ANCESTRY AI, COMMUNITY HISTORY BOOKS & FAMILYSEARCH RESEARCH

When trying to locate more information and details in genealogical research there are often underused tools available. In this episode Colette walks you through her process of locating the harder to find information using tools that many do not know about. In her Swedish line she demonstrates the benefits of using community history books and teaches ways to research more effectively in FamilySearch. And now that Ancestry has a new AI tool available, the common headaches and frustration of doing family history work become things of the past.

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Welcome back to the Gathering Academy. I'm so glad you're here. If you are joining on podcasts, there will be some things that we will share that you'll definitely want to watch on the YouTube version. Today I'm going to invite you to come with me to explore a little bit on Ancestry. I'm going to show you a couple of new features we talked a little bit about last week. But I also want to bring you into my office here and get an idea of what I do, how I do it. We're going to cover a lot of different small things that you can apply no matter what area of the world that you're living in. So the first thing is we talked last week about the importance of books. Books are huge. If you've got a family book sitting on your shelf, grab it, open it up, and start looking, especially for descendants. Some of these books that were family history books were created where there were living people put in there but now have now been deceased. They may be in that time period where the work can be done. You may also find books on Google Books or archive.org or Family Search on digitized books. Those are a few places where you can find books online. All week, my husband has been working on this Powell family that he found the actual book in the library in Indiana. And it turns out that Family Search had it digitized. So he's been able to pull that up. And what he's been doing is he's been spot checking. He'll find a name, see if they're in Family Search, look at the whole family. And he's found missing babies, missing spouses, and he's been working on it night and day. So that is a big recommendation for you is to check out books. Go to your local library, or if you're going to visit an area where the rest of your family settled this summer, let's say you go to Star Valley, Wyoming, go see if there's a little historical section in the library where you can see if there's any books. So let me tell you the story about this book right here. So this book is from Soldier Melby. It's about the people of Soldier Melby in southern Sweden. So, and I may have shared this in a previous podcast, but if you didn't hear it, here it goes. And if you did, here we go again. So a couple of years ago when we went to Sweden, my husband had heard about this book. He knew that there was a book that was published, um, and it was for sale in this little thrift shop. There were, I mean, this little village had a bakery and a thrift shop. That was it. It's out in the middle of farmland, but it was closed. So we sent an email, he got some responses, and before this trip, he felt like we needed to look for this book again. And so they told him that um it was for sale at the bakery. I think I did share this with you if you've heard this before. So we went to the bakery, and the boy that was working there didn't know anything about it, but he made a phone call and found out that they were just under a shelf, a lower shelf. So we bought a copy for us, and I bought a copy for the Family Search Library. Um, so we brought it home and it's been sitting on on the shelf. We kind of did a little bit of looking on the first few pages, but um, I haven't looked at it till today. So today's Sunday, and I was like, okay, Emily Father, um, help me to know what to do. There's so many places I could go and look for my family. And I saw this sitting on the shelf, so I thought, okay, I will open it up. So I started just opening up and flipping through, and it's really cool. There's a lot of pictures, and one that stood out to me was this one right here. And this is this really old man. He was 96 years old and he really looks old. Um, and so I thought, okay, well, I wonder if he's related. So I um typed in his name, and so it says he was um Yepah and then poor person, and so I guess poor was his his last name. So a trick that I did was I took a picture of the whole, here's a whole little thing in Swedish about the family. I took that picture and I put it into Gemini. And let me see, we're gonna share screen and I'm gonna show you. I want to show you like what my mindset is. How did I do this? Okay, so I have I have a picture. I'd like to know if he's related, and I've got a whole bunch of stuff in Swedish, most of it I can read, some stuff. I just like to have an easier way to do context. So I'm gonna do share screen, um, allow to share screen and share entire screen. All right, here we go. So um we're gonna open up. We're gonna go to Gemini and hopefully it will still have it saved. I have like a free account and then I have my paid account. So we're gonna go over here to the right and we're gonna search chats. And it's not in this one. So I didn't do it in this one. Oh, I think I did it on my phone. That's what I did. Because I took the picture on my phone, and this is probably not my so it'll be saved. Whenever you do something on your phone, it'll be saved, but it's in my paid account. So it should pop up here under search chats. Yes. All