratulations!
Yes, similiar thing here. I found my father's half-brother also. I solved a long standing family mystery.
@@robertgardner7470 that is great news. Congratulations!
Every time your presentations are FANTASTIC! I look forward to trying all the new information that you share, thank you.
I have missed you too! So glad you are back. I love your videos - easy to understand, follow, very helpful.
Thanks, Sarah!
ThruLines allow us to add a potential ancestor to our tree, but I still don't see a way to reject a proposed potential ancestor that I know is not an ancestor.
In my case, my great-grandmother was a single mother, then married a man ten years later who was not my grandmother's father. A few other people's trees just assume that this man was my grandmother's father, so ThruLines suggests him as a possible great-grandfather for me, even though I know that he wasn't. (I don't know yet who was, but I know it wasn't him.) The Evaluate feature would let me add him (erroneously) to my tree, but it doesn't allow me to subtract him as a suggestion. It would be nice if ThruLines would allow me to dismiss the proposed potential ancestor with "No, this is not an ancestor," or even "I don't think this person is a potential ancestor," so that the same false lead doesn't keep popping up over and over again.
Thanks for the suggestion, Devyn. I will pass it along to the product manager.
I also have something similar, my grandfather's father married a lady who would be his step mother. I am trying to find out who was his "birth" mother but his stepmother comes out in my family tree.
@@AncestryUS Thank you!
9 months later, but I totally agree.
Even though, I haven't had the progress that I was hoping for, I do appreciate seeing members that I am related to. I was adopted and always wonder. So I thank you Ancestry.
Hello. What progress were you hoping for specifically? Is there anything I can do to help?
When we add children to a person, it would be really good if we got to choose the other parent rather than the software automatically adding 'unknown spouse'. This always takes a fair bit to fix up and as it occurs every time we add a child, allocating the other parent at the time would be so useful and time saving (plus save lots of frustration....)
When you add a child to a person in your tree, at the bottom of that screen, just above the SAVE button, is the option to select the other parent.
Great to see you back Christa, really missed your presentations.
Thanks, Angela.
Thanks for the updates. Your help is always appreciated.
glad you are doing the monthly updates again :)
I really appreciate all you do by providing these video updates and more. Can you pass along another suggestion there--it would be so helpful if the All Hints page had sub-categories for each category. For instance, under Records, have sub-categories like Obituaries, Census's, Crew Lists, etc. Or also even allow us to be able to filter by cousin relationship or paternal/maternal side. Those would be HUGE timesavers. Thank you!
Hi Shari, Thanks for the suggestions. I will pass along the suggestion for filter the All Hints list by record type. As for filtering it by relationship, that is the function that your family tree already does. Just go into your family tree and you will see the leaf hints on each person in your tree.
@@AncestryUS Thank you for passing that along. I use the hints I've seen on each individual, but having an All Hints filter that fliters by maybe just maternal/paternal side would save even more time and be more efficient when members are in the All Hints section. If that's a possibility, that'd be great. If not, no worries. Thank you!
Good to hear from you Crista. I do not understand why we have to have ANOTHER subscription for the Newspapers Obits. We pay for Ancestry, we pay for FOLD3 now to get the Newspapers Obit we have to pay for this as well. Why is this not Included in our Ancestry subscription?
Act quickly. Newspapers.com is allowing free access until 11:59 pm tomorrow.
I agree Carole!
So basically, you don’t understand why you pay for a roast, pay for potatoes, and then still have to pay for the carrots?
Makes no logical sense. It takes expensive equipment, web hosting costs and wages to being these records to life. Support it if you love genealogy!
They’ve made the index included, then you’re welcome to access the newspapers at source if you prefer.
@@kjw79 Exactly, and pay for the recipe to have the stew at an outrageous price.
I wondered about this too as I used to have access to that and the military pages BEFORE it was Fold3. I have the Whole world subs, but it is nearly $500 for me now which is getting way expensive.
So good to hear you. Roots Tech was GREAT and full of info. Sure hope we will have one in 2021. Take care and see you them.....
So happy to hear from you after a looooong time. :) I was a little worried about you. BTW, your audio sounds much improved. :)
Great to get an update from Ancestry again
So happy you are back. I love your videos the are so helpful.
