5 Tips to Better Genealogy Research: Live January 2022

Learn five tips that will make you a better genealogy researcher. These are some of the best family history strategies all in one presentation. Plus we’ll answer your questions.

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0:00 Intro
1:20 Who is Connie Knox?
1:52 Guest intro - Mindy Silva
2:50 Overview
5:00 5 Tips to Better Research
5:28 Evidence Evaluation
7:32 Evaluating a document
13:31 The Back of the document
15:30 Research Notes
20:46 Research Notes Example
22:43 Diversified Research
24:35 Other Sources
25:28 Think outside the box!
26:27 Correlation of Evidence
28:10 Example - Herman Madsen
31:00 Example - Christopher Madsen
34:04 Using maps to correlate evidence
36:33 FAN Club Research aka Cluster Research
38:34 Tie People & Records Together
39:10 Review
39:43 How to filter Ancestry searches
45:10 How to add name changes to Ancestry tree
48:19 How to create a floating tree
53:09 What is the purpose of floating trees?
54:39 Handout info
55:53 Outro

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[dianapocalypse]

Did you enjoy the live show? Miss last month's about updates for Ancestry and Family Search? Don't forget to check it out here!


Keep on climbing your family tree!

-Diana, GTV Team

[darlenesye]

Sorry I missed this live Connie and I missed the live zoom today bc for some silly reason, I set my alarm for 18:30 instead of 15:00. at 3pm, I was taking a nap, my bad!

I want to comment on the answer that you provided to Tom Walker. Starting at 44:10, "I'll bet you that if you do all of that work then you go to member trees... have all of your information... 80% of those member trees... they didn't go to that level of research."

I have a second cousin once removed that has not cranked one microfilm roll, has not visited one archive or library... If it's not online, she doesn't have it. There is one item of information that she has provided me that was new. That info is the names of the four unsurviving children of my great grandparents. She got that info bc she interviewed her great uncle who knew the names of his aunts and uncles.

[charlotteruse]

Oh lord. I missed another live. 🙂 Thank you for the time and effort you put into your videos. I always learn something new!

[patriotsongs]

Member tree sources are very often other member trees, so you never know where the original source was or where it came from. On the rare occasion I've looked at member trees, almost every time when I've sent a message to the tree owner about how they came by information, they'll tell me "I found it on another family tree". About the only thing I use them for now is to see if they have family members listed that I should go looking for--and there are times the family members don't even belong to the parents they have listed.

[suzannemcclendon]

I'm sorry that I missed the live show! I hope to join your channel info level in just a few days. I look forward to it. :)

[ruthgenealogy]

Great Video as always. Thanks, and happy New Year! Looking forward to many more!

[briansaul]

Hi, checking in from Arcadia, California

[ruthgenealogy]

Hi, it's Ruth Bird, this was an amazing video, as always!

[riverhawkenw]

Thank you! So much great info especially how and why to create a floating tree :))

[mystim]

Great video. In regards to research notes, what is the best way to start using them when you have already done alot of research but it isn't organized or well documented? How do you go back? Or is it better to put it into practice and fill in as you can?

[normacovolesky]

Love this Live presentation today, however I have a question for you and wasn't sure where I should post it. I hope you can help me with.it Not sure if you have ever addressed this before, I have relatives in South america who keep the mothers /mothers last name and not their maiden name, how am I supposed to enter them in my tree, is this considered their maiden name...so confusing. Does it matter as long as I link them to the correct ancestor? Thank you

[katieparsons]

Once again you blow me away with your presentations. I always learn something new. For example, the serial number in the draft card. I never paid attention to that number before. Now I know what the U stands for. Here is my question. If I run across another draft card but instead of a U there is another letter, how do I find out what that letter represents?

[marierotundo]

Great video, thank you for all your help and information, you’ve helped me quit a bit. Happy New Year !

[speedymcweeniemom]

Is there anything you can do about choosing your commercials? I let commercials run often but some people are busy & step away from their phones, the last commercial just ran for 6 min fgs

[sharontabor]

I always source my research and transcribe every document into the notes section of my FTM program. I don't attach media other than photos, because many courthouses don't allow technology to take photos and/or the documents are too fragile to copy.

[lisaaneepeacock]

I lived in Laramie…many of those buildings of downtown are still there!

[ellensippel]

Enjoy your show but I do have a question. So many genealogy sites and forms seem to assume that a child is a product of a marriage. I have an ancestor who had a child out of wedlock, how do I show that?

[suzannemcclendon]

One of the FamilyTreeMagazine articles says that the order number was entered by the local draft board. I didn't see any further explanation. Could it maybe mean the order they were to be called for service?

[roberthopgood]

Alternate facts is NOT available in Canada
only Family Events - Historical insights - Name and gender

[lindab]

My emojis are dark blue. Very annoying and making them harder to make out. Also, Windows 11 deleted two of the emojis I was using to indicate my family, so I’m having to use something similar.