IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:03 | Hi, I'm Jeff Sengstack.
| | 00:05 | I love doing family tree research.
| | 00:07 | I have been at it for 25 years.
| | 00:09 | When I started researching and
organizing a family tree, it was a
| | 00:12 | time-consuming, tedious, costly,
and sometimes frustrating process.
| | 00:18 | Well, times have changed.
| | 00:19 | Now, with software like Family Tree
Maker and the Internet, you can make
| | 00:22 | discoveries, find information, and
gather your family story quickly and easily
| | 00:27 | right from your computer.
| | 00:28 | In this course, I'll explain how to use
Family Tree Maker along with websites,
| | 00:32 | such as Ancestry.com to gather
information about your family history.
| | 00:36 | I'll show you how you can organize
your family tree, link individuals to
| | 00:39 | photographs, documents, and
places and finally, how to share your
| | 00:43 | discoveries with your family.
| | 00:45 | The Internet has opened the genealogy
research floodgates, and Family Tree Maker 2010,
| | 00:50 | the software I feature in these
tutorials, has become the hub of that data
| | 00:54 | collection, organization,
and dissemination process.
| | 00:57 | Genealogy is fun,
informative, rewarding, and exciting.
| | 01:02 | So let's start learning how to
grow and share your family tree.
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| Why grow your family tree?| 00:00 | Why grow your family tree?
| | 00:02 | Why go to all this trouble to
gather names, dates, places, documents,
| | 00:07 | photos, and stories?
| | 00:08 | For me, it starts with simple curiosity.
| | 00:10 | Where did my ancestors come
from, what is my heritage?
| | 00:14 | I want to learn about my ancestor's stories.
| | 00:17 | What was life like for them, what
prompted them to immigrate, what was life like here,
| | 00:21 | after they arrived?
| | 00:23 | Researching your family tree will
give you a historical perspective.
| | 00:26 | Before starting my family tree research,
I had heard about Ireland's potato famine,
| | 00:30 | but didn't know the real story.
| | 00:32 | Now, because I have learned my ancestors
sent half their family members to North
| | 00:36 | America to avoid starvation,
I know a lot more about it.
| | 00:40 | Family tree research prompted
me to visit ancestral locales.
| | 00:43 | It's one thing to visit some place and
view it through the eyes of a tourist.
| | 00:46 | It's entirely different when you
consider that you ancestors live there.
| | 00:50 | You might want to learn more
about your family's medical history.
| | 00:52 | That could be very important.
| | 00:54 | Are you related to any famous people?
| | 00:56 | In my research, I have discovered a
family connection with a person who worked
| | 00:59 | closely with several US Presidents,
and had a tremendous positive
| | 01:04 | influence on our society.
| | 01:05 | I would have never been able to call
this man up and chat with him, but because
| | 01:08 | of our family connection, we spoke
several times and he ended up giving me a
| | 01:12 | printout of his family tree that can
stretch across my entire office wall.
| | 01:16 | One likely outcome of all your
family tree research is a family reunion.
| | 01:20 | My research, in part, prompted a reunion
where I met relatives I didn't know I had,
| | 01:23 | before I started growing
and sharing my family tree.
| | 01:27 | The ultimate purpose I think to
gathering and organizing all of this family tree
| | 01:30 | information is to share it.
| | 01:32 | To share the data, the documents,
and images with other family members.
| | 01:36 | Whatever your reasons to do a family
tree research, I think we can agree that
| | 01:40 | underneath it all is a thirst for knowledge.
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| Workflow for growing and sharing a family tree| 00:00 | There is no single way to
research and document your family tree.
| | 00:03 | But I think there is a basic workflow
that almost everyone follows at some point
| | 00:08 | in their family tree research.
| | 00:09 | I want to present that workflow to
give you a sense of an approach you might
| | 00:13 | take and there is a way to
present how I have organized my course.
| | 00:16 | First up, gather basic information
about you and your closest relatives.
| | 00:21 | Names, dates, and places,
births, marriages, and deaths.
| | 00:25 | Input that information into Family Tree
Maker or some other program and make a
| | 00:29 | simple family tree printout.
| | 00:31 | You will begin to get a sense for
where you need to focus your efforts.
| | 00:35 | Go on a treasure hunt.
| | 00:36 | Scour your attic, your basement,
closets, shoeboxes, filing cabinets for
| | 00:41 | documents, photos and artifacts.
| | 00:44 | Get photos and documents into your computer.
You typically need a scanner to do that.
| | 00:49 | Conduct person-to-person research.
Talk to relatives who are older than you.
| | 00:54 | Use Family Tree Maker software to take
your first foray into Internet research.
| | 00:58 | One of Family Tree Maker's key
features is that if you're a subscriber
| | 01:02 | to Ancestry.com, Family Tree
Maker will automatically search
| | 01:06 | Ancestry.com's database.
| | 01:08 | You'll be amazed at how it
accurately tracks down documents relating to
| | 01:12 | specific family members.
| | 01:14 | Use Family Tree Maker's advanced
features such as linking persons and events to
| | 01:18 | places, sources, and media.
| | 01:20 | Visit ancestral locales in
the US or other counties.
| | 01:23 | Just being there opens up
all sorts of possibilities.
| | 01:27 | Delve deeper into Internet research.
You can do that in Ancestry.com or many
| | 01:31 | other online sites.
| | 01:33 | The last step in this workflow:
| | 01:35 | share your Family Tree data,
documents, images and stories.
| | 01:39 | You can do that with printed
books, websites, and via email.
| | 01:43 | Family tree research can take you in
many directions, but ultimately it brings
| | 01:47 | you back to your main goal:
sharing what you have learned.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:01 | If you're a Premium member of the
lynda.com Online Training Library, or if
| | 00:05 | you're watching this tutorial on a disk,
you have access to the Exercise Files
| | 00:09 | used throughout this title.
| | 00:11 | If you're a monthly or annual
subscriber to lynda.com you don't have access to
| | 00:15 | the Exercise Files, but you can
certainly follow along and use your own
| | 00:19 | information and files.
| | 00:20 | I've put my Exercise Files
folder here on the desktop.
| | 00:23 | You can put yours anywhere you want.
| | 00:24 | I want to open it up and show you what we have.
| | 00:27 | Our files include a Sample Family
Tree, the one I used in this course.
| | 00:30 | It's there for you to work with, but I
strongly encourage you to not use it.
| | 00:34 | I think you'll want to create your own tree
and add to it as you go through this course.
| | 00:38 | It's very exciting to see your tree
grow, and since I cover various topics
| | 00:42 | separately, it won't matter that
your file does not exactly match mine.
| | 00:46 | We also have some GEDCOM files that
we use as examples in several videos to
| | 00:51 | demonstrate merging,
importing, and exporting trees.
| | 00:55 | Finally, the Sample Media folder.
| | 00:56 | Let me open that one up.
| | 00:58 | It contains assets such as
photos, census records, and draft
| | 01:01 | registration documents.
| | 01:03 | Again, feel free to use these media files.
| | 01:05 | But I recommend you use your own image
document files as we progress through this course.
| | 01:10 | Let's get started.
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1. Using Family Tree Maker to Start Organizing Your DataInstalling Family Tree Maker| 00:01 | In this course, I'm going
to feature Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:03 | This is the granddaddy of
all family tree software.
| | 00:06 | We are using Version 2010.
| | 00:08 | If you haven't purchased it yet, one
way to do that is to do that online
| | 00:11 | from the Ancestry store.
| | 00:13 | You probably will go first to
familytreemaker.com and then go to Store and the
| | 00:18 | first item in the Store
will be Family Tree Maker 2010.
| | 00:19 | There are various versions of this,
but the version that you probably want to
| | 00:24 | buy is the one that's
available here on top, which is $40.
| | 00:26 | They charge different prices if you
buy packages for Ancestry.com membership.
| | 00:32 | Now, we are going to install it,
and show you how to do that.
| | 00:33 | If you have already installed it,
you can just take a pass on this.
| | 00:36 | But let me show you how that works.
| | 00:37 | When you get this in the mail,
you just put the CD inside your CD drawer and
| | 00:42 | then Auto Start will kick in, and
it will start taking you through the
| | 00:45 | steps for the install.
| | 00:47 | So this window will come up and
just double-click on Run setup.
| | 00:54 | Go ahead and click on Next.
| | 00:57 | This is the ubiquitous agreement
| | 00:58 | that we all have to agree to, if we want
to actually run the software. So click Yes.
| | 01:03 | Then typically, you would accept
the default file folder location.
| | 01:06 | So I'm just going to click Next
here and then it starts installing.
| | 01:13 | Once it's finished its work, you click Finish.
| | 01:16 | When I click Finish, it's going to
launch Family Tree Maker in this particular case,
| | 01:19 | but I'm going to uncheck that
for now just because I want to just
| | 01:21 | finishing it up without
having it actually open up.
| | 01:23 | When it's done, it adds an icon to your
desktop, which is how you'll access it later.
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| Introducing Family Tree Maker| 00:00 | I want to explain how
Family Tree Maker is organized.
| | 00:03 | You don't have to follow
along inside of the software.
| | 00:04 | I am just doing this to give you a
sense of how it all holds together.
| | 00:08 | When you open it up for the very first
time, if you are creating a tree from scratch,
| | 00:11 | you will see this New
Tree view inside the Plan workspace.
| | 00:15 | Here you type in your own name, and then your
parent's names, and then you go on from there.
| | 00:20 | If you already have a Family Tree file
from a previous version of Family Tree
| | 00:23 | Maker or you have a GEDCOM file,
a standardized Family Tree data file that
| | 00:27 | you've downloaded from
Internet or that someone gave you,
| | 00:29 | you open that in Family Tree Maker,
which takes you to this Current Tree view.
| | 00:34 | In any case, whenever you start
putting in a data, you go from the Plan
| | 00:37 | workspace to the People workspace.
| | 00:39 | People workspace is divided into two
different views or tabs: the Person tab
| | 00:43 | and the Family tab.
| | 00:44 | We will start with the Family tab.
| | 00:46 | In the center is the Pedigree view.
| | 00:48 | This is the way that you look at
somebody and then their ancestors.
| | 00:51 | So there is a person, parents,
grandparents, great grandparents.
| | 00:54 | By the way, see these little green
leaves popping up on people. These are hints.
| | 00:58 | They are called Ancestry Hints inside
the Family Tree Maker and these are actual
| | 01:02 | records that Ancestry.com is
providing to you through Family Tree Maker and
| | 01:07 | later on, I'll talk about how you can
access those hints and then put that
| | 01:10 | information on those documents into your tree.
| | 01:12 | Off to the side, there is an index of
all your family names, all the people
| | 01:16 | inside your family tree.
| | 01:17 | You will notice there is one
that has a little house next to it.
| | 01:19 | That's the Home Person.
| | 01:20 | You can always get to the Home Person
by clicking on that button. That takes you
| | 01:23 | to the Home Person, which in this case is me.
| | 01:25 | And then these are the
ancestors, my ancestors.
| | 01:28 | Down here is called a Family Group Sheet.
| | 01:30 | Typically, you just show two parents
here and their children, and off to the
| | 01:34 | right is information about
the currently selected person.
| | 01:36 | So as you select somebody, you'll see
a little bit of information about their
| | 01:39 | births, deaths, and their marriages.
| | 01:41 | If you want to get a more detailed version,
you can switch over to the Person tab,
| | 01:45 | the Person view, and this shows more
information, facts about these people
| | 01:50 | including let's say where they lived,
what their occupation was, and when they
| | 01:53 | immigrated, things like that.
| | 01:55 | Also, in the upper-right hand
corner you see what's called a
| | 01:57 | Relationship Calculator.
| | 01:58 | This says how the selected
person is related to the Home Person.
| | 02:02 | So if you want to change the
Home Person, you can see how the
| | 02:04 | relationships change with that.
| | 02:05 | And on the bottom, you can put down
notes about this person, anecdotes,
| | 02:09 | stories, just some information you want
to add that doesn't really fit into one
| | 02:12 | of these little fact views.
| | 02:14 | The next workspace is Places,
which I think is really a great place.
| | 02:18 | We will start with the Road View.
| | 02:19 | This is a view of Lavelsloh, which is
actually where a lot of my ancestors came
| | 02:23 | from in Germany, a little town in Germany.
| | 02:25 | If you zoom-in on it, you can also click on
the Aerial View, and see how it looks today.
| | 02:30 | On the left hand side, are all the
place names that you have put into your project,
| | 02:33 | into your family tree, and it
could be places where people were born,
| | 02:37 | where they died, where they got married,
where they had an occupation, whatever.
| | 02:40 | All these things are places and then the
places are identified with these little
| | 02:44 | thumbtacks which you can put down on
street locations if you want to and this
| | 02:47 | shows all the people associated with
that particular location in some way and
| | 02:51 | says how they are associated, via
marriage or death or what have you.
| | 02:54 | Let's move onto the Media View.
| | 02:57 | This is where you link people to media.
| | 03:00 | You can link them to photographs or
draft registration or census records,
| | 03:04 | what have you, and you can link
multiple people to a single document.
| | 03:08 | That's really an exciting thing,
because if you just click on one document,
| | 03:10 | it will say all of the people that are
in that particular document or photograph.
| | 03:14 | Let's move on to Sources.
| | 03:16 | It's a good idea for you to associate
a source with every little fact you put
| | 03:20 | inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 03:21 | That can become a little cumbersome, but
it's a good idea to do this and this is
| | 03:24 | how you track all your sources.
| | 03:26 | Moving onto the Publish View.
| | 03:28 | This is where you can
create all kinds of charts.
| | 03:31 | You start by selecting the type of
chart that you want, then you can fine-tune
| | 03:36 | how that chart looks inside the Detail page.
| | 03:39 | And then print it out, or make an
image file of it or a PDF that you can view
| | 03:43 | inside Adobe Reader.
| | 03:45 | You can also go to the Publish section
and actually go and make a book online.
| | 03:50 | You can gather up all your family tree
information, click on Share, and upload it
| | 03:54 | entirely to Ancestry.com where they
will make a book for you for a fee, or
| | 03:59 | you can print it out
yourself on your printer at home.
| | 04:01 | Finally, this is probably the most
exciting part of how Family Tree Maker
| | 04:05 | connects with the Internet.
| | 04:07 | You go to the Web Search page and
Family Tree Maker fills in all this
| | 04:10 | information automatically about
somebody, and then searches Ancestry.com and
| | 04:15 | finds hits that are almost
always actually about this person.
| | 04:19 | The hits at the top of the list are almost
always going to be about the selected person.
| | 04:23 | It's very exciting that it can
track things down so accurately.
| | 04:26 | So Family Tree Maker is a full-
featured product that helps you organize your
| | 04:30 | data, link individual images, places,
and sources, research your family tree
| | 04:35 | online and share what you have discovered.
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| Standardizing names, dates, and locations | 00:00 | I know you can't wait start putting
names in the Family Tree Maker and you may
| | 00:04 | have already gotten started, but whether
you have started or not, I want to give
| | 00:07 | you a few tips about
standardizing names, dates, and places.
| | 00:11 | First of all, don't get too hung up on
the correct spelling of family names.
| | 00:15 | Invariably the spelling changes. Census takers
misspell them, stuff happens. So be flexible.
| | 00:20 | If one generation spells it one way,
and another some other way,
| | 00:23 | use whatever spelling they used.
| | 00:25 | When you input names in the Family Tree
Maker, capitalize surnames, last names.
| | 00:29 | That avoids confusion like Jeff
SENGSTACK all caps. Use maiden names.
| | 00:34 | If you want to include someone's
married name in their name, put the married name
| | 00:38 | in parentheses directly in front of
the maiden name, and after the middle name.
| | 00:43 | You can put nicknames in
quotes after the first name.
| | 00:45 | Such as Edward "Ba" MALONEY.
| | 00:48 | If the person is a Junior or a Senior,
put a comma after the last name as in
| | 00:53 | Martin Luther King, Jr.
| | 00:56 | For Roman numerals such as III or IV, you
don't use a comma. Like George Marshall III.
| | 01:03 | By the way, don't include someone's title
in their name like captain, lady or doctor.
| | 01:08 | You write their titles in the
Family Tree Maker Title Fact field.
| | 01:12 | For multi-word surnames like Von
Furstenberg, you use backslashes.
| | 01:17 | For persons with no known last
name, just type in the word unknown.
| | 01:21 | For example, Jane UNKNOWN.
| | 01:23 | The standard order for dates is date-month-year.
| | 01:26 | Family Tree Maker is pretty
good at auto arranging dates.
| | 01:29 | If you're not sure of a date,
use Aft. for after, Bef.
| | 01:33 | for before, and Abt. for about.
| | 01:36 | The standard way to write
locations is from small to large.
| | 01:40 | That is city/town, county, state, country.
| | 01:44 | You can use a street address but
that's not a standardized place name.
| | 01:48 | In that case, you probably should use
the Family Tree Maker Address Fact field.
| | 01:52 | Using the standard genealogical
conventions will save you time and make it
| | 01:56 | easier to share your work with others.
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| Getting started with Family Tree Maker| 00:01 | I want to show you how you can start
putting your family tree information
| | 00:03 | inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:05 | First, you of course open up Family
Tree Maker and you could just double-click
| | 00:08 | on this icon to do to that, or if you
don't have an icon on your desktop,
| | 00:11 | go down to Start, All Programs, Family
Tree Maker, and click on that icon.
| | 00:19 | If you haven't put any data in at
all, you will see this New Tree view.
| | 00:23 | You have three options.
| | 00:25 | Enter what you know, which is
what we're going to do here.
| | 00:27 | You can import a tree from an existing
file, and I'll show you an example of
| | 00:30 | that in a second, or you can
download a tree from Ancestry.
| | 00:33 | We're going to skip this part for now.
| | 00:34 | We'll go back to this when we talk
about sharing trees in another lesson.
| | 00:37 | Up on the right, you see this
thing called a Web Dashboard.
| | 00:40 | This is specifically aimed
at me because I'm logged on.
| | 00:44 | Once you're logged on, stuff that
you've worked on before shows up here.
| | 00:48 | So, for example, these are two trees that
I've uploaded and they're showing up here.
| | 00:52 | The rest of these things are kind of like
updates on what's going on Ancestry.com.
| | 00:56 | Let's go back to the second thing,
importing a tree from an existing file.
| | 01:00 | Let me just show you briefly how that works.
| | 01:01 | If someone has given you a tree, just
click in that button and browse for that tree.
| | 01:06 | Let me go find ours.
| | 01:07 | Ours is called SampleFamilyTree,
and you can use this one as well.
| | 01:11 | So you open that guy up, and there it is.
| | 01:13 | It gives it a name automatically.
| | 01:15 | If I just click Continue, it will load
up all those records and then shift over
| | 01:21 | to the People workspace and says here
is the log of what we did, and we say fine.
| | 01:26 | We'll close that.
| | 01:27 | Already you'll notice little green
leaves are popping up here, because Family
| | 01:31 | Tree Maker via Ancestry.com is
actually finding hits online about these
| | 01:35 | particular individuals.
| | 01:36 | Let me go back to what
you're going to be doing now.
| | 01:38 | Go back to the Plan view, back to the
New Tree view, and enter what you know.
| | 01:43 | Typically, you put in your
name and your parents' names.
| | 01:47 | In my case, I'm not going to put in my name.
| | 01:49 | I'm going to do what most genealogists do.
| | 01:51 | When they share their family tree
information, they don't share information
| | 01:54 | about living persons.
| | 01:56 | So in most cases, they
actually have that person on the tree.
| | 01:59 | They just say living, and
then that person's last name.
| | 02:01 | So rather than me putting in all of my
information about my birthday and when I
| | 02:04 | got married and things like
that, and make that public.
| | 02:07 | I'm going to keep that private for now.
| | 02:08 | I'm going to put in my grandfather's name.
| | 02:10 | So, typically what you do
is just start typing in it.
| | 02:13 | His name was John Frederick SENGSTACK.
| | 02:17 | Now, I'm going to capitalize that all
caps, because that's the standardized way
| | 02:21 | of putting names in genealogy.
| | 02:24 | Typically, all caps are surnames,
and I'm going to press Enter.
| | 02:27 | And once I do that, things start happening.
| | 02:29 | It says do you want to call
your new tree name, SENGSTACK?
| | 02:32 | Okay, sure, we'll do that.
| | 02:33 | Then it says, what's the gender?
| | 02:35 | What's the sex of this person? Well, he's male.
| | 02:37 | What was his birthday?
| | 02:38 | His birthday was April 28th.
| | 02:40 | Now, I'm going to put it in backwards.
| | 02:41 | I'm going to put in the
way that most folks might do.
| | 02:44 | I might type it like that
and say 28th and it was 1893.
| | 02:48 | When I do that, watch what happens.
| | 02:50 | Family Tree Maker says, well this is not
the standard genealogical way to do it.
| | 02:54 | The standard way is to put
the number, the date first.
| | 02:57 | Well, it rearranges it for you, and
also puts in the proper three-letter
| | 03:01 | abbreviation for a month.
| | 03:02 | What's his birth place?
| | 03:03 | I'll start typing in and see what happens.
| | 03:05 | Brooklyn, look at how it's
helping me as I start typing.
| | 03:09 | Brooklyn, I'm going to put a comma, and
I know that that's Kings County, but if
| | 03:13 | I wanted to scroll down here, there it is.
| | 03:15 | I'm going to select it, and that simplifies
the whole process of putting in a place name.
| | 03:19 | This is a standardized way of putting places.
| | 03:21 | And it goes from small to large,
town or village or city, and then
| | 03:25 | county, state, country.
| | 03:27 | Now, it says, what about his father's name?
| | 03:28 | So I'll type it in. His father's name was Johann,
don't have a middle name for him. Now it says, Oh!
| | 03:33 | You want to put in SENGSTACK, don't you?
| | 03:34 | Because it remembers the names that you put
in, but in fact his name had an E at the end.
| | 03:38 | I've to add that little E.
Go down to the mother's name.
| | 03:41 | Now, I use maiden names for mother's.
| | 03:43 | That's Katherine Marie DAMKE.
| | 03:47 | I always put her maiden name, but some
people like to have married names when
| | 03:50 | they do women or people
who have changed their names.
| | 03:53 | So, I could type in a married name,
and if I did that, I would put it
| | 03:56 | after her middle name.
| | 03:57 | I would put in parenthesis and then put
down Sengstack with lowercase letters now.
| | 04:02 | Like that.
| | 04:03 | But I'm not a real fan of putting in
married names, so I'll leave that out.
| | 04:05 | But you can. That's the way to do it.
| | 04:07 | You put in parenthesis after the middle name.
| | 04:09 | Now it says, where do you want to put this file?
| | 04:11 | Do you want to put it in the default location?
| | 04:13 | Which is fine with me.
| | 04:14 | It's putting it in my Documents, which
is where you normally keep things, or you
| | 04:17 | can change that by clicking here
and changing the file location.
| | 04:20 | But I'm happy with the way
things are all settled now.
| | 04:22 | So I'm just clicking on Continue.
| | 04:24 | That opens up the People workspace with
those three people there. Look at that.
| | 04:28 | Already we're getting ancestry hints,
even though we've just put in a little bit
| | 04:32 | of information about these people.
| | 04:33 | If I put in more information, I'll get
more hints, and that's one of the really
| | 04:37 | exciting things about Family Tree Maker.
| | 04:39 | So this is the basic way you get
started, and inside this Family and Person tabs
| | 04:44 | inside the People workspace,
is where you start fine-tuning it.
| | 04:48 | And I discuss that in another video.
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| Including source information| 00:00 | Connecting sources to individuals and facts
inside your family tree is very important.
| | 00:05 | Why? Well, years from now, someone may say,
well, how do you know that so and so and
| | 00:08 | such and so got married
and that they were cousins?
| | 00:11 | Well, you can say, I can check my source.
| | 00:13 | So you go to that marriage and you see
that it has sources attached to it, like
| | 00:16 | maybe a marriage certificate,
and a couple of birth certificates.
| | 00:18 | That's clear that you're right.
| | 00:20 | They were, in fact, cousins.
| | 00:21 | Well, to what level do you
take care of your sources?
| | 00:24 | To how specific are your sources going to be?
| | 00:26 | Well, if you're a professional
genealogist, very specific, and it could be very
| | 00:30 | time-consuming to do sourcing.
| | 00:31 | What I suggest that for the hobbyist
level or when you're working on the family
| | 00:34 | tree for your family, you keep it kind of
generic and make it little bit simpler for you.
| | 00:38 | In Family Tree Maker, sources work in sort
of three ways. There are three levels to it.
| | 00:42 | First of all, there is a repository.
| | 00:44 | The repository can be something
as simple as your records.
| | 00:47 | Jeff's records, Jeff's files.
| | 00:48 | Below that are sources and typically
the sources would be, let's say, books, or
| | 00:52 | a particular census like the 1920
New Jersey Census in Essex County.
| | 00:56 | Well, I suggest you
don't get quite that detailed.
| | 00:59 | I think you should have, let's say,
just generic sources, like books, photos,
| | 01:04 | census records, birth records, death
records, letters, and things like that.
| | 01:08 | Then finally, there is
something called the source citation.
| | 01:10 | So every time you connect somebody to
one of those generic sources, you put it
| | 01:14 | in a citation, saying something specific.
| | 01:16 | So if you say you're going to connect
somebody to your census records, you say
| | 01:20 | that is the 1920 New Jersey Census.
| | 01:22 | Then I think you've satisfied all you need to do
in terms of how specific you need to be with sourcing.
| | 01:27 | So let me show you how to do
that inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 01:30 | Here I have a source.
| | 01:31 | You just go next to something inside
Family Tree Maker that might call for a
| | 01:35 | source, like a person's
name, or a person's birthday.
| | 01:38 | When you hover toward the end here, a
little new source citation icon appears.
| | 01:42 | If you already have a source there,
that icon would be there already.
| | 01:45 | So let's just go down to
John Sengstack's birthday.
| | 01:48 | I'm going to click here to
add a new source citation.
| | 01:50 | Remember, the source citation is the find level.
| | 01:53 | That's the bottom of that three-part chain,
where you're getting kind of specific.
| | 01:56 | But when I click on here, you're going
to need to create a new source and a new
| | 01:59 | repository, because
you're starting from scratch.
| | 02:01 | So I'll click on this and it
says, what's your source title?
| | 02:04 | Well, I don't have a source yet.
| | 02:06 | I will click this down arrow and I'd find a
list of sources, but there aren't any yet.
| | 02:09 | So in this case, I'm going
to put down Birth Records.
| | 02:12 | Now somebody might have something
more specific than that, but I think you
| | 02:15 | should stay generic. I'm
going to say Birth Records.
| | 02:17 | When I click OK, it's going to say this is a
new thing, so do you want to edit that thing?
| | 02:21 | Well, sure, I want to edit it.
| | 02:22 | When you edit it, it says okay, who's the
author of this or publisher's name, things like that.
| | 02:27 | Well, I'm not really that
concerned about putting in all that kind of
| | 02:29 | information, but I do want
to say what the repository is.
| | 02:31 | So right now, there is no repository,
because I have no repositories yet.
| | 02:35 | So, I'm going to click on New repository.
| | 02:36 | I'm going to say Jeff's Records.
| | 02:39 | That is a repository.
| | 02:40 | I can put in my address, or just my town
or something like that, or my email address.
| | 02:43 | But for now I'll just say Jeff's repository.
| | 02:46 | So, I've got the repository.
I've got the thing called Birth Records.
| | 02:49 | That takes care of the
source and the repository.
| | 02:51 | Now we're back down to the citation.
| | 02:53 | In the citation, I'll say something specific.
| | 02:56 | I'll say John's birth certificate.
| | 03:00 | That's sufficient for what I want to do
in terms of how specific I want to be in
| | 03:05 | terms of my sourcing.
| | 03:06 | I click OK, and now that
little Source icon appears there.
| | 03:09 | Later on, I'll show you how
you can connect sources to media.
| | 03:13 | If you happen to have, let's say, a scan
of that document and you've saved that
| | 03:17 | on to your hard drive, you can
connect the source to the media.
| | 03:20 | But for now, this is the basic way that
you connect I think every fact, if you can,
| | 03:24 | to some source, so later you can
document how you figured this stuff out.
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| Adding more names: children, spouses, unrelated individuals, and parents| 00:00 | Now that you've gotten started with
your family tree, it's time to start
| | 00:03 | adding more persons.
| | 00:04 | So let's start by adding a
child. There's a simple way to do that,
| | 00:07 | but the easiest way is when you select
the particular set of parents, just go
| | 00:11 | down below here in the family
group and click on Add Child.
| | 00:13 | We just add a child here Elsa.
| | 00:15 | I won't give you all the details with this
Elsa, but we'll say that she is a female.
| | 00:20 | We'll say OK.
| | 00:22 | Now we can put in her birth by
clicking over here, her birth date.
| | 00:27 | Her birth date was let's
say November 13th, 1891.
| | 00:32 | When I press Enter, it will
do what it's supposed to do.
| | 00:34 | It will just put that 13 in the front
of it and also make it a three-letter
| | 00:38 | abbreviation for November.
| | 00:39 | That's the standard
genealogy way to enter dates.
| | 00:42 | Now, I've just put this in and notice
there is a little plus sign saying well,
| | 00:45 | don't you want to put a
source citation here? Yeah, we do.
| | 00:48 | So we'll just click on that and say add
a new source citation. I'm not going to
| | 00:51 | use an existing one.