Thanks! Glad to be back.
Thanks for another great video Christa. Re Relationship Sources - it's great to now see the family links to sources that are found on ancestry such as census etc. but is there any way to link source information (not photos) that we find and log under "other sources" to other family members where relevant. I seem to spend quite a bit of time copying and pasting headstone, and marriage source information to other records. Many thanks
I have missed you too crista!! Lovely to hear your voice!!
Thanks, John.
Thank you Crista! I missed you too and am happy to see another video from you. One very frustrating aspect of ThruLines that remains is the inability to "reject" bad ancestor hints. I have worked with the non-private tree owners to correct their trees, but there are private trees that I cannot review which perpetuate the error causing the hint. I know everyone is busy there making improvements all the time and I hope that is on a list somewhere. Thank you.
Hi Tom - Thanks! And, thanks for the feedback. I will make sure that gets to the product manager responsible for ThruLines.
Tom Zito Same here. It is almost impossible to correct false data even though I have YDNA facts on my side.
Yay...you're back!!!
I would like a way to sort the photos and documents in my Gallery. Also a way to search photos in my gallery and other member's gallery. Thanks. Ancestry is my #1 site.
Thank you for the feedback, Michele. I'll be sure to get it to the product manager.
Totally agree.Absolutely the worst parts is having to hunt through photos page after page. I would also like my matches Chromosones that match with my own in a table so I can put them into DNA painter as that can really make things clearer when there is a brickwall.
Crista is back!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!! Missed You!
Thanks, Kali. Missed you, too!
My biggest reason for using member search is also when I think I may be related to someone because our DNA communities come back from the same exact region so I want to compare. Although I wish there was a way to filter it down more when you put in a name and get 200 of the same names and have to scroll through pages of them.
Thanks, Cobie. I'll pass that suggestion for additional filters along to the product manager.
Love the Member Search feature. Thank you.
Love this!
OMG Finally you have the Ill Roman Catholic Diocese records online! I’ve been calling them for years and they keep telling me that Ancestry scanned them look online, they wouldn’t look anything up for me because of this.
I am happy for the updated member search. My username never worked before, but it finally does now.
Ancestry proved that I was my Fathers daughter. I matched DNA with his Mother and others in his family. I wish he and my Grandmother was still alive to let them know. He deserted my mother and me. Then he told my Grandmother not to have anything to do with me.
How sad.
Yes, but I made it through .
@@dsusan17 - Good for you.
Crista, I am just getting back into genealogy after many years away (and many mistakes made when I first started!). I am learning SO much with your tutorials. Thank you! I have one suggestion - Instead of saying "click here" it would be much more helpful to say click in the Upper Right on "_____" (whatever it says on the screen) because it is often not clear on the videos.
I found my 3rd great-grandparents in the 1865 Norwegian Census. Thank you for mentioning it!
That's exciting!
Hi Crista, Glad you’re back doing videos! Looking forward to seeing you next week! I will look into some of the other conferences. If you are going to Rootstech, have you found it very beneficial to also go to the NGS or FGS conference(s)? I just found a great discovery for one of my great grandmothers on newspapers.com. I’m wondering if they are indexed by exact spelling or in a soundex type index? Some of my family spelled their name with different spellings for the last name.
Hi Linda, I find that RootsTech and NGS are very different conferences. RootsTech is large and innovative and exciting with lots of different things to learn and loads of beginner classes. NGS tends to be a little more academic and geared toward the intermediate to advanced researcher.
As for Newspapers, because they are type-set, all of them are read by a computer. The quality of that OCR reading depends upon the quality of the image and the clarity of the type-set. The search functionality on the site is an "exact" search. So, try different spellings.
I am glad to know about Member Search. Sometimes when I get hints, I want to check further with the member whose tree, picture, story, etc., is listed as the source of the hint. Now I should be able to find them more easily.
So glad you are finding this feature useful, Bobbie.
Great updates
18:30 - total game-changer! Esp for those of us with a neuro-based disability. That's fantastic!
Thank you!
Thx. Thx so much!
Is there anywhere that you can look up upcoming conferences for the next couple of years for long term planning?
