Thanks for that. Not specific to search, but could they work out a way to let us organise photos in the gallery our way instead of by date added. A friend and I are trying to identify people in some photos and it would be really handy to be able to line them up chronologically as the photos were taken to work out who could, or could not, have been in certain photos. It would also mean we could group photos of people together and images of documents etc together. If the geniuses can do it for search, they should be able to do it for galleries too? Maybe? Hope lives eternal. Thanks again.
The new edit option is awful. It’s tiny and it doesn’t make sense to me to go back to the top to click the edit button. The edit button wasn’t only at the bottom before, it was just below the sliders. That was perfect to me.
Hey CB! We appreciate you sharing your first impressions of this latest update to our search tool. We always listen carefully to our members thoughts and requests as we strive to build a service that every researcher can call home. We will certainly submit your thoughts on this latest change and appreciate the effort you have made to bring your experience to our team's attention. Thank you again and we would invite you to submit additional thoughts or ideas directly to our developers here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry . Please make sure to call on us anytime you need our support. 🌳
Hello Crista, Are the hints added as the new databases are added? Also, many French and German person and place names include dashes, umlauts and other odd bits of punctuation that don't occur in English. I have tried to purge my information of these, is this the best way to deal with these? What about abbreviations? What about dates in languages other than English? Also, I come across persons who have multiple marriage dates to the same person, what's with that? I have ancestors in the Alsace region and sometimes don't know whether searching France or Germany or both is the best way to deal with these? Can you help with some of these questions?
Correction: Puerto Rico does NOT have Counties or Municipalities. We have Barrios and Pueblos. Barrios are a section within the same Pueblo/Town and we also do not have Double names. Example San Juan County, San Juan, San Juan Puerto Rico or Comerio Municipality, Comerio, Comerio, Puerto Rico is TOTALLY incorrect. It is simply San Juan, Puerto Rico or Comerio, Puerto Rico. This has become a real Issue when searching for Hispanic records for Puerto Rico. Most people have no clue about this issue but I do and it keeps you out of searches if you do not edit this issue which is another pain as one has to be constantly editing this feature.
Hi Curt, thanks for your questions, we hope to help! When you are doing your research there are different ways that you can filter and refine your search results. We'd suggest using Keywords too, to get more specific or accurate results. This support guide might be useful too: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog. We hope this will help but if you need more guidance please do feel free to get in touch with our Support Team: support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/family-history. Thank you!
How can I share my grandmother's high school yearbooks? I have 1918 through 1921 Wheatland High School, Wyoming. She even wrote in the married names of her friends.
Hi there, thanks so much for stopping by! We're so excited to hear that you have a few yearbooks that you are interested in sharing. We have a process that can be followed by any of our members who are looking to share old yearbooks that they may have. We have popped a link below that will run you through the donation process: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Donating-Yearbooks?language=en_US#donating We hope this helps!
Hi Crista, Great video as always. I'm one of those that never knew some of those features were there like the keyboard shortcuts and the category tab. Both of those will be super helpful and now much more obvious to access. Thank you so much.
Hi Barry and thank you for sharing. We're glad you enjoyed the video and are delighted to hear that you picked up some useful information and tips that will help you in your own research. 😊
That's wonderful to hear - we're thrilled for you! Should you wish to carry out further research into your Indigenous ancestry, we'd love to share with you the following research guide: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Researching-Native-American-Ancestors We hope this will be helpful to you in your research journey, and wish you a wonderful day! ❤️📜🔍
At 19:40 talking about high school photos of our grandparents, etc. Why is ancestry publishing pictures of me in high school in 1970???? NOT MY GRANDPARENTS. My classmates and I are STILL ALIVE. We are in our late 60's. It's kinda funny. Waiting for the 1950 census for our parents and grandparents.
Hi, utubetubular. Thanks for getting in touch. We know that it's interesting to find yourself in a yearbook. Yearbooks are public information. We'll give you the page that will outline everything about the yearbook collection that you should know. www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1265/
When I hit the search button for an individual then choose one of the results and accept the record, it used to have a box pop up in the bottom right corner that could be clicked to go directly back to the page of search results. Now, the box that pops up after acceptance can only be clicked to go to that database. If you are working all day on your tree, that time adds up. Am I missing something? Doing something wrong?
Hey there Martha, thanks so much for stopping by and sharing this valuable feedback with us! We completely see how this could be a frustrating experience when carrying out concetrated research for long periods of time, and will certainly raise this with the relevant team for consideration. Wishing you a wonderful day!
I have some questions, how do I have some DNA matches my parents don't? or high cM matches than them! When are we getting a segment browser? or other DNA tools.
Hi Chris, thank you for the question. This is most likely a case of matches that have been hidden. Members can hide matches so that they no longer appear on their DNA match list. We will pass your suggestion of a segment browser on to the proper teams as feedback.
@@AncestryUS I control my parents DNA accounts, no matches are hidden. I have some 9/10cM matches that neither of them do, which should be impossible? Thanks for passing the suggestion on, it would be a fantastic tool to have!
Thanks for getting back to us with this additional information, Chris. This does indeed sound unusual and so we'll be happy to take a closer look into this for you. Please reach out to our support team so we can investigate. We have linked our customer service contact page below where you will find our phone number as well as our chat service. Whatever your preference, an agent will be on hand to verify your account and see what's going on. We look forward to hearing from you. support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/account
Crista, thanks for explaining th UI updates. Can you ask the team if they could make one more UI fix for consistency? When on the main tree page (family view), the Tree Search button is in the upper right corner. When on a person's profile page, the Tree Search button is in the upper left.
Thank you so much for your suggestion! We're always on the lookout for ways we can improve our tools and features. Our members feedback can be so helpful to us! We'll be happy to forward this on for you presently. However, if you'd like to log this directly on our site, we'll include a link where you can achieve this as well. We hope this helps a little, and we wish you the very best in your future research! Have a great day, too. 😊 Link: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
Hey there Robyn, thanks so much for stopping by! We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your valued feedback with us regarding our Communities feature. We'd love to share with you a bit more about how Communities work, and why this might be the case. Once we identify a community of people who are connected through DNA, we look for patterns in family trees linked to AncestryDNA tests to help us identify who the group consists of. We find groups of people in the AncestryDNA network who share more matches with each other than with people in other parts of the network and set that group apart as a community. To find out where the community came from, we search the linked family trees of people in the community. Our reference panel includes samples from many world regions, but not from every country or population. Similarly, we have identified hundreds of communities, but only for areas where we have enough data. There are some other reasons a region might not appear in your DNA Story. For regions of the world like Europe, where the population is very admixed, it can be difficult to distinguish one population from another through DNA testing. And because of the random nature of DNA inheritance, you may not have inherited DNA markers that we identify with a particular region, even when your ancestors lived there. Because you only get communities that you have a strong DNA relationship to, the more generations that separate you from the population a community ties back to, the less likely it is that you’ll connect. It’s also more likely that you’ll connect to a population that, for example, both your parents have descended from, than to a population that only one of your grandparents is from. As we gather more samples and our database grows, we'll be able to add more regions and communities. We'd invite you to learn more about Communities, should you be interested in doing so, here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/DNA-Genetic-Communities We hope this is helpful to you Robyn, and wish you a wonderful day!
