This is SUCH a great story with another mystery about the sale of the ranch in your family. It has inspired me to seek out maps and newspaper articles. The ancestor my sister and I are researching in Alexandria, VA may have been an investor in the slave trade. As active antiracists we are seeking information (if at all possible) to help any of our linked descendants further their research. I've seen a map of his wharf which - sadly - was probably the one used by slave traders. I want to dig deeper. Thanks again for such helpful videos (even if I am finding them years after you made them).

@GenealogyTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mary! You rock! Thanks for your support and kind words. I hope you find those maps and newspaper articles.

Proof is very important. Not all researchers seem to care, having, for example, a son older than the father. When people accept that the research of another individual is correct, and add a whole slew of ancestors because it looks like they fit, they are doing a disservice to them selves, and to others who may fall into the same trap.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Proof is important... to the best of our knowledge and documents available.

Great vid.. one of your very best ! .. would love see more cluster case studies with docs, maps and photos like this vid.. interesting and inspiring !

@GenealogyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Glenn, it’s one of my favorite too.

I just found that video so I will insure I save it so I can find it again when needed. Thanks

Fantastic I loved this one.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Great video. Thanks, Constance. My sister and I have struggled for years with our maternal GGF who I say has gone beyond "brick wall" status and is an official genealogical black hole. We have found him on one census and that is all, so I am off to make a spread sheet and see if I can find anything else about him. Thanks again.

@sl5311

4 жыл бұрын

haha good one. Constance, can you do one around 1800 or 1810?

@cooksterr

5 ай бұрын

put in his nickname if he had one that helps alot. when you can't find someone nobody suspects jail, prison,asylum, etc....

RE a follow up comment regarding my post below : " Old photo identification application help requested " . If such an app does Not exist I plan to use my ancestry.com membership which includes my dna to connect with descendants in New England who match the surnames I have in my tree . Is there somewhere on ancestry.com where i can request help from other users that might know clues and or helpful info ?

What a crazy family story! How did you go about finding the property information for them? I'm trying to do something similar in my family research. TFS ~Linda :)

@GenealogyTV

5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like another video idea.

@1SassyCrafter

5 жыл бұрын

Genealogy TV that would be great! I have bits and pieces of a story and I’d like find out if there is any truth to it.

@lisachaput2952

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I find this to be quite effective! I have researched as many around people with no information and it works well. I'm going to use it to research my Acadien family, cause at one point, the King of England ordered them to only live three families together, and they did this for thirty-fourty years and married a lot between them. This will definitely come in handy!

Hi Connie, where do you find the maps to correlate to your census where your family lived at the time?

@GenealogyTV

7 ай бұрын

Hey Karen, not all census records had maps. You can find them on the nara.gov website and I think Ancestry has them. I’d have to go look.

@MusicInMotion_67

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Connie.

I'm trying to find my biological father. I have tracked his family line as well as the common ggp, but the generation I expected to be his (the grandchildren of this ggp's) out of their eight children the ages doesn't make sense. The closest in age is 12 yrs my mom's senior and the next one up from him is 17 yrs her sr. and the ages just keep going up all the way to the year my grandfather was born. Also, none of these men have lived in my state. However, their children, the great grandchildren of this GGP common ancestor do fit my mom's age group, and two of the men in that age range do live in southern CA (i'm from Sac) and the sister of these men is my highest match at 567cM. Is it possible that someone within this line is my father and her my half aunt? Also, what are some tricks for placing someone in the right place (Sacramento, CA) at the right time (early 1967) when the most recent census I can access is the 1940 census?

@GenealogyTV

4 жыл бұрын

That is a really loaded question Karen. To start with the last one , Techniques with 1900s research include looking in school yearbooks & city directories name a couple ideas for that era. You might consider one of my coaching sessions. That way we can jump on a zoom call face-to-face and I can really understand what you’re looking at. You can learn more at genealogyTV.org.

@MusicInMotion_67

4 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV Thank you, I wish I could, but unfortunately right now I'm not in a position to be able to afford anything. Thank you for the tips however.

@GenealogyTV

4 жыл бұрын

I understand

@GenealogyTV

4 жыл бұрын

Have you tried DNAngels? They’re volunteering to help find bio parents. You can find them on Facebook.

@MusicInMotion_67

4 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV I have. I do have a lady working with me and I'm waiting on a few more tests I bought to test three more lines. What's confusing to me is my supposedly 1-2 cousin on his side and I share more cM than I with with several of my my known 1C 1R. Her siblings generation are all closer to my mom's age (+ or - 5 yrs). Then generation above her who I thought would be my father's generation are anywhere from 12 yrs - 36 yrs her senior so it's not making any sense to me. Could this woman be an aunt?

Old photo identification application help requested . I am asking anybody who might be able to point me to an app which would assist me using the internet to help me identify old photos which have No names identifying them . 1) With using the following as my catalyst I understand that there may be perhaps { a iphone app, google android app , or a facebook app that selects my image from other people posting me to their facebook } which uses facial recognition to affirm not only the owner of a cell phone but could also be used to help identify old photos from the mid to late 1800s of people in these albums assuming that someone i.e. a family tree hobbyist has added old photos to a public site . 1a example I post an unknown photo of a gentleman from the mid to late 1800s to a site If it exists and then I use an app ( unknown to me ) to perhaps scan the facial features of my photo and find an identical photo that has been posted to the same site with the exception their posting includes an identification of this same person . 2) Presently the old photo album referenced above under 1) above is not in my possession but rather a first cousin's however I have 'xerox" copies of them which are quite vivid . The people in this album are perhaps New England ancestors and my gg grandmother's relatives back east ; My grandmother homesteaded in Chester township , Wabasha Cty . MN and she came from New England to do so . 3) I realize I am very challenged even trying to describe such an app if it exists . I also realize that some descendant would have had to post/ uploaded their known ancestor to such a site and they would not have had a reason to post such a person ( since they already have the id info in their collection l 4) Is there a web site that exists ( of ancestry hobbyist's uploading unknown ancestors ) which acts as a clearing house ? 5) I welcome all to make your comments / ideas and or solutions . Thank you ! Mike

I saw a video on how to use excel spread sheet to gather info from census to find someone in a family tree. I thought I had saved the instructions from that video but I can't find it now. Can anyone give me help to find that video or the instructions for using excel and census?

@GenealogyTV

4 жыл бұрын

It’s called #1 Way to Break Down Brick Walls - Trick to Making Cluster Research Faster kzread.info/dash/bejne/poGfo7l-fcWdabA.html