right, so it lists it as it gave it its own title, 90th birthday guest list genealogy. And so here's the picture that I took from the book. You can see this right here. And it says, This is a fascinating breakdown of the guests attending a 90th birthday celebration for Yepah, poor person in Melby. So it was for his 90th birthday, and it lists the people he's sitting there, and then we've got um sitting there is the priest or the pastor, Emil Veneberg, and then you've got Stanning Niels Monson. Then I keep going down, and then I see it says Pear Tulin and Pear Nielsen, son-in-law of Yep, and married to his daughter, Margareta. So all of a sudden I had, okay, he has a daughter, Margareta. I know his name, I know an about date, um, because it said in the history, oh, there was another in the book. In the book, there was another picture, the one I showed you. It said that he was um 96 years old when he died in September 1926. So I had that date. So do you see how I'm putting together these little puzzle pieces? I'm I'm getting together these little clues, and then I'm going to take them into Family Search. So I put it into Family Search, and here you're gonna see what I found. So, but I want to show you how I got here. So let me go back to, I'm gonna duplicate. I don't want to lose that page. I'm gonna right-click if you've never done this. So you right-click or two-finger click if you've got a trackpad on a Mac, um, it or maybe a PC, uh laptop. You can duplicate the tab. So I'm gonna duplicate the tab, and I'm going to go to what I did is I went out of family search and I went to find. And so then I typed in his name, Yupa and person. And I knew that he was in Soldier Milby. They listed as Milby often, that's their like abbreviation. Like Salt Lake versus Salt Lake City. Soldier Milby. And I knew I didn't know a birth year. Well, I kind of thought maybe um 1930. So I'm gonna do night or I mean 1830, 1828 to 1832. I'll do that range, and then because I wasn't sure exactly if that picture was taken in 1926, um, and then another person, because I don't have the spouse, but I do have other person, because his wife probably died, was Margareta, and oh, and I have his death date. That's really important. I know for sure that his death was in Sotra Milby. And let's see, here it is, and then 1926 to 1926, because in the book it says that, so I'm gonna go with that as fact, and I will click search, and up comes this one, this Torpora, which is a farmer, uh Yepaperson, and there's a wife, Karna, and so she died in 1909, so that would make sense that she wasn't in that birthday celebration. All right, so that when I click on him, I came to him, and this is this is a pattern. This is how I do this. Um, I come in here and here he was. He did not have this picture. I just added that, and then I thought I'm gonna stop and I'm gonna do a live um walkthrough with you to so you get an idea how you can go from a book, from a name, a couple of clues, to finding somebody on family search and then seeing if they're related. So then I click View Relationship, and he is the husband of my husband's fourth cousin, four times removed. So you look right here, there's Karna, and there's Yepah. And then see, this is the grandfather that came over, um, emigrated to the United States. This is my husband's relatives. So I come in here to YEPA, and there's a couple of things that I notice that I can do. So if you're wondering how do I start, what do I do? First of all, you can standardize the dates and the places. So this is not standardized. Um the this place is not standardized, so the date is not here. So if I click on the pencil, pencil always means edit. And I see this is standardized, 5 August spelled out 1830. So if I have my cursor right there, and if I just tap, oops, sorry, if I just tap, then I can click on this drop down and that standardized it. Now the check mark is there, it says standardized. The place is already standardized. So then I can say save. So this is an easy way. You can clean up the records. I can come here to the pencil, same thing. I'm right there. I tap and now I can standardize that. And then the place is not. He's living at Melby One. There's a very like uh high likelihood they don't have Melby One in there. They will have soldier Melby. So I'm gonna create my own standard. So what I'll do is I'll click in here and I'll do the backspace and get rid of that. It'll give me the option to do Melby Christian Stodd, but I don't want to lose this Melby one. So I am going to, there's two things you can do. You can highlight this, Command C or Ctrl C, copy, and then you can delete it, and then watch what happens. Then I get Soldier Melby and I can just click on this. Then that gives me the standardized place, and then I can go back in and Command V, and I'll do a little space there, and then this makes my own standard. If I click on this, now it's going to say it's standardized. It's reading this is the standard, but it doesn't delete my farm name, which is really important for tracking families. And then I just say save. So that's the, and I'm just, I don't need a reason on that. So that's the reason. That's the first step that you can do when you come into this. You're like, what do I do? The next step, and so I could go through and I'll finish that later today, standardizing those. Um, the next thing I'd like to do is look at the family. So we have his wife, Karna. Let's click on her and see if her work's done. Her work's been done since this when's her endowment done. If you hover over the gray, it will show you. So in 