I like the concept of consistency. A suggestion would be to have the the “tree search “ box on the same side of the page no matter what page you are on Thank you
Thanks for the kind suggestion, Pam.❤️ We'd love to help submit your excellent idea! Such feedback is invaluable as it helps us shape our tools and services to suit our members changing needs and preferences. We certainly see merit in improving consistency to make it that little bit easier to unearth that latest discovery. We will pass on your suggestion to our hard working developers and please feel free to send on any further ideas by clicking here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry . Thanks for checking out our video and for being a part of our community. Call by and see us anytime you need our support.👍
Thank you so much for this great feedback Pam, we'll be sure to pass this along to the relevant team! Should you ever wish to submit your feedback or suggestions to us directly through the website, please do feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions Wishing you a wonderful day!
Is there any way to know specifically what records were added in an update? For example, I am looking for grave markers in a specific region in Italy. Would there be any way to find out whether that specific region was included in a particular update?
Hi Jvee and thanks for reaching out to us. Usually when you click into an updated collection, more specific details about what's been updated will be given at the very end of the 'about' section, under 'updates'. 🙂
Hello Crista, I have several ancestors who were alive during census years, but for some reason, I can find no record of them anywhere. I can find other members of their families, but none for them. What's going there and how do I find them elsewhere?
Thanks for reaching out to us! We're sorry to hear you've had some difficulty finding records for a couple of your ancestors. We've linked an article below which offers some advice for breaking down brick walls in your research which we hope might prove helpful in getting to the bottom of this. 🙂 support.ancestry.com/s/article/Brick-Wall-Solutions
@@AncestryUS Another trick is to do a search for the childrens first names. We had a census record where the fathers last name was seriously misspelled and found the family that way.
That's wonderful, S! We're glad to hear you were able to find the family you were looking for. We love hearing about discoveries and how they are made. Have you been able to learn more about the family since this discovery?
Hey, Michael! Thanks for checking out October's 🎃 news and events. We know from personal experience how annoying a duplicate can be and stand ready to support you in anyway we can. Rest assured that several solutions exist to help merge or remove a duplicate. Although, we have to tread carefully when carrying out such tasks with our tree, there should be no need to start your tree from scratch to repair such an issue. It is also important to note that although a person or branch may be removed from your tree in error - it is still possible to view behind the veil by using our tree search tool (unless deleted) . This means that even if we lose track of a person or branch, we can always add them back into the tree in just a few clicks. We would first suggest reviewing this tailored guide support.ancestry.com/s/article/Fixing-Relationships-in-Trees and to then reach out to our team here support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport should this issue continue to haunt your family tree.👻 We hope this helps and wish you all the very best for National Family History month!🌳
We feel your pain, Caryl! 😆 We've all had bad hair days but most are lucky enough for them to fall on days where no photograph is scheduled. We appreciate you taking part in this special event. Make sure to call on our team anytime you need us. 🌳
Thank you for the image filters!!!! I am tired of DNA and immigrant profile photos cluttering up my searches. Any chance of getting some filters like this for our hints??? (PLEASE!) And, I am one who toggles between records and categories. I just think folks don't use them because they don't really know how they can help.
After doing the DNA and proving that I had ZERO % Native American, I was floored with what I found. As one of many Game of Thrones fans, it never dawned on me to watch the opening credits for the first two seasons. Also, I am not one who gets involved in a character then I learn all I can about the actor. However, one evening, I was watching GoT and noticed a name that I had come across while researching on Ancestry. It just so happened to be the name of one of my favorite characters from the show. Kit Harington has a version of my surname, Herrington. We are both related to Sir John Harington (Harrington) who invented the first flushable toilet. I would love to know the actual relation with Kit through Sir John Harington. And the hits keep on coming. While watching The Old Kingdom, some of the character names sounded familiar. So I searched and found the name Ethrelreda. Lady Isabella Ethelreda Markham. Wondering if any connection to Alfred the Great. I have Swedish and Denmark blood, so the twists are happening... PLEASE HELP.
Hey there, Anna, thanks for reaching out about this, we'd be glad to help now. We are always keen to hear any suggestions or feedback from our members, if you would like to submit some suggestions for us to review, you can do so on the website here: bit.ly/3msKoFv. Thank you!
If this is already possible please tell me. I have numerous small trees that I use as research trees. Inevitably I will get a query about a person in one of the trees but the query does not include the name of the tree. To answer the query I have to open each of my trees and search for the name. I wish I could do a global search across my many trees - no one else’s, just mine.
Thank you so much for this wonderful suggestion - we'll certainly pass this on to the relevant team for consideration! Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions We hope this is of help to you, and wish you a wonderful day!
Is there a way to note on the thur lines page that i have finished that particular grandparents? I keep finding myself touch the same records because there is no way to know that without clicking on the thur line.
Hi Hermelinda and thank you very much for reaching out to us. We're afraid this is not something that can currently be done but we appreciate the suggestion and are happy to forward this as feedback to the appropriate team. We apologize for any furstration caused.
hi there! im currently doing my friends family tree and if anyone would want to help me i would really appreciate it. She has north korean ancestry but she knows little about it since her grandmother had lost her entire family as an infant during the korean war. i just am having trouble with looking for places to search records or archives. if anyone with korean/north korean heritage can give me any tips it would be appreciated
We're glad to hear that you were able to get the support you needed, Carol. Good luck with your research! We hope you'll have many connections with your matches which help you to learn more about your ancestors.
Crista, does Ancestry combine DNA results with family tree data a member enters to determine those “dotted-line bullseyes”? Reason for question: I initially listed my g-father’s adopted mother’s origins as North Uist in the Outer Hebrides which turned out to be one of the “dotted-line bullseyes.” Was that designation influenced by my errant entry? Issue of importance goes to reliability of those bullseyes. Thanks. You’re very good at representing Ancestry!
How do you know what your finding on your tree is true to you; when your family members on both parents side are gone.? I have cousins but I haven’t been able to get any where with them. I have got their parents info correct
I have one of the craziest genealogy stories of all time. Found out 90% of the info on Ancestry. Involves lies, betrayal, infidelities, & even a murder.
Wow, that sounds intriguing Dave! We'd love to hear more about what you discovered if you'd like to share it with us. You can share your story through the story submission form linked below. 🙂 support.ancestry.com/s/article/Submit-your-success-story-to-Ancestry-1460090084532
I found a murder way back Ancestor banished to Australia.Found Great Uncle having two families! Found multiple spouses for some ancestors.But found other Members looking for answers of whom their Bio Parents were.Seems on one side of the Family there are quite a few who have contacted me!
Will the alphabetical sort in the categories? Really miss the option that allowed me to keep my categories preference all the time, no need to click on categories or toggle.
I'm Patricia, wife to Stephen. I'm confused on my cousin cM's. I have two 3c 1x, by linage, who cM's are 11 cM and 16cM. And a 4th cousin whose cM is 27cM. But then I have another 4th cousin whose cM is 111cM. We are all descendants of my 3rd great grandfather Henry Kise. My question is the 111 cM possible? Thank you, Patricia
That's pretty interesting, Patricia! Sometimes we can share a surprising amount of DNA with our cousins. What we each inherit is entirely random. Sometimes it's possible to find more relationships with our cousins than just one as well. We have a great guide on our site when it comes to the subject of unexpected matches that we hope can help a little. Link: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-DNA-Matches Thanks so much for watching, and have a great day!
