I learned this decades ago as FRANK in Creative Memories direct selling. Friends, relatives, associates, neighbors, kids (kin). It's all the same, you're right, as "cluster research."

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting Lisa. I hadn't heard that one... and thanks for the note! I really appreciated it.

@lisareed5669

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV

I used the fan club and found my 4xgreat-grandmother. Had to use the 1840 census. I then found a DNA match to back up my findings.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Nice work.

Another Awesome video!!! I still wish that there was a way we could just travel back in time and ask these folks for the answers to our "Brick Walls".... :) I have several that I would go visit...

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I have a lot of tricks, but if I could figure that one out I’d be a rich woman.

I love that you show how you actually use the form. I’ve been an Excel user for years, which is coming in handy for my genealogy work. I’ve been making the lists from census records, and the beauty of excel (Numbers for Mac users) is that you can build your FAN club list, AND keep the census records in that file too. So you don’t have to go looking for them every time you work on it. Awesome!! I’m starting another search for where my grandfather disappeared to, and I knew I would be utilizing your FAN club ideas, but wasn’t sure how to start. Now I know. 😁. Thanks for the example!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome Carol. Have fun.

This is great! Just in time as I was starting or trying to start an Excel sheet Thanks for all the great ideas, sheets, and tips they are so helpful.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again.

I so appreciate u actually showing your techniques of how u sort things and save them. I know what I need to do but I am by no means computer savvy!! So your videos on showing how to create sheets and step by step instructions has been amazing!! I don't have excell, but I am messing around with Google. Please please keep up the videos on how to actually do this same type of stuff. Talking about it is great! But when you show exactly how to do it, it's amazing!!!! Thank you sooooo much!!! I love your videos!! I am brand new to geneolagy research!! I also am looking for family in McDowell NC! My dad's side migrated there and I have hit so many brick walls! Now I am trying to use ur techniques to help me!! Thank you again!!

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliments. I also have a NC channel that might help... and a website called NCAncestry.com. See also my NC KZread channel here kzread.info

Thank you. Lots of work. Gotta love a spread sheet.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

You got that right! I use them A LOT!

Admirable excel skills!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Great idea. Now time to play with it.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Have fun!

This is interesting! This might help me figure out some connections in some court records for my 3rd great-grandma. Thanks!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Why yes it might. Good to see you here Jen.

Super helpful!

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

So glad!

I’ve been wondering how people track the FAN club. As a person new to genealogy, it has felt overwhelming but I do feel better about it with kind of approach. I my fathers paternal line is Hawkins but I found a census where my 2x great grandfather is listed as step son to William Hawkins. Because of your Davis video about trying triangulate the father, I got my dad to do a Y-DNA test and I’m pretty sure the father was a Crumley. I look forward to using this method when I get back to looking at it. Had to take a break for a bit, so working on my moms side. Lol.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Excellent. Well keep watching, I have lots of tricks up my sleeve.

Connie, Have you made a video on your process for mapping land records? If so, which one is it? Thanks!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

I have not. I’m still thinking that one through.

@ShawnaRN

3 жыл бұрын

I would love that also!!!

@Nursie

2 жыл бұрын

I would love that as well!!:-)

@SarV1

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV PLEASE do! I have a Google map with everything, but it is SO difficult to use for some things. Maps really help create visuals of how interactions would have come about.. where they traveled, would have met someone, worked with someone. It creates patterns

Gotta do this!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

It's worth the effort.

@JesusChrist-nc8pr

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV What Fashion FAN Data Did You Find, Love? 🇻🇦

Wow! Just discovered your channel. This video was very useful! Wondering: what mapping software are you using?

@GenealogyTV

Жыл бұрын

I use Excel and Lucid Chart for mapping.