We'll add a new one.
| | 00:53 | I'm going to go, let's say, the Source
title will be, and now we've got this
| | 00:56 | source now with Birth Records.
| | 00:57 | So I'm going to take Birth Records.
| | 01:00 | What's the detail here?
I'm going to say Letter from John F. Sengstack.
| | 01:05 | So now I've taken the Birth Record,
that sort of generic thing, and I've made
| | 01:09 | it more specific in the source citation.
| | 01:11 | That's that process I
mentioned in another video.
| | 01:14 | Let's add a spouse.
| | 01:15 | So here's John. He doesn't have a spouse.
| | 01:18 | Let's give him a wife, shall we?
| | 01:19 | So you click on Add Spouse, and you
add it right there, right below him.
| | 01:22 | I'll put down his wife Edna
Josephine MALONEY, all caps, and I'll say OK.
| | 01:31 | That puts her down here on the Family Group
sheet, and I can put in her birthday as well.
| | 01:35 | I can source her birthday as well.
| | 01:36 | But I won't go through all these details here.
| | 01:38 | We can add a child down here to this couple,
if we care to. We won't do that right now.
| | 01:42 | Let's move on from there and notice
that I want to add her father now.
| | 01:45 | So, how do I add a father?
I've got her selected.
| | 01:49 | Now she is down below here,
and she is not active.
| | 01:51 | So I can't add a father to her.
I need to click on her to make her active.
| | 01:55 | That puts her up here now, and
now I can add a father to her.
| | 01:58 | Notice the little Add Father hints here.
| | 01:59 | I'll click on Add Father.
| | 02:01 | His name was Edward, and his nickname
was Ba, so I'm going to put his nickname
| | 02:06 | in quotations, "Ba", then you put his
middle name after that and then MALONEY.
| | 02:12 | Now notice it automatically fills
the field for me as I start typing it.
| | 02:17 | It assumes that oh, you want to
put MALONEY, don't you? Well, I do.
| | 02:19 | Thanks for helping me out there.
| | 02:21 | Now, that adds a father,
and it says here, oh, look it.
| | 02:23 | Edward "Ba" MALONEY's name may
include a nickname. Yes, it does.
| | 02:26 | I did that on purpose.
| | 02:27 | I'm going to say stop showing these messages,
because now I know that I'm doing what I'm doing.
| | 02:31 | So I'm going to click this
thing and we'll close it.
| | 02:33 | Now I can add a mother as well.
| | 02:35 | But notice I added this nickname here.
I forgot, because I want to add a
| | 02:39 | nickname to my great grandmother.
| | 02:39 | So, I need to go back to her somehow.
| | 02:41 | I'm going to go down here and click on John.
| | 02:43 | There is Johann and there is Katherine,
and I fully forgot to put in her nickname.
| | 02:48 | So with her name selected, I can
always go back up and edit this.
| | 02:51 | So click inside her name and put
in her nickname, which is Kate.
| | 02:55 | And it says a little message popped up,
but then it disappeared again.
| | 02:58 | So, we know that we've put in her
nickname and that's what we wanted to do.
| | 03:00 | Now, let's say I want to source
something a little bit differently this time.
| | 03:04 | I know that Edward MALONEY, I'll go
back to him, Edward MALONEY, right
| | 03:09 | there, was born in London.
| | 03:11 | I don't know when he was born,
but he was born in London.
| | 03:14 | So I'm going to start typing
London here, put a comma there.
| | 03:18 | There it's trying to help
me out in the place name.
| | 03:20 | So, I'll just take London, England.
| | 03:21 | Again, I need to check the source on that.
| | 03:24 | So I can go let's have a source, and
I could say well, click on this, and
| | 03:26 | that was let's say a letter from
his wife or something like that.
| | 03:30 | We'll just not do that now, but I think
you get the sense of how that works as
| | 03:33 | you put one thing in after another.
| | 03:35 | You now want to add somebody that you
know somehow is related to somebody in
| | 03:40 | your family, because you've seen
their records lying around and you've seen
| | 03:42 | that they're somehow connected to your family,
but you're not sure where they're connected.
| | 03:45 | So, it's a good idea just to add them to
your tree, but not connect them to anybody.
| | 03:49 | So the way you add an unrelated
person is by going to the Person menu.
| | 03:53 | Clicking on that and selecting
Add Person > Add Unrelated Person.
| | 03:57 | I'm going to type in John DOE. That was a male.
| | 04:01 | Now he's just going to sit off all by
himself in his own little one-person tree.
| | 04:07 | He's in our index of names, but
he's got his own little tree there.
| | 04:10 | Sometime down the road, I might want to
finally connect him when I get some
| | 04:14 | more information, but at least will be
there for me to sort of remind me that
| | 04:17 | this guy is hovering out there at
some place and I need to add him.
| | 04:19 | Now you want to add some other
people to your tree too occasionally, and
| | 04:23 | typically, you'll find that some
ancestors or some close relatives have
| | 04:27 | more than one spouse.
| | 04:28 | Lots of times people get divorced or a
spouse dies or even some people actually
| | 04:33 | have multiple spouses.
| | 04:34 | So there's a way to add
multiple spouses, and let's go do that.
| | 04:37 | Now none of the people in this me tree
here had multiple spouses, but I'm going
| | 04:40 | to make believe they did.
| | 04:41 | We'll go to Johann here.
| | 04:42 | You'll notice that Johann is a number 1
with a female icon next to him, and
| | 04:47 | he had one spouse and Katherine
had one spouse as well, John/Johann.
| | 04:51 | When I click on this little icon,
it's going to say Add Spouse.
| | 04:55 | That's the easy way to add a spouse.
| | 04:56 | Just click on this little
Spouse icon, then Add Spouse.
| | 04:59 | I'll type in something like a Jane SPOUSE,
that for now. She is a female. We'll click OK.
| | 05:06 | Now you'll see there are two
spouses associated with Johann.
| | 05:10 | The thing as you probably want to have
the spouse that will be displayed when
| | 05:14 | you're working on your tree be the
one that's related to you right now.
| | 05:17 | Jane SPOUSE is showing up
and she is not related to me.
| | 05:19 | So I'd rather have the person that's
related to me show up, because I want to
| | 05:22 | make the other spouse,
Katherine, be the preferred spouse.
| | 05:25 | Well, she is already, but I
want to show you how to do that.
| | 05:27 | So, I'm going to say Set Spouse Order.
| | 05:29 | It opens up this little box and says
currently Katherine is the preferred spouse,
| | 05:33 | because she was there first.
| | 05:35 | But you can change that to the
other one by clicking Preferred spouse.
| | 05:38 | So that one would be the one that
typically is the one that shows up when you go
| | 05:42 | to Johann, and you'll see that spouse show up.
| | 05:44 | But in this case, I don't want her to
be the spouse, so I'll go back again,
| | 05:48 | click on that, Set Spouse Order.
| | 05:49 | We'll go back to have
Katherine be the preferred spouse.
| | 05:53 | So that's how easy it is to add children,
add spouses, parents, unrelated people,
| | 05:58 | to your family tree.
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| Inputting notes, facts, and media| 00:00 | You can add facts to your family tree
inside Family Tree Maker at any time.
| | 00:04 | You do it in one or two places, inside
the Family view in the People workspace or
| | 00:08 | the Person view, and we'll
start with the Family view.
| | 00:10 | On the right-hand side, there are three
fact fields, Birth, Death, and Marriage.
| | 00:14 | So we'll start with the death of my grandfather.
| | 00:16 | We'll put down the date for that,
which is October 11th, 1970.
| | 00:22 | When I press Return, Family Tree Maker
will rearrange things in the proper order.
| | 00:26 | It will be 11 Oct, with the capital O.
| | 00:29 | Now I want to source this.
| | 00:30 | I'm going to click on the source
citation, so new source citation.
| | 00:34 | I'll do a new one.
I'm going to add it.
| | 00:36 | What sources do I have?
| | 00:37 | Well, I don't have death records yet,
so I'll just type it in. Death Records.
| | 00:43 | Press OK and we'll say well,
this is a new one. Isn't it?
| | 00:45 | So should we edit it?
Yeah, let's edit it.
| | 00:47 | Let's add a new repository, so it's going to
be my records again, as it always has been.
| | 00:50 | Now I'm going to give it a
little citation for this one.
| | 00:53 | I'll say Death certificate.
| | 00:54 | So that's the specific information about
the death records that I have inside my files.
| | 01:00 | I want to add information about,
let's say, the marriage between Johann and
| | 01:04 | Katherine. I can click on Johann or Katherine.
| | 01:07 | That shared information will be always
available here on either one of their views.
| | 01:11 | So we'll go to Katherine and talk about
the marriage date for Katherine and Johann.
| | 01:14 | That was November 13th,
1890. Press Enter again.
| | 01:21 | It will arrange it in the proper order.
| | 01:22 | Now I have a place for that and it was Brooklyn.
| | 01:24 | When I start typing, the fast fields
pops in and says oh, you've typed B before
| | 01:30 | and you always wanted Brooklyn when you
type the letter B, so we're going to ask
| | 01:33 | you if you want to do that again.
| | 01:34 | That makes it so easy.
| | 01:35 | I just select it, press Enter, and we're set.
| | 01:36 | Now I'm going to source this
one as well. Click on that.
| | 01:39 | This is another new source citation.
| | 01:40 | I have one of these guys already in there.
| | 01:42 | I've no marriage records yet,
so I'll type in Marriage Records.
| | 01:47 | I'll just click New.
| | 01:48 | I'll say my repository is
my records again. Click OK.
| | 01:52 | The citation for this will be a
typewritten letter from the church.
| | 01:58 | That should be sufficient to let
people track it down inside my records.
| | 02:03 | Now we've done that.
| | 02:04 | Now, you can have more fact fields here
in this particular view, the Family view
| | 02:09 | of the People workspace by just going
down and clicking on Customize View.
| | 02:13 | You don't have to be limiting
yourself just to those three.
| | 02:16 | So I want to add, I like Immigration.
I'd like to see Immigration every time I go
| | 02:19 | and look at somebody.
| | 02:20 | I want to see when they're immigrated.
| | 02:21 | So I'm going to add that by clicking
Immigration and clicking this little right arrow.
| | 02:25 | That adds it to the list of
three plus the shared fact. I click OK.
| | 02:28 | Now Immigration shows up
with a date and a place.
| | 02:31 | So I'll say I know that for Johann, he
immigrated in 1880, and I know that he
| | 02:37 | immigrated to New York.
Let's just get that down.
| | 02:39 | So I'll put New York. Now New York is not typing
in a fast field just yet, because I haven't
| | 02:44 | typed this in before.
| | 02:45 | But now, once I get to a
certain point, it says oh!
| | 02:46 | This is where you want to go?
| | 02:48 | New York, Kings, he did immigrate to
New York, Kings County, so I'll do that.
| | 02:53 | It wasn't necessarily Brooklyn, so
I'll just say New York, Kings County.
| | 02:55 | Now I want to source that, so
I'll click on the source citation.
| | 02:59 | I'll say the Source title -- well, I
don't have any immigration stuff yet.
| | 03:02 | But I know I got this from a census record,
so Census Records and I'll click on OK.
| | 03:07 | It will say this is new one, isn't it?
| | 03:09 | So I've got to say where it's located,
what repository it is. I can say None,
| | 03:12 | but since it's in my
repository, I'll say yes. OK.
| | 03:15 | Now I'll give it some specifics. I'm
going to say this was the 1900 census.
| | 03:20 | You may wonder why this
didn't show up in the 1890 census.
| | 03:23 | That's because the census in 1890 burned.
| | 03:26 | So there are only a few census records
left from 1890, so your census records
| | 03:29 | start at 1880 and then skip 1890, and then
start showing up at 1900 again. So I'll click OK.
| | 03:34 | Now wait a minute.
| | 03:35 | I'm realizing this wasn't
really 1890. It was 1880.
| | 03:38 | So let me go back and edit it, just
by clicking in there and changing it.
| | 03:41 | It's easy enough to edit a
fact if you've made a mistake.
| | 03:44 | Now we're set there.
| | 03:45 | I could have more facts displayed here, but
really, we'd prefer having just a few here.
| | 03:51 | I don't want to clutter the space up.
| | 03:52 | I do want to add more facts though.
| | 03:54 | So the best place to do that is
over here under the Person view.
| | 03:56 | You take a particular
individual and click on Person.
| | 03:59 | That person's
information will show up over here.
| | 04:00 | But instead of looking at Johann,
I want to look at his son John, so I'll click
| | 04:04 | on John and he shows up
now inside this Person view.
| | 04:07 | Now I want to add his occupation.
| | 04:09 | We don't see his occupation field here.
| | 04:11 | You've got to go find it, because if
every single fact field that existed inside
| | 04:14 | Family Tree Maker was listed here,
it would just clutter the screen.
| | 04:17 | So you click this little plus sign here, and
you go look for Occupation for all the facts.
| | 04:22 | Scroll it down here to
Occupation, click on that and click OK.
| | 04:27 | That adds this little field over here, Occupation,
and I can put down that John was an Accountant.
| | 04:32 | But I want to say where he was an
accountant and I want to say when he was an
| | 04:37 | accountant, and I really
have no place to do that.
| | 04:39 | But in all fact fields, you
can have more than one line.
| | 04:43 | The way you get there is by
going Options, Fact Properties.
| | 04:46 | Here you can say oh, not just
description only, not just date and place, but
| | 04:50 | date, place and description.
| | 04:52 | Now you have three lines
for that particular fact.
| | 04:55 | I know that he was an accountant in 1930.
| | 04:59 | I know that he was an
accountant in New York City.
| | 05:02 | That wasn't in Kings though.
| | 05:04 | He was in Manhattan.
| | 05:06 | So this is New York, New York, like that.
| | 05:12 | I know I can source that, because
he was inside an accounting manual.
| | 05:15 | So I'll go down here to
New > Add Source Citation.
| | 05:18 | This is going to be Jeff's
Records, but I'm going to say Books.
| | 05:23 | It's going to be a new one again.
| | 05:28 | I'll say that the repository is me, my
repository, and I'll say that this was
| | 05:32 | the Accounting company book.
| | 05:39 | Now if you want to add a fact and it's
not available inside that list of facts,
| | 05:42 | you can create your own fact.
| | 05:44 | I'm going through here and I'm noticing
there is no fact available here for hobbies.
| | 05:48 | So, I'm like, say I want to add a new fact.
| | 05:51 | I click New, say Hobbies or Hobby
and we'll just call it an individual fact.
| | 05:56 | Okay, click OK.
| | 05:59 | I know that my granddad's hobby was golf
for sure, but I see that this top field
| | 06:03 | is a date and this bottom field is a place.
| | 06:06 | So I want to be able to say what his hobby was.
| | 06:08 | It doesn't give me the option to do that,
because we have date and the place but
| | 06:10 | not the actual description.
| | 06:11 | So I'll go back up your Options > Properties.
| | 06:14 | I'm going to say all three,
okay, and now we can say Golf.
| | 06:20 | I won't source that, because that's
something I know and everybody knows that
| | 06:23 | my granddad loved golf.
| | 06:25 | Also, in the Person view, you
can add notes about that person.
| | 06:28 | If you go down here, you can type anything
you want, any kind of text that you want.
| | 06:31 | You can copy and paste text from all
of the sources in here, and just say
| | 06:34 | something like Granddad was an
avid golfer who won many tournaments.
| | 06:43 | The source for that is Jeff, so I
just know that from my personal knowledge.
| | 06:49 | If I want to, let's say, investigate
something about granddad a little bit more,
| | 06:52 | I can click on Tasks, and write myself a
note to say "you need to do the following things."
| | 06:57 | I click on New and it says what do you
want to do, what kind of tasks do you want?
| | 07:02 | I say I want to look at the 1930 census or
his occupation, in case it changed. I click OK.
| | 07:11 | That adds a task about that
particular person in his Person view.
| | 07:14 | If I go back to the Plan view, it adds
it down here too, reminding me these are
| | 07:18 | tasks that you want to do, because it's
really easy to get lost inside the whole
| | 07:22 | family tree research.
| | 07:23 | You can sort of go off on tangents, so
sometimes you need to remind yourself,
| | 07:26 | oh, yeah, this is the thing I need to
research the next time I go look at this.
| | 07:30 | So this is the basic way that you can add facts to
somebody inside the Family view or the Person view.
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| Fine-tuning information| 00:00 | As you continue to work on your
family tree, you'll likely want to
| | 00:03 | fine-tune some of your facts.
| | 00:05 | This happens because you gather more
information or you start sharing your
| | 00:08 | family tree and people say oh, wait a minute,
you have got that one a little bit wrong.
| | 00:11 | Let me tell you what the real story is there.
| | 00:12 | So there is all kinds of things you can
do, all kinds of things you can change.
| | 00:16 | Let me just show you a few of them.
| | 00:17 | For example, I added this John Doe a
while ago as an unattached person and
| | 00:21 | I have now discovered that this
guy is not part of our family tree.
| | 00:25 | I want to delete him entirely.
| | 00:26 | There are several ways to do that.
| | 00:27 | I can right-click and just say
delete this person or I can go to Person,
| | 00:31 | delete this person.
| | 00:32 | So John, adios my friend. You're gone.
| | 00:37 | I also discovered that I have got
this guy name Frederick Carl Sengstack.
| | 00:40 | I got a piece of paper that had his
name on it but nothing else and I am going,
| | 00:44 | is this person a member of my family?
| | 00:47 | So I just put him in as an unattached
person but I have learned since then that
| | 00:50 | he is in fact the brother of a John
Sengstack, a John Frederick Sengstack.
| | 00:55 | So I want to attach him to his parents.
| | 00:57 | So I go to select him, I'll go
to Person > Attach/Detach Person.
| | 01:02 | In this case, we are going to attach.
| | 01:03 | We are going to attach a father to this person.
| | 01:05 | Now, it's going to seem a little
backward when I open this interface but I think
| | 01:08 | you'll catch what's going on here.
| | 01:09 | I will click Attach Father.
| | 01:11 | I'll select the father to attach.
| | 01:13 | The father is Johann. Okay.
| | 01:17 | Now it gives you this little
dialog box which is a little confusing.
| | 01:20 | It says select the family to which
you want to attach Johann as the father.
| | 01:25 | But he already is a father.
| | 01:26 | Really it probably should say select
the family to which you want to attach
| | 01:29 | Frederick Carl to, but it
doesn't really say that.
| | 01:32 | So we do know that we are attaching
Frederick Carl to Johann. We are attaching
| | 01:35 | into this family, the one with his brother.
| | 01:37 | So we click on this one and click OK.
| | 01:41 | And now if I go back to Johann, there is
Johann and three kids because we added Elsa before.
| | 01:46 | There is John, Elsa and now
Frederick who we just added to this one.
| | 01:49 | Now in my research, I ran across a guy
name John Sengstacke with an E at the end
| | 01:54 | and I know that my granddad did
not have an E at the end of his name.
| | 01:56 | So I am trying to figure out why that is.
| | 01:58 | Well, I know the real reason.
| | 01:59 | He just decided to drop the E,
which happens a lot in family history.
| | 02:03 | Lots of time family members just change
their names either subtly or dramatically.
| | 02:07 | In this case, John dropped the E that
his father had on the end of his name.
| | 02:11 | So I am thinking about, is this John
Sengstacke, which is not attached or who is
| | 02:14 | not attached to anybody in any tree,
and this John Frederick Sengstacke,
| | 02:18 | are they the same person?
| | 02:19 | And I discovered later that they are.
| | 02:21 | This John Sengstacke, I've
got a birthday for him of 1894.
| | 02:25 | This one I've got a different
birthday but I did figure out that these are
| | 02:27 | one and the same person.
| | 02:28 | So I just want to merge them together
and they might have some information that
| | 02:31 | I want to merge together.
| | 02:32 | So I am going to try to
merge these two individuals.
| | 02:34 | I'll select him and I'll go Person
> Merge Two Specific Individuals.
| | 02:41 | Before this operation, it's
a good idea to make a backup.
| | 02:43 | In this case, I don't need to make a
backup because we are just doing this for
| | 02:46 | the tutorial, so I'll say No.
| | 02:48 | The person we have already selected is
John Sengstacke with an E, so I need to
| | 02:52 | find the person to connect
him to, to merge him with.
| | 02:55 | So it is this John up here. I'll say OK.
| | 02:58 | And then I get this little dialog box.
| | 03:00 | It says what things do
you want to merge together?
| | 03:02 | What things that you got from these two
guys do you want to accept as the proper facts?
| | 03:07 | So here I have got his name spelled
with an E. Well, I know that's wrong, so
| | 03:11 | I am going to discard that, which makes
his spelling over here the preferred fact.
| | 03:15 | The birth over here was 1894, but in
fact this is the correct date that I have
| | 03:19 | got from the birth certificates.
| | 03:20 | So I will discard this fact as well.
| | 03:22 | But sometimes, there are facts that
might be in this person that you just
| | 03:25 | randomly found that are facts you want to keep.
| | 03:27 | But in this case, we are going to say no,
we don't want those facts and the rest of
| | 03:30 | these facts are not associated with
this person because they didn't have those
| | 03:33 | facts associated with them. So I will say OK.
| | 03:36 | We have now merged those
two guys and that other one,
| | 03:39 | the John Sengstacke with an E, is no
longer in the index because I merged him
| | 03:42 | into this particular name.
| | 03:44 | Sometimes you might want to change a
relationship and you do that inside the Person view.
| | 03:47 | So here is Johann.
| | 03:49 | I want to go to Johann and there is
Johann and his relationship is with his spouse,
| | 03:54 | his wife and it says it's Ongoing.
| | 03:58 | Well, I am not going to change that
because they stayed married until they died.
| | 04:02 | But if they had gotten a divorce let's
say, I could click on that and I could
| | 04:06 | say instead of Ongoing, over here in
the right-hand side, I can say they
| | 04:11 | Divorced or it was Annulled or they Separated.
| | 04:15 | We aren't really sure what the
relationship is but you can change the
| | 04:17 | relationship over here and make
it more accurate if you want to.
| | 04:21 | The same is true for children.
| | 04:22 | You may discover late on as you do
your research that this particular Elsa
| | 04:26 | Sengstacke was not a natural child as
you assumed but she in fact was adopted.
| | 04:31 | And so you can go down here to this
particular list and say oh, the relationship
| | 04:34 | is actually Adopted instead, or
Step or Foster or something like that.
| | 04:37 | We'll keep it Natural because that's
really what she was but that's where you
| | 04:40 | can change relationships.
| | 04:42 | You can also edit information.
| | 04:43 | Let me go back over here to Johann.
| | 04:45 | I have got his immigration as 1890,
which is wrong, and I have got it to
| | 04:50 | New York, Kings County, which is correct.
| | 04:52 | We don't know exactly where he stepped off
the boat, but we do know that it was New York.
| | 04:55 | I did get a record from a passenger
list from a ship that had him on there.
| | 05:01 | So now I know it's not 1890. It's 1882.
| | 05:02 | So I can edit it by clicking in there,
go 82, and now I want to update the source.
| | 05:09 | So I'll add a new source citation.
| | 05:12 | Say now I don't have the ship
passenger list here so I need a new source.
| | 05:16 | I am going to called it Ship Passenger
Lists and click OK. And it will say
| | 05:22 | this is a new one, where is the
repository? And I will say it's Jeff's records.
| | 05:25 | And I will say this was the
Mosel - Bremen and it was January 1882.
| | 05:33 | I have a copy of that in my files.
| | 05:35 | Click OK and now I have
edited it and added a new citation.
| | 05:40 | So these are the basic functions that you
can change inside the Person or Family view.
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| Viewing and printing simplified ancestor charts to identify gaps in knowledge| 00:01 | As you build your family tree, you'll
probably start noticing that you have some
| | 00:04 | gaps in your knowledge, some missing branches.
| | 00:07 | Sometimes it's good to step back and
take a look at the big picture and see
| | 00:10 | where those gaps are and sort of
focus your efforts on those areas.
| | 00:13 | And one way to do that is to have
a printout in front of you of your
| | 00:16 | family tree showing those gaps or you can
also then share that printout with other people.
| | 00:21 | So let me show you how you go about doing that.
| | 00:23 | I have loaded up the SampleFamilyTree
that we have given you with our course and
| | 00:27 | you can see that it's
pretty well filled in, no gaps.
| | 00:29 | And all these blue triangles to the
right here indicate that there is more
| | 00:32 | information to the right there,
more relatives to the right here.
| | 00:35 | Let me click a little bit farther
along here, see there are more relatives.
| | 00:37 | Here is where we have a
gap right there with Patrick.
| | 00:40 | We don't know who his parents are but
let me going here on the Sengstack line.
| | 00:43 | And sooner or later, I
have Johann Sengstack IV here.
| | 00:47 | I see that my great-great
grandmother's parents are kind of thin in the
| | 00:51 | information department and
their parents are non-existent.
| | 00:55 | So I think I want to
concentrate on this particular area.
| | 00:57 | So one way to help me do that is just
have a little reference in front of me on
| | 01:01 | the dining room table.
| | 01:02 | So I am going to click on Johann to
have him be the centered person,
| | 01:05 | the selected person,
and go to the Publish workspace.
| | 01:09 | The Publish workspace is all these
various kinds of documents and if I click
| | 01:12 | through these, you see there's just
tons of different kinds of reports and
| | 01:15 | printouts you can get.
| | 01:16 | Well, there are two I am going to talk
about now and I'll talk in more detail about
| | 01:20 | all these various reports in another video
but right now I am going to focus on two.
| | 01:23 | The Pedigree Chart, which looks very
much like that, or the Descendant Report and
| | 01:30 | if you look at this report with all
that detail there versus this Descendant Chart,
| | 01:34 | which has very little details,
you can see that you'd probably want to use
| | 01:37 | this when you talk about your descendants.
| | 01:39 | So let's start with this
chart first, the Pedigree Chart.
| | 01:42 | To open up the detailed view of the
Pedigree Chart, just double-click on it and
| | 01:47 | there it is, with Johann selected.
| | 01:48 | If I want to have somebody else
selected, I could click over here and click
| | 01:51 | somebody else and it will
change the person selected.
| | 01:53 | If I want to go to Johann IV as the
base person and there is that gap I
| | 01:57 | was noting before in the People view,
that gap right there and I am back
| | 02:02 | to the Publish view.
| | 02:04 | I want to just print this guy out and
just put in onto the dining room table and
| | 02:07 | have it there as reminding me, okay,
I need to focus on this particular area.
| | 02:11 | I want to try to maybe handwrite some
stuff here when I call people on the
| | 02:13 | phone, and say, you know who Harm
Sendorf was or Asendorf or was his wife
| | 02:18 | really this person?
| | 02:19 | So the way I print it out is I just
have this in front of me and I go to Print,
| | 02:22 | then I have to select my
printer and print it out.
| | 02:26 | I'm not going to do that right now.
| | 02:28 | The other thing you can do
is that you can make a PDF.
| | 02:31 | PDF is a Portable Document Format,
which can be opened in any Adobe Reader and
| | 02:35 | just about every computer in the
world that has Adobe Reader on it.
| | 02:37 | So if you go over here and go Share >
Export to PDF, you can convert this to
| | 02:42 | a PDF file and then email that to relatives
and they can put it on their dining room table.
| | 02:47 | You can talk on the phone about it
and say, who was this person here?
| | 02:50 | Let me know. And then they can maybe
just handwrite it and mail it back to you
| | 02:54 | or if they are a little more
typically savvy, they can type in the names
| | 02:58 | inside the Adobe Reader.
| | 02:59 | Nevertheless, this is a good way to get
a sense for what's missing, going back
| | 03:04 | in time, looking from here
and looking at the ancestors.
| | 03:06 | The other side of the chart is looking
at Descendants and I like looking at the
| | 03:10 | Relationship Reports, Outline
Descendant Report, double-click on that.
| | 03:13 | And here I am showing four
generations going back to Johann.
| | 03:16 | But I want to go even back farther
because I want to see every single
| | 03:19 | descendant we've got.
| | 03:20 | So I am going to keep on going back in
time, back in time all, the way to the
| | 03:23 | very first Sengstack.
| | 03:24 | This gives me a sense of all the
descendants from the very first Sengstack we
| | 03:29 | have in our family tree because this in
the sense of all the generations, where
| | 03:32 | I can put this in front of somebody
to kind of get the sense for, gee,
| | 03:36 | this person needs to be looked at or
this person needs to be looked at.
| | 03:39 | So if you want to get a big picture
look at how your family tree work is
| | 03:42 | playing out, I think it's a good idea to just
make a couple of simple printouts at this point.
| | 03:46 | Just lay them down in front of you and
you can see where the gaps are or you can
| | 03:49 | see the extent of your information.