We appreciate you sharing this feedback with us, Salvador. We've forwarded it onto the appropriate team for consideration. If you have an account with Ancestry, we'd recommend subscribing to our email list so that should we launch there in the future, you'll be first to know about it. The article we've linked below has instructions for how to subscribe. support.ancestry.com/s/article/Subscribing-to-and-Unsubscribing-from-Emails-and-Push-Notifications?language=en_US
May I possible suggest something? There are folks, myself included who just don't see well and the cursor you are using if difficult if if not impossible to follow. For the sake those clients, used the biggest, boldest cursor. It would be of great help Thank you!
Hi and thank you very much for reaching out and sharing this feedback with us. We are sorry to hear that you sometimes have trouble following the live presentations. We will be sure to forward this suggestion to the relevant team.
Hi Fife Phipps! Thanks for checking out Crista's great update on all that's new at Ancestry this month. We hope you found it of interest and stand ready to assist in anyway we can. Are we right in thinking that you are looking to carry out research within the Caribbean? If so, then you can review our current available collections per region by clicking here www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?location=1652393 and selecting the country of interest in the left hand column. If you are unfamiliar with using our card catalog which you can use to hone in on different collections then click here to learn how support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog . We hope this helps but pop by and see us again anytime you need our support. We hope you make a ton of progress in your search this weekend! 🌳
We hope it all works out, Fife Phipps! You may also like to check out our back catalog of videos and previous recorded events over on our FB page. They cover every type of genealogical topic you could imagine and you may fall upon one that covers your own area of interest facebook.com/AncestryUS/videos/?ref=page_internal . Best of luck! 🌳
Thanks for dropping by, Kelly. We never like to hear when our members experience is anything short of wonderful. We'd be anxious to help as much as we can, however we must admit that we're limited in the assistance we can provide via TH-cam. If you'd like to send us a DM on Twitter or Instagram, or a private message on Facebook with your Ancestry username so we can review your account, then we here at Ancestry Social Support would be delighted to assist you to the utmost. We look forward to hearing from you so we can work with you to resolve your query as much as possible.
Order the Civil War Pension file from the National Archives. It should have all of the details of his death and their marriage and maybe even the birth dates and places of children.
I hope the search filter category results have been made consistent with the card catalogue category contents as i noticed in the past that looking at 'categories' would contain data sets that didn't appear in the sets indicated in the card catalogue filter list by the same name. I hope it also stops providing results that should have been excluded by the search criteria. eg i look for events in a specific area but I get results outside that area , I choose to look at UK only data sets but get non uk results. If it could only flag results I've already looked at that day would be good too and not return to the start of the list after i looked at a result. Have they fixed the fault in dna link list where you lose the scroll bar after looking at a number of linked customers trees.
Hi Diana, that is a good question. The 1950 census will be publicly available in April of 2022, we do not have a set time frame yet for when it will be available on Ancestry.
Hi there, thanks for stopping by. Ancestry’s primary goal is to develop the best solutions for our customers’ research challenges and enable the most enriching discoveries possible. We have created tools that allow users to make more accurate, relevant discoveries about how they are connected to their DNA Matches. We’re combining the unique power of records and family trees with the latest innovations in DNA science to give customers more ways to connect to their family story than ever before through products like ThruLines, New and Improved Matches and MyTreeTags that enable more efficient discovery than with a chromosome browser all while maintaining privacy. We will continue to explore new innovations that enable discoveries and protect customers’ privacy. Because of the way DNA is inherited/passed down from generation to generation, looking at chromosomal data to deduce how you are related to someone is not as straight-forward as a chromosome browser would lead customers to believe. As you can imagine, inheritance and genetics is an evolved and very complex field. Because we’re the first to be able to research genetic inheritance in the context of well-sourced pedigrees we are also the first to understand the validity and accuracy of the segment data. We would like to fully understand the details around each segment before making it fully available to the public.
@@CristaCowan We might not even know if we have any double 6th cousins. Or if someone is a 6th and a 10th cousin. We might not know if someone is a cousin in two different ways
Could you answer one question? You mentioned you have family in Va/wv, would you happen to know why someone living in Ohio would go to Wv to get married in 1970s?
Thanks so much for your query, Sharyn! You may indeed find some new hints as we add and update our record databases, however we'd recommend searching through collections individually if you think that a particular database might be useful to you in your research. Hints can be super helpful, but searching through the collections is certainly worthwhile. Thanks so much for dropping by so we could provide this information!
Hi Christa, thanks for your replies to other people and the link to the suggestion box. That’s a great idea but where do find it on the website?. The link worked fine and I made my suggestion, but I don’t want to have to come back here all the time to find it. I’ve been using ancestry almost since it started and so have lots of little tweaks I can think of at the time but never remember when someone asks🥴 I’m sure there’s a button somewhere that I just haven’t seen. 🤷🏼♀️ thanks again.
Hi Marilyn, thank you for being with us for so long. You can get to the suggestion box page by clicking on the help tab at the top to the screen and heading over to the support site and searching the term feedback. We look forward to your suggestions.
So happy to hear I can now “drill down” and not have to see a million photos of graphics people uploaded to show they are DNA related. Thanks for reminding me about the card catalog to narrow down what I want to search.
I love the Groups feature with the colored dots. Would be nice to have a few more to add more distant ancestor groups, since not all matches show up with recent common ancestors. I can't seem to edit the names of the groups once I've created them. I hope Ancestry will add Denmark to the Collection Focus in the search feature, they have Sweden and Norway, but not Denmark. I called and talked with someone about it and he sent in some type of request a couple weeks ago but nothing has changed. Thanks for the awesome video and tutorial, the groups/colored dots are very useful!
Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! While we unfortunately cannot offer a timeframe for such changes and additions, we sincerely appreciate all suggestions made to us by our wonderful members, and these are reviewed by the appropriate teams on an ongoing basis. Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions We hope this is helpful to yu, and wish you a wonderful day!
What I'd like to see is a toggle in the hints page between records and images; personally, I'm almost always more interested in records...especially when the image is of the record!
We appreciate you for reaching out to us, Frank. Please be advised that when you visit the 'all hints' page by clicking on the leaf icon at the top of the page and clicking 'see all hints', on the top left hand side of the page you do have the option of viewing hints under a couple of different categories including 'records' and 'photos'. 🙂
DNA Match Issues: There is a DNA match issue where two people sharing and Ancestor is showing as either one of us has not taken a DNA test. I have encountered this issue as recently as yesterday. Someone messaged me that is about a 4th or 6th cousin does not display any match and Ancestry states that neither one of us has taken a DNA Test which is incorrect as we both have and we do have an Ancestor match.
Hi Carol and thank you very much for bringing this issue with DNA matches to our attention. We are anxious to further investigate this issue immediately and so would appreciate it if you could give our customer support team a call. Over the phone we'll be able to take a closer look into this with you and report the error to the appropriate team. We've linked our customer support contact page below for your convenience and look forward to hearing from you. support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/account
@@AncestryUS Thanks for the reply. I called and it was explained to me after we searched thru my tree and the others. In a Nut shell, if our DNA is beyond a 6th cousin relationship it will not show up on Ancestry as a match even though we do share and Ancestor down the food chain.
Wonderful update Crista! So btw, if Ancestry were to aquire The Huber Heights (Ohio) Courier into the newspaper database, I Will Surely subscribe to Newspapers. I realize that I am one person and this is a community weekly newspaper but my son was included in several articles each year 1993 - 1997 when he was in high school and a member of the Wayne High School Jr ROTC. What I would give to get copies of those articles today. This includes that he was the first sophomore (to the best of my knowledge) to be awarded the cadet of the month award. You could count on my subscription for several years if The HHC were included.
