Ancestry.com – Tips and Tricks
Susan LeBlanc, AG®
November 1, 2014
Tips and Tricks for discovering your relatives while exploring on the top genealogy
online website. We will walk through the collections and discover tools for researching
within collections. This will be an online presentation so please bring some of your
research questions and we will try to discover the answers.
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http://gophergenealogy.blogspot.com
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Start a New Tree or Upload a GEDCOM – Becomes one of My Trees
Provides lists of trees that you are connected with
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Lists by Surname or Place from Advanced Search
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General search tips posted at bottom of page
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Produced by Susan LeBlanc, BGS/FH – dsleblanc@aol.com,
http://gophergenealogy.blogspot.com
AG® certification marks are the sole property of the International Commission for the Accreditation of
Professional Genealogists. All Rights Reserved. Last modified August 2008
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Census Records, Immigration Records, Military Heroes, Vital Records,
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Other Resources found in Advanced Search or Learning Tab
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Produced by Susan LeBlanc, BGS/FH – dsleblanc@aol.com,
http://gophergenealogy.blogspot.com
AG® certification marks are the sole property of the International Commission for the Accreditation of
Professional Genealogists. All Rights Reserved. Last modified August 2008
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Produced by Susan LeBlanc, BGS/FH – dsleblanc@aol.com,
http://gophergenealogy.blogspot.com
AG® certification marks are the sole property of the International Commission for the Accreditation of
Professional Genealogists. All Rights Reserved. Last modified August 2008