How often will the newspaper indexes be updated with corrections? I have gone through and made a lot of corrections on Newspapers and am curious. I am sad when I see the computer really butchered a name and it is likely a hint isn't properly being created due to that.
Missed you too, had just been looking for your videos recently, glad I have the alert set for uploads. The index for newspapers.com's obits are ok, but I paid for access to that site, and now it's coming up as wanting more money to see some publisher plus? kind of records. I'm loyal, longtime user, and low-stress but feeling REALLY ripped-off. Will be calling to get my money back.
Hi Alison, glad you got the alert for the new video. You don't say what subscription you have to Ancestry but it sounds like you might have Ancestry All Access. That gives you access to Newspapers Basic subscription. The Publisher's Extra upgrade is required for all newspapers still owned by the publishers that are hosted on Newspapers.com.
I really love Ancestry... however.. I have a real peeve with the hints. Why oh why does Ancestry give a *This hint is no longer available.* on hints... just take down the hint and don't leave a *This hint is no longer available.* msg.... I just finished an ancestor with 47 hints.... 10 had *This hint is no longer available.* And now he still shows having 10 hints.. all of which are NOT hints!! Can something be done about this????
The hints need some time to refresh it is not an instant process.
I have this still showing up days later.
Try a different browser. i have trouble with pictorial pages in Google, but Firefox brings them up just fine. Also instead of clicking on the hint leaf itself, go to Hints> view all hints in XXXXXtree (whoever your tree is). it brings up a whole list of just hints. Sometimes that hints that won't show the other way, will show here.
A nice feature for Thrulines could be a filter that shows in your "cards" section those ancestors that are linked as direct ancestors of that person. It could also be a box that could be clicked that filters out the paternal line or maternal line of the Thruline card ancestor. "Show paternal ancestors" , for example of a particular 2nd great grand mother. Sometimes I see these names of Potential ancestors and wonder how they fit into the Thrulines hints. (without having to click on the all the "cards"). I have Portuguese ancestors so the surname are all over the place!
Thanks for the suggestion. I will pass it along. In the meantime, I suggest having your family tree (in pedigree view) open in one tab so you can reference it while you view your ThruLines.
Thanks for the video, Crista. As you mentioned sources, it made me realize that in my past, I might have added people without sources. Is there a way to search for individuals who have no sources attached? That would be nice so I could go back and get some, or reconsider why I added them.
That's a great suggestion, Jared. There is not currently a way to do that. But, I will pass that along to the product managers.
Great to see you on TH-cam again Christa. I really missed your yearly Genealogy Goals video. Any chance you could give us an update?
Thanks, Rel. Glad to be back. I won't be able to do a genealogy goals video this year. 😢 But, I can tell you that we think we've solved the John O'Brien mystery, which is really exciting. As a matter of fact, someone else commented here just last night with a link to a state census record that might be the final piece of evidence we need to write up the conclusion about his parentage.
@@CristaCowan Awesome news. So I should stay tuned for the John O'Brien case study video later this year? ;)
@@rels3546 Absolutely!
I probably sound petty, but I resent receiving my own family photos, which I do not mind others using, but being presented to me as new hints belonging to to someone else. These are photos out of my own family album. Isn't there some way Ancestry can protect our photos?
I hear ya! I got a hint for my grandmother the other day and it was a photo I took of her years ago and someone shared it.
Any chance of getting the Archdiocese of Detroit church records? They are in pretty bad shape at the Burton Historical Library in Detroit.
Thanks for the update video, really enjoyed it! Crista, how did you get the heart icon beside the name of your Great Grandmother Ada Mae? I see from your screenshot, you also have a heart beside the name of your G. Grandfather Walter Woodruff. Intrigued! Is this a new tool for highlighting direct ancestors? How do I access it?
Hi Deb - That is just an emoji (like you use when you are texting). When I am on my phone and pull up my family tree in a mobile web browser, I can enter the emoji straight from my texting keyboard into the SUFFIX field of the names of my ancestors.
In my case, I have just dropped those onto my 8 great-grandparents to serve as a legend for the color coding that I did of my custom groups on my AncestryDNA Match List.
in reference to member search I also like to search for a member that i may have a dna connection and it would be nice to see from that same page if there is a dna connection then i wont be looking at the wrong john smith
Dawn - When you do a Member Search that takes you to the Profile Page. You can see on that page whether or not the person is a DNA Match to you.