If you haven't already done this, contact your local library(ies) to see if they have archived copies of this newspaper and if they're digitized. This might involve a lot of detective work (e.g., contacting various libraries, including state and university as well as local genealogical societies). Good luck!
@@Reyne-fb7mj TY W.H. King. I do periodically check. Now that you mention it, the local library would be more likely to digitize than anywhere/anybody else. I will check more frequently.
Thank you so much for your request - we'll be sure to pass this along to the relevant team! Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please also feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
Hi there, Ben, thank you for querying this with us, we'd like to help. AncestryDNA will generally only show you DNA matches who are 4th cousins and more distant at the furthest back - we cannot provide precise information for more distant relatives or 10th cousins for example. You can still work on our family tree alongside your DNA test to find distant ancestors too. This support guide will also show you more about the DNA matches categories: support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Match-Categories. We hope this can help!
Hi there, thanks for querying this with us, we'd like to help you. While you cannot copy an entire tree branch to add to another tree immediately, you can copy people from one tree to another and move a branch that way. Please see this guide for how you can do that: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Copying-People-from-Trees. That guide will show you all the ways you can add people and also ways that you can merge or split parts of your tree as well. We hope this will help, have a great day! 😊
On my search results page, I still have the edit search button, there is no pencil edit feature. Is this being rolled out slowly? Also, I always switch to category view for the results.
Thanks for reaching out to us! We hope you enjoyed the presentation. This feature is still currently in BETA and so some members may not yet have the pencil icon instead of the 'edit search' option. 🙂
Hey Robyn! Thank you for stopping by to share your thoughts with us. We hope you learned lots of valuable information in the video to put to good use in your own research. We know that DNA results can provide unexpected results and are always ready to help out in anyway we can. Although, some features such as Thrulines are based on information contained in you and your matches linked family trees, your ethnicity regions are in no way defined by what information is inputted into your tree. In fact, testing is carried out entirely anonymously in order to protect each participants privacy. We will now do our best to outline briefly how different elements of an ethnicity estimate are calculated which we hope will provide greater clarity. Our ethnicity estimate provides a glimpse into our deep past honing in on the last 500 -1000 years for distant origins represented by your 'regions' and 50- 300 years ago for more recent origins reflected in your 'communities'. These two aspects of your report are calculated differently and you can learn more here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Key-Differences-Between-Ethnicity-and-Communities . The 'regions' provided in your estimate are based on our reference panel and are shown in your report with solid-circle icons. The regions provided to you are based on comparing the DNA found within your sample with our reference panel of living people with established roots in a given area. On the other hand, our communities do not have a percentage assigned to them and are signified by a circle surrounded by a dotted line within your estimate. These communities are identified by analysing genetic connections between groups of AncestryDNA members, public family trees, ethnicity data, and historical records to work out where this group of people lived over time. We hope this helps but please call on our team anytime you need us. 🌳
It work’s towards finding DNA matches, however Race and human genetic variation. There is broad consensus across the biological and social sciences that race is a social construct, not an accurate representation of human genetic variation. Humans are remarkably genetically similar, sharing approximately 99.9% of their genetic code with one another.
Hi there, thanks so much for stopping by to check out our video! We do partner with MyCanvas who produce posters and books of family trees for our members. We have popped a link below to their website with some more information on this should you wish to take a look: www.mycanvas.com/family-history We hope this helps!
Thanks so much, Carla. We're excited to see our community's reaction to our latest additions to our search tool! Make sure to share your feedback with our team so we can continue to build on these tools and make Ancestry the natural home for all researchers. Should you have a suggestion for our hard working developers then click here to send them your idea now support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry . Thanks for being a part of our community! 🌳
@@AncestryUS Mostly the search tweaks, toggle for records and category, and the new image filters. Just smoother and easier. And, yes, after all of these decades, I did not know about the keyboard shortcuts ;) Very nice stuff! Not so thrilled with the new ethnicity estimates, but that is not Ancestry's fault! Depends on how mixed-up-white-bread you are ;) The communities hit much closer, and are relevant. My mother does not appear on mine, so I just look at my half-sis's where they do. You hit my bro-in-law's on the head. Ethnicities are so dependent on the reference populations, and people find different DNA sites work better for their own mix, probably because they are a bit more geographically focused. Ancestry seems to be going for breadth and complexity. That's the way to go, I think! Kudoes!
We appreciate you sharing this feedback with us, Linda! With regards the recent update to your ethnicity estimate, we've linked an article below which might help explain any unexpected regions in your results. 🙂 support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results
@@AncestryUS Thanks for the article, and I will check it out, but I'm good. I do understand many of the complexities. And And Ancestry is where I always recommend that people go, for at least a first test. Thanks for the response!
So is there a way to tell if the person that you’ve matched with has has matched with you as well? Like a connection where you’ve both made each other matches?
Correction: The Netherlands is NOT a Scandinavian country.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that. 😹
Glad you pointed that out. I was born in a Scandinavian country, i.e. either Denmark, Sweden, or Norway. :-)
Tusen Takk!
Thanks for that. Not specific to search, but could they work out a way to let us organise photos in the gallery our way instead of by date added. A friend and I are trying to identify people in some photos and it would be really handy to be able to line them up chronologically as the photos were taken to work out who could, or could not, have been in certain photos. It would also mean we could group photos of people together and images of documents etc together. If the geniuses can do it for search, they should be able to do it for galleries too? Maybe? Hope lives eternal. Thanks again.
Great idea about allowing us to arrange the gallery photos!
The new edit option is awful. It’s tiny and it doesn’t make sense to me to go back to the top to click the edit button. The edit button wasn’t only at the bottom before, it was just below the sliders. That was perfect to me.
Hey CB! We appreciate you sharing your first impressions of this latest update to our search tool. We always listen carefully to our members thoughts and requests as we strive to build a service that every researcher can call home. We will certainly submit your thoughts on this latest change and appreciate the effort you have made to bring your experience to our team's attention.
Thank you again and we would invite you to submit additional thoughts or ideas directly to our developers here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry . Please make sure to call on us anytime you need our support. 🌳
Question for @Ancestry! What is the oldest record(s) in all of Ancestry's databases? Just curious!
Hello Crista, Are the hints added as the new databases are added? Also, many French and German person and place names include dashes, umlauts and other odd bits of punctuation that don't occur in English. I have tried to purge my information of these, is this the best way to deal with these? What about abbreviations? What about dates in languages other than English? Also, I come across persons who have multiple marriage dates to the same person, what's with that? I have ancestors in the Alsace region and sometimes don't know whether searching France or Germany or both is the best way to deal with these? Can you help with some of these questions?
Correction: Puerto Rico does NOT have Counties or Municipalities. We have Barrios and Pueblos. Barrios are a section within the same Pueblo/Town and we also do not have Double names. Example San Juan County, San Juan, San Juan Puerto Rico or Comerio Municipality, Comerio, Comerio, Puerto Rico is TOTALLY incorrect. It is simply San Juan, Puerto Rico or Comerio, Puerto Rico. This has become a real Issue when searching for Hispanic records for Puerto Rico. Most people have no clue about this issue but I do and it keeps you out of searches if you do not edit this issue which is another pain as one has to be constantly editing this feature.
why can't I index search results by name
Hi Curt, thanks for your questions, we hope to help! When you are doing your research there are different ways that you can filter and refine your search results. We'd suggest using Keywords too, to get more specific or accurate results. This support guide might be useful too: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog. We hope this will help but if you need more guidance please do feel free to get in touch with our Support Team: support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/family-history. Thank you!