Connie Knox - You produce excellent videos. Here is an Excel tip for you that will save you some time.. (I assume you are using the Windows version of Excel.) Add a column to your Excel worksheet. Name it something like "Link to Document". Using Explorer, navigate to one of the documents (land record, census, whatever). Hold down the SHIFT key and right-click on the document name. A menu will pop up. Select "Copy Path". (I think that's right. I'm a Mac user now.) Now, go back to your research worksheet. Find the row(s) with that document, click in the "Link to Document" cell and do a paste. That will add the path into the cell. When you want to open that document from your Excel worksheet, just click on the cell. If you really like that, you will like this, too. Instead of pasting the path, right-click on the cell, Select "Hyperlink" and paste the path into the appropriate field. - - - You can also add the word "Click Here" in the other field.

@suzannemcclendon

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this explanation of how to link documents!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea. Thank you for sharing.

amazing. it seems a lot of work until its helping you with a click. well done.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks. I just keep it open on my desktop while I'm researching... and just keep adding stuff as I find it. Then when you go to look at the results, it's rather amazing what you discover.

This is fantastic I tried to track in Evernote but it just isn’t as robust as Excel. My problem is I’m tracking my entire family in a town in Sicily. Lots of connections across generations. Question - I have about 10 Salvatore Cardello’s some with dates other without. The same with other given names. What would you suggest as a unique personal identifier to keep them all straight when I have hundreds of records?

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

I use birth and death years... so for example Salvatore Cardello 1823-1892. I do this on files and folders where I have multiple ancestors of the same name.

@NickCardello

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks some of them I don’t have dates for. I’ll have to think of something to use.

I would upload to Google Sheets so you can collaborate easier with other family and you always have it saved. You can create copies to share and keep yours original. Plus you can paste images in tabs.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

That's a great idea! Yes!

Hi Connie, I haven't been able to get online for a couple of months. I went to the Community tab and tried to download all the Handouts for December, but everyone said the file was not found. Is it too late to get them? Thanks, I have missed watching your videos and have a lot of catching up to do. Thanks for all you do.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Wow. That’s weird. Let me look into it and I’ll get back to you tomorrow.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Naomi, you are correct. Everyone of those links are broken. I don’t know what happened, they were working before. I have re-posted everything from December and January. Thanks for the heads up.

Great tips. One question -- are you sure that one record didn't say "Daniel Lowe & wife"? Sometimes the ampersand runs into whatever follows it.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Good point! I'll look.

I’m a new info access member. I can’t find the handout for this video. I have the ones from December and January. I don’t see it on the community tab.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Dora. Thanks for your membership. Go to the Community Tab and scroll down. There are two posts for this program. The second one says HANDOUT. Click read more just below the image of that post and the link will be revealed. Let me know if you still don't find it. Go here >>> kzread.infocommunity

@doracarbone8160

3 жыл бұрын

Got it. Thanks!

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Good. Thanks.

Great 💡 idea, horrible😔 at making charts in Google Sheets or Excel. 📉📊✍

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but once you get the hang of it, OMG it can be helpful.

this is great if you can do Excel ( and I suck at it ) .😢

@GenealogyTV

Жыл бұрын

I did too when I first started.

I am going to quit watching your videos. I am so tired of hearing everything has to do with your "Channel Members Only" handouts. Why don't you just change the name of your channel to CHANNEL MEMBERS ONLY. I know you want to make money... fine n dandy... I am moving on to Family Search Videos, and others that are not so needy.

@kerriehawkins3686

3 жыл бұрын

Of course everyone wishes they were free too, but she is doing all of the work for you, she should get some sort of compensation for the time associated to creation not to mention trial and error. As well as the time associated with creating and editing videos. I have a podcast and the editing takes at leas 2xs the amount of time it takes to watch one. And it’s not even a teaching podcast where there is probably lots of planning going on. It’s absurd to think that anyone should do all the work and not get paid for it because it’s presented on KZread. Not to mention that she did show you how to create this yourself manually, so there is enough information that you do not need to download the document to use her strategy. That’s what I plan to do for now because a) I learn better by doing myself and b) I may find something that is different that I want to add to it for my own documentation.

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kerrie

@GenealogyTV

3 жыл бұрын

Kristina. Message received. I appreciate your candid feedback.