Is there a possibility to see what databases in the card catalog will be available soon? After Troisdorf which was a BIG BIG help and I had proof for many things, I'm waiting for Bonn, Germany, so bad. :( From all DNA sites I love Ancestry design the most so I wanna build my tree with ancestry, not myHeritage or anything else.
We don't typically announce historical record collections until after they are published on the site. But, you can see some highlights here: www.ancestry.com/cs/recent-collections
I exported a Rootmagic Gedcom file to Family Tree Maker 2019. I was able to get all the data over. I am have issues with the Media link. The Media goes in to the Media library in FTM but the Photos that were linked to the Rootmagic (Individuals) do not show up with each individual profile. When I chatted with FTM, they said that I have to load everyone of the photos, one by one to each profile to each individual. There must be an easier way?
Any idea what the heart emojis are for? Does it mess with the naming or is it a tag?
How did you get the different colored hearts beside each of the last names?
I have a question about Relationship Sources. My 4th GGrandfather had a will listing his then wife and children. As of now (June 2020), Ancestry does not match up with them. Is there a way I can match them up to this will like I can other Associated Facts?
does this card catalog cover all 50 state and US holdings
Ours defaults us to AncestryUK no matter if you look for AncestryUS or just Ancestry. Would there be any chance the UK team can add on the event for RootsTech (as it's not there currently)?
Hello D Laity - You will be auto-redirected to the site based on the IP address of the computer you are using to access Facebook. But, you can manually force it to go to the US site. Just click on this link and then go into the URL and change the UK to US and hit enter. facebook.com/pg/AncestryUS/events
LOL! I Start shutting down at 3am too.
Will any additional Canadian newspapers be added to newspapers.com?
Newspapers.com is continually adding new content. Unfortunately, we don't have any information about where those newspapers are from before they are published.
It would be cool if we had a feature to mark who people are in a photo
Would be great if we could sort our DNA matches by location as this would really help to focus on specific area matches
You can use the MAP feature on your AncestryDNA Match List to see where your matches are from. You will find that in the top-center next to the word "list."
Quick Question? How do I link an Ancestry family tree to my DNA results? Thanks
Christa - are there any plans to get deed and General court records searchable - similar to Wills? There are already some, just not many. I know it’s a huge task, but would also be a huge help.
That's a great suggestion, Wannaberocker. I'll pass it along to our Content Acquisition team.
Hi Christa. Thanks for your videos. They are very helpful. I am in Australia and just clicked on the events tab on the Ancestry Facebook page but I only get events in Australia so I can’t register to see the seminars that are held in America. I guess this may be a Facebook thing not an Ancestry thing but is there any other way I can register.
Hi Mandy, Try using this link to access the Ancestry U.S. FB page. facebook.com/AncestryUS/
Thanks Ancestry. The link you gave me only gave me Australian and New Zealand past events with no upcoming events unfortunately.
@@MandyFarr Make sure you are using AncestryUS on FB. You will likely get redirected automatically because you are in Australia. So, you will have to type it in and force it to go through.
Hi can you help i have followed your how to vids on how to save a momorial to Ancestry however when i try to save a memorial to Ancestry i get a log in notification i sign in
then no drop box to link it to my ancestors im registered to Ancestry uk many thanks
Thank you Crista! Please, please, please add a chromosome browser! Ancestry has so many great tools and you've added some in the past year that I have been asking for, but not the chromosome browser, which might be one of the most important tools for genetic genealogy and finding clues to help break down brick walls!
Will they be japanese ww2 and ww2 military records
Lol! 20/20 has been our off year as well.
With Newspapers.com changing so much lately, how can I be sure I have access to everything available on that site?
Other than continually adding new digitized papers, Newspapers has not changed at all lately. There are two subscription levels for this site. 1) Newspapers Basic (which you can buy on its own or it is included if you have the Ancestry All Access subscription). 2) Newspapers Publishers Extra (this includes those newspapers still in copyright and owned by the publishing companies - Newspapers just serves as a host for those digital images).