How can I share my grandmother's high school yearbooks? I have 1918 through 1921 Wheatland High School, Wyoming. She even wrote in the married names of her friends.
Hi there, thanks so much for stopping by! We're so excited to hear that you have a few yearbooks that you are interested in sharing. We have a process that can be followed by any of our members who are looking to share old yearbooks that they may have. We have popped a link below that will run you through the donation process:
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Donating-Yearbooks?language=en_US#donating
We hope this helps!
Thank you Crista! I am so happy they pulled all the added media and photos into a different place in results.
Thanks so much for stopping by Karen, we're delighted to hear that you are enjoying the latest updates!
Hi Crista, Great video as always. I'm one of those that never knew some of those features were there like the keyboard shortcuts and the category tab. Both of those will be super helpful and now much more obvious to access. Thank you so much.
Hi Barry and thank you for sharing. We're glad you enjoyed the video and are delighted to hear that you picked up some useful information and tips that will help you in your own research. 😊
I was so excited to find our native heritage that didnt show in my first dna analysis report finally showed up in the latest report ♡
That's wonderful to hear - we're thrilled for you! Should you wish to carry out further research into your Indigenous ancestry, we'd love to share with you the following research guide: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Researching-Native-American-Ancestors
We hope this will be helpful to you in your research journey, and wish you a wonderful day! ❤️📜🔍
At 19:40 talking about high school photos of our grandparents, etc. Why is ancestry publishing pictures of me in high school in 1970???? NOT MY GRANDPARENTS. My classmates and I are STILL ALIVE. We are in our late 60's. It's kinda funny. Waiting for the 1950 census for our parents and grandparents.
Hi, utubetubular. Thanks for getting in touch. We know that it's interesting to find yourself in a yearbook. Yearbooks are public information. We'll give you the page that will outline everything about the yearbook collection that you should know.
www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1265/
all this time!!!! I never knew about the 'shortcuts' love it, thank you
When I hit the search button for an individual then choose one of the results and accept the record, it used to have a box pop up in the bottom right corner that could be clicked to go directly back to the page of search results. Now, the box that pops up after acceptance can only be clicked to go to that database. If you are working all day on your tree, that time adds up. Am I missing something? Doing something wrong?
Hey there Martha, thanks so much for stopping by and sharing this valuable feedback with us! We completely see how this could be a frustrating experience when carrying out concetrated research for long periods of time, and will certainly raise this with the relevant team for consideration. Wishing you a wonderful day!
Hi Crista
I have some questions,
how do I have some DNA matches my parents don't? or high cM matches than them!
When are we getting a segment browser? or other DNA tools.
Hi Chris, thank you for the question. This is most likely a case of matches that have been hidden. Members can hide matches so that they no longer appear on their DNA match list.
We will pass your suggestion of a segment browser on to the proper teams as feedback.
@@AncestryUS I control my parents DNA accounts, no matches are hidden.
I have some 9/10cM matches that neither of them do, which should be impossible?
Thanks for passing the suggestion on, it would be a fantastic tool to have!
I agree! I wish they would add a chromosome browser, or at the very least, give us the segment data!
Thanks for getting back to us with this additional information, Chris. This does indeed sound unusual and so we'll be happy to take a closer look into this for you. Please reach out to our support team so we can investigate. We have linked our customer service contact page below where you will find our phone number as well as our chat service. Whatever your preference, an agent will be on hand to verify your account and see what's going on. We look forward to hearing from you.
support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/account
Crista, thanks for explaining th UI updates. Can you ask the team if they could make one more UI fix for consistency? When on the main tree page (family view), the Tree Search button is in the upper right corner. When on a person's profile page, the Tree Search button is in the upper left.
Thank you so much for your suggestion! We're always on the lookout for ways we can improve our tools and features. Our members feedback can be so helpful to us! We'll be happy to forward this on for you presently. However, if you'd like to log this directly on our site, we'll include a link where you can achieve this as well. We hope this helps a little, and we wish you the very best in your future research! Have a great day, too. 😊
Link: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
I find that I don’t have some communities where I have family who are living still for more than 200 years. I find this feature isn’t consistent.
Hey there Robyn, thanks so much for stopping by! We sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your valued feedback with us regarding our Communities feature. We'd love to share with you a bit more about how Communities work, and why this might be the case. Once we identify a community of people who are connected through DNA, we look for patterns in family trees linked to AncestryDNA tests to help us identify who the group consists of. We find groups of people in the AncestryDNA network who share more matches with each other than with people in other parts of the network and set that group apart as a community. To find out where the community came from, we search the linked family trees of people in the community.
Our reference panel includes samples from many world regions, but not from every country or population. Similarly, we have identified hundreds of communities, but only for areas where we have enough data.
There are some other reasons a region might not appear in your DNA Story. For regions of the world like Europe, where the population is very admixed, it can be difficult to distinguish one population from another through DNA testing. And because of the random nature of DNA inheritance, you may not have inherited DNA markers that we identify with a particular region, even when your ancestors lived there.
Because you only get communities that you have a strong DNA relationship to, the more generations that separate you from the population a community ties back to, the less likely it is that you’ll connect. It’s also more likely that you’ll connect to a population that, for example, both your parents have descended from, than to a population that only one of your grandparents is from.
As we gather more samples and our database grows, we'll be able to add more regions and communities.
We'd invite you to learn more about Communities, should you be interested in doing so, here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/DNA-Genetic-Communities
We hope this is helpful to you Robyn, and wish you a wonderful day!
I like the concept of consistency. A suggestion would be to have the the “tree search “ box on the same side of the page no matter what page you are on
Thank you
Thanks for the kind suggestion, Pam.❤️
We'd love to help submit your excellent idea! Such feedback is invaluable as it helps us shape our tools and services to suit our members changing needs and preferences. We certainly see merit in improving consistency to make it that little bit easier to unearth that latest discovery. We will pass on your suggestion to our hard working developers and please feel free to send on any further ideas by clicking here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry .
Thanks for checking out our video and for being a part of our community. Call by and see us anytime you need our support.👍
Yes would love to have such a button!
Thank you so much for this great feedback Pam, we'll be sure to pass this along to the relevant team! Should you ever wish to submit your feedback or suggestions to us directly through the website, please do feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
Wishing you a wonderful day!
Is there any way to know specifically what records were added in an update? For example, I am looking for grave markers in a specific region in Italy. Would there be any way to find out whether that specific region was included in a particular update?
Hi Jvee and thanks for reaching out to us. Usually when you click into an updated collection, more specific details about what's been updated will be given at the very end of the 'about' section, under 'updates'. 🙂
Hello Crista, I have several ancestors who were alive during census years, but for some reason, I can find no record of them anywhere. I can find other members of their families, but none for them. What's going there and how do I find them elsewhere?
Were they traveling?
Thanks for reaching out to us! We're sorry to hear you've had some difficulty finding records for a couple of your ancestors. We've linked an article below which offers some advice for breaking down brick walls in your research which we hope might prove helpful in getting to the bottom of this. 🙂
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Brick-Wall-Solutions
@@AncestryUS Another trick is to do a search for the childrens first names. We had a census record where the fathers last name was seriously misspelled and found the family that way.
That's wonderful, S! We're glad to hear you were able to find the family you were looking for. We love hearing about discoveries and how they are made. Have you been able to learn more about the family since this discovery?
@@AncestryUS Are you talking to me?