1984, she had her endowment and she sealed her spouse in '83. So for those of you that are new to family history, and you say, well, how could this ceiling happen before the rest of the work? It still happens today. In the 1970s, they were doing a lot of extraction of marriages. And in order to keep the work going in the temple, they have a policy and they still carry it on today that we can do the ceilings. Um, as a good friend of mine, Caroline, Carolyn, said, it's in it's in escrow. Um, but basically that ceiling is done, and then it will be valid when the rest of the work is done. Um, I personally prefer to do baptism all the way up in the order that it is. Um anyway, just that's what I like to do. I like to look and see when was their work won, when was Yepas done, his endowment was done in 1984. For me, it gives me a little bit of a picture of if they've accepted on the other side how long they've been waiting to have this work done. So then I want to look at the kids. So I have a birth date and a death date for both, which is great. Some countries it's hard to find that, but if you have the ability to, um, I recommend that you go and look for that. Often when you go in that search for all of the extra information, uh, you end up finding more family. So in order to do temple work, you need to have at least a birth, death date, and place, a death date, birth, a death date in place, or a marriage date in place. You need to have one of those and they need to be standardized. Um, we noticed when we were helping my son-in-law with his Croatian family that they had written the place name in the way that they spell it in Croatia, which is like H-V-R-A-T-S-K-A or something like that. And Family Search did not recognize that. Maybe they've changed it by now, but so there were all these, all this information that was in Family Search, and it wasn't able to be reserved because it wasn't standardized. So just know that you've got to have a standardized date, whatever Family Search um counts as standardized in order for the work to go forward. So then I look and we've got, I'm thought, let's look at the kids. And I clicked on the first one, and look at that. There's a little girl that's waiting to be sealed. Um, I don't have a death place, but she was she died within a few years um of her birth. So what I would want to do is I would want to verify that um this is really truly his child. Uh says they were born, married in 51, so 52 makes sense. So I like to look at the sources. So I'll click on the sources and you can click on sources here, or you can click on person and then go to sources. So we have a birth record for Hannah that somebody's added in 2023 and a household record. We'll see if we have any images. I don't, it doesn't look like we have images that just came from a link. So when you come to this page, this is your sources page. Remember that if you create a title, create a source, you can always edit it. Even as this other person did it, I could come and edit this title or the notes, the source where it came from. So remember you have the edit button. If you find a source that it does not belong to somebody, you can click the detach button, put the reason why they don't belong, and then detach. But I'm not going to do that on this. So sometimes this will take me to the original document. Other times it takes you to the entire scan of the entire church book, but this looks like it took us to the exact book. So we're going to look here, and down here at the bottom I can see a yuppa. He's crossed out. So yuppa person H, we've talked about this before, is Hustra, which is a wife, Carna Neil's daughter. And this is where they were born. Remember in Sweden, they do the month under. They may do this in other countries as well, month and then day. And you know there's not 23 months in a year. So that's how you know that that's what that is. So this is their birthplace, and this is where they came in from and a marriage date. So they did get married in 51, and there is the daughter Hannah, and she was born in this little place called Ocarp. Um, and right now they're living in Sodra Milby. If I go to the very top of the page, they're living at Ocarp. So she was born at the same place that they're living at right now. So now I feel very good that this is a real person. She really does belong to them. So I'm going to go back. Oops, let's we'll do it here. We're going to go back to ordinances. And you can see it's all not needed because she was under age of eight. And I can click request. So now I am going to request and in live. This is something that's happened in the last hour. I was real, I was getting ready for church. I pulled this book off the shelf, and I found this little girl that's now going to be able to seal to her parents. So my next step is so what I can do is I can click share and um let's see. So it's in progress right here. I should be able to share and share with temple. There we go. I could share the ordinances with temple, but because this is a close relative, I'm going to keep it and I'm going to do it. I could also share it with a group or share with an individual. If I clicked on share with the individual, I just put their email address. They'll email them. They have 14 days to accept it. If they don't, it will come back to you. So my next step is we've got Hannah. She's good. Our goal is to have unite families. We want to get this whole family complete. So I'm going to look at the daughter Margretha. Actually, see, I accidentally copied. If you click on this little ID number here, it will copy it in case