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2. Tracking Down Tangible EvidenceGoing on a treasure hunt | 00:00 | Once you input basic information about
close relatives into your Family Tree
| | 00:04 | Maker software, it's time
to go on a treasure hunt.
| | 00:07 | You want to track down anything that
can help you fill in details about the
| | 00:11 | lives of your ancestors.
| | 00:12 | Start at home, in the attic, the
basement, closets, look for birth, marriage,
| | 00:17 | and death certificates.
| | 00:18 | They usually have parent's names,
maiden names, important dates, and addresses.
| | 00:23 | Passports record travel dates and places,
plus usually have a photograph and a birth date.
| | 00:28 | Photos are worth their weight in gold.
| | 00:30 | They personalize your family tree research.
| | 00:33 | If you are not sure who is in the photo now,
you'll probably find out sooner or later.
| | 00:37 | Picture postcards not only might have
brief handwritten notes, but they could
| | 00:40 | have direct connections to your family.
| | 00:42 | This is a postcard of The Guesthouse,
| | 00:43 | the tavern/hotel owned by a relative in Germany.
| | 00:48 | Letters, journals, diaries, they
typically are loaded with information.
| | 00:52 | Newsy letters were common years ago.
| | 00:54 | Finally, look for newspaper clippings,
advertisements, and even artifacts.
| | 00:58 | Things like jewelery, needlework, and metals.
| | 01:02 | They sometimes have information
engraved on them like this Boy Scout medal.
| | 01:06 | As you gather all these goodies,
it's important to protect them.
| | 01:09 | Put documents and photos in plastic
sleeves, then put them in three-ring binders.
| | 01:13 | Your goal is to carefully preserve documents,
and photos while making them easily accessible.
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| Getting photos and documents onto your computer| 00:00 | Now that you have your documents
and folders inside plastic sleeves and
| | 00:03 | three-ring binders and file folders,
you want to get those printed things into
| | 00:09 | your computer, so you can link to them
inside Family Tree Maker and share them
| | 00:13 | online or by emailing them to relatives.
| | 00:15 | Well, that's one thing I want to talk
about now, and I also want to talk about
| | 00:19 | how you organize those image files,
those document files on your computer so
| | 00:24 | that you can access them from outside
Family Tree Maker, just so you can get to
| | 00:28 | them and see what you've got.
| | 00:29 | So I'm going to talk about organization
first, and then I'll talk about how you
| | 00:33 | get printed images and
documents into your computer second.
| | 00:36 | First of all, these are some
images that are already on the computer.
| | 00:39 | These are ones that come with the
exercise files that you get if you're a
| | 00:42 | premium member of lynda.com or
if you get the DVD of this course.
| | 00:46 | I have them now in a particular view
so you can see them as large thumbnails.
| | 00:50 | But I'd rather look at them in terms
of their details so I can see the actual
| | 00:54 | titles a little bit better.
| | 00:56 | So I'm going to go up to the top of this
window and click on Views and click on Details.
| | 01:00 | If you haven't done this before, this is
how you can change how you view things
| | 01:03 | inside a window like this.
| | 01:05 | I'm going to expand the view by dragging this
out so I can see the full name of each file.
| | 01:10 | You're going to notice that the
files are named by the surname.
| | 01:14 | This way I can get to them
quickly. I can track down, oh yes.
| | 01:18 | I've got a file of Katherine Damke here,
a photograph of her here, and Edna Maloney here.
| | 01:24 | I try to name them based on the surname.
| | 01:26 | I do the same routine that you do with
a typical Family Tree files and I've put
| | 01:30 | down the surname in all caps.
| | 01:31 | But I've put it first in this case so I
can track it down by the surname, then
| | 01:35 | the given name, Katherine in this case.
| | 01:37 | Then I try to get a date if I can,
just to give it some more information.
| | 01:40 | So, I want to look at these file names,
so I know, oh yeah, that's the one
| | 01:42 | that was taken in 1911.
| | 01:44 | Notice if I have more than one person in
the picture, I just put a little plus sign
| | 01:48 | between them as a way to differentiate
them, who is in the photograph and maybe
| | 01:52 | a place if that's possible.
| | 01:54 | Now if I have two surnames, that makes
it a little confusing, because I've got
| | 01:57 | Maloney and Kells inside this photograph.
| | 01:59 | So which one do I put first, right?
| | 02:01 | Which one is the most important?
| | 02:02 | Well, I really can't say
which one is most important.
| | 02:04 | Since I don't have thousands of
photographs, it is probably okay that I just
| | 02:08 | have this one file with two surnames in it.
| | 02:10 | If I had lots and lots of
photographs, I'd probably copy this one by
| | 02:13 | right-clicking on it, saying Copy.
| | 02:15 | Then if I right-click again and
go Paste, it will paste a copy.
| | 02:20 | Then I would name this one
Kells first and have Maloney second.
| | 02:24 | That way I could have the same
photograph twice, but named in a way that I could
| | 02:28 | track it down if it was
important enough for me to that.
| | 02:30 | I'm going to delete that now.
| | 02:31 | So that's basically how I name
them, but how do I organize them?
| | 02:36 | Let me back up a second here.
If you've looked at these folders in the
| | 02:40 | exercise files, you'll see that I
have five folders here and I name the
| | 02:43 | folders based upon the content.
| | 02:46 | So for example, Photos, it is pretty
clear what that is and I've got census
| | 02:49 | records that I've downloaded
from Ancestry.com, primarily.
| | 02:52 | If I just open that up,
these are all census records.
| | 02:56 | I've named them again
according to generally the father.
| | 03:00 | If it's a census record of a household,
I've put down the father's name and then
| | 03:04 | put down the spouse's first name,
even though her maiden name would be
| | 03:08 | different, as a way to identify who this is.
| | 03:11 | Then I say the census year and
the state in which it was done.
| | 03:14 | It's a US census, but this is
the New Jersey part of that census.
| | 03:18 | Sometimes people appear on
two different pages in a census.
| | 03:20 | The census take a record down on to
the bottom of the page, wrote down two
| | 03:24 | people in the household and then ran out
of room, so they go to the second page,
| | 03:27 | and so here I've got two pages from
one census just to differentiate that.
| | 03:30 | That's why there is two with the same name.
| | 03:32 | Again, I do it by the surname
as a way to track things down.
| | 03:35 | Let's go back to the previous view and
you see that I've got ships and passenger lists.
| | 03:40 | Just take a look
at how I've organized that.
| | 03:43 | You can see I've got some photos of
ships that some of my ancestors took.
| | 03:46 | You can track down the actual ships and
then associate them with the particular
| | 03:51 | ancestors who actually went on board
those ships, which I think is really cool
| | 03:55 | to kind of associate that kind of
history to those trips across the ocean.
| | 03:59 | Let me just go back here to take a look at
the view. Change that to the Details view.
| | 04:03 | You can see how I wrote that down.
| | 04:05 | I've got the surname again, and then
some other information, like the date,
| | 04:10 | the name of the ship and where it came from.
| | 04:12 | This little note to myself, it says
it's probably correct, but it says that the
| | 04:16 | woman that she was traveling with
is too old for that particular trip.
| | 04:19 | So maybe they made a mistake on her
age, but I think this is the right one.
| | 04:22 | It just reminds me maybe of
something wasn't quite right about it.
| | 04:25 | That's basically the way you organize it.
| | 04:27 | When you get files from, let's say, relatives
that email it to you, they won't be named this way.
| | 04:31 | So you may need to rename
them to match your organization.
| | 04:35 | So when you get a file, if you want to
change the name, you just click on it
| | 04:38 | once slowly and click again.
| | 04:40 | Don't double-click.
| | 04:41 | Just click once and then
slowly wait and then do it again.
| | 04:43 | That will highlight it in blue like this.
| | 04:45 | If you have trouble getting that
little highlight in blue, if you just
| | 04:48 | right-click on it, down here at the bottom it
says Rename, and you get that same blue thing.
| | 04:52 | Then you can click on side here. I nstead of
Ship I might type Boat or something. There you go.
| | 04:58 | Now once I click away, it'll be called
Boat instead of Ship, and notice that it
| | 05:02 | reorganizes in terms of alphabetization again.
| | 05:04 | So I'll just click that again twice and
change that back to Ship, because that
| | 05:07 | is what I want it to be.
| | 05:07 | I don't think a sailor would
appreciate calling a huge boat like that a boat.
| | 05:13 | We'll call it a ship.
| | 05:13 | That's basically how you organize things.
| | 05:16 | I'm going to talk about how
you get them into your computer.
| | 05:19 | If you've got printed documents or photos,
you get them in your computer by scanning them.
| | 05:25 | To scan things, you can use a flatbed scanner.
| | 05:27 | You want a flatbed scanner, because it
allows you to put things that are thicker
| | 05:30 | than a sheet of paper and the top can
expand or accommodate thicker objects like
| | 05:35 | framed images like this or books.
| | 05:37 | So what you do is you just open up the
flatbed scanner, put the image inside
| | 05:41 | face down and close the scanner.
| | 05:44 | Then you use software to do the scan of that
and import that image file into your computer.
| | 05:49 | Well, one of the cool things about
Family Tree Maker is they have a scanning
| | 05:52 | connection built into Family Tree Maker.
| | 05:54 | Let me show you how that works.
| | 05:57 | Inside Family Tree Maker on most
workspaces there is a button that says Add.
| | 06:01 | Now if you go to the Media workspace,
which is where you want to go when you
| | 06:04 | want to scan something, and
you've got to Media, click on Add.
| | 06:07 | There'd be an option called Scan Media.
| | 06:10 | But I'm going to show you
something just to avoid confusion.
| | 06:12 | If you go to People, you'll see Add.
| | 06:14 | That doesn't mean add an image from the scanner.
| | 06:16 | That is adding a person.
| | 06:17 | It's context-sensitive to
whatever workspace you're on.
| | 06:20 | If you go to Sources, click
Add, it'll be adding a source.
| | 06:24 | So it depends on the workspace you're in.
| | 06:26 | So to add an image from a printed
image or a printed document, go to Media,
| | 06:32 | click on Add, and click on Scan Media.
| | 06:34 | If you have your scanner connected to
your computer and fired up, then your
| | 06:38 | scanner will fire up when you click on
that and display a little graphic image
| | 06:43 | saying how you can scan.
| | 06:44 | In this particular case,
we've got this Epson scanner.
| | 06:46 | I could just click Scan.
| | 06:48 | It's completely automated and it'll
scan it as if this were a printed document.
| | 06:53 | It'll scan it in 300 dots per inch,
which is normally sufficient.
| | 06:57 | But if you're doing something for
archival purposes here, something that you're
| | 07:00 | going to want to go back to again and
again and again, you really probably want
| | 07:03 | to scan it at a higher resolution.
| | 07:05 | It'll be a much larger image, maybe
four times larger if you scan it at 600
| | 07:09 | dots per inch, but still I recommend
scanning it higher than you really need to,
| | 07:14 | because you really want to get it
right and not have to worry about it down
| | 07:17 | the road and say, gosh!
| | 07:17 | I wish I had scanned
that at a higher resolution.
| | 07:20 | So if you want to get out of the Full
Auto Mode, you can go to let's say a
| | 07:23 | custom mode or any other mode besides
Full Auto Mode. If you go to Office Mode
| | 07:27 | in this particular case, you can say the
resolution, instead of 300, let's make it 600.
| | 07:31 | That's a really much higher resolution.
| | 07:33 | That will be a much cleaner image, but
it'll be much larger in terms of a file.
| | 07:38 | So, it's probably a good idea to
preview your scan first, so just click on
| | 07:41 | Preview and that does a rapid scan,
not really a full resolution scan.
| | 07:45 | That way you can make sure that things are
lined up and that it's seeing the entire image.
| | 07:50 | We're scanning this one in color and I
recommend that you scan in color, which
| | 07:54 | again makes a larger file, but you do
want to try to get the original color of
| | 07:58 | the document. Even though it's a black-
and-white document, there might be a little
| | 08:01 | bit of a sepia tone to it, and you'll
want to retain that sepia tone that you
| | 08:05 | can adjust later if you work in some program
like Photoshop. At least you get the original.
| | 08:09 | That's the important thing.
| | 08:10 | Get the archival original view
of this thing into your computer.
| | 08:13 | You can always adjust it later.
| | 08:14 | So now that we're happy with the preview,
now that we think that everything is
| | 08:17 | lined up properly and the image is going
to be fully shot, we'll just go back to
| | 08:21 | the scan side and click Scan to finish this.
| | 08:24 | The scanning will take longer than the preview.
| | 08:29 | Once the scan is complete I just click Close.
| | 08:32 | Inside Family Tree Maker it says, what
category do you want to put this thing in?
| | 08:36 | Well, I just want to put it in Photos.
| | 08:38 | It should be I think the normal thing
that I want to do, but you know, this is a
| | 08:41 | group photo and I've decided that I
want to make a new type of a category.
| | 08:46 | So I'm going to go Edit > Add, new
category. I'll call it Group Photos. There you go.
| | 08:51 | I'm putting that in the Group Photos
category and later on I can add things that
| | 08:59 | are already grouped into
that category when I want to.
| | 09:01 | But in this particular case I
call it Group Photos and I click OK.
| | 09:03 | Now it says, do you want to
copy this file to the media folder?
| | 09:07 | Well, I really have no option.
| | 09:08 | It has to be copied someplace, and it's
automatically copied to a media folder
| | 09:12 | that is associated with this family tree.
| | 09:14 | This is not the way that
I like to organize things.
| | 09:16 | I'm going to show you the workaround
for this in just a second. But I click OK.
| | 09:19 | Now that image has been added to the
collection of images here, and the scan
| | 09:24 | is called this number.
| | 09:26 | It's based on the date that it was
scanned, and given a _2, because it was the
| | 09:31 | second scan on this particular date.
| | 09:32 | That's really not how I want to name
this thing, but it's done automatically
| | 09:35 | inside Family Tree Maker, and
later on I'm going to want to fix that.
| | 09:38 | For the first order of business,
let's get this thing straightened out.
| | 09:40 | I'm going to double-click on it.
| | 09:41 | It opens it up in this Preview view.
| | 09:43 | I'm going to click this little guy here,
let's say, to rotate it to the right so
| | 09:47 | we can actually see it in the thumbnail.
We can see it in the proper position. There we go.
| | 09:53 | I'll go back to the collection
and I'm going to rename this fellow.
| | 09:57 | Rename the media file. I'm going to name
it SENGSTACK Group and it's about 1905.
| | 10:10 | Now it's renamed inside the folder that
Family Tree Maker wants it to be in, but
| | 10:15 | not the folder that I
want it to be in, by golly.
| | 10:18 | So I'm going to go do a little bit work
here, and this may be a little cumbersome.
| | 10:21 | If you're uncomfortable moving
files around, you can certainly accept
| | 10:25 | this default location.
| | 10:27 | But I like to have my files in my
folder so I can track them down later
| | 10:30 | outside Family Tree Maker.
| | 10:31 | So I'm going to move it.
| | 10:33 | So if you're uncomfortable with that, you can
just skip the rest of this video. But here we go.
| | 10:36 | So what I do is I go to the folder
where that file was placed by Family Tree Maker,
| | 10:43 | and it's placed inside
this SampleFamilyTree Media.
| | 10:46 | So let's put down the name of the
family tree that you're working on, and then
| | 10:50 | the word Media is added to the
folder automatically by Family Tree Maker.
| | 10:53 | I double-click that and there is
that photo inside that location.
| | 10:57 | I'm going to right-click on this fellow.
| | 10:58 | I'm going to say Copy.
| | 10:59 | I could normally say Cut, but for now,
I'm going to say Copy just to be safe.
| | 11:04 | I'm going to my Sample Media folder that
came with your Lynda.com tutorial, go there.
| | 11:11 | I want to put that photo inside the
Photos folder by opening it up and
| | 11:17 | right-clicking and say Paste.
| | 11:18 | That added that group shot to this
folder now and now it's where I prefer it to be,
| | 11:23 | so I can track it down later.
| | 11:25 | Now if I did cut it-- I'll go back
and I'll cut it. If I did cut this,
| | 11:29 | I did delete it let's say. Now that I
know it's okay I'm going to delete it.
| | 11:32 | When I go back to Family Tree Maker, Family
Tree Maker is going to be a little confused.
| | 11:37 | I'm going to click on this thing and it's
going to say, "where is it? I can't find it."
| | 11:42 | Because I've moved it
from where it thought it was.
| | 11:45 | It says Manually search or
Let Family Tree Maker search.
| | 11:47 | Well, for me I would manually search,
because I know exactly where I just put it,
| | 11:51 | but let's let Family
Tree Maker find this image.
| | 11:54 | It looks for a while and lo and
behold, it found where I moved it to.
| | 12:00 | So now when I click on it, it has no
problem finding it again and displaying it.
| | 12:04 | So that's how you add media through
Family Tree Maker by going through the
| | 12:08 | scanner, and how you organize
media into folders on your hard drive.
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| Using DNA to trace your roots | 00:00 | Your DNA can help grow your family tree.
| | 00:02 | At this early stage of genealogical DNA
testing I can say for sure that your DNA
| | 00:07 | results will lead to
connections to unknown family lines.
| | 00:11 | But as more people submit their DNA to
services like ancestory.com, the chances
| | 00:15 | are that you will find long-
lost family members increases.
| | 00:18 | This is how it works.
| | 00:20 | Geneticists can look at our DNA and
count the number of repeating sequences of
| | 00:24 | DNA at locations or
markers on the DNA double helix.
| | 00:28 | They have discovered certain markers
where differences in the number of
| | 00:31 | repeating sequences
indicate different family lines.
| | 00:35 | If you and someone else have the same
number of repeated sequences at some
| | 00:38 | number of selected markers, there's a
likely that you have a shared ancestor.
| | 00:43 | The more markers you test, up to
about 50, more than that I believe doesn't
| | 00:46 | help much, the greater the likelihood that
matching results mean you have a shared ancestor.
| | 00:51 | The thing is this test is only for men.
| | 00:53 | It works only on paternal lineages
because it uses the Y-Chromosome,
| | 00:58 | the chromosome only men carry.
| | 01:00 | There is a test for women,
the Mitochondrial DNA test, mtDNA.
| | 01:04 | It's much less revealing
than a Y-chromosome DNA test.
| | 01:08 | But the mtDNA and the Y-Chromosome
test identify a so-called predicted
| | 01:14 | haplogroup, i.e. it denotes with some
reasonable probability who your ancient
| | 01:19 | ancestors were, going back
tens of thousands of years.
| | 01:22 | But it's unlikely that you'll be able to
find direct relatives from only an mtDNA test.
| | 01:27 | There are a number of genealogical DNA
testing services. ancestory.com works
| | 01:31 | with a state of the art laboratory,
Sorenson Genomics, to analyze your DNA.
| | 01:35 | Here is how it works.
| | 01:37 | You collect your DNA by rubbing the
inside of your cheeks with cotton swaps.
| | 01:41 | Since all cells in your body contain
your entire DNA sequence and cheek cells
| | 01:46 | are easy to remove, cheek cells
are a good source for DNA testing.
| | 01:50 | You mail the cotton swaps to
ancestory.com, they are sent to the lab and
| | 01:54 | your results are posted on a password-
protected webpage that you can access at any time.
| | 02:00 | If you take the Y-Chromosome test,
you can view others with equal or
| | 02:02 | very similar results.
| | 02:03 | Your so-called most recent closest ancestors.
| | 02:07 | In my case the most likely recent
ancestor candidates connect with my family
| | 02:10 | eight or more generations
back, more than 200 years.
| | 02:14 | For that reason alone it's not
likely I'll find a connection.
| | 02:17 | More to the point the Y-
Chromosome test is a paternal lineage test.
| | 02:21 | The Y-Chromosome is passed from
father to son, to son, to son, and so on.
| | 02:25 | So unless a most recent closest
ancestor has the last name of the person taking
| | 02:29 | the test, it's highly unlikely
that there'll be a connection.
| | 02:33 | I have sent emails through the
ancestory.com service, which does not disclose
| | 02:36 | email addresses, to the four
individuals with the closest results.
| | 02:40 | So far we have not found any connections.
| | 02:42 | A better strategy would be for me to
somehow convince others Sengstacks to take
| | 02:46 | the test to see if we have a shared ancestor.
| | 02:49 | I admit the results in my case are
disappointing but for now at least I know my
| | 02:52 | haplog and my DNA is in
the ancestory.com database.
| | 02:57 | As others submit their results there's a
chance that down the roads someone will
| | 03:00 | discover connection with my
family tree and send me an email.
| | 03:03 | So doing DNA testing and posting your results
online is kind of like putting your family tree online.
| | 03:08 | You never know when someone will
find a connection and contact you.
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3. Conducting Person-to-Person ResearchFinding others who have researched your family tree| 00:00 | One of the easiest ways to expand your
family tree is to find someone else who
| | 00:04 | has worked on your tree and get some
information from that person or get an
| | 00:07 | entire tree file from them.
| | 00:09 | There are two basic ways which can track
down folks who have worked on your tree.
| | 00:12 | One is called a message board and
the other one's a mailing list.
| | 00:16 | These two used be are sort of separate and
distinct, but now they're sort melted together.
| | 00:18 | So I'm going to show you three message
boards, one mailing list, which actually
| | 00:22 | is kind of a message board in disguise,
and then a group of mailing lists and
| | 00:26 | finally one other way to track
down somebody working on your tree.
| | 00:29 | We're going to start with one
of the biggest message boards.
| | 00:32 | That's www.rootsweb.com, which is part
of the www.ancestry.com family, which is
| | 00:36 | owned by The Generations Network.
| | 00:38 | Here is www.rootsweb.com and notice
it has www.ancestry.com after it that's
| | 00:42 | telling you that it is part of www.ancestry.com.
| | 00:44 | Now over here we got two buttons,
mailing lists and Message Boards.
| | 00:48 | Let me go to Message Boards.
| | 00:49 | The message boards are
places that are based on surnames.
| | 00:53 | So I'm going to type in hendershot
here, and right there it's already
| | 00:58 | partially typed in for me.
| | 00:59 | So I will click Go.
| | 01:00 | And that says look, we have got two
message boards based on the surname
| | 01:05 | Hendershot or Hendershott with two T's.
| | 01:06 | We will go to this one here.
| | 01:09 | Here are what they call threads.
| | 01:11 | Threads are topics that are posted
to which people respond and the more
| | 01:15 | responses are down the line.
| | 01:16 | You can see this particular topic has
had 51 replies, a very busy topic and you
| | 01:21 | can look for things that relate to your
particular Hendershot and then click
| | 01:24 | on it and look at the thread and look
for people who have said things that
| | 01:27 | might be of interest.
| | 01:28 | And then if it's specific to your family,
you can then contact them and then you
| | 01:32 | can try to workout ways to trade information.
| | 01:34 | Let me go over to the message board on
ancestry.com and it's the exact same thing.
| | 01:39 | It is the same thing, even though
it's called www.ancestry.com's Message
| | 01:43 | Board under Collaborate.
| | 01:44 | You go to Collaborate > Message Boards
and you get this particular site and when
| | 01:48 | you type in the Hendershot again,
you will go to that same listing of choosing
| | 01:54 | between the two and then
finally that group again.
| | 01:57 | There is the one with 51 again.
| | 01:58 | So it's the exact same thing.
| | 01:59 | So, while it may look like two different
message boards, they are one and the same.
| | 02:03 | Let's go into the GenForum, which is
part of the www.genealogy.com site,
| | 02:06 | and guess what, folks?
| | 02:07 | genealogy.com is owned by ancestry.com.
| | 02:11 | They are the big guys.
| | 02:13 | It is a different forum though.
| | 02:14 | It is worth checking out.
| | 02:15 | So I'm going to go to Hendershot here,
He, scroll down and I am going to go long
| | 02:21 | ways to find Hendershot.
| | 02:23 | They got lots of surnames as you can see
and we are just about there. There we go.
| | 02:28 | There is not one with two T's here.
| | 02:30 | So even though it's the same
company, this is in fact different.
| | 02:33 | And here it's more of like big topics
like the Hendershot Genealogy Book and
| | 02:37 | you can read about that here.
| | 02:38 | So it's not quite the same as the other one.
| | 02:40 | It's worth going to one of the two sites,
Rootsweb or ancestry.com's
| | 02:44 | message board, because
they are one and the same.
| | 02:46 | Then try out the Gen website,
the genealogy.com message board.
| | 02:50 | Finally, let's go back to Rootsweb and
we'll switch over to the Mailing List
| | 02:54 | version of Rootsweb.
| | 02:55 | In Mailing List version, if you go on
and type in hendershot here and you click
| | 03:00 | on Search for Hendershots specifically
and you get this one family name and then
| | 03:08 | you get a mailing list
that you have to subscribe to.
| | 03:12 | It's a little different, but when you
subscribe to it, you'd be able to go look
| | 03:14 | at the Archives and
actually get into the Archives.
| | 03:17 | I want to look under the Body here.
| | 03:18 | I will look for Jacob and you can look
at people who have written about this
| | 03:22 | topic over the years.
| | 03:25 | Here are the things that
have been written about it.
| | 03:26 | But if you look here though, it goes,
this is under the message board.
| | 03:32 | This is a message board post.
| | 03:34 | So, in fact, this is kind of like
a message board post disguised as a
| | 03:38 | mailing list, but nevertheless it's a
little bit different than going to the
| | 03:41 | message board on Rootsweb.
| | 03:42 | So you might want to try that out too,
even though it's part of Rootsweb.
| | 03:45 | Let's go to Cyndi's List.
| | 03:47 | It's www.cyndislist.com.
| | 03:49 | This is a huge site, an aggregator site
that has links to many other sites, and
| | 03:54 | I've just went to the specific
area called the Mailing Lists portion.
| | 03:58 | Here are a bunch of mailing lists.
| | 03:59 | It explains what Mailings Lists are and it
has specific topics, which is of interest.
| | 04:03 | You might want to have a particular
topic about something that's interesting to
| | 04:07 | you like adoption oriented
genealogy or African Ancestors.
| | 04:11 | So this is different than a surname category.
| | 04:14 | It's a topic category.
| | 04:15 | Finally, there is a site called
OneGreatFamily and if you upload your tree to
| | 04:20 | OneGreatFamilly, I will talk
about how to do that in another video.
| | 04:23 | If you upload your family tree to this
site, I get this kind of view that shows
| | 04:28 | your family tree and places
where it connects with other trees.
| | 04:31 | These little exclamation points are
places where you connect and if you
| | 04:34 | double-click on one of these guys
and open up Collaborate, it shows other
| | 04:38 | people who are connected to that
particular tree and gives you their email
| | 04:42 | address and name and you can email
them and say, hey, we're connected on this
| | 04:45 | OneGreatFamily site.
| | 04:46 | Do you have any idea of if this is really
a true connection and can we collaborate?
| | 04:50 | And I did collaborate with this
particular fellow in and it was rewarding.
| | 04:52 | So those are three basic ways. The
Mailling List and message boards are sort of
| | 04:57 | the standard ways and the
OneGreatFamily methodology to find other people
| | 05:01 | working on your family tree.