Good additions
How about fixing the family tree's, I have duplicate I can't removed without starting over again.
Hey, Michael! Thanks for checking out October's 🎃 news and events. We know from personal experience how annoying a duplicate can be and stand ready to support you in anyway we can.
Rest assured that several solutions exist to help merge or remove a duplicate. Although, we have to tread carefully when carrying out such tasks with our tree, there should be no need to start your tree from scratch to repair such an issue. It is also important to note that although a person or branch may be removed from your tree in error - it is still possible to view behind the veil by using our tree search tool (unless deleted) . This means that even if we lose track of a person or branch, we can always add them back into the tree in just a few clicks.
We would first suggest reviewing this tailored guide support.ancestry.com/s/article/Fixing-Relationships-in-Trees and to then reach out to our team here support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport should this issue continue to haunt your family tree.👻
We hope this helps and wish you all the very best for National Family History month!🌳
Of course, the yearbook pic they decided to show for me was probably the worst one I ever took. No band photo just bad hair!
We feel your pain, Caryl! 😆
We've all had bad hair days but most are lucky enough for them to fall on days where no photograph is scheduled. We appreciate you taking part in this special event. Make sure to call on our team anytime you need us. 🌳
Thank you for the image filters!!!! I am tired of DNA and immigrant profile photos cluttering up my searches. Any chance of getting some filters like this for our hints??? (PLEASE!) And, I am one who toggles between records and categories. I just think folks don't use them because they don't really know how they can help.
After doing the DNA and proving that I had ZERO % Native American, I was floored with what I found.
As one of many Game of Thrones fans, it never dawned on me to watch the opening credits for the first two seasons. Also, I am not one who gets involved in a character then I learn all I can about the actor. However, one evening, I was watching GoT and noticed a name that I had come across while researching on Ancestry. It just so happened to be the name of one of my favorite characters from the show.
Kit Harington has a version of my surname, Herrington. We are both related to Sir John Harington (Harrington) who invented the first flushable toilet. I would love to know the actual relation with Kit through Sir John Harington.
And the hits keep on coming. While watching The Old Kingdom, some of the character names sounded familiar. So I searched and found the name Ethrelreda. Lady Isabella Ethelreda Markham. Wondering if any connection to Alfred the Great.
I have Swedish and Denmark blood, so the twists are happening...
PLEASE HELP.
Where do we go to make UI suggestions? There are some things truly bothering me
Hey there, Anna, thanks for reaching out about this, we'd be glad to help now. We are always keen to hear any suggestions or feedback from our members, if you would like to submit some suggestions for us to review, you can do so on the website here: bit.ly/3msKoFv. Thank you!
If this is already possible please tell me. I have numerous small trees that I use as research trees. Inevitably I will get a query about a person in one of the trees but the query does not include the name of the tree. To answer the query I have to open each of my trees and search for the name. I wish I could do a global search across my many trees - no one else’s, just mine.
Thank you so much for this wonderful suggestion - we'll certainly pass this on to the relevant team for consideration! Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
We hope this is of help to you, and wish you a wonderful day!
Is there a way to note on the thur lines page that i have finished that particular grandparents? I keep finding myself touch the same records because there is no way to know that without clicking on the thur line.
Hi Hermelinda and thank you very much for reaching out to us. We're afraid this is not something that can currently be done but we appreciate the suggestion and are happy to forward this as feedback to the appropriate team. We apologize for any furstration caused.
Some DNA matches could be related on both parents sides. And they might not even know. Like someone could be a 3rd cousin and a 7th cousin
hi there! im currently doing my friends family tree and if anyone would want to help me i would really appreciate it. She has north korean ancestry but she knows little about it since her grandmother had lost her entire family as an infant during the korean war. i just am having trouble with looking for places to search records or archives. if anyone with korean/north korean heritage can give me any tips it would be appreciated
We're glad to hear that you were able to get the support you needed, Carol. Good luck with your research! We hope you'll have many connections with your matches which help you to learn more about your ancestors.
Crista, does Ancestry combine DNA results with family tree data a member enters to determine those “dotted-line bullseyes”? Reason for question: I initially listed my g-father’s adopted mother’s origins as North Uist in the Outer Hebrides which turned out to be one of the “dotted-line bullseyes.” Was that designation influenced by my errant entry? Issue of importance goes to reliability of those bullseyes. Thanks. You’re very good at representing Ancestry!
Please bring a chromosome browser to Ancestry. This would make your site perfect!
How do you know what your finding on your tree is true to you; when your family members on both parents side are gone.? I have cousins but I haven’t been able to get any where with them. I have got their parents info correct
I have one of the craziest genealogy stories of all time. Found out 90% of the info on Ancestry. Involves lies, betrayal, infidelities, & even a murder.
Wow, that sounds intriguing Dave! We'd love to hear more about what you discovered if you'd like to share it with us. You can share your story through the story submission form linked below. 🙂
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Submit-your-success-story-to-Ancestry-1460090084532
@@AncestryUS I submitted it but it’s much longer than a paragraph. I just couldn’t condense it and do the story justice.
That's absolutely fine, Dave! Our team look forward to reading your story. 😊
I found a murder way back Ancestor banished to Australia.Found Great Uncle having two families! Found multiple spouses for some ancestors.But found other Members looking for answers of whom their Bio Parents were.Seems on one side of the Family there are quite a few who have contacted me!
yay for year books ... band photos make laugh ... love the french add ...
Thanks for stopping by, Michelle, we hope you've enjoyed the video! 😄
Thank you for the update
Will the alphabetical sort in the categories? Really miss the option that allowed me to keep my categories preference all the time, no need to click on categories or toggle.
I'm Patricia, wife to Stephen. I'm confused on my cousin cM's. I have two 3c 1x, by linage, who cM's are 11 cM and 16cM. And a 4th cousin whose cM is 27cM. But then I have another 4th cousin whose cM is 111cM. We are all descendants of my 3rd great grandfather Henry Kise. My question is the 111 cM possible? Thank you, Patricia
That's pretty interesting, Patricia! Sometimes we can share a surprising amount of DNA with our cousins. What we each inherit is entirely random. Sometimes it's possible to find more relationships with our cousins than just one as well. We have a great guide on our site when it comes to the subject of unexpected matches that we hope can help a little.
Link: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-DNA-Matches
Thanks so much for watching, and have a great day!
Im still.wondering why Ancestry still not at Mexican Market..... its kind of frustrating. Waiting so Many years and nothing......
We appreciate you sharing this feedback with us, Salvador. We've forwarded it onto the appropriate team for consideration. If you have an account with Ancestry, we'd recommend subscribing to our email list so that should we launch there in the future, you'll be first to know about it. The article we've linked below has instructions for how to subscribe.
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Subscribing-to-and-Unsubscribing-from-Emails-and-Push-Notifications?language=en_US
May I possible suggest something? There are folks, myself included who just don't see well and the cursor you are using if difficult if if not impossible to follow. For the sake those clients, used the biggest, boldest cursor. It would be of great help Thank you!
Hi and thank you very much for reaching out and sharing this feedback with us. We are sorry to hear that you sometimes have trouble following the live presentations. We will be sure to forward this suggestion to the relevant team.
@@AncestryUS perhaps if you set the cursor to show a tail with movement it would be easier to follow its movement
We appreciate you sharing this suggestion! We'll be sure to send this feedback on too.
any about the Caribbean?
Hi Fife Phipps! Thanks for checking out Crista's great update on all that's new at Ancestry this month. We hope you found it of interest and stand ready to assist in anyway we can.
