Getting the best from ancestry for your family history

Did you know? There are more than 15 billion public member trees on Ancestry. It can be very helpful to search the public family trees of other Ancestry members (to do so, go to Search / Public Member

DNA has a language of its own, one you may be unfamiliar with, but it’s worth getting to grips with it to help you make use of genetics in your genealogy. I have included only those words that crop up

Sitting on the sofa next to my dad as he tapped away on Ancestry, I was instantly drawn to the mass of names, dates and places. The colourful graphics caught my eye and I couldn’t possibly resist. I a

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The term ‘Merseyside’ was coined around the end of the 19th century. In the county reorganisation of 1974 it became the official name for the area that encompassed the boroughs of Birkenhead, Bootle,

The leap from “Can AI help my genealogy?” to “How can I use AI efficiently every day?” is where many researchers stumble. They either remain overly cautious, using AI sporadically, or become overly de