My Most Used Ancestry.com Tricks (SOME YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT)

Sorry I missed visiting with you live! I was off on the time zone! I’m hanging with two of my amazing kids and four granddaughters! What I’m most thankful for this Thanksgiving - love my fam!! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Always check the pictures. Even my mom's high school picture was wrong. She was the one next to the one shown. :D

I'm new here. And it is overwhelming! Thank you for the tips that is going to help me a great deal. And it seems like everybody had at least 12 kids! And siblings!

I like your search of census for a name in a particular area. I've done similar things with street names. Having an Italian last name, you can almost be sure they would be spelled wrong. I have managed to find the streets in the census where I know the ancestor lived (based on phone directories). You do have to do a fair amount of eye balling, but it is effective. Also, as a general rule, I also look up and down the street to see if I recognise names. I learned that my dad's girlfriend when he was kid lived across the street from him. I actually knew her, as she and my dad spent her last 30 years with him. I found her living across the street just by eye balling the name. Italian families always knew others from the old country and they tended to congregate in the same area and in fact same apartments. You never know what you might find, when you don't know exactly what you are looking for.

Wow. I'm just getting started so I will admit a little overwhelm from this video but I can tell that you REALLY know what you're talking about and I'm sure that you are tremendously helpful to your clients!

I have been using Ancestry extensively for over a decade. My family tree has grown to more than 30,000 people. I had already discovered most of your tricks, but did learn a few refinements. Thanks.

I use the same technique you showed for adding a parent then merging with duplicate. Must make sure you merge with the correct duplicate. I have many instances where cousins in my tree have the same forename and surname and even born around the same time. So, before I merge, I temporarily prefix the forename with an x, then merge, then delete the x. eg, in the case you showed, I'd change the name of the target person to xElmer Quam. In fact, I do that for any time I might need to merge two people where it's a common name in my tree.

Fun video! In particular, your census evaluation tip and using the search screens to include/filter relevant data gave me ideas for searching for some 'lost' 2x great grands!

This was great I've used Ancestry for 5 yearsand You showed me some things I didn't know and I'm going to start using.Thank you for explaining things I previously may have avoided using as much as I could have.

Just watched this video and I am so glad that I came across it. The hint on census evaluation is a HUGE help! Thank you for posting these videos :)

Thanks for the tip on census evaluations

Thanks Aimee - a great video. Particularly liked your trick seven; will definitely be using that one now.

Hi Aimee, Thank you for this video I cant find my Family and had almost given up but know i will watch you video and also subscribed i was so impressed Gerry from Canada

You give a lot of great ideas and it’s very helpful to be able to follow your cursor. I’ll never remember them all, but I’ll save your video.

Great Show and Happy Thanksgiving

Very helpful, Much thanks ! Greetings from Italy

Thank you. I be been using ancestry for over 15 years and still learnt new stuff! Especially how to get rid of that side record box. I know I’ve accidentally stumbled on records with the old layout but have never known how it happened or how to do it deliberately. I especially want the description box when adding records. There were other tweaks that make the processes I’ve been using for years more streamlined. Thank you very much again.

Thanks for the great tricks!

I have been using Ancestry for a very long time and didn't know some of this! That tip about looking for more same-name people in the census - it's a big problem in my tree, thank you!

Thank you!!!