Are we right in thinking that you are looking to carry out research within the Caribbean? If so, then you can review our current available collections per region by clicking here www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?location=1652393 and selecting the country of interest in the left hand column. If you are unfamiliar with using our card catalog which you can use to hone in on different collections then click here to learn how support.ancestry.com/s/article/Using-the-Card-Catalog . We hope this helps but pop by and see us again anytime you need our support.
We hope you make a ton of progress in your search this weekend! 🌳
@@AncestryUS thank you, will do.
We hope it all works out, Fife Phipps! You may also like to check out our back catalog of videos and previous recorded events over on our FB page. They cover every type of genealogical topic you could imagine and you may fall upon one that covers your own area of interest facebook.com/AncestryUS/videos/?ref=page_internal . Best of luck! 🌳
I’m so glad you cleared up the edit on search. I never clicked on the pencil…who knew
How can this outfit stay in business with such CRAPPY customer service?
Thanks for dropping by, Kelly. We never like to hear when our members experience is anything short of wonderful. We'd be anxious to help as much as we can, however we must admit that we're limited in the assistance we can provide via TH-cam. If you'd like to send us a DM on Twitter or Instagram, or a private message on Facebook with your Ancestry username so we can review your account, then we here at Ancestry Social Support would be delighted to assist you to the utmost. We look forward to hearing from you so we can work with you to resolve your query as much as possible.
Hi Crista. I have a civil war spouse who was eligible for pension. How do I get the death date for the soldier? It's not on the card?
Order the Civil War Pension file from the National Archives. It should have all of the details of his death and their marriage and maybe even the birth dates and places of children.
I hope the search filter category results have been made consistent with the card catalogue category contents as i noticed in the past that looking at 'categories' would contain data sets that didn't appear in the sets indicated in the card catalogue filter list by the same name. I hope it also stops providing results that should have been excluded by the search criteria. eg i look for events in a specific area but I get results outside that area , I choose to look at UK only data sets but get non uk results. If it could only flag results I've already looked at that day would be good too and not return to the start of the list after i looked at a result. Have they fixed the fault in dna link list where you lose the scroll bar after looking at a number of linked customers trees.
Just a comment my son and I met you at one of the RootsTech events - you were walking down a hall - anyway love the new look and hair style.
Thank you so much!
When will the 1950 census be available?
Hi Diana, that is a good question. The 1950 census will be publicly available in April of 2022, we do not have a set time frame yet for when it will be available on Ancestry.
Please bring a chromosome browser to Ancestry.
Hi there, thanks for stopping by. Ancestry’s primary goal is to develop the best solutions for our customers’ research challenges and enable the most enriching discoveries possible. We have created tools that allow users to make more accurate, relevant discoveries about how they are connected to their DNA Matches. We’re combining the unique power of records and family trees with the latest innovations in DNA science to give customers more ways to connect to their family story than ever before through products like ThruLines, New and Improved Matches and MyTreeTags that enable more efficient discovery than with a chromosome browser all while maintaining privacy. We will continue to explore new innovations that enable discoveries and protect customers’ privacy.
Because of the way DNA is inherited/passed down from generation to generation, looking at chromosomal data to deduce how you are related to someone is not as straight-forward as a chromosome browser would lead customers to believe. As you can imagine, inheritance and genetics is an evolved and very complex field. Because we’re the first to be able to research genetic inheritance in the context of well-sourced pedigrees we are also the first to understand the validity and accuracy of the segment data. We would like to fully understand the details around each segment before making it fully available to the public.
If someone was a 4th cousin on both parents sides. Could they come up as a closer cousin.? Because they might share more DNA
Yes.
@@CristaCowan We might not even know if we have any double 6th cousins. Or if someone is a 6th and a 10th cousin. We might not know if someone is a cousin in two different ways
Could you answer one question? You mentioned you have family in Va/wv, would you happen to know why someone living in Ohio would go to Wv to get married in 1970s?
Very helpful. Thank you!
We're delighted to hear that you enjoyed the video Connie! We hope these newest updates are helpful in your family history research!
A lot of family trees will have fewer images now
Because why?
do all these new records come to us as hints, or do we have to search them?
Thanks so much for your query, Sharyn! You may indeed find some new hints as we add and update our record databases, however we'd recommend searching through collections individually if you think that a particular database might be useful to you in your research. Hints can be super helpful, but searching through the collections is certainly worthwhile. Thanks so much for dropping by so we could provide this information!
Are they web/Zoom courses?
Hi Cassandra, thank you for the question. For more information please head on over to the sites Crista mentions close to the beginning of the video.
Hi Christa, thanks for your replies to other people and the link to the suggestion box. That’s a great idea but where do find it on the website?. The link worked fine and I made my suggestion, but I don’t want to have to come back here all the time to find it. I’ve been using ancestry almost since it started and so have lots of little tweaks I can think of at the time but never remember when someone asks🥴 I’m sure there’s a button somewhere that I just haven’t seen. 🤷🏼♀️ thanks again.
Hi Marilyn, thank you for being with us for so long. You can get to the suggestion box page by clicking on the help tab at the top to the screen and heading over to the support site and searching the term feedback. We look forward to your suggestions.
So happy to hear I can now “drill down” and not have to see a million photos of graphics people uploaded to show they are DNA related. Thanks for reminding me about the card catalog to narrow down what I want to search.
We're delighted this chat with Crista was helpful to you, Ann - thanks so much for tuning in!
I love the Groups feature with the colored dots. Would be nice to have a few more to add more distant ancestor groups, since not all matches show up with recent common ancestors. I can't seem to edit the names of the groups once I've created them. I hope Ancestry will add Denmark to the Collection Focus in the search feature, they have Sweden and Norway, but not Denmark. I called and talked with someone about it and he sent in some type of request a couple weeks ago but nothing has changed. Thanks for the awesome video and tutorial, the groups/colored dots are very useful!
Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback! While we unfortunately cannot offer a timeframe for such changes and additions, we sincerely appreciate all suggestions made to us by our wonderful members, and these are reviewed by the appropriate teams on an ongoing basis. Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
We hope this is helpful to yu, and wish you a wonderful day!
can you please consider stopping the movement of the maps going in and out, very disturbing and disruptive
Hi, we will pass your message on as feedback to the proper teams.
What I'd like to see is a toggle in the hints page between records and images; personally, I'm almost always more interested in records...especially when the image is of the record!
We appreciate you for reaching out to us, Frank. Please be advised that when you visit the 'all hints' page by clicking on the leaf icon at the top of the page and clicking 'see all hints', on the top left hand side of the page you do have the option of viewing hints under a couple of different categories including 'records' and 'photos'. 🙂
DNA Match Issues: There is a DNA match issue where two people sharing and Ancestor is showing as either one of us has not taken a DNA test. I have encountered this issue as recently as yesterday. Someone messaged me that is about a 4th or 6th cousin does not display any match and Ancestry states that neither one of us has taken a DNA Test which is incorrect as we both have and we do have an Ancestor match.
Hi Carol and thank you very much for bringing this issue with DNA matches to our attention. We are anxious to further investigate this issue immediately and so would appreciate it if you could give our customer support team a call. Over the phone we'll be able to take a closer look into this with you and report the error to the appropriate team. We've linked our customer support contact page below for your convenience and look forward to hearing from you.
support.ancestry.com/s/contactsupport/account
@@AncestryUS Thanks for the reply. I called and it was explained to me after we searched thru my tree and the others. In a Nut shell, if our DNA is beyond a 6th cousin relationship it will not show up on Ancestry as a match even though we do share and Ancestor down the food chain.
