How To Trace Your Family Tree
Wondering how to trace your family tree? Find genealogy how-to articles to successfully find your ancestors and build your family tree. Finding your ancestors does not have to overwhelming, but it does take time. Learning step by step is the key to successful genealogy research. Here at Are You My Cousin? you will learn:
- How to start your research the right way (Hint: It's with a plan!)
- How to progress your research forward
- How to find and use both common and uncommon genealogy records.
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Explore Ancestry.com’s ThruLines – A Most Useful DNA Tool!
Learn how to use Ancestry.com’s ThruLines DNA tool. Find out how you may be related to your DNA matches and expand the search for your ancestors. At RootsTech 2019, Ancestry announced their new DNA tool ThruLines to use and you evaluate your Ancestry.com DNA results. Thrulines caused a lot of excitement and buzz among the conference goers at the time and with good reason. Thrulines was and continues to be an exciting tool designed to show how you may be related to a DNA match. How To Find Your ThruLines on Ancestry.com 1. From the Ancestry.com homepage, click “DNA” in the very top menu. …
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How To Use Ancestry.com’s Helpful MyTreeTags Tool
Learn how to use Ancestry.com’s MyTreeTags to manage your genealogy research projects and improve your genealogy organization. At RootsTech 2019, Ancestry.com announced three new exciting tools genealogy researchers can use in their research: MyTreeTags, and ThruLines . Initially in beta, the tools are a full part of Ancestry.com now. Try them out! I was immediately drawn to the MyTreeTags tool. With MyTreeTags, Ancestry.com has given users the ability to tag (or label) individual ancestors for better organization and genealogy research project management. I’m all about genealogy organization and better project management, and MyTreeTags fits into my workflow seamlessly. Why MyTreeTags? First things first. What is a “tag”? A “tag” is…
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Using Pre-1850 Records To Find An Ancestor’s Children
Many researchers struggle to trace their female ancestors. Moving into the pre-1850 census records and the search gets even harder. Tougher still is tracing are our ancestors who were children prior to the 1850 U.S. census. While the search for young children in early records is hard, it is certainly not an impossible search. If you suspect your ancestor had young children or are researching your ancestor as a young child, you owe it to your research (and them) to check all possible records. Using Pre-1850 Records To Find An Ancestor’s Children This article primarily addresses U.S. records. If you are research ancestors outside of the U.S., seek out that…
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Ancestors in Colonial America? Let’s Learn How To Find Them
Struggling to find your ancestors in colonial America? Discover resources and records to move your genealogy research forward and add to your family tree. Researching colonial ancestors can be tough, but doesn’t have to be. Dare I say finding your ancestors in colonial genealogy records can be quite rewarding (and fun). You have heard me say it before, but ….. having a solid research in place is key. Before you create your genealogy research plan, you will need to know a few things first. Before You Even Create Your Research Plan – Study the History of Colonial America! Regardless of the time period you are researching, having a knowledge of…