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| Importing family tree files | 00:00 | Family Tree Maker is not the only
genealogy software game in town.
| | 00:04 | There are other software
products out there as well.
| | 00:06 | I chose Family Tree Maker for this
course because I really think it's the best
| | 00:11 | and I have been working
with it for 20 years now.
| | 00:14 | And what I like about this current version is
that you can link to media. It's easy to use.
| | 00:20 | You can also use the Microsoft Virtual
Earth places, that is a wonderful feature,
| | 00:26 | and most importantly is this great
connection between Family Tree Maker and
| | 00:30 | ancestry.com, where if you have an
ancestry.com subscription, you can use Family
| | 00:35 | Tree Maker to find all kinds of stuff
from ancestry.com and download it right in
| | 00:39 | the Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:40 | But many times people want to share
family tree files with you and they will not
| | 00:45 | be Family Tree Maker version 19, 2010
files that you can work with directly.
| | 00:50 | So, you need to import them using
this little Import tool that Family Tree
| | 00:53 | Maker has and if you go to the New
Tree tab or the Plan workspace, there will
| | 00:57 | be an option to import a tree from
an existing file. This is the sort of
| | 01:01 | standardized easy route.
| | 01:03 | In case you forget to do this, you
can always go File > Import As New Tree.
| | 01:07 | That's the same basic process.
| | 01:08 | But here you can sort of see what
things the Family Tree Maker works with.
| | 01:12 | It works with older
versions of Family Tree Maker.
| | 01:14 | The current version of this particular
product, if you go to Help > About Family
| | 01:19 | Tree Maker, you will see that
this is version 19. Holy cow!
| | 01:23 | Usually one per year is what
they do in the terms of updating.
| | 01:26 | You can go back all the way to Version 5
and import those guys and still make it work.
| | 01:29 | The only little problem with importing
previous versions of Family Tree Maker
| | 01:32 | files is that the place and the
description names are in the same field, and so
| | 01:37 | in importing them, we are going to be
stuck in the Place field in and lots of times,
| | 01:40 | the descriptions have
nothing to do with the place.
| | 01:42 | You need to resolve that later.
| | 01:43 | And I will give you a quick sense
of what's that like in a moment.
| | 01:45 | Another type of file you can import is GEDCOM.
| | 01:48 | This is the standardized genealogy file.
| | 01:50 | It stands for GEnealogical Data
COMmunication and the current version is 5.5.
| | 01:56 | That may be updated to 6 one of these
days, but that's the current version,
| | 01:58 | so if you have got a 5.5 GEDCOM file
that's coming in from somebody,
| | 02:02 | it has a lot of information.
| | 02:04 | It's not as good as a Family Tree
file in terms of all the things it can
| | 02:07 | contain, but it's a great
way to swap Family Tree data.
| | 02:10 | Finally, these three file types come
from three different products that you can
| | 02:14 | work with, if you are a genealogist.
| | 02:16 | Personal Ancestral File is sort
of the granddaddy of the basic
| | 02:20 | genealogical programs.
| | 02:22 | This comes from the Mormon Church, the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
| | 02:25 | They really are very big into
genealogy and this was created by the Church.
| | 02:29 | Legacy Family Tree is another product,
as well as Master Genealogist, so you can
| | 02:33 | import all those kinds of file types
and the way you do it is by going Browse
| | 02:37 | and track down the file that you want.
| | 02:39 | Now in this particular case, we have
got a file for you that you can use from
| | 02:42 | the Exercise Files, if you are
going to have the exercise files.
| | 02:45 | And this is a SampleFamilyTreeGEDCOM.ged.
| | 02:49 | ged is the file extension for GEDCOM files.
| | 02:51 | We will select that one and now if you
click this little down arrow here,
| | 02:54 | you can see all the different
types that it will bring in.
| | 02:57 | The pjc is The Master Genealogist and
Legacy is leg or fdb and GEDCOM is ged.
| | 03:02 | So those are all these different
kind of file types you can bring in, but
| | 03:05 | we are specifically brining in
this ged, the GEDCOM, and click Open.
| | 03:08 | I will say okay there is it.
| | 03:09 | Well, should we call it FamilyTreeGEDCOM?
| | 03:11 | Well, let's just keep it that way so
we can remember what we just imported
| | 03:14 | and I will click Continue
and that will now import it.
| | 03:17 | And you will see a little screen
that pops up and shows you the progress.
| | 03:20 | Now it says okay, the import is complete.
| | 03:24 | And number of Individuals, number of
Records, no Errors. It's all good.
| | 03:29 | So, we can view the log files.
| | 03:31 | It's a little itty-bitty text file,
but we will just say Close.
| | 03:34 | And this is the imported GEDCOM file,
which should look familiar to you by now
| | 03:37 | because we have been using this
sample file in other forms in other videos.
| | 03:41 | Let me just show you one little thing
that happens when you import a GEDCOM file.
| | 03:44 | I am going to go to Places and
you will notice that all these places have
| | 03:50 | little question marks next to them.
| | 03:52 | Question marks mean that this
is not yet a resolved place.
| | 03:56 | We have not worked with Family Tree
Maker to say this is a place that I
| | 03:59 | recognize as a standardized name place,
but in fact, most of these guys are in
| | 04:03 | fact standardized names.
| | 04:05 | It's just that when you import a
GEDCOM file, you have got to go through the
| | 04:08 | process of saying look, these are
standardized and there are ways to resolve them,
| | 04:12 | this is called. This little button
up here says that you can resolve all of them.
| | 04:15 | If you click on that, you want to back it up.
| | 04:17 | Well, we don't need to back it up.
| | 04:18 | We just imported it, so we say No.
| | 04:20 | Then it will list every single
place name and ask us to say what is the
| | 04:24 | Suggested Place Name using
standardized Place Naming Conventions and it will
| | 04:29 | almost always match the ones
that we have already imported.
| | 04:31 | So, all there is to do is just say
accept all the place names, except for
| | 04:35 | the few exceptions maybe and click OK.
| | 04:37 | That's a quick way to
resolve all the place names.
| | 04:40 | Then the other thing I was mentioning,
that place and descriptions are put into
| | 04:44 | one place in the place name.
You will see a lot of stuff here
| | 04:46 | if you import let's say an old Family
Tree Maker file that says something like,
| | 04:50 | oh, this guy was a friend of so-and-so.
That's because it was in the description field.
| | 04:53 | This is not a place field.
| | 04:54 | So, you need to actually move
that to a description later.
| | 04:57 | That's just a little bit of manual labor
that needs to be done, if you import an
| | 05:00 | older version of Family Tree Maker file.
| | 05:02 | So, that's the basic way that you import
files of other formats than the current
| | 05:06 | version of Family Tree Maker into
your Family Tree Maker software.
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| Talking to older relatives| 00:00 | The rule of thumb in genealogy
is to talk to older relatives.
| | 00:03 | You'd be amazed at what you'll learn.
| | 00:05 | Topping the list might be the
revelation that dear Aunt Maude has tons of
| | 00:09 | family tree information.
| | 00:11 | One way to get the family history
conversation started is by asking them to
| | 00:15 | identify people and places in photographs.
| | 00:18 | You might want to record
interviews with older relatives.
| | 00:20 | It can be as simple as putting an audio
recorder on the table or using a video camcorder.
| | 00:25 | Later, you can put audio and video
clips on your hard drive, use Family Tree
| | 00:29 | Maker to link them to individuals in
your tree and post the clips online on
| | 00:34 | any number of websites.
| | 00:35 | I talk about how to do that in another video.
| | 00:38 | Whether during a formal interview or
just a casual conversation, ask them about
| | 00:42 | specific events, immigration, marriages,
favorite past-times, reminisce about
| | 00:48 | parents, grandparents, siblings.
| | 00:51 | Finally, when all is said and done
remember that were all fallible and your
| | 00:55 | older relatives might be recalling
things that happened decades ago.
| | 00:58 | So it's a good idea to verify facts.
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| Visiting ancestral locales| 00:00 | Visiting ancestral locales, be they in
the US or other countries, almost always
| | 00:05 | yields positive results.
| | 00:06 | Check out government offices for birth,
marriage and death records, property
| | 00:10 | deeds, wills, and other legal papers.
| | 00:13 | Frequently, records at this level
have not been posted to the Internet.
| | 00:17 | I duplicated my paternal grandfather's
birth certificate from microfilm in a
| | 00:21 | city record's office in New York.
| | 00:23 | Many churches have birth,
marriage and death records.
| | 00:25 | It wasn't until the late 1800s that
government agency started tracking such records.
| | 00:30 | A church in Brooklyn provided this
notarized typewritten note about my great
| | 00:34 | grandparent's marriage there.
| | 00:36 | Visit cemeteries. Headstones and
burial records can be revealing.
| | 00:40 | Here is the headstone for a
great aunt and three of her children.
| | 00:43 | Local libraries frequently have books
about the region that are loaded with
| | 00:47 | valuable information.
| | 00:48 | In addition, many libraries have
genealogy sections with experts on hand.
| | 00:53 | Some libraries offer
free access to ancestry.com.
| | 00:56 | You can download and save images
and documents without having to pay
| | 01:00 | a subscription fee.
| | 01:01 | Some libraries give you access to the
ProQuest Historical Newspapers website.
| | 01:05 | This is huge archive of major newspapers
available to the public only through libraries.
| | 01:11 | Finally, seek out living relatives.
| | 01:14 | I stood at the main intersection of a
small village in Germany, shouted out my
| | 01:18 | ancestor's last name and a passerby
told me the mayor, the Bergmeister, of the
| | 01:23 | neighboring village had that last name.
| | 01:25 | It turns out he's my second cousin.
| | 01:28 | We ended up having tea with his family.
| | 01:30 | His mother gave us a copy of their
family tree and we have since swapped
| | 01:33 | letters and photographs.
| | 01:35 | I'll say it again, visiting an ancestral
locale can open up all sorts of possibilities.
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4. Using Family Tree Maker to Take a Foray into Internet ResearchLeafing through Family Tree Maker's ancestry hints| 00:00 | By now you've probably seen these
little green leaves popping up on individuals
| | 00:03 | inside your Pedigree View here inside
the People workspace, and you have been
| | 00:07 | sorely tempted to track down
these links, these Ancestry hint.
| | 00:11 | If you do that, you'll come to this
page and see a bunch of stuff listed there.
| | 00:14 | Well, this stuff listed here are
documents that are on the ancestry.com site
| | 00:20 | that Family Tree Maker working with
ancestry.com have tracked down and are
| | 00:25 | probably directly connected to each individual
that you see them on inside your family tree.
| | 00:30 | If I go back and look there, every
single person here has a set of Ancestry hint,
| | 00:34 | if they've got that little green leaf.
| | 00:35 | One here, two over here, eight there.
| | 00:40 | So each set is probably, a high
probability, connected to that individual.
| | 00:46 | When you go and look at those things,
you'll discover that oh, my gosh, this is
| | 00:49 | that person's census record or something.
| | 00:51 | Well before we go to these things and
start working on them and merging the
| | 00:55 | media into our family tree in some
fashion, I want to tell you what you're
| | 00:58 | probably going to come across, so you
to get a sense of what you're going to be
| | 01:02 | working with here as you
click on these Ancestry hint.
| | 01:05 | Topping the list of things that
you're going to find are census records.
| | 01:08 | You'll find many, many census records
going back, starting in 1930 and going
| | 01:13 | back into the 1800, maybe even to the 1700s.
| | 01:16 | And census records are full of
information including addresses, names,
| | 01:20 | occupations, when people immigrated,
what year they were born, whether they're
| | 01:25 | married, widowed, how many children
they have, what their professions were.
| | 01:28 | It goes on and on, the things that you
can find inside the census and I'll be
| | 01:32 | talking about that in other tutorials.
| | 01:34 | This is a Draft registration card
for World War I. It is chockablock
| | 01:38 | with interesting stuff.
| | 01:39 | I mean, somebody's signature.
| | 01:41 | It's so good to see someone's signature.
That says something about that person.
| | 01:44 | It's like you're connecting with the person.
| | 01:45 | You also find out about their height,
their weight, the color of their eyes,
| | 01:49 | the color of their hair, their address,
what they did for a living, who their
| | 01:51 | closest relatives is. All kinds of stuff
inside World War I draft registration cards.
| | 01:55 | World War II draft registration cards
were required for men, even if they were
| | 01:59 | beyond who you would even think
about is typically a draft age.
| | 02:02 | So this again has all kinds of
information including that signature and
| | 02:05 | including where they
worked and the closest relative.
| | 02:08 | Passenger lists are very interesting
because this, many times, tells you the day
| | 02:12 | that your ancestor arrived in United
States and the list of who they came with.
| | 02:17 | That's the time you find out they're
traveling with friends or other relatives.
| | 02:20 | And finally, the last thing you're
going to find that's a huge thing inside
| | 02:23 | your Ancestry hint are other people
whose trees are probably connected to
| | 02:28 | yours and then you can connect to those
trees and get that data and merge it into yours.
| | 02:33 | So this whole Ancestry hint thing is
so exciting because it really tracks
| | 02:36 | people down pretty accurately and
then it's a very simple to take that
| | 02:40 | information in those documents and
merge them inside your family tree.
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| Installing Family Tree Maker's viewer| 00:00 | The first time you try to view an
online document inside Family Tree Maker,
| | 00:04 | you are going to run into a little speed
bump and I want to prepare you for that and
| | 00:08 | get you past that speed bump and then
we can go on to having all this fun of
| | 00:11 | downloading documents, merging them
into your tree, and putting these image
| | 00:15 | files on your hard drive.
| | 00:16 | So let's just click on any leaf and
click on the Ancestor hints found button.
| | 00:21 | That takes us to a group of ancestor hints.
| | 00:24 | I am going to select
something here that has an image.
| | 00:26 | The first one here does not
have an image. It's just data.
| | 00:28 | But this next one has an image.
| | 00:30 | So I click on it and then I click on View Image.
| | 00:33 | When I do that, I am going to get this
little message, New Enhanced Image Viewer!
| | 00:37 | Download Now.
| | 00:38 | Well, if you want to see this thing, you
need to download this guy; otherwise you
| | 00:42 | really won't get a good view of it.
| | 00:43 | So we are going to download this little viewer.
| | 00:45 | You would take it would have been
included inside Family Tree Maker, but you
| | 00:48 | have got to do this extra step.
| | 00:49 | So I am going to click on that, Download Now.
| | 00:50 | It's going to say, where do
you want to run or save it?
| | 00:54 | Let's say I want to run it because
that makes it easier. And there it goes.
| | 00:59 | It's installing this little image viewer.
| | 01:01 | And then we are saying Done.
| | 01:05 | Now we will say Continue. Oops!
| | 01:08 | It says it might not have installed correctly.
| | 01:10 | We will say it's installed correctly.
| | 01:14 | Now I will click Continue, and see what happens.
| | 01:17 | And lo and behold, there is our first image.
| | 01:19 | So that's the speed bump
I wanted to get you past.
| | 01:21 | Once you get that installed and you do
it by running it and even though you get
| | 01:25 | that little error message,
keep on going forward, persevere.
| | 01:28 | And then you should be able to then see a full
view of the images inside the Web Search workspace.
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| Merging ancestry hint document data into your family tree| 00:00 | Well, now we are ready to start looking
at some of these Ancestry Hints and this
| | 00:03 | will be fun, I can guarantee it.
| | 00:06 | I want to just kind of hover over a few of them.
| | 00:08 | That's how you can see how many there are.
| | 00:09 | You just put your cursor on one of those
leaves and don't click on it. Just look.
| | 00:14 | And it says 8 Ancestry hints found,
8 Source records, 0 Possible tree matches.
| | 00:19 | This gives you a sense of
what you are going to find.
| | 00:21 | If you click on this link, you are
going to find 8 records that came directly
| | 00:25 | from ancestry.com that are typically
government documents of some kind, like a
| | 00:29 | census record or a draft record.
| | 00:32 | If I go to somebody else where I know
that there are some tree matches, let me
| | 00:36 | go over to Maloney's here.
| | 00:38 | It says 2 Possible tree matches.
| | 00:40 | That means that somebody has done
some research on the Maloney line and has
| | 00:44 | posted their trees on ancestry.com and
they're available for me to look at and
| | 00:49 | I can communicate with this person about them.
| | 00:51 | So, there are trees and
then there are documents.
| | 00:53 | Let's just start with my grandfather, and
we will click on this 8 Ancestry hints found.
| | 00:58 | That loads up what ancestry.com
programmers and Family Tree Maker's
| | 01:03 | programmers have decided in terms of
how they search things that are probably
| | 01:07 | connected to my granddad.
| | 01:09 | Well, the first thing is data only.
| | 01:11 | It's a Social Security Death Index, and if I
just click on it to select it, it turns blue.
| | 01:16 | Look down to the right.
| | 01:17 | It says Search result detail.
| | 01:19 | And it says what information is inside
this record that the government keeps.
| | 01:23 | Whenever someone dies, you
have some social security number
| | 01:26 | that's almost immediately added to this
index that becomes almost immediately
| | 01:30 | available through ancestry.com
and other sites around the Internet.
| | 01:34 | And the data is not something
that you would take an image of.
| | 01:37 | It's just data that's transferred to
your computer and that's the data.
| | 01:40 | His name, his Social Security number,
date of his death, just his month and not the day,
| | 01:44 | date of his birth and where
the Social Security number was issued.
| | 01:49 | You can compare that to the currently
selected person to see if you've got the
| | 01:52 | right guy and I know I have got the
right guy here because I know that that's
| | 01:56 | when his birthday was and
there is his birthday over there.
| | 01:58 | So, we have definitely got the right fellow.
| | 02:00 | And so what we can do is we can take
this data and merge that right into our tree
| | 02:04 | and when we do that, we are
going to source it as well from the Social
| | 02:08 | Security Death Index.
| | 02:09 | I am going to click of this Merge button.
| | 02:11 | And it pops-up this little interface
here and says okay, here is the person
| | 02:15 | from your tree and this is the person in
that document that you're looking at right now.
| | 02:19 | So, you have a choice of accepting
the information from that document or
| | 02:22 | rejecting it or making it an alternate
fact, which means you have both facts are
| | 02:26 | inside your family tree, but you
decide that one is preferred and one is kind
| | 02:29 | of the backup fact.
| | 02:30 | I don't need to have his name as an
alternate, because I've got his name
| | 02:34 | properly here, so I am
going to discard that fact.
| | 02:36 | So, I know his exact birth date and place.
| | 02:39 | I don't need to have this date
because it's exactly the same.
| | 02:41 | It doesn't have all the extra information.
| | 02:42 | So, I just discard it, and it
automatically selected Discard because the Family
| | 02:45 | Tree Maker programmer has
recognized that that's equal.
| | 02:48 | But it does say Keep the sources.
| | 02:50 | This way another source would be added
to his birthday, which is kind of cool.
| | 02:52 | Go down a little bit farther here and
it says let's make the Social Security
| | 02:56 | number preferred, and it's preferred
because I don't have his Social Security
| | 02:59 | number in my record.
| | 03:00 | I actually purposely deleted it
before I did this exercise, so this would
| | 03:03 | show up like this, because I did have it before.
| | 03:06 | This will be Make preferred,
which is the logical choice there.
| | 03:09 | And again, where this Social Security
number was issued, which again I deleted
| | 03:12 | that one. So there it is, preferred.
| | 03:15 | And his death, I have his exact death date here.
| | 03:18 | I don't need it here, because it
doesn't have this exact day, so I will
| | 03:20 | just discard this fact.
| | 03:21 | But when I do that, this
little Keep sources thing pops up.
| | 03:24 | There is another way to have
another source, so that's a good thing.
| | 03:27 | So, now we have got all these things selected
as to how we want to merge it, which is great.
| | 03:31 | It gives us the choice about
how we are going to merge data.
| | 03:33 | So, now I click Next, and we are
not going to be done at this point.
| | 03:36 | It's going to say there it is.
| | 03:37 | That's what you are going to do.
| | 03:39 | You are going to put this stuff
in and then here is the alternate
| | 03:41 | information, if there was any.
| | 03:42 | There wasn't any. We are taking the
stuff straight off the number, the location,
| | 03:45 | and we are keeping the
rest of the stuff the same.
| | 03:47 | So, all this stuff is going to be there.
| | 03:48 | They are just going to add this
little source citation, the Social Security
| | 03:52 | Death Index taken from ancestry.com.
| | 03:54 | So, we are all ready, so I click on Merge Now.
| | 03:58 | That information is added
to my granddad's record.
| | 04:01 | And I will show that it is. I will go
back to People, I will go on Person and
| | 04:05 | there is the Social Security Number
and there's where the Social Security
| | 04:08 | Number was issued, bam!
| | 04:09 | Automatically added.
| | 04:10 | Now, if I click on this, there is
the Source already added automatically.
| | 04:14 | This is such a cool feature.
| | 04:16 | It works so smoothly.
| | 04:17 | Let's go back to Web Search now.
| | 04:18 | And let's check out something else.
| | 04:21 | I want to go to his World
War I draft registration card.
| | 04:24 | So, I can't see the image until I click
on here to select it, and then I could
| | 04:29 | click on View Image and you can see the image.
| | 04:32 | And I can expand the
view and zoom in a bit.
| | 04:36 | This little magnifying glass, it lets me
hover over and I can zoom in that way as well.
| | 04:40 | So, I have taken a look at this thing.
I want to turn off the magnifying glass,
| | 04:43 | so I can unmagnify it now.
| | 04:45 | I will click on the Drag button.
| | 04:47 | That lets me drag it around a little bit.
| | 04:49 | And what's great about this document is
there is his name that he wrote.
| | 04:53 | There is his address under the apartment.
| | 04:56 | What he did as a profession, and what
the address was for the job that he had.
| | 05:00 | Who his closest relative
is, her name is Mildred.
| | 05:03 | And there's his signature, and on top
of this over to the right, it says he
| | 05:06 | was 5'6, he was slender, had blue eyes and
blond hair and other information about him.
| | 05:11 | So, this is just a great piece of information.
| | 05:13 | If you look down here to Search result
detail, it doesn't have all these juicy things.
| | 05:17 | It just has his name, his birthday, and
his residence because this information
| | 05:22 | is an image that somebody has to transcribe.
| | 05:25 | And so ancestry.com gets these records
and has people transcribe them, or
| | 05:29 | other people transcribe them
and sell them to ancestry.com.
| | 05:31 | So, they do a little bit of
transcribing to make sure that the important data,
| | 05:35 | the name and other things show up in the
search and then you can, if you want to
| | 05:39 | then take this stuff out of here
and handwrite it into your document.
| | 05:42 | But you still can merge this
stuff as well, if you want to.
| | 05:45 | And I am lucky here.
| | 05:46 | I know all this stuff.
| | 05:47 | So, I don't really need to merge it.
| | 05:49 | This is the kind of thing that I
would probably want to save and then use
| | 05:53 | this information later.
| | 05:54 | So, I am going to save that
process for another video.
| | 05:57 | So, we are going to pass this now
and go back to my search results.
| | 05:59 | Let's go back to the
People page, looks like.
| | 06:03 | We will hover him again and click on the
Ancestry hints, because we removed one already.
| | 06:08 | So, now the Social Security
won't show up because we've used it.
| | 06:12 | Let's look at this thing again.
Now it's got Frederick Sengstock.
| | 06:15 | That's not my granddad but
his middle name is Frederick.
| | 06:18 | That's probably why it popped-up.
| | 06:18 | When you hover over here, the
pencil there it says his name could be
| | 06:22 | Frederick Sengstack.
| | 06:23 | And this is what people do with records.
If they see a record and they look at it
| | 06:28 | and they go, I think this guy's
name is really spelled with an A, then they
| | 06:31 | can put that it in an alternate spelling
and that shows up in search records as well.
| | 06:35 | I am going to go through here and I
know that I have that 1920 census of my
| | 06:39 | granddad but by goodness it's not showing
up here, and I am wondering why that is.
| | 06:42 | The search methodology is not perfect.
| | 06:45 | Sometimes it catches
things and sometimes it doesn't.
| | 06:47 | If I go back to People, and I click
on his dad, and look at the Ancestry hints,
| | 06:53 | lo and behold, his dad,
1920 Census shows up where John,
| | 06:58 | my grandfather, was inside the census.
| | 07:00 | So, it doesn't always get it right,
which is one of the things why you look for
| | 07:04 | something and you can't find it but
you need to find another route, and
| | 07:09 | by goodness you can probably
find it with the other routes.
| | 07:11 | So, let me go back to my granddad again.
| | 07:12 | I need to click this arrow to get back to him.
| | 07:14 | Click on the little Ancestry hints.
| | 07:19 | I want to go to one more thing.
| | 07:20 | Let me go to 1910.
At least I can check that out.
| | 07:23 | Notice it says Dengstacke there as
well, but somebody typed in Sengstack as
| | 07:27 | an alternate spelling.
| | 07:28 | I click on that and here's
the image of a census record.
| | 07:32 | And this is so chock-full of
information. It's just amazing.
| | 07:35 | I am going to drag it up here and scroll it up.
| | 07:36 | And notice that the interface is different.
| | 07:38 | With some documents, ancestry.com has
created new interfaces for those documents
| | 07:43 | that allow you to do more things in
terms of how you magnify it and zoom in.
| | 07:47 | So, this one you have magnified by
clicking this little button and you can magnify it.
| | 07:51 | And then when you are done
magnifying, you turn it off there.
| | 07:53 | We can zoom in over here, zoom out over here.
| | 07:56 | I am going to drag down.
| | 07:57 | I am looking Sengstack and there is
Sengstack, there is my great granddad.
| | 08:02 | That's his wife, daughter, and my
granddad right there in the 1910 census.
| | 08:07 | Now, if you look down here,
what stuff can you merge?
| | 08:09 | Well, it doesn't really tell you all
this juicy information about the year he
| | 08:13 | was born, how long they were married,
where their parents were born, and where
| | 08:17 | they were born, in terms of countries or
states, what his job was, and sometimes
| | 08:22 | they even say how many children
they had and how many are living.
| | 08:24 | Notice that my great-grandmother had
five children, but only four were living.
| | 08:27 | One child died at a very young age.
| | 08:29 | So, they pass that information there.
| | 08:31 | But doesn't put it down here again.
| | 08:32 | So, this is the thing where you
could say let's merge part of this stuff.
| | 08:35 | And I do like to know that
his residence in 1910 was there.
| | 08:38 | So, I am going to go Merge.
| | 08:39 | I can discard this fact about Dengstacke.
| | 08:44 | I can discard this fact about his birth
as I have got all the information about
| | 08:47 | his birth, but we are keeping the source.
| | 08:49 | But I do want to keep that he was at a
residence in 1910 in Brooklyn, because I
| | 08:54 | already know in 1920 he was in New Jersey.
| | 08:55 | So, I am going to take this as an Alternate.
| | 08:57 | It's another fact that will reside
next to it inside that Person field.
| | 09:01 | Click Next, and there's
information about the other people in that
| | 09:05 | particular census record.
| | 09:06 | Do you want to add this person?
| | 09:07 | Well, no, we will ignore this person,
because we have already got the information.
| | 09:10 | Ignore this person as well.
| | 09:13 | And now this is what we are going
to do. We are going to merge in this
| | 09:15 | alternate information.
| | 09:16 | That's the thing that's going to be added
and then there is a little checkbox up here.
| | 09:19 | It says, do you want to merge the media as well?
| | 09:22 | And this is also a very clever thing.
When I click Merge Now that image will be
| | 09:26 | uploaded to my computer and put in a
folder that's this default folder for new
| | 09:31 | media, and it will be linked to John.
| | 09:33 | So, I will say Merge Now.
| | 09:35 | That little bit of information
about his residence was added.
| | 09:38 | I will go to People. I will go to John.
| | 09:40 | I will go the Person view.
| | 09:41 | 1910, there is the one
that was just added for us.
| | 09:45 | And if I go to the Media view, there
is that census record that was added.
| | 09:49 | This thing here is an automatic
caption that was created because of the name
| | 09:53 | of the document. I can change the
caption if I want to, to make sure it's
| | 09:56 | actually spelled correctly.
| | 09:57 | But that's not the name of the file.
| | 09:59 | The file name is down here and it's that
odd little filing name that Family Tree
| | 10:03 | uses to name the files that you add.
| | 10:04 | And I can understand that there has to
be a number, just so that I can track
| | 10:07 | them down later, but this is the thing
that I have explained in other tutorials
| | 10:10 | that you can change the name and move the file.
| | 10:12 | And I won't do that here now, but
this is the standard process when you
| | 10:16 | download media like this.
| | 10:17 | It just drops it in this little
folder and gives it this automatic name.
| | 10:20 | So, I am going to go back and look
at one more thing that's very exciting
| | 10:24 | about tracking down family tree members, and
that's in terms of other people's family trees.
| | 10:28 | I am going to go to my mom this time, and
she's privatized because she is still alive.
| | 10:34 | And over here on the
right, we have Hendershot's.
| | 10:38 | The Hendershots are a very well
documented family from the East Coast.
| | 10:41 | And I am going to go over here and notice
that there are five possible tree matches.
| | 10:45 | So, I am going to click on this
little Ancestry link here. That will display
| | 10:50 | the tree matches here on the top and
then the census records and all the
| | 10:53 | documents here in the bottom.
| | 10:55 | I am just going to pick one of these
tree matches, the Godwins of New Cumberland.
| | 10:58 | There are other ones to select from.
| | 10:59 | I will just select that and what that
does is it opens up the ancestry.com
| | 11:04 | directly and shows you this
person's tree with that person selected.
| | 11:09 | So, the first thing I want to do is I
want to see a list of people, so I would
| | 11:12 | click on this to see how
extensive this particular tree is.
| | 11:15 | And this tree has almost
35,000 names in it. Holy mackerel!
| | 11:20 | So, I am going to go look for
Hendershot and see what I get there.
| | 11:25 | Click on Go, and on the
Hendershot page, it's amazing.
| | 11:30 | One whole page of Hendershots,
just down to the first name with an A.
| | 11:33 | It doesn't get to the B's yet, look at that.
| | 11:35 | As I page through, I do start seeing
ones from New Jersey, that Rockaway,
| | 11:40 | Tewksbury, Hunterdon area of New Jersey.
| | 11:42 | And that's my line, so I am really
interested in this particular family tree.
| | 11:46 | And I could contact the person who owns it.
