In Part One, I showed you step-by-step how use the film number that was cited on an Ancestry Index record to view the original digitized document on FamilySearch. In this blog I will show you what you need to do when you can’t view the original digitized document on FamilySearch with using the film number […]
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In part one of this blog I will guide you in how to further your ancestry tree with using Catalog Search on FamilySearch. FamilySearch is a free website and all that is required is to setup a free account. Once that is done, then FamilySearch will let you get started with searching. If you mainly
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What do know about Ancestry media posting and privacy when you decide to take down, for example, a photo from your public tree? This is something I really didn’t know anything about until recently. This is what happened. I decided to make a photo private with my Family Tree Maker software. Yes, the photo no
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Ancestry® makes it super easy to add web links to anyone in your personal ancestry tree, whether it is public or a private. In my blogs: Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How To Make Rotten Banana Cake That is Oh… So Good!, I mentioned that capturing the memories of loved ones or
One tool I easily use everyday in my ancestry research is the computer screenshot application called Snip & Sketch, formerly called Snipping Tool. All computers have screenshot tools that come on your computer and if you don’t have one you can easily download a screenshot application in your computer apps. My goal is to show
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This blog is a “How to” stay safe when logging onto ancestry websites when on a public computer. Recently, while I was volunteering at my Family History Center, I was about to log onto Ancestry when I noticed it had already populated a name and password. The problem was that it wasn’t me, but a
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This feature photo you might think is a remembrance for Veteran’s or Remembrance Day. For me it is a remembrance for my mom. There was a certain section in her vegetable garden that she always had her poppies. I recently found an old packet of poppy seeds that my mother gave me probably over 30
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In the previous blogs I have been going step by step on how to add your story/memory or a photo with a story to a person in your tree by using several media methods with Ancestry® . In this blog I will show you how to convert a PDF to a JPG file type so
In my previous blog posts: Do Special Holiday/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common? and How to Add Photo Media to Your Ancestry Tree, I discussed why storytelling/memories should be added to your tree in the media forms of either a PDF or photo and how to do so. In this blog I will continue
In my recent blog: “Do Special Holidays/Celebrations and Ancestry Have Something in Common?“, I mentioned that the storytelling should be attached to your online ancestry tree as either a document or a photo. In this “How to” tutorial, I will walk you through the process of how to add photo media to your tree in
