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Master the world’s #1 Genealogy Website
Discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book, newly revised and expanded, will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription. Inside, you’ll discover how to take advantage of what the world’s biggest genealogy website has to offer—and how to find answers to your genealogy questions within its billions of records and millions of AncestryDNA profiles. Each chapter includes step-by-step examples with illustrations to show you exactly how to apply search techniques to your genealogy. A new section on AncestryDNA will also help you understand and analyze your DNA test results.
What you'll learn:
* Timesaving tips for uncovering specific records, time periods and topics using Ancestry.com’s search forms and Card Catalog
* Details on Ancestry.com's historical record collections, including what you can expect to find in them
* Step-by-step guides for creating and managing your family tree on Ancestry.com, plus how to connect with other users and utilize the site’s powerful Hint system
* Plain-language strategies for using your AncestryDNA results, including guides to your ethnicity report and DNA matches
Whether you've just begun dabbling in family history or you're a longtime Ancestry.com subscriber, this book will turn you into an Ancestry.com power user!
About the Author
Nancy Hendrickson is an Internet genealogy expert who has been interviewed on the subject in national publications including the New York Times, Kiplinger's, and Better Homes and Gardens. She has written several best-selling ebooks in the genealogy category of the Kindle store on Amazon.com, including 101 of the Best Free Websites for Climbing Your Family Tree.
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Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com
How to Find Your Family History on the #1 Genealogy Website
By Nancy Hendrickson F+W Media, Inc.Copyright © 2018 Nancy Hendrickson
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4403-5326-0
Contents
Introduction, 6,
PART ONE: GETTING STARTED WITH ANCESTRY.COM,
CHAPTER 1 LEARNING THE BASICS, 9,
CHAPTER 2 USING ANCESTRY.COM FAMILY TREES, 24,
CHAPTER 3 MASTERING SEARCH AND THE CARD CATALOG, 40,
PART TWO: DIGGING INTO RECORDS ON ANCESTRY.COM,
CHAPTER 4 MAKING THE MOST OF CENSUS RECORDS AND VOTER LISTS, 67,
CHAPTER 5 DELVING INTO BIRTH, MARRIAGE, AND DEATH RECORDS, 84,
CHAPTER 6 WORKING WITH MILITARY RECORDS, 97,
CHAPTER 7 USING IMMIGRATION AND TRAVEL RECORDS, 113,
CHAPTER 8 DIGGING INTO NEWSPAPERS, PUBLICATIONS, AND MAPS, 128,
CHAPTER 9 SEARCHING STORIES, MEMORIES, HISTORIES, AND PICTURES, 142,
CHAPTER 10 MAKING THE MOST OF SCHOOLS, DIRECTORIES, AND CHURCH HISTORIES, 164,
CHAPTER 11 USING THE WILLS, PROBATES, LAND, TAX & CRIMINAL CATEGORY, 180,
PART THREE: UNCOVERING ANCESTORS WITH ANCESTRYDNA,
CHAPTER 12 INTERPRETING YOUR DNA RESULTS, 197,
CHAPTER 13 CONNECTING WITH OTHERS, 213,
CHAPTER 14 APPLYING DNA TO YOUR RESEARCH, 223,
PART FOUR: DIVING DEEPER INTO ANCESTRY.COM,
CHAPTER 15 COLLABORATING WITH OTHER USERS, 235,
CHAPTER 16 BRANCHING OUT WITH NEWSPAPERS.COM AND FOLD3, 249,
Appendix: Quick Links and Shortcut Keys, 263,
Index, 265,
CHAPTER 1
LEARNING THE BASICS
Everyone has his or her own reasons for climbing the family tree. For some, it may provide the proof needed to join a lineage society like the Daughters of the American Revolution. But for others, it may be a case of simple curiosity: Who came before me?
What did they do? And how am I like them?
Back in the day, learning anything about your family's place in history required a visit to a national archive, state or local government office, or family history library. You'd spend hours cranking through reels and reels of microfilm, all with the hope (but not the promise) of locating someone in your family tree. Thanks to the Internet — and one website in particular — all of that has changed.
The evolution of digital genealogy is nothing less than miraculous. Over the last several years