I’m late to the show. Unlike millions of others, I didn’t have a family tree on Ancestry.com until about a month ago. Since I did a DNA test with AncestryDNA, I decided to add portions of my tree as cousin bait. While I appreciated the suggestions that the system makes for potential parents, I soon…
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Dear Ancestry.com: My Great Grandfather Never Used Algrava
The other day I was doing some surname searches through Bing and Google images. A newspaper clipping came up that looked interesting. It linked to a summary page at Ancestry.com about my ancestors, but the information was wrong. The page I was taken to looked like this… It looks to be a summary from…
Making Use of the Keyword Search Box in Ancestry.com Search to Find a Specific Village
Are you familiar with the keyword search box on Ancestry.com’s search query screen? You’ve probably seen it, but haven’t really figured out what it is for. After all, you’ve got the name and birth or death place of your ancestor. You don’t need that box, do you? I bet you are not alone, especially if…