you need to paste it somewhere else. I didn't need that. I was just trying to get to her. So when I click on her, I can see all of her work is done. I also can see that there's a seal to spouse. So it means if I click on her, I will see a spouse. And that is another place I want to check. Once I've checked these biological children, I want to see if her husband has his work done, her children have their work done. My goal is to make sure everybody in this nuclear family has a birth date, a death date if they have a spouse. If not, I mark that if they never married, I mark that they never married. And you may wonder, how do I do that? So let me just do this right here. We can go to, we're on Hannah. If you go to add fact, there's no couple relationships, or if you know they never had children, no children. This can be a little bit riskier because they could have had a child and it was just never recorded like in the church books. Um there may be a stillborn child that in certain countries of the world you can still seal. Um, like Scandinavia, if you if it says stillborn, you can seal that child because they would label the child as stillborn, even if they lived for a few minutes, um, if they just didn't get christened um and given a name. So that's how you do that. Um so Neils, let's go down to Neils. And I can see right now I can see a glaring error. One, whenever you see a month in all caps, that's non-standardized. Um, so I'm gonna click on him. And it's not an error that's going to prevent work from being done. But what it does is that um it's not standardized, and so we want to standardize it. It helps the computer in searching out records, um, and it allows you to do the work. And so this was in Soldier Mel B. And I know that because I saw that when I was looking at the right side, and then I say save, and we also get it from here. Um, there's a I also noticed there's a couple of records here, and there's also some My Heritage Matches. This is what we talked about a few weeks ago. If you were just joining us new, we talked a few weeks about ago about going to the labs on the main page, and you can activate this My Heritage Matches. It's it's a test, it's beta right now, but it'll give you hints for your free My Heritage account. If you're a member of the church, um, you can have a free My Heritage account. And um, if you're not sure how to do that, post that in the messages. We've we've covered that in previous podcasts, um, but it's um through our affiliates or our partners. So we've got this. He's also got this one needs to be standardized. So I just tap and click on that. That's why when if you're listening to this podcast while you're on a walk and I say click on top of that, you may not be able to see what I'm showing. But I've got these records that I can attach here. I don't have a spouse and I don't have a death date. So I'm going to show you what we're going to find here on my heritage. So I'm going to go to my heritage matches and view the hints. Now we covered this a few weeks ago, and it's been back and forth whether it's showing up in Family Search or not. So we're going to see if when I attach this match, um, if this record actually will show up. So I scrolled through here. He's here as a child in the top record, um, 1874 to 1880. And then he's 1874 to 1880 here again, again here, and then in this last one, he's still there in Rorum. But look at this, there's a death date. 7 November 1881. So I always say go look at the actual record. And so we're gonna click on that. And if we open this up, it looks like he's head of household or just living singly. Let's see. This is always so finicky. And let's see where he's on the page. So there's um who are we looking for now? Yepsen. Oops. I lost it because I didn't lose it. He's over here. There he is. So he's Niels Yepsen. Look for the date, 1858. We're gonna go back in here. We're looking for an 1858, and he might be down at the bottom. Yep, there he is. So there he is. He's listed as a drain, which is a single guy, Niels Yepsen, and here's his birth date. Oh, this is always so finicky. I hope they can fix that someday. Um, and then if I go all the way over this column, there's another date right here. There's also a note right here. Um and it says Dod, which is death. So here's a death date for him. So he died on the 7th of November, 1881. So there he is. There's no spouse, so I can add his death date. So we're gonna go back to him. And 7th of November 18. And let's see where he was living. Um, right here. He was in Rorum in Christianstad. So we go back here. Rorum. Christianstad. And it lives this second one is the or yeah, Rorum is the parish. This is the court district. So depending on where you are in the world, they may or may not list a court district. So that's important if you need to find any records that would have existed for them that involved court cases. And sometimes that's the only record. So we're going to reason this information is correct. What I like to do is either paste or so I can copy this, highlight this, and I'll come in here. Oh, I keep going back to that one. I'm going to close that one out. I'm going to paste that in there. So that tells me that it came from this book. And this A112 in Rorum will take me exactly to it if I go into Family Search. So if I went into Roarum, not into Family Search, sorry, Archive Digital. So if watch this, I'm going to copy that. I'm going to go to Archive Digital and hopefully I'm still logged in here. I might not be Archive Search. Maybe I still am. I'm going to type Rorum and it's very sensitive