I can click on this link and I can
| | 11:50 | actually then click a link inside there,
and send this person an e-mail through
| | 11:54 | the ancestry.com service, which keeps
email addresses anonymous until we decide
| | 11:59 | to reveal them to each other.
| | 12:00 | And we can swap information about his
tree and my tree and see if there are
| | 12:03 | other connections, and see if he wants
to get information from me or vice-versa.
| | 12:07 | So, this is the exciting
thing about these Ancestry hints.
| | 12:10 | It's that you can easily merge data into
your family tree just by a couple of clicks.
| | 12:16 | In other tutorials, I will talk about
how you can go get those images, just the
| | 12:19 | images, and also connect them
to people in your family tree.
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| Saving documents and linking them to individuals| 00:00 | Sometimes when you click on an
Ancestry link, it takes you to a document that
| | 00:04 | has some information that you can merge.
| | 00:06 | But you already know that information,
but there's other information in the
| | 00:09 | document that's not been transcribed
that you want to enter manually and you
| | 00:13 | also want to save the image because
it's so great now that you can have all
| | 00:16 | these images on your hard drive.
| | 00:18 | So I am going, to show you the way to
do that more directly where you just save
| | 00:21 | the image and then you can
transcribe it later yourself.
| | 00:24 | I am going to use my mother's father,
and notice that he has 8 Ancestry hints,
| | 00:29 | 6 Source records and that's what I
am interested in, those Source records.
| | 00:33 | And I see that he has World War II
Draft Registration and World War I.
| | 00:37 | He would have been way too old
probably to be enlisting in World War II.
| | 00:40 | But we'll take a look at both for a second.
| | 00:42 | I will look at the World War II
first just to show you the difference.
| | 00:45 | That's how the World War II one looks.
| | 00:47 | I learned that he worked for the U.S. Navy,
which I didn't know before doing this.
| | 00:51 | We go back now and I go to the World
War I. This was on a microfilm that had
| | 00:57 | perhaps a little different resolution.
| | 00:59 | So if I started zooming in a bit,
you will notice that it's just a little fuzzy,
| | 01:02 | but that's not unusual for a lot of
these microfilm records. They are not
| | 01:05 | necessarily going to be
super-sharp all the time.
| | 01:07 | It depends on how the reader was
working in and how well they were making images
| | 01:11 | that particular day.
| | 01:12 | But this is good enough for us,
because we can zoom in on it later and
| | 01:16 | transcribe material for ourselves.
| | 01:18 | And what's great about this versus the
World War II is it talks about how
| | 01:20 | he looked, medium build, medium height, gray
eyes, dark brown hair and things like that.
| | 01:25 | It also has a signature, which
appears on the World War II one as well.
| | 01:28 | Now here, looking at the Merge
information, this stuff I know already.
| | 01:31 | I don't need to actually merge this
information and so all I want is to get a
| | 01:35 | copy of this image, this is actually just a
image file that I want to get on my hard drive.
| | 01:39 | And the way I do that is I click Save,
and I get these three options. The first
| | 01:44 | one I am attaching this record to
someone in a tree that I have already
| | 01:48 | uploaded to ancestry.com.
| | 01:50 | So I don't really want to do that now.
| | 01:51 | The Shoebox is this little sort of
temporary holding place inside ancestry.com
| | 01:55 | whether I have a tree there or not.
| | 01:57 | It keeps a little list of all the things
that I am interested in, and then I can
| | 02:00 | go back to if I want to
in my ancestry.com account.
| | 02:04 | And then finally, there's the Save to
your computer, which is what I want.
| | 02:06 | I want to physically transfer this
thing from ancestry.com's repository,
| | 02:11 | its computers, to my computer
where it's saved on my hard drive.
| | 02:14 | And what I like about this is that it
lets me select the name for this file and
| | 02:19 | where I want to want to put it, so I
can match the organization that I like to
| | 02:23 | have for image files that I bring to
my computer, rather than taking the
| | 02:26 | automatic location that Family Tree
Maker uses and the automatic naming
| | 02:30 | convention with all those
numbers that Family Tree Maker uses.
| | 02:32 | So now I click OK and it puts up this
little dialog box they call it, where I
| | 02:36 | can say where do I want to put this and
I already have Draft Registrations under
| | 02:41 | my Sample Media selected.
| | 02:42 | So that's exactly where I want to put it.
| | 02:44 | If I were let's say putting it under
other images or photos, I could select that.
| | 02:48 | But I am just clicking the Draft Registration.
| | 02:49 | And I would do the standard routine
that I do except put the last name first.
| | 02:52 | BROWNE Jacob - WWI draft registration.
| | 03:05 | And now I'll click Save and that
adds that image to my hard drive.
| | 03:09 | But it doesn't add up to Family Tree Maker.
| | 03:11 | It just drops it on my hard drive.
| | 03:13 | And I am going to talk about, how you
can add media to Family Tree Maker and
| | 03:16 | how you can link to media and link that to
individuals inside your tree in other tutorials.
| | 03:21 | But I do want to give you just a
quick look at that process now, so I don't
| | 03:24 | want to hold you up too, long when you want
to add something at this particular point.
| | 03:27 | So I am going to go to Jacob right there,
because he is the guy I am interested in.
| | 03:33 | And when you go to the person inside the
People view, in the Family tab, there's
| | 03:37 | a little option here for adding new media.
| | 03:40 | Normally, you see this view,
the detailed view, the fact view.
| | 03:43 | But this little book allows
you to add media to somebody.
| | 03:45 | So I am going to click on that link,
and it says New, and it says, oh!
| | 03:50 | Right there is the thing you just did.
| | 03:53 | So as long as you just did it,
let's go take a look out there.
| | 03:55 | Is that one you just added?
| | 03:57 | So that's the one I want to link to Jacob.
| | 03:59 | Now this thing is sitting on my hard drive.
| | 04:01 | It's not inside Family Tree Maker, but
I am going to link to that file on my
| | 04:05 | hard drive by clicking on Open.
| | 04:06 | You think it would say link, but it says Open.
| | 04:09 | Now it says Link to this file
where it is without copying it?
| | 04:11 | That's fine with me.
I don't want to move it.
| | 04:13 | I don't want to change it.
I don't want to copy it.
| | 04:14 | I just want to link to it.
| | 04:15 | I am calling this a Draft
Registration record and oh, my goodness,
| | 04:19 | there isn't a Draft Registration record
option here under Category. So I go Edit.
| | 04:24 | I am going to go New category, Add,
called Draft Registration, there you go.
| | 04:34 | And it's going to click that
automatically and I am going to say OK.
| | 04:39 | And then we will click OK.
| | 04:41 | And now this image has not been dragged
into Family Tree Maker in any fashion.
| | 04:45 | But a link inside Family Tree Maker now
goes to that file on my hard drive.
| | 04:50 | And when I click on Jacob again and
click on this media, that will show up.
| | 04:54 | I want to just go through this
process one more time for a census record.
| | 04:57 | Because census records are a little
bit different, because there's so many
| | 04:59 | people involved in them.
| | 05:00 | So we go back to Jacob's links here and
go back to the 1900 census. Click on that.
| | 05:11 | Take a look at this and notice that if
I scroll down here, there is Brown with
| | 05:19 | his dad's spelling without the E. But
there is the census record and there are
| | 05:24 | 1, 2, 3, 4 people listed there.
| | 05:27 | Now only this little bit of
information is something that I can merge at this point
| | 05:30 | and so I am not really interested
in this because I know this already.
| | 05:33 | So I am going to save it.
| | 05:34 | But notice this interface is a little different.
| | 05:36 | It has this kind of green bar.
| | 05:37 | This is a new interface that's being
used for some images inside Family Tree Maker,
| | 05:41 | inside ancestry.com.
| | 05:42 | So the only difference is that
the Save button might throw you off.
| | 05:45 | It's just a different spot and a
little dialog box here looks different
| | 05:48 | because it's green.
| | 05:49 | But it's the same three options,
saving it to someone on your tree online,
| | 05:53 | saving it to that little shoebox in
ancestry.com, or saving the image.
| | 05:56 | So I am going to click
that again, I click Continue.
| | 05:58 | It's going to be the same routine as before.
| | 06:00 | This time I don't want Draft
Registrations. I want Census and I am going to
| | 06:04 | give it the usual name, which is BROWN.
| | 06:05 | In this case, so it's no E at the end
because it's George, dad, Annie, his wife.
| | 06:12 | And I don't usually put down children at
this point, because I don't want to get
| | 06:16 | the names too cluttered.
| | 06:17 | And then I put down 1910 NJ Census.
| | 06:22 | I usually put little dashes, hyphens
between these things and let me just do
| | 06:26 | that to make it clear.
| | 06:28 | And now I am going to save
that as a JPEG file, by the way.
| | 06:31 | That's a kind of image file type which is
standard for almost any kind of online work.
| | 06:35 | And I click Save.
| | 06:37 | And now that image has
been added to that folder.
| | 06:39 | Now if I go back to Media, it's not there.
| | 06:41 | This is a draft that we did a second ago.
| | 06:42 | It's not going to be there.
| | 06:44 | When I go back to People, and
show you about linking again.
| | 06:46 | I am going to go to George because he
is the top guy in this particular image.
| | 06:50 | I am going to click a New media for
him and there's the one we just added,
| | 06:55 | because that's the one we just worked on.
| | 06:57 | So it automatically goes to
where you just worked, which is nice.
| | 07:00 | That's the one we want to add. Click Open.
| | 07:01 | I am going to have this via Census, so that
one is a category that's already available.
| | 07:06 | Link to where the file is
without copying it, that's good.
| | 07:10 | Click OK and now I have added this,
the George and if I want to add it to
| | 07:12 | other people who are also listed
in the census, I can follow the same routine.
| | 07:16 | I got this guy, go to Annie, Census, and
I can add it also for the two children.
| | 07:22 | So that's the way you can manually bring
images in that you access through Ancestry hints.
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5. Delving Deeper into Internet ResearchHow the internet can help you| 00:00 | You have probably tracked down a few of
those Ancestry hints inside Family Tree Maker
| | 00:04 | and that took you to www.ancestry.com,
where you get a sense for some of
| | 00:08 | the documents and records
that you can find there.
| | 00:10 | But what I want to show you now is a
little bit more, a bigger picture of what's
| | 00:13 | available there and on other websites.
| | 00:16 | Topping the list of things you can
find online are U.S. Census Records.
| | 00:20 | They really are a treasure trove of data.
| | 00:23 | They started in 1790, and have been
conducted every 10 years after that point.
| | 00:26 | By the way, the 1890 census was destroyed
in fire; there is only a few pages left.
| | 00:32 | So don't look for anything in 1890,
and don't expect to see anything in 1890.
| | 00:36 | There is a 72-year waiting period for
the release of the censuses. The 1930
| | 00:41 | census is the current one that's out there.
| | 00:43 | And 1940 will be released in April 2012,
and genealogists are just chomping at
| | 00:47 | the bit for that guy to come out.
| | 00:49 | The content in censuses varies.
| | 00:51 | Older censuses have fewer
things, fewer names, fewer details.
| | 00:54 | But newer censuses have things like
addresses, names, marriage status, birth
| | 00:58 | years, where folks were born, what
country or state, when they immigrated, if
| | 01:02 | that applies, what their occupations are.
| | 01:04 | The census records are just full of great stuff.
| | 01:06 | So that's really your first
place that you should go when you are
| | 01:09 | trying to track down data, and then you
can always go from there and find other
| | 01:13 | things using the census data.
| | 01:14 | Another thing that's important to look
at are military records particularly,
| | 01:18 | World War I draft registration,
because all men aged 18-45 were suppose to
| | 01:23 | register and these little
registrations are full of interesting information
| | 01:26 | including color of their hair, color
of their eyes, their body type, their
| | 01:29 | signature, addresses or birthday,
all kinds of good information.
| | 01:32 | So the World War I draft
registrations is a good resource.
| | 01:34 | World War II draft registration is
not such a good resource in comparison.
| | 01:39 | It was conducted on one day in 1942,
and it's called the old man's registration
| | 01:44 | because the other registrations for
younger people have not been released
| | 01:47 | because of privacy issues.
| | 01:48 | Only folks who are aged 45-64 back in 1942,
only those records have been released.
| | 01:53 | World War II army enlistment records are online.
| | 01:57 | They're not anywhere near detailed as
the draft registration, but they do have
| | 02:00 | some salient facts that
you might want to track down.
| | 02:02 | Civil War records, they are kind of spotty.
| | 02:04 | But you can find some
interesting things here if you're lucky,
| | 02:07 | including rosters, pensions.
| | 02:09 | If you're a Civil War ancestor had a
pension or contested a pension, usually you
| | 02:13 | can find all kinds of information about them.
| | 02:15 | Also, what their regimental
histories might have been.
| | 02:18 | The US Revolutionary War rolls are
also available, but there aren't very many
| | 02:21 | individuals in there, so don't expect
to find anything there. Usually you get
| | 02:24 | something only if you're very lucky to find it.
| | 02:27 | Other easily accessible
records include immigration.
| | 02:29 | You have probably discovered this
already at www.ancestry.com with the
| | 02:32 | ship passenger list.
| | 02:33 | And this is just great because
sometimes you can find the exact moment
| | 02:36 | your ancestors stepped off the ship and on
to North America or into the United States.
| | 02:40 | Passports are great to find
because frequently they have photographs.
| | 02:44 | Naturalization and citizenship records
also are great to find, because of just
| | 02:48 | details about addresses and when that happened.
| | 02:50 | Although there aren't many details about
let's say how they looked and things like that.
| | 02:53 | The Social Security Death
Index is an interesting thing.
| | 02:56 | You can find it free at various sites.
| | 02:57 | You've probably discovered it already
at www.ancestry.com, but pretty much the
| | 03:01 | moment somebody dies this thing is posted
online, if they had a Social Security Number.
| | 03:04 | And of course not many
people had them decades ago.
| | 03:06 | But these days even children have them.
| | 03:08 | Finally, census records from other
countries like the United Kingdom and Canada
| | 03:12 | are appearing online.
| | 03:13 | And soon you will see records from
Mexico and South America and even China will
| | 03:16 | start appearing online.
| | 03:18 | There are other web tools out there,
particularly search sites. I would suggest
| | 03:21 | you go to www.google.com.
| | 03:23 | That really is the best search site in my view.
| | 03:25 | Newspapers and magazines are online.
| | 03:27 | That's kind of spotty, but there are
aggregate sites out there that have
| | 03:30 | thousands of newspapers
online in archive fashion.
| | 03:33 | Books are online and typically you
wouldn't expect to find something in a book.
| | 03:36 | But some people actually write books
about particular genealogies and you
| | 03:39 | can find them online.
| | 03:41 | There are surname message boards where
you can exchange information with people
| | 03:44 | searching on your surname.
| | 03:46 | And there are uploaded
family trees out there as well.
| | 03:48 | So that's the basic overview of
what you can expect to find online.
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| Drawing up an internet research strategy| 00:00 | If you been working on ancestry.com,
at some point you're probably going to
| | 00:04 | start thinking like "I've exhausted
the possibilities for one or more of my
| | 00:07 | family lines. I am going to want
to venture outside of ancestry.com."
| | 00:11 | But what I want to do here is give you
a basic approach, a strategy on how to
| | 00:14 | broaden your search, plus I want to tell
you about a few major websites that are
| | 00:18 | definitely worth visiting.
| | 00:21 | First up, let me tell you about a few types
of websites that you can find on the Internet.
| | 00:25 | Topping the list is a website aggregator.
| | 00:28 | Now you know there are about 250,000
or more genealogical related websites
| | 00:33 | on the Internet, which is an insane number
and so you need to try to narrow that down.
| | 00:37 | Well the website aggregator has links
to those kinds of websites and topping
| | 00:41 | the list is a site called Cyndi's List, and I'll
explain Cyndi's List to you in a separate video.
| | 00:46 | But for now, just be aware that there
are several aggregators and Cyndi's List
| | 00:49 | is probably the main one you want to go to.
| | 00:51 | There are major records repositories.
| | 00:53 | You've seen ancestry.com.
| | 00:54 | There are a couple of
others you might want to visit.
| | 00:56 | So again, think about the types of
websites you want to go to is aggregator,
| | 00:59 | repository and then newspaper archives.
| | 01:01 | If you're looking for things like
obituaries or articles about somebody or
| | 01:04 | a business listing, you go
to the newspaper archives.
| | 01:07 | If you are looking for someone's
family tree that might somehow dovetail with yours,
| | 01:11 | you go to a family tree website.
| | 01:13 | There are message boards where
you can talk about surnames that
| | 01:15 | you're researching.
| | 01:17 | You can find immigration records
as you've seen in ancestory.com.
| | 01:19 | So if you are looking for specifically
immigration records you can go to sites
| | 01:22 | that have those like Ellis Island.
| | 01:25 | You can go to library websites that
can help you with card catalogs for
| | 01:28 | specific libraries, but there are also
card catalogs for thousands of libraries
| | 01:32 | in one place that can help you track
down books that you can either check out
| | 01:36 | using an interlibrary loan or you can
go to those libraries to view them if
| | 01:39 | they are reference copies.
| | 01:41 | You can track down cemetery information
online at a couple of large sites that
| | 01:44 | track cemeteries and headstones and
then you can use the search engines online
| | 01:49 | if you're going to use
that as part of your strategy.
| | 01:52 | So here is the research checklist that
I've created for you. I'd say first of all,
| | 01:55 | look for the easy ones: census,
military, Social Security Death Index,
| | 02:00 | immigration and citizenship. Those
are pretty easy to find at sites like
| | 02:03 | ancestry.com and you're probably going to
exhaust those at some point and move on from there.
| | 02:08 | Then you are going to want to go to
vital records and legal documents. Those are
| | 02:11 | not so easy to find online.
| | 02:13 | They're generally not online usually
because of privacy issues and also because
| | 02:17 | of just the cost of putting them online.
| | 02:19 | In those cases you probably have to
go to the courthouses or to the county
| | 02:22 | offices to get these.
| | 02:23 | You'll probably have to pay to get these records.
| | 02:26 | Newspapers are online in
kind of a spotty fashion.
| | 02:28 | One newspaper might have some stuff
online, another one might not, but
| | 02:31 | there are big aggregate websites
out there that have archives of old
| | 02:34 | newspapers that go back oh, let's
say a hundred years or so and might have
| | 02:37 | thousands of newspapers online.
| | 02:39 | So, if you're looking for something
like obituary or like maybe your family
| | 02:42 | member's business might be advertised
there or there might be an article that
| | 02:45 | includes somebody, then you want
to go to those newspaper sites.
| | 02:48 | There are books online and
frequently people write entire books about a
| | 02:52 | particular family tree and so for example,
I know that the Hendershot family
| | 02:56 | has been documented very well and
I could go online and track down the
| | 02:59 | Hendershot family and find whether
there is a book available for that.
| | 03:02 | Now it may not be something I can view
online. At least I know where it is and
| | 03:06 | I might be able to do an interlibrary
loan, where I could go to my library
| | 03:09 | locally and then they can work out a
deal to get the book come from the library
| | 03:12 | in which it resides.
| | 03:14 | Many times though these books are
reference books and they won't be let out of
| | 03:17 | the libraries, so you need to have
somebody go to that library where it is and
| | 03:20 | make copies of the salient pages.
| | 03:21 | But anyway, at least you
can track down these books.
| | 03:24 | You can get help online.
| | 03:25 | There are websites out there that
give all sorts of research tips.
| | 03:28 | Even tips about how to search online,
so you can find things about how to
| | 03:31 | research particular countries or how to
track down the history for the area of
| | 03:35 | where your ancestors came from.
| | 03:37 | And finally there are places where
you can share your family tree and those
| | 03:40 | message board sites where
you can look at your surnames.
| | 03:43 | Internet searching tips,
I'd just suggest you go right to
| | 03:46 | Google.com, www.google.com.
| | 03:48 | It is the best search site.
| | 03:49 | There are other ones out there that
compete with it for sure, but I suggest you
| | 03:52 | go there and do your
searches for things like a surnames.
| | 03:55 | You might say something like a surname
and then put the word genealogy after it
| | 03:59 | or family tree after it and you'll be
amazed at what you can track down that way.
| | 04:03 | To narrow your search, I suggest you use quotes.
| | 04:05 | You put a quote around a phrase that you want
to find inside a website, a very exact phrase.
| | 04:10 | So for example, if you put quotes
around George Washington, you'll find sites
| | 04:14 | that have the phrase George Washington.
| | 04:16 | If you don't put quotes around it,
you'll get sites that have the word George
| | 04:20 | and sites that have the word
Washington and sites that have both words.
| | 04:22 | So you want to narrow it down to
just the sites with George Washington.
| | 04:26 | You can use a hyphen or the word
NOT in uppercase in front of a word to
| | 04:30 | exclude sites that have that word.
| | 04:32 | So for example, you might want to go to
sites that say Washington but you don't
| | 04:36 | want the ones that say George Washington.
| | 04:37 | So let's say a family member's name
John Washington, you'd search on John
| | 04:41 | Washington but exclude sites
that have the word George in it.
| | 04:44 | It's a way to narrow down your search.
| | 04:46 | Finally, when you get to a website that
has a let's say a long, long webpage with
| | 04:51 | all kinds of words on it, you can't
find the spot in the webpage where your
| | 04:54 | family member's name is listed,
you can find that word by simply going to the
| | 04:59 | Edit > Find In/Find On This
Page feature inside your browser.
| | 05:03 | If you've got Internet Explorer or
Firefox or some other browser, you just go to
| | 05:07 | the top of the browser to the menu line
there and click on the word Edit to get
| | 05:10 | a drop-down menu and select Find In or
Find On and then type in the word or the
| | 05:14 | phrase that you need to find and click
Enter and you'll find that word on the
| | 05:17 | page and can find other instances as well.
| | 05:19 | So that's the basic collection or types
of Internet sites that you can look for
| | 05:23 | and the strategy you can take to
narrow down your search at those sites.
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| Tips, tricks, and techniques for searching Ancestry.com| 00:00 | Ancestry.com is such an important
website that I am going to do a separate video
| | 00:03 | on it and I am going to start by going
through it via Family Tree Maker, which I
| | 00:08 | think is the best way to access it.
| | 00:10 | Now you've probably discovered these
Ancestry hints by now and done some work with them.
| | 00:13 | I am going to click Ancestry hints for
your Johann Sengstacke IV and that'll
| | 00:18 | open up the two hints that ancestry.com
and Family Tree Maker picked for Johann
| | 00:23 | that are in fact are accurate.
| | 00:24 | They are about him specifically, but
there are thousands of other records out
| | 00:29 | there that could possibly be related
to Johann Sengstacke and the way you go
| | 00:33 | find them this is by clicking on
this thing called More Results.
| | 00:37 | This takes you to ancestry.com
inside this window here.
| | 00:41 | This is like a web browser like
Internet Explorer or Firefox, but it's built
| | 00:46 | inside Family Tree Maker and this is in
fact the search box that appears inside
| | 00:50 | ancestry.com and the thing that is
great about this, all the information from
| | 00:54 | that person are loaded up right
here to then narrow down your search.
| | 00:58 | Now if I click Search, we'll get some
results and I'll show you how that works
| | 01:01 | or we can check out these other sites.
| | 01:03 | But let me first click Search to show you that.
| | 01:05 | And it shows all these possibilities.
132 different censuses that might
| | 01:10 | be Johann Sengstacke.
| | 01:12 | A hundred 1920 censuses. Obviously
there is only one that applies to him and
| | 01:15 | we've already found it.
| | 01:16 | But it shows you that as you go into
ancestry.com it's going to broaden your search
| | 01:21 | and give you many more possibilities
because ancestry.com's programmers
| | 01:25 | know that sometimes there are spelling
issues and things like that and so they
| | 01:28 | don't want to limit the results to
only the narrow view that the Family Tree
| | 01:32 | Maker works with, but they want
to give you the wider view.
| | 01:35 | So that's why sometimes you go
beyond the Ancestry hints and go inside
| | 01:39 | ancestry.com to do your search.
| | 01:40 | I want to backup briefly though to
show you that there are other sites here
| | 01:43 | inside Family Tree Maker. We'll just
going to briefly go by them and then
| | 01:46 | continue on the ancestry.com.
| | 01:48 | You see there is Rootsweb and Genealogy.com,
but the thing is basically they
| | 01:52 | all search inside ancestry.com, because all
these three are owned by the same company.
| | 01:57 | These are three general search sites.
| | 01:59 | Google.com and again, it puts the
information in the box so that you can search
| | 02:02 | Google quickly without
having to type the information in.
| | 02:04 | So I'll click this and here are four
websites or two websites with sort of
| | 02:09 | sub-websites that are
probably about Johann Sengstacke.
| | 02:12 | They're both genealogy-related based
upon that search and Yahoo will find
| | 02:16 | I think one and then Bing
here finds I think one as well.
| | 02:21 | But that's how these search
sites work inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 02:24 | Let me go back to ancestry.com and
I'll click on Search again and you'll see
| | 02:28 | the results that it brings up and this
is a great way to go about searching.
| | 02:32 | Though it is inside the sort of narrow
view but the advantage is if you find
| | 02:36 | something here, if you find a census
that's right or a birth, marriage or
| | 02:40 | death record that's right, you can then
use these Merge features, the Merge and
| | 02:44 | the Save feature to save these images
and merge this data into your family tree
| | 02:49 | within Family Tree Maker.
| | 02:50 | So that's a real advantage of
working inside this little box.
| | 02:53 | Now I scroll down to one
little thing here. There's pictures.
| | 02:56 | And you notice there is a Private
Member Photos and Public Member Photos.
| | 02:59 | I uploaded my family tree from Family
Tree Maker onto ancestry.com using my
| | 03:05 | Family Tree Maker file and when
I uploaded it, I uploaded photos.
| | 03:08 | And so my photos are in ancestry.com
and they are accessible if I allow
| | 03:12 | people to see them.
| | 03:13 | As it stands now I don't allow
people to see them unless they get
| | 03:16 | permission from me.
| | 03:17 | So someone sees that there is a photo
and they see what the information is and
| | 03:21 | they go, "this is probably the
Katherine Marie Damke that's related to me."
| | 03:24 | They can click on this and then they'll
get to place where they can send me an
| | 03:28 | email through ancestry.com.
| | 03:30 | So my email address remains anonymous
and so does theirs and we can discuss
| | 03:34 | things back and forth and finally
if we care to we can reveal our email
| | 03:36 | addresses and start collaborating.
| | 03:37 | So this is a great way for people to
get photos but not display them,
| | 03:41 | to keep them private but allow people to get
them if you choose to allow them to get that.
| | 03:45 | But now I am going to switch out of
Family Tree Maker and go right to a browser.
| | 03:48 | I'll show you how ancestry.com
works inside a browser.
| | 03:51 | If you're not a subscriber to ancestry.com,
this is the interface you'll see
| | 03:55 | when you first go there and it's
perfectly all right for you to do work inside
| | 03:59 | ancestry.com and not be a subscriber,
but at some point you are going to run
| | 04:02 | into stuff that you have to pay for to
get. There are some free things but you
| | 04:05 | are going to find stuff that you need to
pay for at some point almost certainly.
| | 04:09 | And I want to show you just the basic
layout here and then we'll move on to what
| | 04:12 | this site looks like if you are a subscriber.
| | 04:15 | This is where you can load up
a family tree, if you care to.
| | 04:18 | I am not going to do that right
now and this is really of the meat of
| | 04:21 | ancestry.com, the Search. And if we go
Search All Records then you can put in
| | 04:25 | information here and start searching and
it'll search every single document they have,
| | 04:29 | and notice these things are all blank.
| | 04:32 | When you work inside Family Tree Maker,
they're all filled out for you, which is great,
| | 04:35 | and you then enter ancestry.com
directly inside a web browser. They're blank.
| | 04:39 | So it's a little bit more work but
this is another way to do searches
| | 04:42 | inside ancestry.com.
| | 04:44 | Let me show you all the documents that
they have, all of various catalogs they have.
| | 04:47 | We'll go down here. These are the
various sets of documents that they have in
| | 04:51 | ancestry.com and they are listed
here in order of popularity.
| | 04:54 | Let me change it to Record Count.
| | 04:56 | They've Phone Directories, Public
Member Trees, which have a half a billion
| | 05:01 | names in them, Public Records Index,
and looking on down the line you can
| | 05:05 | see how many individuals or records are
inside these particular subsets of documents.
| | 05:10 | They're not necessarily separated by
type right here, but you can go back and
| | 05:15 | see them by type by clicking on this.