I recently did the "Ancestry.com DNA" analyses about 3 weeks ago. My wife, at the same time, did "23 and Me", because she wanted the health profile. She got her results a few days ago making the turn-around slightly over 2 weeks. I am still waiting on "Ancestry.com". How is "23 and Me" now providing quicker results times?
Hello C Ruf, AncestryDNA results typically take between 6-8 weeks to process.
When are the Barefoot session live? Is there a schedule? I am subscribed, but i never get these announcements!
I would like to know when updates are made to a tree that was shared with me; also to to provide a notification of change send to people I share shared my tree with. This could be via checkbox for both the sharer and sharee to allow people to opt in or out jand it should still respect the allowance to see living people.
Good news, Joe. This feature already exists. If you click on your user name in the top, right corner you will see Email Settings. One of the sections is called "Family Tree Hints and Updates. You can decide if you want to receive email notifications when information is added to your family tree.
Will it ever go beyond 6 generations on the Thru lines?
Hi Candy, ThruLines currently goes back seven generations from yourself.
Wow, 7 generations is approx 75 yrs before the Revolutionary war.
@@AncestryUS Will it ever go back further? Almost all my ancestors are confirmed with Thrulines which indicates that it can be pushed "harder". One of my favorite tools to verify connections.
Have ancestry's Finland records been translated inasmuch as its records are in Swedish?
Hello, Pat. All records Ancestry has are in the original language in which the records were created. Ancestry does provide some basic translation of column headers and field labels.
Name vs User Name: When I look at someone else's tree or their profile, I often see their name but not their username. How can I use their name to invite them to view my tree? (I have tried entering their name, entering their name with no space and entering their name with an underscore but none of these work.)
Hello Miriam. You can only invite people to your tree using their user name or their email address. Or, you can use the LINK feature and send them a one-time use link to access your tree and add it to their account as a shared tree. If they have chosen to use their real name as their display name on Ancestry, you will need to use either their email address of the link feature. Since you should be in communication with them before sharing your tree anyway, this information should not be difficult to obtain.
When I first attached my DNA results to my tree, my maternal line was included on Thru-Lines. At some point, this broke, and no ancestors other than my mother now show up. Is this because of something that I did and, if so, how can I fix it?
I had this same issue with my paternal line. What I found is when I opened up my paternal grandfather and clicked Edit Relationship, my dad was listed as unknown. I changed this to Biological and that fixed it. I had to the same with my paternal grandmother, changed my dad to biological. Hope this helps.
I access Ancestry mostly through Safari on my iPad. I have recently found a lot of trouble viewing documents. I used to be able to enlarge the document and then move it around on my screen to be able to see what I was looking for. This is no longer the case. There is a scroll bar to increase or decrease the image size but then I am unable to scroll over to see other sections. Has this issue happened to anyone else or is it just me? How can this be fixed?
Liza Gervais on the right hand side click on the tool button (the little hammer /spanner button) click download and it’ll open a new page in safari where you can increase/decrease to your heart’s desire :)
Yes!
Newspapers.com....have found some really scrambled stuff in those ...think the kinks in the "bot" aren't quite worked out yet
Info on searching lost military records. Search the County Clerks office where the parents of the military person lived. According to my source, the Army instructed their soldiers to file them at the county clerks office in the event they needed them. This would be the place to put them due to their parents were less likely to move around. I found my Dad's Korean War military records this way. Hope this helps someone find theirs.
Thanks for the reminder.
Crista, do Ancestry ever attend an UK genealogy events?
Hello KG - Yes. We attended RootsTech London this past October.
Can i control my moms DNA? I manage my dads but we put my moms in with her own profile? I will check the member search thing you mention
Hi Tracey, Your mom can go into her DNA Settings and share her results with you. She can then give you Contributor or Manager rights. You will be able to access them from your own account just like you do your dad's results.
@@AncestryUS thanks that has worked perfectly
I would like to have a tree of friends option. I have tried workarounds but not very successful because of the family association prefered by Ancestry search tools. For example, I have an autograph book from 1880 and I'm trying to research the autographs and post so their ancestors can see what they wrote to my Great grandmother.
Hello Michele, Ancestry is a family history website and the basic construction of that is through family trees. If you are trying to post information about unrelated people, you can create a family tree of unrelated people and then connect them all to a cover image of the autograph book as well as the individual signed pages. This keeps them all linked together without showing familial relationships.
