Breaking: Exciting Updates in Genealogy News!

Join me Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7:00pm Eastern (US) to learn the latest happenings in the world of genealogy, including updates from Ancestry, FamilySearch, and more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Start of video
2:35 - The Maryland Motherlode
8:41 - DNA Dilemmas: 23andMe
10:13 - AncestryDNA 2-Factor Authentication
16:26 - AncestryDNA Priority Processing
21:08 - Amy's All About Ancestry workshop
23:57 - MyHeritage's PhotoDater update
27:50 - FamilySearch login changes
29:49 - Q&A: What is the process of becoming a certified or pro genealogist?
37:36 - Managing multiple AncestryDNA accounts
39:00 - Will FamilySearch switch back to the old login?
39:25 - What to do when you lose your genealogy mojo?
43:12 - Genealogy activities for the holidays
47:07 - Citing your sources "properly" ;-)
51:36 - Reminder of Amy's All About Ancestry workshop

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[karmagal]

Taking a break and coming back to work on genealogy helped give me a fresh perspective around 2012. One of my grandaunts had always told me that her parents (my great grandparents) had married in New York. That never made any sense to me. My great grandfather was born in New York, but great grandma was born in Kansas and that’s where they settled. So, I flipped the script as I couldn’t find any marriage certificate in New York. So, I moved my search to Kansas and found the marriage license.

[loveandacademics]

@HemiChallenger, Here are some things I do when I am burned our with my main research project: 1) Go through closer ancestors and attach sources as reasons each thing is know to be true. 2) Duolingo languages of my ancestors' records: Latin, Irish, Scottish, German, Danish (so I can be able to read original records; 3) I take a break and read books, exercise, make freezer meals; 4) I pick a friend or family member, call them, and offer my help
with their family history project; 5) I do volunteer indexing; I check on other lines in familysearch and see what had changed and why; 6) I read books about genealogy work; 7) I spend time with family members to create current memories (because I won't live forever).

[camdenkid]

Thank you, Amy! I have found 18 records (and counting) in the Maryland Motherlode!

[ponderrosie]

I've been doing genealogy work now since 2006. And I am a bit odd - I am a crime victim and was stalked and almost killed decades ago and I have restrictions on what I can do online. departmentalizing is mandatory. It is why the RING doorbell is no longer on my house! When they required a phone connection ALONG with a computer connection, it blew it out of the water for me. I was afraid Ancestry's 2 step was going to do the same. But it didn't. I recommend picking a device and using that device and using an email unique to that device. They sent me some sort of emergency backup code which I had to put in a safe place (my password book - I'm not allowed to save passwords using CHROME or apps. Have to do some stuff old school to keep it departmentalized and keep me safe. I have multiple DNA submissions through and I hope Ancestry's new sign in won't be problematic for any of them. Not sure if each one will return an unique emergency backup code, Do you know? I know a lot of folks allow sharing across different devices. I have been told it is just not safe.

[JasonTHutchinson]

A lot of NY marriage records aren't online.

[tinplategeektoo]

Priority processing is the Ancestry version of Disney Fast Track - everyone starts to use it and it becomes slower!

[macs]

Thank you for sharing!
I get frustrated with genealogy but eventually I find an answer !

[anonfornow]

Wow so much info. Thanks especially about the data breach. One consideration about privacy etc on any site is also third party access. I recommend a review of how and what third parties are able to access etc especially when it comes to DNA related data. To help decide if DNA services is something you want to go through with.

[LMotola]

Thank you so much, I went right to those Baltimore records and starting finding family documents

[janegibby]

Love this! I have Baltimore ancestors that I have not been able to find in those dates. Like my grandfather. I hope this mAKES A difference for me.

[chieffamilygenealogyoffice]

Documenting my Revolutionary soldiers is my new job position

[jakeaurod]

Thanks! Good information to know. I just started my Genealogy journey on Monday. Just got my DNA kit this afternoon. The box was damp and sticky, even though it looked like it was completely sealed. I wonder if that will be a problem or if it's normal or was simply packed somewhere that was very humid.

Anyway, I already started filling out a tree and found long-lost relatives on other trees that I confirmed with my mother. She told me a lot more family history - wow. If and when I talk to them, I wonder who will reveal more skeletons in the closet, them or us.

BTW, I think the Maryland Motherload might not help me, since some trees I've seen suggest the man who was my g-g-grandfather was born in MD in the 1873, the first of his family born in the US... unless the earlier records were already released.

[ajalicea]

I have SEVERAL recipes that do not give precise measurements or the BEST instructions. This includes cakes too!
I am the one who finally deciffered one of my parternal grandmother's 3 layered cake recipe that everyone always would want her to make. Talk about trials and errors before I finally got it down.
There are several from my husband's family that are NOT WRITTEN down. That's a project we are working on so these holiday food traditions can be passed on to the following generations.

[jennifer]

I'm from Baltimore, Maryland. I was just about to go to bed when this popped up as a suggestion. Guess that's not happening now. :D This would mostly be useful in researching my German great-grandfather. (all other ancestors immigrated in 3 phases - about 1883, 1904/5 and 1914). Looking forward to when they're indexed (knowing Ancestry, they'll put it behind a paywall...).

[Sunjoy]

You hit a nerve when talking about losing your mojo .. COVID did that for me too in many aspects of my life but especially genealogy research...thanks for highlighting this issue...

[ValorieZimmerman]

There are wrinkles with 2fa with sites where you manage someone else's kit, but they don't have the ability to make that possible like Anc. does. What happens when someone dies? Somehow it has to be allowed to make those kit results continue to be useful.

[jamesferguson]

Does anyone know what the current situation is at ISOGG? I've been tracking my family DNA history for about 10 years, testing with 23 & me, Ancestry, Family Tree, and several others that no longer exist. ISOGG's SNP listings are one of the standards but have not been updated for over two years. If someone knows anything, please reply.

[dougfowler]

The photo dater sounds interesting, I might test it out with a photo I know from what is written on the back is my great-grandmother as a baby with her older siblings and parents. I have one photo that is not dated or with names listed of all of them and she always had meticulous records otherwise. If the dater gets the date we think it is, it will tell me my theory is correct about it being her mother and several siblings with that woman's mother when her mother was a few years old which would be 1875.

[terrihutson]

I also have family roots in Ohio, but my great grandparents came to Southern California in 1897.

[karmagal]

My ancestry in Maryland predates the 1800s.

I tried the photo dater. It missed with a few by several decades.