This shows all the census records,
| | 05:18 | something like that.
| | 05:19 | So that's the basic way you can search
a particular item. Probably the best way
| | 05:24 | to do things initially is to search the
whole darn thing and then if you get too
| | 05:28 | many hits, you can narrow it down.
| | 05:29 | I am just looking for military
records and we'll go to military records.
| | 05:32 | If you go to Collaborate, this is where
you can go to their message boards and
| | 05:35 | I talk about message boards in another video.
| | 05:38 | Member Connections is a pretty
good way to share information.
| | 05:41 | Let me try that out.
| | 05:41 | The Learning Center is a great way
to just learn about ancestry.com.
| | 05:45 | It has little videos that
explain how everything works here.
| | 05:48 | So I suggest you pursue that.
| | 05:50 | If you want to purchase their DNA
Service where they can do a cheek swab and
| | 05:54 | then determine your ancestry that way,
| | 05:55 | that's how you do that.
| | 05:56 | This gives you access to what's called
My Canvas, which is the way that you can
| | 06:00 | create books inside ancestry.com, which
are then printed out and mailed to you.
| | 06:06 | This is the shop where you can buy
other books and in fact, you can hire a
| | 06:10 | genealogy expert if you
want to, through ancestry.com.
| | 06:13 | So this is the basic way that ancestry.com
is laid out for folks who are not members.
| | 06:17 | If you're a member, it's going
to look like this when you log on.
| | 06:21 | It'll have any trees that
you've uploaded listed here.
| | 06:24 | So for example, I've uploaded two trees.
If you click them it'll show what's
| | 06:28 | been going on while you've been away
and what's amazing is that they constantly
| | 06:32 | are searching their website for any
new documents that have been added and if
| | 06:36 | there is any kind of an ancestry hint
that they discover for any of your ancestors,
| | 06:40 | they'll add it to this tree here.
| | 06:42 | You can go out and check out the hints
for this particular person and if you
| | 06:45 | want to merge this hint into this
particular file, you can attach that hint and
| | 06:50 | merge it into the file, which does two things.
| | 06:53 | It adds credence to your family
tree that's loaded ancestry.com because
| | 06:57 | you've now sourced a particular piece
of information and the other thing is
| | 07:01 | that it gives you a chance to go out
and get that image and load it up on to
| | 07:04 | your hard drive and take that data and put it
in your family tree back in Family Tree Maker.
| | 07:08 | The thing is these two are not
connected when you work this way. It doesn't
| | 07:11 | automatically put this information on
site Family Tree Maker. If you looked
| | 07:14 | within the browser to get that information,
you've to transfer it manually that way.
| | 07:18 | But that's a real important part of
this, because these little hints are
| | 07:20 | constantly popping up.
| | 07:22 | Every time you go back to the site,
you'll see that they've found more hints
| | 07:24 | and about once a week or so they'll
email you and say, "by the way we found
| | 07:27 | four more hints for your ancestors," and
you go back here and you can track them down.
| | 07:32 | So this is the basic way
that ancestry.com works.
| | 07:34 | It's a very deep site.
| | 07:36 | I can only give you with kind of a
brief view here but the more you work in it,
| | 07:40 | the more you'll discover it has to offer to you.
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| Reviewing the major internet genealogy sites| 00:00 | I want to give you a tour of the
major genealogy family history websites.
| | 00:03 | By no means will this be an exhaustive tour.
| | 00:05 | We are going to look at a handful
of the more than 200,000 such sites.
| | 00:09 | I have created a PDF that you can
download that lists these sites so you can
| | 00:12 | follow along with that.
| | 00:13 | We'll start with Cyndi's List,
the grandmother of all such sites.
| | 00:17 | This is an aggregator site
started by Cyndi Howells.
| | 00:19 | It has links to genealogy family
history websites around the world and the
| | 00:23 | number of links is now more than 264,000.
| | 00:27 | You don't go here to track
down a particular ancestry.
| | 00:29 | You go here to get some help as
you do your family tree research.
| | 00:32 | Let's move on to the major records
repository, starting with the big one ancestry.com.
| | 00:38 | This is owned by the same
company that owns Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:40 | They're very closely connected as you
have noticed with your ancestry hints,
| | 00:43 | those little green leaves.
| | 00:44 | I will talk about ancestry
.com in a separate video.
| | 00:46 | Let's move on to the other major site.
| | 00:49 | This is called familysearch.org.
| | 00:51 | It's owned by the Mormon Church, the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
| | 00:54 | The reason the LDS Church is involved
in family research is they believe that
| | 00:59 | they can baptize the dead by proxy
thereby bringing family members into the
| | 01:04 | Church after they have died thereby
allowing people to see each other after they died.
| | 01:08 | And so that's why they do
so much family research.
| | 01:10 | You can come to this site whether you
are Mormon or not, and it's a great site.
| | 01:13 | It has lots and lots of information
starting with some research help over here,
| | 01:18 | and how to get started in family research.
| | 01:20 | It's building a huge family tree that
you can connect yours to if you care to.
| | 01:24 | And I think more importantly right now
they have this prototype that they are
| | 01:26 | working on, and gathering all
sorts of records and images.
| | 01:30 | So for example, I can just click on
this particular hit that I set up already
| | 01:34 | for this tutorial and take a look at
this census record and here I am looking at
| | 01:39 | the census record about
a family member for free.
| | 01:42 | And I can download it or print it. No charge.
| | 01:44 | And this is a huge thing and this is
getting bigger and bigger by the day.
| | 01:47 | This is still a prototype.
| | 01:48 | It's still in beta, but it will soon
be released to the public and you can
| | 01:51 | research all kinds of things on here
and not have to pay for all those images.
| | 01:55 | Let's move on to one other major site.
| | 01:59 | It's called worldvitalrecords.com.
| | 01:59 | This was created by folks from ancestry.com.
| | 02:02 | It does compete with ancestry.com, although it
does not have the same scope as ancestry.com.
| | 02:08 | GenealogyBank is one of
the major newspaper archives.
| | 02:12 | And I recommend this as well as
the website called NewspaperARCHIVE.
| | 02:15 | Let me do a search here
real quick on Jacob Hendershot.
| | 02:19 | I have been kind of focusing on him here.
| | 02:21 | Do the search on him and since he is
kind of an ancient ancestor, he probably
| | 02:26 | won't be in the newspapers here.
| | 02:28 | But let me just show you what it looks
like if you search on somebody. You get a
| | 02:31 | little preview of the page and then you
can click on it and it will show you the
| | 02:34 | whole page and you can read the news
about that particular person including
| | 02:37 | obituaries,
advertisements and business listings.
| | 02:41 | Now we are going to move on to family
trees and message boards and the big
| | 02:44 | one there is RootsWeb.
| | 02:46 | RootsWeb has a couple of strong features.
| | 02:48 | It's creating this huge family
tree called the WorldConnect project.
| | 02:52 | They have got more than 500 million
names so far on file, trying to connect all
| | 02:57 | this various trees together.
| | 02:58 | And it's a great way to go to see if you
can find your tree or information about
| | 03:03 | your tree and connecting
your tree to their tree.
| | 03:06 | It also is a great way to share
information using the surname list and you can
| | 03:11 | use their site to track down other
folks who are researching your surname.
| | 03:14 | Let's move on to this site, OneGreatFamily.
| | 03:16 | This is another site whether they are
trying to put together a humongous tree,
| | 03:21 | trying to connect people
from one tree to the next.
| | 03:24 | They have a separate interface
for how you can work with them.
| | 03:26 | Let me show you how that looks.
| | 03:27 | Here's a small tree that I uploaded to
them and the little exclamation marks show
| | 03:31 | where my tree connects with somebody
else and if I click on that it will open up
| | 03:34 | this interface and I click on
Collaborate and it shows other folks connected to
| | 03:38 | my tree, and I can simply email them.
| | 03:41 | This particular fellow I emailed and his
tree has more then 250,000 members in it.
| | 03:46 | I have mentioned him in another tutorial
video but just wanted to mention him again.
| | 03:49 | He has amassed a huge database on the
northeast part of the United States and
| | 03:54 | has done a remarkable job, and
I tracked him down via this site.
| | 03:57 | That's how I found him by seeing that
connection of the little exclamation point
| | 04:00 | and then tracking it down.
| | 04:01 | The little lightning bolts show where
someone else has got your family tree
| | 04:05 | name but they have a little
disagreement in terms of what they think the data
| | 04:09 | should be, and you can look at those
disagreements if you care to and see what the difference is.
| | 04:13 | Here it's Annie, and here it's Anne.
| | 04:16 | So you can see there are
subtle differences sometimes.
| | 04:18 | Okay, let's go back to the browser.
| | 04:20 | myfamily.com is a place where you can
share family information and photographs with
| | 04:27 | other family members.
| | 04:29 | It too is owned by the folks that are on
ancestry.com and it's just a good place
| | 04:32 | to upload images and videos.
| | 04:35 | You can find immigration records at two
sites, or more than two but two in particular.
| | 04:39 | Castle Garden is the main immigration
center for the United States on the East Coast.
| | 04:44 | It was the first immigration
center before Ellis Island.
| | 04:47 | It has a database on more than 12
million immigrants from the years 1820-1892.
| | 04:52 | After 1892 Ellis Island took over and
you can go here and search for folks on
| | 04:56 | Ellis Island and see if they came
through here and a lot a people did.
| | 05:01 | I have two library sites
that I want to tell you about.
| | 05:03 | WorldCat is the sort of card catalog for
thousands of libraries around the world.
| | 05:09 | So I am going to search on Hendershot genealogy.
| | 05:11 | I will click this and there are
books about the Hendershot genealogy.
| | 05:15 | I am going to click on this particular
one, Hendershot Ancestor Genealogy by
| | 05:18 | William Hendershott.
| | 05:21 | That takes us to this particular
listing where it shows all the libraries that
| | 05:24 | carry that book, and in particular it
shows the Allen County Public Library.
| | 05:28 | I just want to mention that because
the Allen County Public Library in
| | 05:31 | Ft. Wayne, Indiana of all places is one the
greatest genealogy libraries in the world.
| | 05:36 | It pretty much competes directly with
the Family History Library in Salt Lake
| | 05:39 | City owned by the Mormon Church.
| | 05:40 | This is a great place to go if you
want to do genealogical research.
| | 05:43 | Let's go to GWM, the Golden West Marketing
listing of genealogy libraries in the US.
| | 05:50 | It's just a good place to go if you
want to track down a local library that has
| | 05:53 | a good genealogy section.
| | 05:54 | There are two sites they are related
to cemeteries. interment.net lets you
| | 06:00 | search cemetery records, as does Find A Grave.
| | 06:04 | Let me just do this one for you.
| | 06:05 | Search there, type in Charles Barg,
and we will try Kansas, because I know
| | 06:14 | that's where he lived, click on that,
and we have got Charles Barg there and
| | 06:18 | the little symbol there indicates that
they are actually the picture of headstone.
| | 06:22 | There it is and it gives you also the
picture of the gate to the cemetery.
| | 06:25 | People go around and take photographs of
this and send in the information to this site.
| | 06:29 | That's the great way to get photographs of
headstones and also cemeteries in general.
| | 06:34 | Finally let's go to a major
search site that I like to use, Google.
| | 06:40 | And Google, there are some
trick to searching Google.
| | 06:42 | I have mentioned them before, but let
me just give a quick run through on that.
| | 06:44 | We will search for let's say Jacob
Hendershot, just like that with no quotes and
| | 06:52 | we get 529,000 hits for Jacob Hendershot.
| | 06:55 | That's probably a bit more than we need.
| | 06:56 | So I am going to put quotes around
that now, because it's finding every site
| | 06:59 | that has the word Jacob on it, every
site that has the word Hendershot on it,
| | 07:02 | where they are on they are on the same
site but they are not necessarily side
| | 07:04 | by side on that site.
| | 07:05 | So now I am going to click that again.
| | 07:07 | Now that I put quotes around it, we are
looking for the specific phrase Jacob Hendershot.
| | 07:11 | Now we are down to 2670 sites and
I will put in Jacob J Hendershot and see
| | 07:16 | what happens there.
| | 07:17 | And now we are down to two sites.
| | 07:19 | So you can see you can narrow things
down if you care to do it that way.
| | 07:23 | Or since two is really narrow, I am
going to put Jacob Hendershot Genealogy,
| | 07:28 | and this gives you 590 sites where
Jacob Hendershot is related somehow to
| | 07:32 | genealogy research.
| | 07:33 | And this is really the way that you
can hone in on your search on Google or
| | 07:37 | other search sites, but as you
recommend Google as the number one search site.
| | 07:41 | So those are the major websites
that I recommend you take a look at.
| | 07:44 | I think every single one
offers something of value to you.
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6. Using Family Tree Maker's Advanced FeaturesAssociating place names with people and events| 00:00 | The Places feature in Family Tree
Maker allows you to do some pretty exciting things,
| | 00:04 | and I really enjoy working with it.
| | 00:05 | Let's just switch over to
Places and I'll show you what I mean.
| | 00:08 | When you go to Places you'll see the map,
and the map has a couple of options.
| | 00:11 | This is Ahausen, Germany, so
it's showing that general area.
| | 00:14 | Here it is right in the center.
| | 00:16 | If I click on Aerial, it will switch
to the satellite photo taken relatively
| | 00:20 | recently as part of
Virtual Earth here on Microsoft.
| | 00:23 | If you want to see another thing
called Bird's eye, it hasn't been done
| | 00:27 | everywhere around the world, but if
you go someplace that's a relatively
| | 00:30 | well-populated like Brooklyn for example, you can
switch to the Bird's eye view. And my goodness! Look at that.
| | 00:35 | If you want to see some current
view of a place in the world versus the
| | 00:40 | ancient view, which probably shows New York, but
nevertheless you can see what it looks like now.
| | 00:43 | Pretty remarkable.
| | 00:45 | Let me go back to the
Road view for the time being.
| | 00:46 | On the left hand side of Places view are
all the places that you have attached to
| | 00:51 | something in your family tree.
| | 00:53 | Be it a birth, a death,
the marriage, some event.
| | 00:56 | And when you import a GEDCOM file,
all places are what are called unresolved.
| | 01:02 | Meaning that Family Tree Maker had not had
a chance to take these names and check to
| | 01:05 | see whether they are officially
created place names, which means city, town,
| | 01:10 | village, county, state, and country.
| | 01:14 | Clearly some of these places are
standardized place names, but they just haven't
| | 01:18 | been officially resolved yet.
| | 01:19 | So we can do that very easily
by just clicking on Resolve All.
| | 01:23 | When you do that, it opens up this big
interface, after we say we don't need to
| | 01:27 | duplicate this right now.
| | 01:28 | And it shows every single place name
and it says these are all unrecognized.
| | 01:33 | And you can go through here and say
Aich is this thing, or Brooklyn is that.
| | 01:37 | You can go through and start checking them all.
| | 01:39 | But rather than check them all now
just say Cancel, and all of a sudden
| | 01:43 | everything that was properly
named in terms of using the genealogy
| | 01:46 | standardization will now display as
being proper resolved place names.
| | 01:51 | Just by clicking Cancel.
| | 01:52 | That's this little thing with GEDCOM files.
| | 01:54 | Now if I want to resolve a place name,
I can just click on it like that and go
| | 02:00 | over here and click on this little button:
| | 02:02 | Resolve unrecognized place name.
| | 02:05 | And it says is this what you mean?
| | 02:06 | You mean Buffalen is not a
town that's there anymore.
| | 02:09 | It's actually called Ballyconnell.
| | 02:11 | So if I click this, I am going
to change this place to that.
| | 02:15 | I want to remember the word Buffalen.
| | 02:17 | So I am going that and go Ctrl+C to copy it
just to get that thing in memory for a second.
| | 02:22 | Now I am going to say replace it.
| | 02:24 | So wherever it said Ballyconnell
Buffalen, it now just says Ballyconnell.
| | 02:28 | I am going to click on this one.
That's the particular fact that's
| | 02:31 | associated with our place.
| | 02:32 | I am going to double-click
on that fact and there it is.
| | 02:34 | Now I want to add the word Buffalen
just to remind me that that was the old
| | 02:38 | name for this place.
| | 02:39 | So I am going to go Ctrl+V which is the way
you can paste something, or I can go Edit > Paste.
| | 02:44 | That will type in that
word that I copied earlier.
| | 02:47 | Just so I don't forget that Buffalen
was associated with this name, even though
| | 02:50 | Buffalen doesn't exist as a town anymore.
| | 02:52 | I went there and it's just
a field now. Oh well. Back to Places.
| | 02:56 | You can do that with individual thing here.
| | 02:57 | For instance Brooklyn, New
York Holy Cross Cemetery.
| | 03:00 | Obviously that is not an official place name.
| | 03:02 | That's just a note to myself
that this is where the cemetery was.
| | 03:05 | If I want to change this, if I want to
resolve this, I do the same procedure I
| | 03:08 | did before, where I'd say resolve
this and copy and paste the Holy Cross
| | 03:11 | Cemetery, and then save this as
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.
| | 03:15 | Just the standard way of doing it.
| | 03:17 | But that's the sort one-step-at-a-time
process to resolve place names when they
| | 03:21 | are unresolved ones, if you care to resolve them.
| | 03:23 | Let me click on Person now instead of Place.
| | 03:26 | What's cool about the Person thing is
that it shows you where this person has
| | 03:31 | traveled in some fashion or where
this person started his or her life and
| | 03:34 | ended his or her life.
| | 03:36 | In this particular case, we are
looking at Robert Kells and he was born in
| | 03:42 | England, but died in Ireland.
| | 03:44 | And then Kells' family went
from Ireland to North America.
| | 03:48 | But this particular person
had that immigration process.
| | 03:51 | And these other places here I could say
Scotland, but I don't have a date for it
| | 03:55 | but it will show up as something
that he did somewhere in his life.
| | 03:59 | So this is his route
that he took over his years.
| | 04:03 | This can be done with anybody.
| | 04:03 | I am going to look at my grandfather
and it always shows, by default, the
| | 04:08 | birth and the death.
| | 04:10 | But I know that he got married in New Jersey.
| | 04:12 | So I'll click on that and
now it's going off the map.
| | 04:15 | So I can expand the view of the map.
| | 04:16 | See that route that he took,
where he born, married and later died.
| | 04:21 | I can add a residence, the
same residence in Marion.
| | 04:23 | So I am going to go some place else.
I am going to go to his residence in New Jersey.
| | 04:26 | It adds another little spot on the map.
| | 04:29 | And if I want I can print this map out.
| | 04:31 | I am thinking that color orange kind of
doesn't really show up very well on this map.
| | 04:36 | So I am going to click over here and
pick red instead, try that one instead.
| | 04:40 | It gets little bit clearer now.
| | 04:46 | So I can then click Print > Print Map
and find a printer and print that out.
| | 04:51 | That's another cool thing you can do in Places.
| | 04:52 | Now one of the drawbacks of using
standardized place names is that many times
| | 04:57 | multiple people would be in
that place but in different specific
| | 05:01 | locations within that place.
| | 05:02 | Let me show you what I mean.
| | 05:03 | I am going to Places here and select
Brooklyn where a lot of folks in my
| | 05:06 | family spent some time.
| | 05:08 | There are 9 people who have some kind of
events that happened to them in Brooklyn.
| | 05:14 | And if I zoom in on the map here of
Brooklyn, this is just a little pushpin
| | 05:17 | that says okay, it's Brooklyn, sort of.
| | 05:20 | It's not any particular street in Brooklyn.
| | 05:22 | This is kind of the
generic pushpin for Brooklyn.
| | 05:25 | But in fact some people lived on one
street in Brooklyn and some people lived on
| | 05:28 | another street in Brooklyn.
| | 05:29 | I'd like to somehow have more than one
pushpin, but I can't have more than one
| | 05:32 | pushpin for this place name.
| | 05:34 | It's an official place name.
| | 05:36 | I can place the pushpin at different
location inside Brooklyn but it will still
| | 05:40 | apply to all these nine people and all
the various events that happened to them
| | 05:43 | in Brooklyn, which could be
many events besides just one.
| | 05:46 | I will show you how that works.
| | 05:48 | All the events that happened
in Brooklyn will show up here.
| | 05:50 | So it's not all in that one little spot.
| | 05:52 | But if I want to move the pushpin to a
more representative spot in Brooklyn for
| | 05:55 | example, I can click this little pushpin
here and that makes the pushpin active.
| | 06:00 | And now I want to have my little target.
| | 06:02 | You can see that little cross there.
| | 06:03 | I want the target to be more up here.
| | 06:04 | This is really more appropriate,
because this is where most of the events
| | 06:07 | happened with my family in Brooklyn.
| | 06:09 | So I'll click there, and will move the
pushpin there such that when I go back to
| | 06:12 | Brooklyn, I go to Bremen for a second
and come back to Brooklyn, the pushpin
| | 06:17 | will be in that spot that I just
placed it toward Fulton Avenue there.
| | 06:20 | So I get a little closer and there is Fulton.
| | 06:22 | I want to do something more
specific, not just Brooklyn.
| | 06:25 | So I am going to put in a place
that is not a proper place name.
| | 06:29 | It won't be recognized but I am going
to tell Family Tree Maker, tough, this is
| | 06:32 | unrecognized one, but I want to use it.
| | 06:34 | So I am going to go to People, Person,
not the Family view, the Person view and
| | 06:39 | I am going to go to a different person.
| | 06:41 | So I am going to click
in this little Index here.
| | 06:45 | Go to Johann Sengstack.
| | 06:49 | Now I want to say where
he had his grocery store.
| | 06:51 | It was his occupation, grocer.
| | 06:53 | I want to say the place that his grocery
store was on Fulton Street in Brooklyn,
| | 06:59 | New York, USA, we'll say is good enough.
| | 07:03 | Or we should say it will
sort of be semi-official here.
| | 07:07 | Now I am going to just click away from
that and I am going to get this little
| | 07:10 | question mark saying,
"well I don't recognize that."
| | 07:12 | Family Tree Maker says
"I don't recognize this place name."
| | 07:14 | I am going to click the Resolve
unrecognized place name icon here.
| | 07:18 | And it's going to say "well you want
to use something else like New York.
| | 07:21 | So it will be official."
| | 07:22 | In this particular case let's just ignore it.
| | 07:25 | And if I go back to Places and I look
at this list of places, I go down the Fulton,
| | 07:29 | you'll see that it's there and it
doesn't have that little question mark next to it.
| | 07:33 | As far as Family Tree Maker is
concerned this is an okay place name.
| | 07:36 | Then I click on it, this Microsoft
Virtual Earth is smart enough to say
| | 07:40 | "okay, you mean the Fulton
Street in Brooklyn, don't you?
| | 07:43 | Where would you like me to go?" I'll
just pick this and there it puts a pushpin
| | 07:47 | for me in that particular location but
it's not exactly where I wanted to be.
| | 07:51 | But it did though recognize the Fulton
Street, Brooklyn address as a generic address.
| | 07:56 | Now I am going to click this pushpin.
| | 07:57 | I am going to put my great
granddad's grocery store more closely where it
| | 08:01 | actually was which is
right about there actually.
| | 08:04 | So now, every time I go to Fulton
Street in Brooklyn, I can associate other
| | 08:08 | things here like where he lived, or
where they had their pinochle parties, or
| | 08:12 | where they had there coffee clutches or
whatever. I can locate it to that Fulton
| | 08:15 | Street address and that will show up
and would be associated with multiple
| | 08:19 | individuals as you saw before
when I just clicked on Brooklyn.
| | 08:22 | I got the same kind of routine as I had
before but it will be called, instead of
| | 08:26 | Brooklyn, it will be called Fulton Street.
| | 08:27 | And if I want to give it a short name,
let me go back to Fulton Street and
| | 08:32 | give it what's called a short
name. I can say the Fulton St. Home,
| | 08:37 | and every time I have these
printouts or have reports from Family Tree
| | 08:42 | Maker, it won't say this whole address.
| | 08:44 | It will just say Fulton St. Home for the addresses,
instead of their whole long thing like that.
| | 08:48 | So that's basically all the things you can do
inside the Places view inside Family Tree Maker.
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| Adding, viewing, and linking images and media to people| 00:00 | Adding media like pictures and
documents to Family Tree Maker and then being
| | 00:04 | able to link that media to individuals and
sources is a great strength of Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:08 | I have alluded to this process
in some other tutorial videos.
| | 00:11 | I want to do that in more detail this time.
| | 00:13 | We are going to go to the Media
Workspace, and it's purposely blank.
| | 00:17 | No media have been added to this
particular Family Tree Maker file.
| | 00:19 | I want to start by adding a
bunch of media all at once.
| | 00:22 | So when you are in the Media workspace,
you can go right to the word Add and
| | 00:27 | it says Add New Media or Scan.
| | 00:28 | Well this time we are just adding
existing files that are already on my hard
| | 00:31 | drive, so we'll do Add New Media.
| | 00:33 | I click that and that opens up this
little dialog box asking us to locate
| | 00:37 | whatever media we want to add.
| | 00:39 | In this case I will open directly to
my Photos, which is what I wanted to do.
| | 00:42 | Now I want to add just
portraits this time, just individuals.
| | 00:45 | I am going to add group photos later.
| | 00:46 | So I am going to start by
clicking out one person.
| | 00:48 | To select individual files in a window
like this, you can Ctrl-click on individuals.
| | 00:54 | So, you select one, and then hit on
the Ctrl key and click on another.
| | 00:57 | That selects two now, I Ctrl-
click on this one, and this one.
| | 01:00 | I am clicking just on individual portraits.
| | 01:02 | I've clicked on all the separate
individual portraits inside this particular
| | 01:06 | folder, I am going to click Open, and it says
okay what do you want to do with those guys.
| | 01:09 | I want link to these files
where they are without copying them.
| | 01:12 | That's my favorite way of doing it,
because that's why I setup my folders and
| | 01:15 | my images that way in the first place,
with kind of categories as well.
| | 01:19 | I have got Photos down here.
| | 01:20 | I can select Photos.
| | 01:21 | I could create a new
category called the portraits.
| | 01:24 | We do that instead.
| | 01:25 | I'll go Edit > Add. I am going to say
Portrait photos, portrait photos instead,
| | 01:32 | and it's going to link to
that instead of just photos.
| | 01:36 | So, I'll have Portrait photos this
time and I'll say OK. Here we go.
| | 01:41 | There are those six individual photos.
| | 01:43 | They are not linked to anybody, but
they are now at least linked within Family
| | 01:47 | Tree Maker to their source on my hard drive.
| | 01:50 | But now I want to link them to individuals.
| | 01:51 | So here is Katherine Damke.
| | 01:53 | I just can select her.
| | 01:55 | Over here under her face,
under her name, it says Links.
| | 01:58 | I just click on this.
| | 01:59 | It says, who do you want to link it to?
| | 02:01 | New to Person, and I am going to go to
Katherine Damke, there she is and say OK.
| | 02:08 | It says link to this person only or to a fact?
| | 02:10 | I want to link just to this person.
| | 02:13 | And now linked to her sets that if I go
to her view inside the People page, and
| | 02:18 | where is she? There she is. If I click
on Media, there is her picture showing up
| | 02:24 | as a linked piece of media to her.
| | 02:25 | Let's go back to the Media page.
| | 02:27 | I can do that to each
individual here one at a time.
| | 02:30 | I can click on it.
Go to New > Link to Person.
| | 02:33 | Go to David Kells and say OK.
| | 02:37 | And it's linked to that person one at a time.
| | 02:39 | I want to although move on from this.
| | 02:41 | Now you get the sense of how can link one
individual to an image or an image to an individual.
| | 02:46 | I am going to go back and
get some more images now.
| | 02:48 | So I am going to Add > Add New Media.
| | 02:50 | Now I want to get all the group shots.
| | 02:52 | I am going to click on this one, Ctrl-
click now on this one, Ctrl-click on that,
| | 02:56 | and these two together and those two.
I will Ctrl-click on all those guys, click Open.
| | 03:02 | Now it says what category
do you want to put these in?
| | 03:05 | I want to put them in Group Photos.
| | 03:06 | Now Group Photos is a category I made.
| | 03:08 | It doesn't come with
Family Tree Maker automatically.
| | 03:10 | That's why I made that using the same
procedure I used before for the portraits.
| | 03:15 | Click OK and it's going to load all those
guys up inside the group portrait category.
| | 03:19 | Now notice it switched to this
category automatically away from the
| | 03:22 | Portrait photos category.
| | 03:24 | We list all the categories
over here by Media category.
| | 03:26 | The default view over here is All media,
but you can also view it by category.
| | 03:32 | Group Photos, Portrait photos.
| | 03:35 | Now the group photos, it's a
little bit different process.
| | 03:37 | It's kind of a bit of manual labor.
| | 03:38 | I wish we could select all four people
at once and link all four all four people
| | 03:41 | at the same time, but I can't
do that in this particular case.
| | 03:44 | So I am going to click on this one.
| | 03:45 | I want to add links to this photo.
| | 03:46 | So I need to do it one at a time.
| | 03:48 | So I go to New > Link To Person.
| | 03:50 | I want to get it out of the way,
so I can see the names.
| | 03:52 | It's Herbert Kells.
| | 03:54 | I don't have Herbert in my
tree, but I do have Helen.
| | 03:56 | That's the one person that I do have.
| | 03:57 | So I am going to click on her.
| | 03:59 | Ooh! I do have David Kells.
