Good Searches on Ancestry (Are You Searching WRONG?)

Effective searches on Ancestry.com can make all the difference when you are building your family tree. Are you missing things because you are searching wrong?

This video will go over lots of tricks for better searches. You will find records you never realized were already there at Ancestry!

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0:00 Intro
0:33 Handout information
1:51 How many records Ancestry has - how few are in your hints
2:54 Information in each record
4:41 Person searches
6:22 How search results are listed
6:33 Clean searches
8:38 Thinking outside the box
8:57 Using Ancestry's location menu
9:40 Experimenting with different search facts
10:30 Boolean Operators or Wildcards
12:32 Altering search information in person searches
14:21 Narrowing down search facts in searches
16:13 Search filters
24:36 Smart filtering - BEWARE
28:09 Card catalog

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Intro music: "Something Elated" by Broke for Free. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Br...