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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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Tutorial: The Ancestry.com Member Directory
Researching our ancestors often requires collaboration from other researchers. Makes sense, doesn’t it? Have you had the experience of attending a genealogy event in person? If you have, then you know some of the best learning and inspiration comes from talking with other researchers. You compare notes. You share your successes and your brick walls. And often….. Your next research inspiration comes from something another researcher says. Outside of a conference, where do you find other genealogy researchers with the same interests or researching the same lines? How to Use the Ancestry.com Member Directory Note: Most of the large genealogy databases have a type of member directory to facilitate research…