Hang on a sec and let's go David.
| | 04:02 | David is over there.
| | 04:07 | So those are the two people that are
in this tree that we are using for this
| | 04:09 | particular example for a lynda.com tutorial.
| | 04:12 | Now I want to put some
information about these photos.
| | 04:16 | So if I switch away from the
Links view and back to the Facts view,
| | 04:20 | it's nice to have a little extra
bit of information about photos.
| | 04:23 | If I type in a caption here, the
captain will replace what you see here.
| | 04:26 | I have very carefully created this file
name so that it would sort of show up as
| | 04:31 | a caption, but if I just change the
caption to something like Jeff's photo and
| | 04:36 | I click Enter now, it's going to change
that image, change that caption there.
| | 04:41 | The real filename stays down here,
but it just changed the caption.
| | 04:44 | So I named my filenames on purpose, so
that I can view them here as captions,
| | 04:48 | but you can change this view to
something else by typing in a caption.
| | 04:52 | I can put in a date that the photo was taken.
| | 04:54 | It could be an estimated date.
| | 04:55 | Sometimes I put that into the caption
name as well, but we could say something
| | 04:58 | like "this is 1910," if that's
what it is. It just in there.
| | 05:00 | It doesn't show up here in the caption.
| | 05:02 | It's in the Group Photos category,
and I can put in more things here.
| | 05:05 | Like this photo was taken by such and
so, on this particular studio, on this
| | 05:08 | particular date, all those kinds
of information about that photo.
| | 05:11 | This is some kind of
detail that you can add as well.
| | 05:14 | You can also add notes about it, which
is very similar to what you just added in
| | 05:16 | terms of the description.
| | 05:18 | Let me move on to get another type of
image. Instead of a photo, I am going
| | 05:23 | to make a document.
Or go get a document.
| | 05:25 | Go to Add New Media, over here
to Sample Media, Census, Open.
| | 05:32 | I can pick, let's say, the 1920
census that the great-grandparents and
| | 05:37 | grandparents were in, click Open.
| | 05:40 | This is definitely a census, so I'll click that.
| | 05:42 | It will be put in the Census category
and the category will be opened, if I have
| | 05:45 | Media category selected here. There it is.
| | 05:47 | Now I can put a caption here, but
I have already got that caption.
| | 05:50 | The thing is if I am going to link
this to somebody, it's a same process as
| | 05:53 | before as if this were a portrait.
| | 05:55 | I can go ahead and click Links, and I
can link to the individuals inside this
| | 05:59 | particular census.
Several people are in there.
| | 06:01 | It would take me a while to link to all of them.
| | 06:02 | But I know, for instance, that John
Frederick is in there, my granddad.
| | 06:06 | I can link to him and if I go to him
again, under Person, John Frederick,
| | 06:11 | that's going to show that particular
census that I can always view later.
| | 06:14 | Let me go back to the Media view,
and I'll show you one more thing.
| | 06:17 | I want to talk about adding someone's
portrait to their name that appears.
| | 06:21 | Instead of that silhouette,
I want to put the portrait there.
| | 06:24 | Let me go back to the Media view and look
at the Portrait photos and there's Katherine.
| | 06:30 | So I want to put Katherine's photo,
that particular photo, in with her particular
| | 06:33 | listing on the People page.
| | 06:35 | I go back to the People page, go to Katherine.
| | 06:41 | I right-click on the silhouette and say
Link to an Existing Picture and then I
| | 06:48 | go to Media category,
Portrait photos, and there she is.
| | 06:55 | Now I linked to her and then she will
show up here as a thumbnail and every
| | 06:59 | time you go view her-- and I'm going
to make her down here in the front, and
| | 07:03 | you'll see that she shows up here as well.
| | 07:05 | Really cool little thing when you
have your whole tree filled of little
| | 07:09 | portraits here when you are done.
| | 07:10 | Now let me go back to the Media source again.
| | 07:12 | If I want to take a picture from a group
photo, that's a little bit of a bigger issue.
| | 07:17 | Let's say I want to take Johann out
of this particular picture. There's
| | 07:20 | Katherine there, but I want to
get Johann out of this picture.
| | 07:23 | I can't zoom in on it here
inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 07:26 | I need to duplicate that and
crop that in some other program.
| | 07:30 | I'll just give you a
sense of how to do that here.
| | 07:32 | From with inside Family Tree Maker,
I'll go to Add New Media and that opens up
| | 07:35 | this dialog box again.
| | 07:36 | I go to Photos, take this one.
| | 07:40 | I am going to right-click on it inside
this folder, right-click and say Copy.
| | 07:44 | I am going to right-click here
in empty space and say Paste.
| | 07:48 | I am going to rename it.
| | 07:49 | I am going to name just Johann Sengstack.
| | 07:51 | Remember, you click inside here and you can
edit inside once you clicked twice slowly.
| | 07:57 | So now I have created a
copy with a different name.
| | 08:00 | Now I am going to open that
inside Family Tree Maker, there it is.
| | 08:05 | It's going to be a portrait sooner or
later, so I am going to put it down here
| | 08:08 | in Portraits, there it is.
| | 08:11 | Now it's not a portrait yet but I am
going to select it inside this little
| | 08:15 | detail view and I am going to
on the click on it down here.
| | 08:17 | When you click on this name inside
Family Tree Maker, and not the image up
| | 08:21 | here, if I double-click it here, it just
shows it in the viewer inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 08:24 | I go back to Collection.
| | 08:26 | If I click on the name, it opens up in
whatever kind of image editing software
| | 08:30 | you have installed on your computer.
| | 08:32 | And this is the basic
image editor for Windows Vista.
| | 08:35 | You can do what's called fixing it.
| | 08:36 | So I'll go Fix > Crop Picture, and that
puts this little bounding box around it,
| | 08:42 | and I can crop it down our friend
Johann here, my great-grandfather.
| | 08:47 | And say Apply and close it.
| | 08:49 | When I go back to Family Tree
Maker, lo and behold there it is.
| | 08:53 | It's been edited and shows up in
Family Tree Maker in this edited format.
| | 08:56 | So now I am going to go back to
Johann here, there is Johann. I am going to
| | 09:02 | right-click on his portrait, I am
going to Link to an Existing Picture, go to
| | 09:06 | the Portraits, there he is, and I can
portrait for him as well so that he
| | 09:11 | shows up as Katherine in this
particular view inside the Pedigree view inside
| | 09:15 | the People workspace.
| | 09:16 | So that's a basic way that you can add
media, multiple kinds of media, put them
| | 09:21 | in to categories, and then link to individuals.
| | 09:24 | If there is a group photo, you have
to link to individuals one at a time,
| | 09:26 | or it's a census record, same thing.
And then you can take an existing photo,
| | 09:30 | copy it, rename it, and turn
that into a portrait that you can use,
| | 09:34 | let's say, for a thumbnail here with
individuals inside your pedigree view, or
| | 09:38 | inside the People workspace.
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| Customizing and printing charts| 00:00 | Charts and reports are a great way to share
family tree information visually and quickly.
| | 00:05 | There are lots of different kinds of
charts and reports inside Family Tree Maker,
| | 00:09 | and I'm not going
to show you all of them.
| | 00:10 | There are various reasons why you'd
use one over the other and various
| | 00:13 | options within each one.
| | 00:14 | But rather than go through all of those,
I want to just show you the quick way
| | 00:17 | that you can look into this a little
bit by going to Help and then Help for
| | 00:20 | Family Tree Maker, go down to Publish
and double-click on Charts and you can see
| | 00:26 | all the various kinds of charts, and
each one gives you a full explanation
| | 00:30 | about what the chart is
about and what are the options.
| | 00:33 | Now the options are almost always
the same from one chart to the next.
| | 00:36 | Edit, Select, Mark, Remove, but they
give you instructions on each chart on a
| | 00:42 | chart-by-chart basis.
| | 00:44 | Reports tend to be more text oriented,
but again, their options are similar,
| | 00:48 | then there are all kinds of reports
down here below, which you can also check
| | 00:51 | out I think by just running
through this little Help file.
| | 00:54 | We'll take a look at the few though.
| | 00:54 | We're going to look at the
Pedigree and the Descendant.
| | 00:56 | We're going to look at Genealogy Reports.
| | 00:58 | These are sort of like
official genealogy style reports.
| | 01:01 | The Ahnentafel is the number one official
report that people use all the time in genealogy.
| | 01:06 | We'll look at Relationship Reports, specifically
the Outline Descendant Report that I like a lot.
| | 01:09 | Now we'll talk about books a little bit,
particularly that how you make a book online.
| | 01:14 | So let's go back to Charts and I'm
going to start with the Pedigree Chart.
| | 01:17 | This is an ancestry chart.
| | 01:18 | You start with a person and go back
in time, one generation at a time.
| | 01:22 | I can double-click on this to open up
the Detail view or I can just click on
| | 01:25 | this tab to open up the
Detail view, there it is.
| | 01:28 | This is the default view, the
anchorperson, in this case my dad and then his
| | 01:32 | parents, parent's parents, that kind of stuff.
| | 01:35 | And it says birth date and death date and
then if you have marriage dates, it will list that.
| | 01:40 | Those are the facts that
are included here by default.
| | 01:42 | Now you can change the facts that are
included in the Pedigree tree or any
| | 01:46 | other kind of chart.
| | 01:47 | So I'm going to click on this
thing that say Items To Include.
| | 01:50 | That opens up this dialog box and those
are the three that are being included,
| | 01:54 | a Name and a Divider, notice how does that work.
| | 01:55 | This is name with a divider underneath,
and that's the standard way to show it here.
| | 01:59 | But I want to add something else.
| | 02:00 | I want to add occupations.
| | 02:01 | So I click on this little plus sign.
| | 02:03 | It shows all the facts that you've
worked with inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 02:07 | Ones that you've added, plus
ones that are there by default.
| | 02:09 | So I'm going to the Occupation and
click OK and before I close this, I want to
| | 02:14 | look at some of the options here
and it says Include blank facts.
| | 02:17 | That means if they don't have an
occupation, there will be a blank there in
| | 02:20 | case somebody wants to hand write
the occupation in, if you're giving it to
| | 02:23 | somebody to kind of fill in some blanks for you.
| | 02:25 | In this particular case, I'm going to
uncheck that so there aren't any blank
| | 02:29 | occupation fields and
other fields as well that are blank.
| | 02:31 | Here is this little thing.
| | 02:32 | It says Display user-defined short place name.
| | 02:35 | I talked about the place
name issue in another video.
| | 02:38 | You can give sort of like nicknames to
places and this is where you can click this
| | 02:41 | and have those nicknames or short
names to show up as part of the place.
| | 02:45 | So I'm going to click OK and it's
going to change it and show all the
| | 02:48 | occupations where occupations are listed.
| | 02:50 | Accountants, Grocer, things like that.
| | 02:53 | So now we've edited it this way,
but there is much more you can do.
| | 02:56 | In fact, it's almost insane all the
things you can do inside these charts and
| | 02:59 | reports in terms of how you make them look.
| | 03:02 | I go over here and I can change the font
for each element inside there, Names, Facts.
| | 03:06 | I can change different fonts,
different colors, I can have multiple colors,
| | 03:09 | I can have one color for Occupation, one
color for Facts, one color for Names and
| | 03:13 | this gets pretty wild in terms
of the options that you have.
| | 03:16 | We can also talk about the Borders and
Boxes, so we can fill in the boxes with
| | 03:20 | certain colors and have borders as well.
| | 03:21 | So for instance, I've got Females.
I'll have a Border for them that is we'll
| | 03:26 | say well, I have this color here
for that border and now a Fill of a
| | 03:29 | slightly different color.
| | 03:32 | So women will have that color and
men will have a different color.
| | 03:35 | That'll be green let's say and
we will have a Fill for them.
| | 03:40 | Let's say White Smoke as it's called.
| | 03:42 | I'll just show you how that looks.
| | 03:44 | You can have things visually
represented that way if you want to and you can
| | 03:49 | really go absolutely nuts in terms
of how you want this thing to look.
| | 03:52 | You can also add a background to it.
| | 03:53 | They are backgrounds that come with
Family Tree Maker and you can take a look at
| | 03:57 | these things and kind of go, which one do I want?
| | 03:59 | If I want let's say Old Map for example.
Then I could say that's a little too obvious.
| | 04:05 | I want to tone that down a bit, so
I can change the transparency of it.
| | 04:08 | See, it's 80% transparent, which means
it's almost completely transparent or
| | 04:12 | you can make it fully opaque, so it depends
on how you want your map to look in there.
| | 04:16 | You can also select your own
images to use in a background.
| | 04:19 | You want to include pictures. If you
have thumbnails that you have of these
| | 04:21 | individuals you can select the thumbnails.
| | 04:23 | We have no thumbnails in this
particular case, but you can click pictures
| | 04:26 | with report as well.
| | 04:27 | So once you've got all this done, if
you want to, you can save the report by
| | 04:31 | just going Save Chart and you call this,
well, we will call it Pedigree Chart
| | 04:34 | for David Kells SENGSTACK. That's fine.
| | 04:37 | If you want to print it out,
you can print it out now.
| | 04:40 | I'm just sending it to your printer,
or you can share it by saving this as a
| | 04:44 | PDF file or as an Image and the PDF
file is sort of a universal file that Adobe
| | 04:48 | makes that you can read on any Adobe
Reader and you can make comments on it as well.
| | 04:52 | It's a great way to share information.
| | 04:54 | But instead of printing it out now or
anything else, I'm just going to save it as I did.
| | 04:57 | Now I'll go back to the Collection and
now under Saved Charts, there will be
| | 05:01 | that chart and I can always come back to
that chart with those parameters that I
| | 05:04 | have put on and work on it that way.
| | 05:06 | We'll look on the other chart view
here, look at the Descendant Chart.
| | 05:09 | The default view of the Descendant
Chart might look kind of disappointing.
| | 05:12 | It's very little information.
| | 05:14 | Well first of all, we're
going the wrong direction.
| | 05:16 | We are starting with a living Sengstack.
| | 05:18 | We want to actually start from
somebody way back in time and then go forward.
| | 05:21 | So I am going to go back to the
last Sengstack or the first Sengstack.
| | 05:24 | We can look it that way.
| | 05:25 | Here is the first one.
| | 05:26 | Now it'll say more, but
again it's kind of spartan.
| | 05:29 | I want to include more generations, so
you have the options to have even more
| | 05:32 | generations than three.
| | 05:33 | There are seven generations in this
particular tree, seven plus the originals
| | 05:38 | so eight altogether.
| | 05:39 | I want to count those.
| | 05:40 | We got all eight generations there now.
| | 05:42 | Now I want to include more information.
| | 05:44 | The default view is just names, but
you can up here again and include more
| | 05:47 | information the same way we did before
by clicking on this and going let's say
| | 05:51 | we want to get Birth, okay, and we
want to get the Marriage for example.
| | 05:58 | The default view is very spartan, but
again you can make it look any way you want.
| | 06:01 | That's just these boxes tend to
lend themselves to having fewer bits of
| | 06:05 | information inside them but
we will fill it out anyways.
| | 06:08 | So now I can see how it looks as you
add more information and again all those
| | 06:12 | little options that I showed you
before with fonts and borders and colors and
| | 06:15 | things and you can put different
color border and pictures right here.
| | 06:18 | Most options, as I was suggesting
earlier, are available for all of these
| | 06:21 | different kinds of charts.
| | 06:22 | I'm not going to go through that again for you.
| | 06:23 | Let's move on to the Genealogy Report.
We'll talk about the Ahnentafel Report.
| | 06:27 | The Ahnentafel Report is a really
narrative oriented report, but just pretty
| | 06:31 | specific in terms of how it works.
| | 06:32 | I want to go back in time a bit here by
going back, back, back, or forward I should say.
| | 06:38 | So we could see it going back in time.
| | 06:40 | So it's going to be Ahnentafel is the
ancestral report, so we start with one person
| | 06:44 | and then we go back in time and
now you're going to notice something.
| | 06:47 | They're all numbered.
| | 06:48 | But there is actually some
reason behind these numbers.
| | 06:50 | All men are even numbers and all women are
odd numbers, except for the anchorperson.
| | 06:55 | So if you look here, you could see that
this is a second-generation because it's
| | 06:58 | 2 and 3 and 3 would be the woman.
| | 07:00 | Here is a third-generation,
4 and 5, and the next generation, 8, 9.
| | 07:04 | Women is odd, man is even,
and then it's very narrative.
| | 07:08 | It talks about so-and-so did this as a sentence.
| | 07:11 | It doesn't say it just died 24 December 1897.
| | 07:13 | They make it into a sentence.
| | 07:15 | It's very readable.
| | 07:16 | It's a really comfortable
way to look at your genealogy.
| | 07:20 | Let's go back to the Collection again,
move on down to the Relationship Reports.
| | 07:25 | I like the Outline Descendant Report
because it gives me a quick look at
| | 07:29 | the whole darn tree.
| | 07:30 | So inside the Descendant Report, we've
got to go back in time again, so I'm going to
| | 07:33 | click on the Index, go on Johann.
| | 07:36 | There, that's our oldest one.
| | 07:37 | Excuse me, wrong one. I am
going to get this one, there we go.
| | 07:44 | Those are the eight generations and
this is just a great way to see a quick
| | 07:48 | rundown on facts about all these people
in a tabular form like this where I can
| | 07:53 | again, I can go up here and say how
many things do I want to include here
| | 07:56 | besides Birth, Marriage and Death.
| | 07:57 | Let's go on to the final thing and that's Books.
| | 08:01 | If you go to Books, you can create a
printed book online using MyCanvas.
| | 08:05 | This is a service of ancestry.com.
| | 08:07 | There is a charge for it and there
are all kinds of books that they can do
| | 08:10 | beside genealogy books. Maybe
picture books, or books about weddings.
| | 08:14 | Really, in this particular case you
would want to use it for your family tree
| | 08:16 | and so if you do it from within Family
Tree Maker, you can upload your family tree
| | 08:21 | right to MyCanvas and they can
start working on it for you right away.
| | 08:24 | So I'll just click on this.
| | 08:26 | Let's say Create Book and it says,
who do you want to include in your book?
| | 08:30 | I will include my entire
family tree in the book.
| | 08:32 | I'm going to privatize living individuals.
| | 08:33 | I'm going to not include
private facts. Here we go.
| | 08:38 | It has now loaded up my family tree
into this bookmaking site and I can
| | 08:44 | proceed from here. I can give my Tree
a name, I can describe it, and I can
| | 08:47 | accept the Submission Agreement,
which talks about the facts that you're
| | 08:50 | putting this stuff online.
| | 08:51 | And then I can move forward from
there where I can select how the book looks,
| | 08:55 | which pictures I want to include, I
can go back and go grab some pictures and
| | 08:58 | add it if I want to do that.
| | 09:00 | I can build the whole book here to the
point where I like the layout, I like the
| | 09:04 | way it looks, and then
ancestry.com will then publish it.
| | 09:06 | It will actually bind it for me, hardcover,
however I want it bound, and of course,
| | 09:10 | there will be a charge for that.
| | 09:11 | But I have talked to people who have
done this and it's one of the most
| | 09:14 | satisfying things they can do.
| | 09:15 | They could have that thing sitting
right there on the coffee table and people
| | 09:18 | get a chance to page through it.
| | 09:20 | But it's a tactical thing is really
a valuable part of the whole Family
| | 09:23 | Tree Maker experience.
| | 09:24 | So all these little guys working together.
| | 09:26 | Let me switch back briefly.
| | 09:27 | All these folks working together and the
charts and the reports are just a great
| | 09:31 | way to share your family tree.
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| Backing up, restoring, and exporting files| 00:00 | I want to talk about three file-oriented topics:
| | 00:03 | backing up your file, restoring a
backed up file, and exporting your file.
| | 00:08 | Now Family Tree Maker automatically
backs up your file every time you
| | 00:12 | close Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:13 | It's in the Default Preferences.
| | 00:15 | You can go up there and go
to Tools > Options > General.
| | 00:20 | It says Automatically back up family
file, and it automatically backs it up to
| | 00:24 | your folder on your hard-drive
where your current family tree file is.
| | 00:28 | So it's not necessarily a safety
backup or as much of a safety back up as you
| | 00:32 | might want it to be if you accept the defaults.
| | 00:35 | So you really do once in a while want to
make a backup of your family tree file,
| | 00:38 | and all the media associated with it.
| | 00:41 | Just in case you lose your entire hard-
drive, or in case you want to let's say
| | 00:44 | give the whole thing to
somebody else to work with.
| | 00:47 | So I am going to talk about that first,
and the other two topics after that.
| | 00:50 | So let's go to File > Backup.
| | 00:53 | It opens up this dialog box. It says,
what's the backup file name going to be?
| | 00:58 | And by default it gives it the
date, plus the name of the file.
| | 01:01 | It says, where do you want to store it?
| | 01:03 | Do you want to put it on removable
media, meaning a CD-ROM or something like a
| | 01:06 | Flash drive that you can
remove from your computer?
| | 01:08 | Do you want to put it where
you currently have your files?
| | 01:12 | Do you want to put it some place else?
| | 01:13 | Well, I would say in our particular
case, we want it some place else besides
| | 01:17 | our current directory.
| | 01:18 | So I am going to go to the Custom directory.
| | 01:19 | By default, it goes inside your documents.
| | 01:22 | But you can change that.
| | 01:23 | You can have it go some other
locations that you care it to go.
| | 01:25 | So I'll pick the Desktop just for this exercise.
| | 01:27 | Normally you would it put on another hard-
drive or something like that. I'll click OK.
| | 01:32 | Then it says, do you want to include
the media files? That's a big Yes.
| | 01:36 | So whatever you've linked to inside your
family tree will be included with the backup.
| | 01:41 | In case things go wrong, you can
always go to this particular backup and get
| | 01:45 | all your media as well.
| | 01:46 | So that preserves your media.
| | 01:47 | So it's going to be a very large file
if you have got lots of media linked
| | 01:51 | inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 01:52 | But if you do follow this, then you
click OK, it'll make up, they call it
| | 01:56 | FTMB file, Family Tree Maker Backup file,
and put that wherever you told it to put it.
| | 02:01 | I am going to click Cancel out of this
for now, rather than go through the whole
| | 02:04 | process of saving or backing up this file.
| | 02:07 | I am talking about
restoring a file from a backup.
| | 02:10 | So I go File > Restore.
| | 02:13 | This is a few loose things.
| | 02:15 | We can say I need to go use my
backup file, or my restored file and start
| | 02:19 | from scratch from that.
| | 02:20 | So I am going to go up to my desktop and
track that down inside my Exercise Files.
| | 02:24 | There it is my AutoBackup.ftmb file.
| | 02:27 | Now, this is the one that's created
every time Family Tree Maker is closed.
| | 02:30 | So I am using that for this example,
but I could use the one that I stored at
| | 02:33 | another location, on another hard-drive
or on a CD or something like that, for
| | 02:37 | that kind of restored backup.
| | 02:39 | So I'll click on this and say Open.
| | 02:41 | Now, it's going to say you don't want
to name it the same thing you named it
| | 02:44 | before just in case things
get confusing or go wrong.
| | 02:47 | So I am going to name it something else.
| | 02:48 | So I am going to save it to Restored.
| | 02:50 | Now, notice it's a FTM file, which is
the standard file extension for Family
| | 02:54 | Tree Maker, not FTMB backup, but just
Family Tree Maker and I click Save and
| | 02:58 | I am going to click Save to put it inside
the place where I've been saving things before.
| | 03:02 | This is inside the default location for
Family Tree Maker, inside Documents as
| | 03:06 | opposed to inside of
Exercise Files, and I'll click Save.
| | 03:09 | Now, that's going to restore this
from that backup back inside that
| | 03:13 | default, and here we are. We are back.
| | 03:14 | It looks like nothing has changed.
| | 03:15 | But we are now using the restored
version, the one that was backed up
| | 03:18 | automatically before when we closed down
Family Tree Maker the last time we shut it down.
| | 03:22 | Finally, I want to talk about exporting files.
| | 03:25 | Exporting files are basically a great
way to share Family Tree Maker with other
| | 03:29 | genealogist or other people doing
family tree research on your tree.
| | 03:32 | The way you do that is in the
same process as the other two things.
| | 03:35 | You go File, besides Backup, and Restore.
| | 03:37 | You've also got something
called Export. Click that.
| | 03:39 | This dialog box is a little
different than the one you have seen.
| | 03:42 | It says, who do you want to include?
| | 03:44 | The entire file or certain individuals?
| | 03:46 | If you select Certain Individuals then
it give you this different view, where
| | 03:49 | you can pick people one at a time, and
say Include, Include, Include or Include All,
| | 03:52 | which kind of defeats the purpose of
instead of entire file, or you can say
| | 03:56 | I'll pick this person.
| | 03:58 | I'll pick on the Johann Sengstack,
the first, Johann Hinrich right there.
| | 04:04 | And I say I want all of his descendants.
| | 04:07 | That's another way of doing it, 17 people
because that's just that branch of the family tree.
| | 04:11 | So there are various ways to
select individuals to include.
| | 04:14 | So we will include those 17 for now.
| | 04:16 | And do you want to make it as a Family
Tree Maker file which would be for Family
| | 04:19 | Tree Maker 10, 2010 I mean, where
you can pick another file format.
| | 04:24 | It could be for previous version of
Family Tree Maker, the 2008/2009, which is
| | 04:28 | when they changed Family Tree Maker
dramatically in 2008, or the Standard 5.5
| | 04:32 | GEDCOM, which is Genealogical Data
Communication file. 5.5 is the current
| | 04:37 | standard, or the GEDCOM for previous
version of Family Tree Maker, version
| | 04:40 | 16 or 19 now.
| | 04:43 | I would normally go with GEDCOM 5.5 because
that's the most easily shared file format.
| | 04:48 | But notice when I do that, things are
unchecked, because these guys cannot be
| | 04:52 | included with the GEDCOM file.
| | 04:53 | These are things that are not
allowed under the GEDCOM 5.5 standard.
| | 04:57 | I do want to privatize living individuals,
and I do not want to include private facts.
| | 05:01 | So I uncheck those guys. Then I click OK.
| | 05:04 | Then it says, how do I want to name this?
| | 05:07 | And it gives you a sort of a default name
again based upon the name of the tree and the date.
| | 05:11 | I would like to change that to
something like SharingSengstack like that,
| | 05:16 | and I'll click Save, and it'll
automatically export those 17 names as a separate file.
| | 05:21 | Then I can email it to somebody, and
they can open up in virtually any gamily
| | 05:25 | tree program, not just Family Tree
Maker, but just about any family tree
| | 05:28 | software, Macs or Windows, and
view those Family Tree Data files.
| | 05:32 | So that's basically how you export a
file, how you back it up for like
| | 05:37 | preservation purposes, and then also
how you restore a file from a backup.
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| Setting the home person| 00:00 | There are two ways to set a Home Person.
| | 00:02 | Right now, I am set as a Home
Person of this particular tree.
| | 00:05 | But you can change that to
anybody else as the Home Person.
| | 00:08 | So I am going to change let's say to my dad.
| | 00:11 | So I'll go to Dave.
| | 00:12 | To set the Home Person here, I just
right-click and say Set as Home Person.
| | 00:18 | Now if I am elsewhere in the tree
looking at Gertrude for example, I can click
| | 00:22 | on this little Go to home person,
then it will take me to David.
| | 00:25 | I am going to go the other way to make
a Home Person by going to the Plan view
| | 00:30 | and in the Plan view, you see that if
you hover your cursor over Home Person,
| | 00:33 | that turns into a button.
| | 00:34 | If I click on that, I can
change it to somebody else.
| | 00:37 | So we'll change it to his dad. Say OK.
| | 00:41 | There's a little thing pops up there
saying you've change the Home Person.
| | 00:45 | You see that it's changed.
| | 00:46 | So we'll click X. I go back to the
People view and I click on the Home Person,
| | 00:52 | and it takes me to John, who
is now the new Home Person.
| | 00:54 | So that's how you change your Home Person.
