February 2013
11 posts
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Ask Ancestry Anne: How is Cousin Bait Working for...
I did a Livestream, Cousin Bait: Blogging to Find Your Family in January. The video and slides are available if you are interested.
I was fortunate to make a connection, not with a cousin, but with a lovely lady, Martha, who went to high school with my father. She sent me relevant yearbook pages for both my father and my grandfather. My grandfather is in the upper left corner: Most...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: Where is The Source Citation...
On a few of our census records, the source citation information was inadvertently turned on the “record page.” We are in the process of getting those back on the record page.
In the meantime, you can find the information on the image page, on the source panel. To see the source panel, first go to the image, and open the panel by click on the grey arrow on the right hand side.
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Ask Ancestry Anne: I'm Bored! Give Me Something...
It’s Friday. You are at work. Your mind is wandering. Work is not keeping you focused. (Don’t worry, I won’t tell.)
You can’t drag out your own genealogy. Maybe you could sneak a peak at a few genealogy blogs and get inspired.
Thomas MacEntee who runs the ever popular Geneabloggers sponsors daily blogging prompts to inspire those who write blogs. For example, today is...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: Want to Learn Something New?
Looking to learn more about how to use Ancestry.com? Check out our Tuesday and Thursday livestream presentations. And if you can’t view them when we do the original presentation, catch the video later. Here’s how.
Signing up for events
Go to the Ancestry.com face book page: https://www.facebook.com/Ancestry.com
Click on the arrow:
This will expand that area. Now you can...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: How Do I Rename a Tree on...
Question: Cecile St. John sent in a question about syncing trees and changing trees names. In short, she is wondering why if she changes the name on her Family Tree Maker 2012 tree and syncs it, why doesn’t it change on the Ancestry.com site. And how does she change it?
Answer: In short, I don’t know why it doesn’t update. :-) But I do know how to change it!
One of my trees...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: How Can I Remove the Country...
Question: How do you configure FTM 2012 so that it does not show “USA” in the place names?
— Livestream Viewer
Answer: When you are in Family Tree Maker 2012, you start by selecting Tools and then Options
In the bottom right hand corner, you will see the Place Options section:
Make sure that you have a check next to “Check place authority when entering place...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: What Should I Do With A Census...
Question: I found my family in the 1940 Census, but I’m not sure what to do now. Is there something else I should be looking for?
— Jo Anna Worthington
Answer: Finding the record is only part of the game. The next step is to figure out how to use the information in it. I’ll use George J. Hickman’s family from the 1940 census as our example.
Step 1. Learn everything you can from the...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: How do I build a Family Census...
OK, this wasn’t a specific question, but inspired by reading the comments of my previous article: Are These The Same People? In that post, I built what I call a Family Census Table that I used to determine who was in the family and when.
Maybe it will be useful to do a few examples of what you might include, and also talk about what you can do with the information once you’ve...
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Overcoming Surname Changes
I have worked diligently searching my family’s history for over ten years. I joined Ancestry in 2006 and began a more serious search. On my father’s side of the family his roots were in Milledgeville, Georgia. I knew that there was woman who had four children by William Steele. There were stories of her being Native American, a mulatto, or a slave. We thought her name was Mandy. ...
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Ask Ancestry Anne: Are These The Same People?
Question: I have built my family tree on ancestry.com and figured out my great great grandfather’s father was John Logan. I found the family on censuses from 1850 through 1880, the last census surviving before John’s death in 1880. All of the censuses list John’s occupation as a farmer. However, I was recently going through my grandfather’s family heirlooms and found an...
