Family History Roots

Using Working Trees – Notes on the fly!

What kind of Family Tree is a working tree & why is it used.  I go into the advantages of using one and how it can be used to speed up your research and record what has been found and not found.

Sideview - Matching DNA Matches By Parent

What is Sideview? How can it help analysis of AncestryDNA's matches? - A brief introduction to a new tool from Ancestry

Mind Your Source - Why Source references are important for Family History

A discussion of why keeping a note of where family history information was gathered from is important.

Managing DNA Matches on Ancestry.com (for Family History)

This is part 4 of a series on using DNA tests for your family history research, in this part I'm taking a look at how Ancestry manages your DNA matches and will start to look at what you can do with them on Ancestry. Part 4 of 5

What is a DNA test & its use for Family History

In this series of short podcasts I look at how DNA tests can be useful for Family History research, which tests are best for your purposes, what they are, what the test kit is, & how to use the results. Par 1 of 5 (so far)