How does it recognize what the images are of?
Our data scientists have been training algorithms using thousands of identified images.
Wonderful update Crista! So btw, if Ancestry were to aquire The Huber Heights (Ohio) Courier into the newspaper database, I Will Surely subscribe to Newspapers. I realize that I am one person and this is a community weekly newspaper but my son was included in several articles each year 1993 - 1997 when he was in high school and a member of the Wayne High School Jr ROTC. What I would give to get copies of those articles today. This includes that he was the first sophomore (to the best of my knowledge) to be awarded the cadet of the month award. You could count on my subscription for several years if The HHC were included.
If you haven't already done this, contact your local library(ies) to see if they have archived copies of this newspaper and if they're digitized. This might involve a lot of detective work (e.g., contacting various libraries, including state and university as well as local genealogical societies). Good luck!
@@Reyne-fb7mj TY W.H. King. I do periodically check. Now that you mention it, the local library would be more likely to digitize than anywhere/anybody else. I will check more frequently.
Thank you so much for your request - we'll be sure to pass this along to the relevant team! Should you ever wish to submit feedback or suggestions directly through the website, please also feel absolutely free to drop a virtual note in our suggestions box any time, found here: www.ancestry.com/cs/suggestions
Even tho it says 7th to 8th cousins. Is it possible for some 10th cousins to come up as a DNA mach ?
Hi there, Ben, thank you for querying this with us, we'd like to help. AncestryDNA will generally only show you DNA matches who are 4th cousins and more distant at the furthest back - we cannot provide precise information for more distant relatives or 10th cousins for example. You can still work on our family tree alongside your DNA test to find distant ancestors too. This support guide will also show you more about the DNA matches categories: support.ancestry.com/s/article/AncestryDNA-Match-Categories. We hope this can help!
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Thank you. Can you tell me how to separate out one branch of a tree to make a new tree?
Hi there, thanks for querying this with us, we'd like to help you. While you cannot copy an entire tree branch to add to another tree immediately, you can copy people from one tree to another and move a branch that way. Please see this guide for how you can do that: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Copying-People-from-Trees. That guide will show you all the ways you can add people and also ways that you can merge or split parts of your tree as well. We hope this will help, have a great day! 😊
On my search results page, I still have the edit search button, there is no pencil edit feature. Is this being rolled out slowly? Also, I always switch to category view for the results.
Thanks for reaching out to us! We hope you enjoyed the presentation. This feature is still currently in BETA and so some members may not yet have the pencil icon instead of the 'edit search' option. 🙂
@@AncestryUS Thank you.
No problem at all! We're glad we could clarify this for you. Have a lovely day! 😊
I feel that the ethnicity is now done on my tree rather than DNA.
Hey Robyn! Thank you for stopping by to share your thoughts with us. We hope you learned lots of valuable information in the video to put to good use in your own research. We know that DNA results can provide unexpected results and are always ready to help out in anyway we can.
Although, some features such as Thrulines are based on information contained in you and your matches linked family trees, your ethnicity regions are in no way defined by what information is inputted into your tree. In fact, testing is carried out entirely anonymously in order to protect each participants privacy. We will now do our best to outline briefly how different elements of an ethnicity estimate are calculated which we hope will provide greater clarity.
Our ethnicity estimate provides a glimpse into our deep past honing in on the last 500 -1000 years for distant origins represented by your 'regions' and 50- 300 years ago for more recent origins reflected in your 'communities'. These two aspects of your report are calculated differently and you can learn more here support.ancestry.com/s/article/Key-Differences-Between-Ethnicity-and-Communities .
The 'regions' provided in your estimate are based on our reference panel and are shown in your report with solid-circle icons. The regions provided to you are based on comparing the DNA found within your sample with our reference panel of living people with established roots in a given area. On the other hand, our communities do not have a percentage assigned to them and are signified by a circle surrounded by a dotted line within your estimate. These communities are identified by analysing genetic connections between groups of AncestryDNA members, public family trees, ethnicity data, and historical records to work out where this group of people lived over time. We hope this helps but please call on our team anytime you need us. 🌳
The image filter! How wonderful! 🙂
We're delighted to hear that you enjoyed the video Shannon, we hope you're looking forward to continuing your Ancestry journey!
It work’s towards finding DNA matches, however Race and human genetic variation. There is broad consensus across the biological and social sciences that race is a social construct, not an accurate representation of human genetic variation. Humans are remarkably genetically similar, sharing approximately 99.9% of their genetic code with one another.
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Thank you for watching, Jewell!
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It would be great that once we think we have filled in enough of our tree, we can order a poster of our entire tree at a cost ofcourse. 🤔 👍
Hi there, thanks so much for stopping by to check out our video! We do partner with MyCanvas who produce posters and books of family trees for our members. We have popped a link below to their website with some more information on this should you wish to take a look:
www.mycanvas.com/family-history
We hope this helps!
@@AncestryUS Awesome! Thank you.
We hope this works out for you, Lifted Up. It's so great to have a poster of your tree. Wishing you the best.
Wonderful changes!! Anxious to try them later this evening!
Thanks so much, Carla. We're excited to see our community's reaction to our latest additions to our search tool!
Make sure to share your feedback with our team so we can continue to build on these tools and make Ancestry the natural home for all researchers. Should you have a suggestion for our hard working developers then click here to send them your idea now support.ancestry.com/s/article/Providing-Feedback-About-Ancestry .
Thanks for being a part of our community! 🌳
Nice!!!
Hi Linda! We're thrilled that you enjoyed Crista's presentation of "What's New at Ancestry." What did you enjoy the most about it?
@@AncestryUS Mostly the search tweaks, toggle for records and category, and the new image filters. Just smoother and easier. And, yes, after all of these decades, I did not know about the keyboard shortcuts ;)
Very nice stuff!
Not so thrilled with the new ethnicity estimates, but that is not Ancestry's fault! Depends on how mixed-up-white-bread you are ;) The communities hit much closer, and are relevant. My mother does not appear on mine, so I just look at my half-sis's where they do. You hit my bro-in-law's on the head.
Ethnicities are so dependent on the reference populations, and people find different DNA sites work better for their own mix, probably because they are a bit more geographically focused.
Ancestry seems to be going for breadth and complexity. That's the way to go, I think!
Kudoes!
We appreciate you sharing this feedback with us, Linda! With regards the recent update to your ethnicity estimate, we've linked an article below which might help explain any unexpected regions in your results. 🙂
support.ancestry.com/s/article/Unexpected-Ethnicity-Results
@@AncestryUS Thanks for the article, and I will check it out, but I'm good. I do understand many of the complexities.
And And Ancestry is where I always recommend that people go, for at least a first test. Thanks for the response!
You're welcome! Have a good day.
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So is there a way to tell if the person that you’ve matched with has has matched with you as well? Like a connection where you’ve both made each other matches?
If you match them, they match you. It’s like socks. Either they match or they don’t.
@@davyannajones you’re not a confirmed match till you confirm it. What I’m saying is when they confirm that you’re matches.
@@CockRoachZCnc I don’t know what you’re talking about and I don’t think you do either. Your matches are your matches.
@@davyannajones no they’re not you have to confirm it. It says they’re your match but you have to tell it how they’re related then it says match
Plus I wasn’t asking you I was asking her