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| Finding relationships| 00:00 | Normally, when you're inside the
Family view of the People workspace and you
| | 00:03 | click on somebody that gives you an
instant relationship view of that person
| | 00:08 | to the Home Person.
| | 00:09 | So here David is my dad, John is my
granddad and Johann is my great-grandfather,
| | 00:15 | because I am the Home Person.
| | 00:17 | Sometimes you want to check
relationships between two individuals, either one of
| | 00:20 | which is the Home Person.
| | 00:21 | So there's another way to do that.
| | 00:23 | That's under Tools.
| | 00:24 | Tools > Relationship Calculator. Just think.
| | 00:26 | If you forget where the Relationship
Calculator is located in the menu up there,
| | 00:29 | just think of it as a tool and
you can track it down that way.
| | 00:33 | Click on that. It opens up this
| | 00:34 | fairly complicated looking dialog
box but it's actually basically simple.
| | 00:37 | There are two people here, the current
people selected, the Home Person, and the
| | 00:41 | person currently active.
| | 00:42 | You can select any two individuals
here and check their relationship.
| | 00:46 | Well, I'm going to check
Johann's relationship to somebody else.
| | 00:49 | So I'll click on that and I
will click on Grace Doris.
| | 00:52 | So Johann is the father of Grace Doris and
if I click this little switch, it says, oh!
| | 00:57 | Grace is the daughter of Johann.
| | 00:59 | Let me just change Grace.
| | 01:00 | Instead of Grace, I will go to an early
Sengstack, Johann, go back to a few generations.
| | 01:06 | Now you see that Johann is the
second great-grandfather of Johann IV,
| | 01:10 | which you'd expect.
| | 01:11 | That's basically how you can do a
Relationship Calculation for two selected
| | 01:15 | individuals inside the Relationship Calculator.
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| Sorting children| 00:00 | When you add children to a couple,
the children are added in the order in which
| | 00:04 | you add them to the family tree, which
frequently is not in chronological order.
| | 00:08 | So there are two ways to fix that.
| | 00:10 | Let me just open this up a little bit here.
| | 00:11 | I've added three children to Johann
Sengstack and Katherine Marie Damke.
| | 00:16 | This was the one I had
all along, my grandfather.
| | 00:18 | If I add his siblings, Grace, Elsa and
Frederick, and I added them in random
| | 00:23 | order as you can see, 93, 02, 91, 94.
| | 00:27 | Now you can arrange the order by
doing one at a time, the manual method.
| | 00:31 | I am not really sure if anyone wants to do that.
| | 00:33 | But if you click on Grace for example,
I can click on this down arrow twice to
| | 00:38 | move her to the appropriate place
because she's the youngest of the four.
| | 00:41 | These are still out of order.
| | 00:43 | So the easy way to sort everybody all at
once is to click on this little button here.
| | 00:48 | That little double-arrow says
Sort children by Birth order.
| | 00:50 | I click on that, and bam!
| | 00:52 | Everybody is in place 1891, 1893, 1894 and 1902.
| | 00:57 | That's the easy way to
sort children by birth order.
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| Replacing terms| 00:00 | As you do your family tree work, you
may use an abbreviation frequently or you
| | 00:04 | may use a word over and over again and
then realize later on that you really
| | 00:08 | shouldn't have used the abbreviation.
| | 00:09 | You should have used the full name or
you should have used a different word
| | 00:12 | to describe something.
| | 00:13 | And so you can find those words and
replace them globally and it works the same
| | 00:17 | way almost any other kind
of product in Windows works.
| | 00:19 | You go to the Edit menu when you change
these things like this under the Edit
| | 00:23 | menu and go Find and Replace.
| | 00:27 | That opens up this dialog box and it
looks very familiar if you have worked
| | 00:30 | with basically any kind of program that uses
words where you can find a word and replace it.
| | 00:34 | So for example I might want to type an NY
for New York. That's something I want to find.
| | 00:38 | I want to replace it with the whole
word New York and I can choose which fields
| | 00:44 | I'm going to Search and Replace and
I can find the whole word only, which is
| | 00:48 | actually my Preference.
| | 00:49 | I don't want to find some word
that has the letters N, Y in it.
| | 00:52 | I want to find only NY standing by itself.
| | 00:55 | That's what this whole words thing is
and then I click Replace All or I can
| | 00:59 | click Find and Replace one at a time.
| | 01:00 | So I'll say Replace All.
| | 01:02 | It'll change all instances of the
abbreviation NY with the two words, the phrase New York.
| | 01:08 | And that's the basic way
you do Find and Replace.
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| Making facts private| 00:00 | Frequently as you make your family
tree you'll probably add facts that really
| | 00:04 | are personal and should be kept
private just to you or maybe close family
| | 00:09 | members and so when you export your
family tree for other people to work on,
| | 00:12 | you want to make sure that those
personal private facts are not exported.
| | 00:17 | So you can make facts private, and
there are three basic ways to do that.
| | 00:20 | We will start by looking in the Person view.
| | 00:22 | So we can select a fact.
| | 00:24 | This particular fellow, this great-
grandfather of mine, worked for 20th
| | 00:27 | Century Fox and perhaps we
don't want to make that public.
| | 00:31 | Well, obviously I have been making it
public throughout this entire tutorial series.
| | 00:34 | But in this particular case,
we decide that should be private.
| | 00:37 | So we are going to click on that guy,
go to Options, and say Mark as Private.
| | 00:42 | Now it will put a little lock next to it.
| | 00:44 | So this means now that when we export
this tree with this person in it, there'll
| | 00:48 | be an option that says Include
private facts with a check box.
| | 00:51 | We will uncheck that box, so that
all private facts will not be included.
| | 00:56 | Now, you can make a note private.
| | 00:59 | Here's a little note that I have written
that is obviously personal and private.
| | 01:03 | So we're going to make this private by
clicking on this little lock, the same
| | 01:06 | icon you see up there.
| | 01:07 | We have clicked on here.
| | 01:08 | Now, this particular note is now private.
| | 01:09 | You can tell this private, because this
lock has a little yellow box around it now.
| | 01:13 | So that when we come back
here, it will be private.
| | 01:14 | If I go to somebody else that might
have notes, I will say I'll go back to
| | 01:18 | someone like John here for example,
and actually let's go to his father and
| | 01:22 | there's a note there.
| | 01:23 | Notice that there is no little yellow
box around this except I am hovering over.
| | 01:27 | So that's not private.
| | 01:29 | So that's how you make a note private.
| | 01:31 | Now, there's one another
way to make things private.
| | 01:33 | You can make lots of facts private all at once.
| | 01:36 | So let's go to Edit > Manage Facts.
| | 01:39 | So we're going to manage a
whole pile of facts at once.
| | 01:42 | I am going to click on that.
| | 01:43 | Let's say we want to have the arrival of
all the individuals in our tree private.
| | 01:48 | So I click on Arrival, I go to Data
Options, and I am going to get this message.
| | 01:54 | Before you start changing a lot of
stuff at once, maybe you want to back things up.
| | 01:57 | Well, in this particular case, we
won't do that because this is just an
| | 02:00 | example, so we will say no.
| | 02:02 | It shows everybody who has an Arrival
Fact associated with them, and we can
| | 02:07 | check our own, check individuals.
| | 02:08 | We don't need to include everyone.
| | 02:09 | We don't have to make every arrival private.
| | 02:11 | But we are going to make
all three of these private.
| | 02:13 | I am going to show you how to do that.
| | 02:14 | So they are all selected now and I
can go down here and check this box that says
| | 02:17 | Mark the selected facts as.
| | 02:20 | When I click on that, it gives
me the option to choose Private.
| | 02:23 | Now if I click OK, all three of those
things will be private and I will go back
| | 02:27 | and close and you can see.
| | 02:27 | Look at the arrivals there
were marked as Private right away.
| | 02:31 | So that's how you can make
facts private in Family Tree Maker.
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| Moving data items| 00:00 | Sometimes you want to edit a lot of
facts all at once and this happens typically
| | 00:04 | when you export an older version of
a Family Tree Maker file and all the
| | 00:07 | descriptions were put into the place field.
| | 00:10 | And so you see a bunch of
descriptions that might say this person had three
| | 00:14 | children and it's in a place
field where it doesn't belong.
| | 00:16 | So you need to move it from the place
field into the description field for example.
| | 00:19 | So you do that on en masse and it's fairly
easy to do using a Manage Facts approach.
| | 00:25 | So we go down to Edit > Manage Facts.
| | 00:27 | It opens up this Manage Facts dialog box and
then you select the fact that you want to fix.
| | 00:33 | So let's say we go down to Birth for
example and that will have a place field
| | 00:37 | inside it, so we go Birth, Data Options.
| | 00:39 | So you want to back things up before
you start making these massive changes but
| | 00:44 | in this case for our example, we
are going to skip the backing up part.
| | 00:47 | Now it shows every person that has
a birth fact associated with them.
| | 00:52 | In this particular case we have been
pretty careful to try to put places in the
| | 00:56 | Place field and
descriptions in the Description field.
| | 00:58 | But let's just say that some of these
people had descriptions inside their Place
| | 01:03 | field and we want to move them
over here in the descriptions.
| | 01:05 | So I am going to un-check everybody
then check some selected people that need
| | 01:09 | to have their place information, which is
actually a description, moved over to the description.
| | 01:13 | I could select that person
and this person and this person.
| | 01:16 | Then I would have the option now to
move data in the selected facts, let's say,
| | 01:21 | From place to description.
| | 01:23 | If I click OK, those three things
will be shifted over to description.
| | 01:26 | You will never longer get the little error
messages when you're in a Place workspace.
| | 01:30 | that say, what is this thing
that you call three children?
| | 01:33 | It's not a place, is it?
| | 01:34 | So that's the easy way to take a bunch
of facts that are in the wrong place and
| | 01:39 | move them to the right place.
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| Reviewing data| 00:00 | There is a report that I didn't talk
about in my Charts and Reports video.
| | 00:04 | I wanted to save it for this one because it's
kind of special and tucked away and customized.
| | 00:09 | It's not something that you
would normally see in the listing.
| | 00:11 | You have got to really sort of
dig deep to make it happen for you.
| | 00:14 | But once you do it, you
will see how valuable it is.
| | 00:16 | So let me go to Publish.
| | 00:17 | I am going to go to Person Reports.
Charts would be the default view but I am
| | 00:22 | going to go to Person Reports,
and click on Custom Report.
| | 00:25 | There are all kinds of things you can
do in the Custom Report but what I am
| | 00:28 | going to do here is show every single
person in my tree alphabetically with facts.
| | 00:34 | And that way we can see which facts are
missing and if I want to add extra facts
| | 00:37 | beyond Birth, Death and
Marriage, I can add extra facts.
| | 00:40 | Let me just start the process on how to do that.
| | 00:42 | First, I am going to change the
report title to All Individuals.
| | 00:46 | Now I am going to go hmm, I don't want the
immediate family of the person selected.
| | 00:52 | I want to have All
Individuals, so I click on that.
| | 00:54 | It shows every single person in my
tree, but it does it by first name
| | 01:01 | alphabetically not by last name.
| | 01:03 | I really do want it to be
alphabetical by the last name.
| | 01:06 | So I am going to go to Items To Include.
| | 01:08 | Now I have got Name, Birth, Marriage,
Death and I could include more items here.
| | 01:13 | I would normally include more items
because I do like to know when they
| | 01:15 | immigrated, for example.
| | 01:16 | I really think that's an exciting thing to see.
| | 01:18 | So I am going to select that and I am also
interested in finding things their occupation.
| | 01:24 | So I am going to roll down
there and add that as well.
| | 01:28 | Now I want to go down to this thing
where it says Options, but I don't
| | 01:32 | want Occupation Options.
| | 01:33 | I want Name Options.
| | 01:34 | I don't want to have their first name first.
| | 01:36 | Under the Name Options. Instead of First
Middle Last, I am going to go to Last First Middle.
| | 01:41 | That way when I click OK down here, it
will put everybody in alphabetical order
| | 01:45 | by last name, which is a
more logical way to view things.
| | 01:48 | So now we have this list, which we can
print out, put on the dining room table
| | 01:51 | and pour over it and notice that gosh,
I don't know when this person died.
| | 01:55 | I don't know when this person got married.
| | 01:57 | I know nothing about this person.
| | 01:59 | I can see gaps in my information, gaps
in my knowledge that sort of jump off the
| | 02:03 | page at me when I create
this All Individuals report.
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| Merging two trees| 00:00 | One of the exciting things you can
do these days with family trees is
| | 00:03 | merge other person's family trees
into yours, especially of course where
| | 00:07 | you have common ancestors.
| | 00:09 | But before you do that merge process,
you really want to look at any family tree
| | 00:13 | that you've downloaded or that's been
emailed to you, to make sure that you're
| | 00:17 | doing the right thing, that the facts
are correct and that the person's you
| | 00:20 | want to merge are in fact
related to you in some way.
| | 00:23 | You just don't want sort of randomly
merge things together and hope that
| | 00:26 | they're going to connect.
| | 00:27 | And after you've made that determination,
after you thought yeah, this will be
| | 00:30 | merging correctly, then you can
merge them, but you can actually select
| | 00:32 | individuals in the file that you're merging
in and be that precise if you choose to be.
| | 00:37 | Now what I've done for this exercise is
I've created two files that are subsets
| | 00:41 | of the sample that I
created for this tutorial series.
| | 00:44 | So of course, I'm willing to accept
both sets of individuals and put them
| | 00:47 | into one merged file.
| | 00:49 | I don't really need to
check them in too much detail.
| | 00:51 | Here is the Merge1.
| | 00:52 | I just loaded that up here,
imported it because it was a GedCOM file.
| | 00:56 | Now I've got this tree of Merge1 and
I want to merge this with Merge2, the other
| | 01:01 | one that I made for this exercise.
| | 01:02 | Now whenever you're doing something
involving files then you'll find the command
| | 01:05 | under the File menu. So File > Merge.
| | 01:09 | Now it says, before you perform this
operation, it is a good idea to create a backup.
| | 01:13 | Well, you know what?
| | 01:14 | That is a good idea.
| | 01:15 | The last thing you want to do is merge
something into your tree and not have
| | 01:19 | backed up your tree in the first place.
| | 01:20 | So make sure you back up your tree in
the first place because things can really
| | 01:24 | go wrong when you merge things.
| | 01:26 | You may discover that you've merged
people in your tree that you wish you hadn't
| | 01:29 | because they really don't belong there.
| | 01:30 | So do back up your file.
| | 01:32 | We're not going to do it because we know
these folks are okay, so I'm going to click on No.
| | 01:37 | Now it says which tree
do you want to merge with?
| | 01:39 | We are Merge1 already, so we're
merging with Merge2, so I'm going to
| | 01:43 | double click on that.
| | 01:44 | And now it's going to just open up
this little itty-bitty menu with only
| | 01:47 | a couple of commands.
| | 01:48 | But don't be fooled by this.
| | 01:49 | This is just the beginning.
| | 01:50 | It's saying, do you want to
include all individuals or just some
| | 01:53 | selected individuals?
| | 01:54 | In this case, we're going to include
all of them, but you certainly can select
| | 01:57 | specific individuals you want to
merge from a file that you're bringing in.
| | 02:00 | And it then says, do you want to merge or
append matching individuals? Yes, we do.
| | 02:04 | We want to try to find matching
individuals and then merge them.
| | 02:07 | We could do a non-merge where we
actually are not putting people who are
| | 02:11 | identical in the same tree and later you
can merge them together if you care to.
| | 02:16 | But we're not going to it automatically
because we know these people really are
| | 02:18 | related because they are
the same people in this case.
| | 02:21 | So I'm going to click on Next
and don't worry. It's not done yet.
| | 02:25 | Now it opens up this very detailed
dialog box where it shows the two persons
| | 02:29 | that actually are being merged, that
are the joint persons between the two trees.
| | 02:33 | This is the connection
right here: Hermina and Jacob.
| | 02:37 | We can then now go through the shared
facts. Since I made this from the same tree,
| | 02:41 | their facts are the same,
so we can certainly accept them.
| | 02:45 | And below this are all the new folks
that are being added from the Merge2 file.
| | 02:49 | So I'm willing to accept that
these people are being merged.
| | 02:52 | If I click on these, it shows their facts.
| | 02:54 | You don't need to merge them because they
are new as far as joining the facts together.
| | 02:58 | So I'm going to go down here and click
Merge and this is going to merge those
| | 03:02 | two trees together starting originally
from 33 individuals in the first tree.
| | 03:06 | And now that we have put them together,
we're going to have 44 because it added
| | 03:10 | some number where there was some overlap.
| | 03:12 | We now have from 31 to 44 individuals
and be connected them here with Jacob and
| | 03:17 | connected them with Hermina down here.
| | 03:20 | So we've shown you how to merge two files and
this is a common thing in family tree making.
| | 03:24 | You can go online, download files or get them
emailed to you and then merge them in this fashion.
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7. Sharing Your Family Tree Data, Documents, Images, and StoriesCreating family history audio recordings, videos, slideshows, and DVDs| 00:00 | I mentioned in another video that
it's a good idea to record family members
| | 00:04 | reminiscing about their parents or siblings or
family history, in general. You can do that.
| | 00:09 | So you can gather information for your
family tree, but you also might want to
| | 00:12 | share those recordings.
| | 00:13 | They could be audio
recordings or video recordings.
| | 00:17 | The thing is if you take a video recording or
an audio recording, you might want to edit it.
| | 00:21 | You might want to turn it into a
series of clips or some kind of a slideshow
| | 00:25 | with music, something like that.
| | 00:26 | I want to show you an example
of a video I made for my father.
| | 00:30 | He asked me if I could work with him
to create a video about his family line
| | 00:34 | that he could share with his three children.
| | 00:36 | So I'm going to show you a little
excerpt from that and then after that excerpt,
| | 00:39 | I'm going to show you a quick look at how
you can create your own video.
| | 00:43 | (Male speaker: Jeff, Lynn,
and Gregg, this video is for you.)
| | 00:46 | (Male speaker: It's purpose is to give you
some idea of where your forebearers came from)
| | 00:51 | (Male speaker: and how they lived.)
| | 00:53 | (Male speaker: So away we go.)
| | 00:57 | (Male speaker: My father's ancestors came from
northern Germany. My mother's from Ireland and London.)
| | 01:04 | (Male speaker: Stengstack means blazing
torch in German. This is our coat of arms.)
| | 01:10 | (Male speaker: Out ancestor's burned weeds in the Vasa River
to keep the ship channel clear from the North Sea to Bremen.
| | 01:17 | (Male speaker: This apparently paid off because later many Stengstacks
became ship owners and business and political leaders in Bremen.)
| | 01:24 | (Male speaker: Hinrich Sengstack was
the president of the city state in 1786.)
| | 01:30 | (Male speaker: My father's parents, Johann Sengstacke and
Katherine Damke, both immigrated from Germany in the 1880s.)
| | 01:38 | (Male speaker: They left under tough conditions.)
| | 01:41 | (Male speaker: Johann Senstacke, whom we call Pop,
immigrated at the age of 21 and with little money,)
| | 01:48 | (Male speaker: from a small village
south of Bremen called Sudweyhe.)
| | 01:52 | (Male speaker: He opened at green grocery
at 77th Street and 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge Brooklyn,)
| | 01:57 | (Male speaker: much like this one owned
by a relative elsewhere in Brooklyn.)
| | 02:02 | (Male speaker: He worked hard, taking his horse and wagon on
the 69th St ferry to Staten Island and back very early each morning)
| | 02:10 | (Male speaker: to bring in fresh produce.)
| | 02:13 | (Male speaker: My father told me that when
he became old enough to hold the reins,)
| | 02:17 | (Male speaker: he made deliveries in the neighborhood.)
| | 02:20 | (Male speaker: One of his aunts once said she felt some concern,
seeing such a small boy handling such large animals.)
| | 02:27 | (Male speaker: Katherine Damke, whom we call Mom, her friends called
her Kate, immigrated from a farming village southwest of Bremen,
| | 02:35 | (Male speaker: called Lavelsloh.)
| | 02:37 | (Male speaker: She left when she was 14, packed
in steerage class with her 18-year old sister Sophie.)
| | 02:43 | (Male speaker: Katherine and Sophie worked as maids.)
| | 02:45 | (Male speaker: Here they are some years later.)
| | 02:48 | (Male speaker: This is a picture of their father, mother,
two sisters and a brother, whom they left behind in Germany.)
| | 02:55 | (Male speaker: It must have been
a heart-wrenching decision to leave.)
| | 02:59 | Now, I have a background in video
production and there are some effects in there
| | 03:03 | that you probably wouldn't be able to
do in a simple video editing project, but
| | 03:06 | for the most part, you could create
something like that using a free product
| | 03:10 | that comes with Windows.
| | 03:12 | It's called Movie Maker.
| | 03:13 | This is an example of how it would
look if you were to create a video like
| | 03:17 | that inside Movie Maker.
| | 03:18 | You can learn more about how to use Movie
Maker by viewing a tutorial at Lynda.com.
| | 03:23 | If you want to step up to a higher level
of video editing, you can use a product
| | 03:26 | called Adobe Premiere Elements.
| | 03:28 | It allows you to do some of those
special effects that I showed you in
| | 03:30 | the previous video.
| | 03:31 | Lynda.com also has a tutorial on Premiere
Elements, and I'm the author of that tutorial.
| | 03:35 | So I can hardly recommend that particular one.
| | 03:37 | So that's basically how you can take
images and audio and create videos that you
| | 03:41 | can share with others.
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| Collaborating and sharing online| 00:00 | One of the great things about the
Internet is that it's now so easy to share
| | 00:03 | your family stories online.
| | 00:06 | There are several ways to do it. I'm
going to show you three in this video and
| | 00:09 | all of them are fairly easy to do.
| | 00:10 | We're starting inside Family Tree Maker,
because there are two ways to do it
| | 00:14 | here inside Family Tree Maker.
| | 00:15 | One is to upload your entire Family
Tree Maker file or part of your Family Tree
| | 00:20 | Maker file to Ancestry.com.
| | 00:22 | The way you do that is to go to the
People workspace and click on Share and
| | 00:26 | then Upload To Ancestry.
| | 00:29 | Here it looks lot like making a
GEDCOM file or exporting some other kind of file,
| | 00:33 | but this time you have the
option of including media files, which is great,
| | 00:37 | because you can put your
pictures online, and you can allow other
| | 00:41 | people to copy them and put them on their
computer and attach them to their family trees.
| | 00:45 | This is really a very
important feature in this thing.
| | 00:47 | You sure, of course, unclick Include
private notes and unclick Include private
| | 00:51 | facts and then check Privatize living people.
| | 00:54 | That's the general way to go.
| | 00:56 | You can include the entire file or you
can select individuals to include in this
| | 00:59 | tree that you want to upload, and then click OK.
| | 01:02 | What happens is that Family
Tree Maker makes this file.
| | 01:04 | It goes to Ancestry.com and says, Well, okay!
| | 01:07 | Let's upload this thing.
| | 01:08 | You've got to agree to a couple of things,
because you are putting stuff online.
| | 01:11 | But once you do this, it'll upload your
tree to the Ancestry.com site and people
| | 01:15 | can then see the tree to certain degrees.
| | 01:17 | You could make it public or can make it private.
| | 01:19 | Here's this little checkbox that
lets you choose one or the other.
| | 01:22 | Then they can see your pictures too,
and it's just a great way to collaborate.
| | 01:26 | Back to Family Tree Maker, the other way
to get files online is to make a GEDCOM
| | 01:30 | file inside Family Tree Maker and then
upload that to one of several websites.
| | 01:34 | So the way you make a GEDCOM file, I'm sure
you've done it before, but just go File > Export.
| | 01:38 | Instead of a Family Tree Maker file,
you choose GEDCOM, and then do the same
| | 01:44 | routine you did when you uploaded
to Ancestry.com. You privatize.
| | 01:47 | You don't include private facts.
| | 01:49 | Then you include the entire file or selected
individuals, the same routine as we did before.
| | 01:52 | So you need to make that GEDCOM file.
| | 01:54 | Once you make that GEDCOM file, then
you go off to one of those websites.
| | 01:58 | Let me show you some of those websites.
| | 01:59 | Let's start with RootsWeb.
| | 02:01 | This is the granddaddy.
| | 02:02 | This is the WorldConnect project, and
there are more than half-a-billion names
| | 02:07 | already loaded up here.
| | 02:08 | You can just go over here and click
Submit Your Family Tree To WorldConnect, and
| | 02:12 | you just start here, click that, and
it's very simple process, a five-step
| | 02:15 | process and you upload your
GEDCOM file to WorldConnect.
| | 02:18 | You can also upload a GEDCOM file to
Ancestry.com, very much the same way
| | 02:23 | you uploaded your Family Tree Maker file,
except here you can't allow media to be uploaded.
| | 02:27 | FamilySearch.org, the site owned by the
Mormon Church, has a way to upload files.
| | 02:31 | They are creating a very large
family tree file under the Share button.
| | 02:35 | If you click Share, it's the same process.
| | 02:37 | You'll have to sign up, fill out a few
boxes to say who you are, and then you
| | 02:41 | can upload your file.
| | 02:42 | Then finally, there is this unique
site called OneGreatFamily, where if you
| | 02:46 | upload your file, they attempt to connect
somebody or somebodies in your file to other trees.
| | 02:52 | They try to make this one massive family tree.
| | 02:55 | I've tried this before and actually connected
with several other trees is a good way to do it.
| | 02:59 | Another way to get your trees online
and share them is to share them with
| | 03:02 | your family directly.
| | 03:03 | You can create your own website.
| | 03:05 | It sounds kind of daunting at first, but
there are three sites that make that fairly easy.
| | 03:10 | One is called Geni.com, and you can just
upload your GEDCOM file to this one and
| | 03:14 | you can share it just with your family.
| | 03:16 | So you can go back and
forth and collaborate that way.
| | 03:18 | Another site that works similarly is
MyHeritage.com, and if you think I'm
| | 03:22 | throwing a lot of websites at you,
we're adding these websites to the PDF file
| | 03:27 | that you can download with this course.
| | 03:28 | I heard it's the same kind of a process.
| | 03:30 | Just upload your GEDCOM file that way.
| | 03:32 | It says, Got a GEDCOM? You do!
| | 03:35 | You have Family Tree Maker.
| | 03:36 | And finally, MyFamily.com, which is part of
the Generations Network group of companies.
| | 03:41 | This too is a fairly simple way to
share your family tree online along
| | 03:45 | with pictures as well.
| | 03:46 | So those are three different ways
to share your family tree online.
| | 03:49 | One is to use your Family Tree Maker file
and upload all or part of it to Ancestry.com.
| | 03:53 | The other is to create a GEDCOM file
and upload that to one of three different
| | 03:57 | sites where you can share your
GEDCOM file as a tree that people can see.
| | 04:01 | The final way is to create your own family
tree website that you can share with your family.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Technology has changed how
we do genealogical research.
| | 00:03 | I'm sure you've discovered how
exciting it is to find a family tree record
| | 00:06 | online and then organize it and
share it with your family members.
| | 00:10 | That's not to say that it's easy now.
| | 00:12 | You do run into occasional dead ends
or brick walls, but compared to 25 years ago,
| | 00:17 | resolving those dead ends is
much easier now than it was then.
| | 00:21 | So it was kind of a way to close out my
tutorial series on genealogy for lynda.com.
| | 00:26 | I want to take you back 25 years to
when I started my family tree research.
| | 00:31 | I started my quest by spending a week,
a week at the Seattle Regional Office of
| | 00:36 | the National Archives using sort of a
hit-or-miss indexing system to try and
| | 00:40 | find old census records.
| | 00:42 | After scrolling through roll after
roll of microfilm, I finally tracked down
| | 00:47 | this 1920 census tecord from my
great grandparents in Brooklyn, New York.
| | 00:51 | I made this fuzzy-looking
printout that's barely legible.
| | 00:54 | Well, from this, I decided to go to
New York and look at the records in the
| | 00:57 | county offices there.
| | 00:59 | I found this printout on their
microfilm of my grandfather's birth certificate.
| | 01:04 | My dad got so excited about my finding this.
| | 01:06 | So he encouraged me to
go to Ireland and Germany.
| | 01:09 | I found a small church there in
Lavelsloh, Germany, where I could go through
| | 01:13 | their original handwritten records.
| | 01:15 | They allowed me to make printouts
on their copier of those records for
| | 01:18 | marriage, births and deaths.
| | 01:20 | Well, this little quest got me a few
snippets of information and cost a lot of
| | 01:23 | money and took a lot of
time. I have no regrets.
| | 01:26 | It was an exciting process, but
that was then, and this is now.
| | 01:31 | This is the same census record that took
me a week to track down at the National
| | 01:35 | Archives office, except this one took
me all of a few seconds and a few mouse
| | 01:38 | clicks to track down online at Ancestry.com.
| | 01:41 | The image is much easier to read.
| | 01:43 | I can see when my great grandparents
immigrated, that my great-grandfather was a
| | 01:47 | dairy products salesman and his 17-
year-old daughter, my great-aunt, was a
| | 01:51 | stenographer at a bond house.
| | 01:52 | With a couple of more mouse clicks, I
entered most of the data from this census
| | 01:55 | record directly into my
Family Tree Maker software.
| | 01:59 | So no more marginally legible
printouts, no more transcribing my chicken
| | 02:03 | scratch in to computer files. Even
that little church in Lavelsloh, Germany,
| | 02:07 | now has its records online.
| | 02:08 | I hope that your family tree quest is
as exciting and productive as mine was,
| | 02:13 | and that you have many
opportunities to share your family stories.
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