Why do I use a member search? I have a very unusual name in my tree and have met people with that same name who have tested their DNA. I wanted to know if we matched. searching for them was easier than going trough my thousands of DNA matches. Turns out, we did not match :(
Thanks for sharing.
Be very careful with the Newspaper index. I’m starting to get hints for people who happen to have same name but not my ancestor. I have a subscription, so I can verify and always do, but unless folks are verifying and just attaching to tree, it can cause issue. I’m already see folks blindly linking and thus wrong tree info.
@A Tangerine Could not agree with you more. I have someone that copied from my tree and copied from several others and to this date has My GGgrandfather married to his daughter as so do many others. Infuriates me! Needless to say I have privatized my tree.
Can you add a place or country name to the member name - that would be very helpful
Each user decides for themselves if they want that information to be public or private.
Crista--it has been waaayyyy too long! I have missed your videos!
I'm happy to be back!
Hi, any plans for adding global events viewable on any person to my trees?
Hi Morgan, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "global events." Can you help me understand?
@@CristaCowan Like for example adding dates for wars starting or famines so that they appear on the timelines in my tree.
what about sharecroppers records and slaves and their owners records?
I’ve seen several people get communities in the last week but I haven’t got one. Is this an official update I can expect or a coincidence
As Ancestry adds Genetic Communities, anyone with genetic evidence that connects them to that community will see it show up on their DNA Story. Also, as new genetic evidence (in the form of new DNA Matches) develops, it is possible to be pulled into an existing Genetic Community.
Ancestry okay thanks for clarifying! Helps a lot :)
Why is it when you have processed a hint and either added it to your tree or elminiated it as a source for you family you turn around and get it back again??? And not just once? Some hints I find on my list multiple times! At one time I had all my hints cleared off, etc and now it is just impossible. I have over 11,000 hints and for every 5 or 10 hints I get done I get 100+ more and alot of it is the sources I just dealt with.
Are you reviewing hints from the person profile page or from the All Hints page?
@@CristaCowan from the hints page on the top right hand side of the main page next to where it says hire an expert
@@oregonnative1298 - I would recommend that you use the hints from the profile pages of the people in your tree instead of using the ALL HINTS page. As your tree continues to grow, that list will continue to populate with new hints and can be (as you have discovered) overwhelming. Focusing instead on one person or one family group at a time is a much better strategy. What you will likely discover is that the hints are not duplicate hints but the same information in different record sets or from different sources.
If you have a specific example of the exact same hint being delivered to you multiple times, feel free to give me the URL of person in your tree where you are seeing that and I will get someone to take a look at it.
When I think about how difficult it was to get to a library and search newspaper records, the cost of Newspapers.com is the best money I have spent.
Roots tech not up on your favebook page yet
It is. You can find it here: facebook.com/events/605617320231355/
Hi Crista i have a difficult family puzzle that i am having trouble finding out information in ireland that he come's from ireland that i need help with my second great grandfather john lynch was born in 1827 in ireland .And married Johanna Calwren they lived in Rolland, Isabella, Michigan, USA .And john lynch died feb.24th,1922.What i need help with is finding out where in ireland did my 2nd greatgrand father came from and who is his parent's where.Love watching your episodes .If been trying for te last five year's to find out this information.And would like some help finding out this big family puzzle.Thank you Crista for your help.sincerly:jennifer lynch
Hello Jennifer, Did your great-great-grandfather every become a U.S. citizen? His citizenship papers might list his exact place of birth in Ireland. Also, have you identified all of his children? Their birth and/or death certificates might also list his exact place of birth. And, if you haven't already, have you located John's death record and/or obituary? That might also have more specific information about where in Ireland he comes from.
@@CristaCowan Thank you Crista for that information i e-mailed the us citizen this morning to see if they could help me out with that information.Thank you once again.
