Ancestry Global Family History Report

An interesting Report from Ancestry.com

Ancestry Global Family History Report

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Copyright © 2014 by H R Worthington

Tip Tuesday - New and Updates from Ancestry

I am going to try something new. I am going to see if it's worthwhile to post what I see, when I look at the Ancestry.com home page, where I have as my default, the New and Updated collections.

New and Updated

New and Updated

Tennessee, Passenger and Crew Manifests of Airplanes Arriving at Memphis, 1958-1961	Yesterday
UPDATEDNew York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917-1974	11/26/2014
UPDATEDNew York, Clinton Prison Admission Ledgers, 1851-1866, 1926-1939	11/26/2014
UPDATEDNew York, Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939	11/26/2014
Nebraska, Homestead Records, 1861-1936	11/24/2014
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Passenger Manifests of Airplanes, 1958-1961	11/24/2014
UPDATEDIowa, State Census Collection, 1836-1925	11/24/2014
UPDATEDU.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current	11/20/2014
UPDATEDPennsylvania, Death Certificates, 1906-1963	11/20/2014
UPDATEDSavannah, Georgia, Land Tax and Property Records, 1809-1938	11/19/2014
Czechoslovakia, Social Welfare and Repatriation Records of Holocaust Survivors, 1939-1948 (USHMM)	11/18/2014
UPDATEDU.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935	11/11/2014
Savannah, Georgia, Select Board of Health and Health Department Records, 1824-1864, 1887-1896	11/10/2014
UPDATEDCalifornia, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959	11/10/2014
U.S., List of Interred Soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1827-1889	11/10/2014
California, Military Registers, 1858-1923	11/6/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Land Allotment Jackets for Five Civilized Tribes, 1884-1934	11/4/2014
California, Alien Land Ownership Records, 1921-1959	11/4/2014
Oklahoma, Land Run and other Land Records, 1889-1926	11/3/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Dawes Census Cards for Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914	11/3/2014
U.S., Ratified Indian Treaties and Chiefs, 1722-1869	11/3/2014
Oklahoma, Indian Land Allotment Sales, 1908-1927	11/3/2014
U.S., Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910	11/3/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian and Pioneer Historical Collection, 1937	11/3/2014
Oklahoma, Historical Indian Archives Index, 1856-1933	11/3/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian Photos, 1850-1930	11/3/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Indian Censuses and Rolls, 1851-1959	11/3/2014
Web: US, African American Civil War Sailor Index, 1861-1865	11/3/2014
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, Marriage, Citizenship and Census Records, 1841-1927	11/3/2014
Web: Ventura County, California, Obituary Index, 1916-1996	11/3/2014

Citation Review - Did I capture everything ?

I wonder IF I captured all of the information I wanted from this record collection?

I do a Citation Review to confirm that. Here's how:




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Lesson Learned: World War I Draft Registration Cards

A lesson learned when trying to craft an Evidence Explained Reference Note, in FTM2014, for a World War I Draft Registration Card





Guess I have some clean up to do.

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Dear MYRTLE's 3rd Annual Share Memory Contest

Don't forget to enter Dear MYRTLE's 3rd Annual "Share Memory Contest"

Contest announcement (with rules and list of prizes.)
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2014/11/3rd-annual-share-memory-contest.html

She report one entry:
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2014/11/reminder-3rd-annual-share-memory-contest.html

DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog: REMINDER: 3rd Annual Share a Memory Contest
blog.dearmyrtle.com

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FTM2014 - Information Overload from Quaker Meeting Records

How I am handling the U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 collection from Ancestry.com. This collection, for me, presents a different approach for recording the data. Most times, I will use the Web Merge Feature to get my data from Ancestry.com into FTM2014.
In my example, a page has 19 people listed, 16 of which are my family, already in my database. Instead of doing 16 Web Merges, I am going to work on a Page at a time and line at a time for my citations. Each Line is a Person. On this page, there are 13 Facts that I picked up per line. I link the page image to each Citation, the citation includes the Line Number and the Page Number.


Is this the best way to handle this type of information? I don't know, but it really works for me.
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No Shaky Leaf Hints ?

How to turn ON those Shaky Leaf Hints




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FTM2014 - Ancestry.com - Find A Grave Index Hint

Here is how I handle an Ancestry Member Tree hint, for the Ancestry.com U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current and bring that information into FTM2014.
In this specific case, I am creating a bread crumb that would lead me to the Find A Grave website. The reason for me to create this lead to that website, is so that I can create the Creator of that Memorial, get the memorial number. I would then deal with any images or other information that might be on that memorial.




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Civil War Pension Index Cards

DearMYRTLE’s Docu-Challenge: Phillips, William D
http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2014/10/docuchallenge-phillips-william-d.html

Russ Worthington’s response:
DearMYRTLE’s DocuChallenge in A Worthington Weblog
http://worthy2be.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/dearmyrtles-docuchallenge

Russ’ Conversations with Dixie Petty on FB:
https://www.facebook.com/hrworth/posts/10205358785239170:0 

DearMYRTLE's
WACKY Wednesday: What kind of document is THAT?
https://plus.google.com/102461242403735457058/posts/idFLzywri2L

A BIG Thank you to +DearMYRTLE for this DocuChallenge




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Copyright © 2014 by H R Worthington

Following the PA Death Certificate Hints

As you may have seen, I have been working with the Ancestry Shaky Leaf Hints.

For the past several days, I have been working with the relatively new Pennsylvania Death Certificates, 1906-1963 collection. I had already done some research on them, but that was "way back when" you had to write, wait months, and cost money, OR drive to Harrisburg. I had already identified 21 people with Death Certificate Numbers.

The purpose of this blog post, is a summary of my experience with the NEW collection, on Ancestry, that end up in my Ancestry Member Tree as Shaky Leaf Hints. I then compared that with the hints in FTM2014, merged the records in FTM2014 and did all of the follow up work following the merge. That work includes getting the "Source Information" from Ancestry.com, into an Evidence Explained format for Citations, putting a Citation on Each Death Certificate, Entering a Research Log entry for each person that was cited from that record, and created a Death Certificate Fact for follow up later.

I only recorded the Facts from the Merge an will review each Death Certificate in the future. This was just go get the information from Ancestry into my FTM2014 file.

I started with 42 Hints in my Ancestry Member Tree. I was able to merge 32 of them. There are now 10 new items on my ToDo list, for follow up. 75% of the hints were accurate. Of the remaining 10, 7 were hints in the AMT that do not show up in FTM2014. I will be looking into this issue, as I have already reported this to Ancestry.com. There were 3 other hints that I have to look into further, as they weren't a quick fix, quick merge, not quite sure if they are the same people. Bottom line, the hints were good and worth while working with.

The good news, I added 10 more people that were not in my database. Parents of people who I had in my database, not to mention a score of maiden names for people, females in my file. All good. Picked up a couple of middle names along the way.

There is some amazing information in these Death Certificates as I glanced at them along the way, but didn't want to get side tracked in the detail. That is to come.

Everything was updated in my AMT and just checked and have 8 new Hints to follow.

All of the Images in this collection are appropriately Cited, In the right Category, the Filenames are the way I want them and the Image Caption is the way I want them. Research logs on everyone.

Back to the earlier work, I was able to cross reference the Death Certificate Numbers from my manual search with what is now on Ancestry for 5 of the 21, which means I'll be on the look out for 16 more, as they become available on Ancestry. AND I have a ToDo list for each of those 16 people.

I am really liking this working on a specific collection at a time. The time involved doing the many steps that I take is greatly reduced as I don't have to try to remember, how do I do that?

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Copyright © 2014 by H R Worthington