@@CristaCowan Hi Crista i came across this when i was doing some family research Daniel Lynch, merchant at Blanchard, is a son of John and Joanna Lynch, natives of Ireland. The father was born in 1830, and has been a sailor, until 1881, when he became a clerk in his son's store. The mother was born in 1831 and died April 13, 1873, in Kent Co., Mich. Their son Daniel was born April 18, 1852, in Newport, R.I., and the age of 16 years left home to learn the blacksmith's trade. Following this occupation as an apprentice five years, he then started in for himself at Grand Rapids, where he remained two years. HIs shop was consumed by fire. In 1875 he started in the grocery business in the same city, continuing in it two years. He then followed blacksmithing about six months, at the expiration of which time (1878) he came to Blanchard, this county. After three months at his trade, he returned to Grand Rapids. Coming once more to Blanchard, he bought a lot and erected a grocery, where he began in mercantile life again. During this time the village of Blanchard was incorporated. He held the offices of Constable, Trustee Marshal and Deputy Sheriff (under C. M. Brooks, Sheriff). In 1879 he exchanged his store for 80 acres of land in Rolland Township, and June 20, 1880, he again established a general mercantile business, resigning all other positions which demanded his time. He has, however, since held the office of village Treasurer two terms. He was married May 12, 1875, to Miss Elizabeth Condon, who was born June 17, 1852, in Kent Co., Mich., the daughter of John and Hannah Condon. Mr. C. died in 1873, in Walker Township, Kent County. The mother now lives in Grand Rapids. Mr. Mrs. Lynch are the parents of two children,- Elinor, born March 28, 1876; and Bessie, born Nov. 25, 1879. Mr. L. is politically independent. He and his wife are members of the Catholic Church.
Daniel Lynch died on 26 Jul 1937 in Grand Rapids, and is buried in ST. ANDRE .Look's like john lynch was a sailor where do i look up to find out information on ancestry?
@@jenniferlynch4823 This looks like some great information. Where did you find it? Can you back it up with records? For example, can you find John and Joanna and their son, Daniel, in the 1860 census in Rhode Island? Can you trace them from there to Michigan in the census every ten years? Can you find a birth record for Daniel? His marriage record?
If it was me doing this research, my plan would be to document every piece of information in this narrative and look for additional clues in those records that would help me build out the timeline.
Depending on where they lived in Rhode Island, there might be additional information in local history records there about who John might have worked for and what kind of sailor he was.
When is the 1950 census coming out? It seems like a million years since we seen 1940.
The 1950 Census will be made public by the federal government on 1 Apr 2022.
Thanks for telling me. I had hoped to see it this year. 😭
I have 3 grandparents with extensive family trees. Now my 4th grandparent is a mystery as he wasn't married to my grandma and was killed during WW2. Although he knew about the pregnancy, his family were not told about it. My grandma never told us his name either (think he may have been married?) I did a DNA test but cannot work out how the closest relatives are related to me (one is a 2nd cousin.) How can I work this out?
Hello browneyedgirl, Have you been able to identify anyone on your DNA Match list?
@@AncestryUS I have had a look at the 2nd cousin's family tree plus DNA matches in common. They all seem to descend from the same 2 people. However, they're all Anerican and I cannot see any connection to the UK via any of the branches. (My grandfather's plane went down off the coast of Kent, UK.)
@@browneyedgirl4268 Is it possible he was an American soldier who was serving in England at the time?
@@AncestryUS I was told he was an airman not army. The 2nd cousin had a great uncle who was based in the UK, and was an airman. However, he was killed in 1942, my mum was born May 1945. I was told my grandfather was killed when my grandma was 7 months pregnant.
Crista I have 2 brickwalls that we are hoping you could help us with.
Hello Tee - If you want to write up what you know and post it here or on the Ancestry FB page, you can get a little community collaboration going on your brick walls.
We have always known we had both a maternal and paternal grandparent that were both Jewish...i have done my DNA through Ancestry and it didn’t show up??????? A USAF Veteran
Have you looked at your AncestryDNA Match List? How many centimorgans of DNA do you share with the top match on your list?
I've been researching my ancestry since 1997, before DNA testing became available. Since I've taken my DNA test back in 2014, I've seen references to centimorgans, etc. which are confusing to me. Is there any way to simplify DNA explanations for aging eyes and brains like mine? I want to understand more about the DNA science and all but don't know how to comprehend all of these details. Thanks.
Need to be MORE SPECIFIC in TRIBES!!!
The more people test, the more refined the results become.
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