in Archive Digital. Some sites places are, but there you can see there's Rorum. And it's the O with the two dots. And I click on this, this gives me all the church records in uh this parish. So A1, see how this is classified A1. And I'm going to go back to that. That was A112. Oops, here we go. So A112, I go down to that. Here's the 1880 to 1886. And he died in 1881. So it looks like it's all matching up. Open volume. Do you see how fast this is? Once you have that source, somebody else will be able to go back and find this without me having the actual image. And it was on page 12, um, line 17. So if I go back here, and hopefully the pages are the same in here. So there's notice there's images and there's pages. So I'm gonna go to page 12, and we'll see if it's the same one. Is there a Niels person in here? Niels Yepsen. Oh my goodness, look at that. It worked. There he is, Niels Yepsen, and it's all nice in color right there. So let's see if there's a difference between the color quality. This one's a little brighter. Um, so now I have his death date. Um, let's see, that's not who that's not who is that who I was doing? Thanks for coming on this ride for me. It's always fun. Here we go. Um, Neil's the episode. So we've got that pasted in there, and then I also like to do the URL. URL. URLs can break. That's why I like to have both. But if I don't get around to doing an actual um true source, I've got it sourced. I've got where I received it. Sometimes it will show up right below here. I don't know why it does sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. But if I clicked on this pencil, I would have all of that. I can also take this, copy all that. So I do command C or control C, and I'm gonna cancel. And then I just come in here to sources and I click add source. It's really, you can do this in like 30 seconds. Add a new source. I can paste that in there. That's my citation, and then that my heritage, I can actually copy that and paste that in here. And then all I have to say is Neil's yep son. He's in uh this is his um household record. And I do like to maybe this is 45 seconds. I do like to put the place. So he was in Rorum. Let's see, it was in Christianstad. So he moved out of his home parish, Sweden, which was not uncommon. And the date, if I go down here, we'll see if I have a date here. There's not a date here, so I'm gonna go back to here, and I'm on my heritage. I will have to go back. So I go back, and this was actually 1880 to 1886. If I'm in archive digital, if I go back here, the dates are right there. So I come back here and I'm going to put 1880 to 1886. And actually, he died in 81, and so the book covers that for that time period. So that's why I'm going to do that. Then if I wanted to put, if there were any extra notes that I wanted to put in there, I could do that. And then always do the vital tags name, sex, birth, and death. We got all from that. We don't have a Christine and we don't have a burial. All right, so I have Neil Ziepson. He was a drain, drain, and that's something you can type into Google, um, do Swedish to English to translate, type in drain, and it'll say single. So he was single. So we're going to come in here and we're going to add a fact and no couple relationships. And then we'll just we can still paste that same reason why. See how simple this can be. You can be as detailed or as simple as you want. The goal is that somebody can get back to your record, you can get back to it. You have standardized information so that the work can be done. So he's all done. I could add these records to make a more complete profile, but my goal today is just to see if I have all of the information so everybody in the family will be a completely sealed family. So now I'm going to go to pair. So there's pear. And I can see that he has um all of his work done if I hover. Uh 1984. So it looks like a lot of the work was done. For some reason, this little Hannah was missed. Um and so I'm super excited to see her. I'm going to go to Pear. I actually have him open here. I want to show you the next step. We'll get to little Hannah, the other Hannah. Um, it was not uncommon for people to name their child the same name. Um, if one died, they could, they would, they could reuse it. Um, so here we go into pair. We've got a similar type of situation where we want to edit. We're gonna make that a standardized date. And then we're going to put so Dramilby. And if you didn't know, you could go out and then come back in. And then save. And so I've got both of those. The reason I didn't put a where I got that is because he has eight sources that are already connected to that. The christening, I don't know if I have a christening for him. Let's click on that sources. And he doesn't have a christening record. His earliest, unless I scroll down. Um, there is one right here. So this is another example of something I would do. Um, so it says birth record for pair yeppison, this M Pasket. Added this in 2023. There's no date here, so it ends up at the bottom of the sources. But I can click a date because I have one right here. And I put the date as 11 December. Oops, sorry. December 1860. All right, so we've got that and save, and it should then pop up at the top. There we go. So we do have a birth record for him. So what I can do now is I can go back to details and I can click on um christening, because that will have the christening date on there, and I can click tag sources over in this right corner, and I can click on this record. So I select it and then select source, and it should work. Let me go back. I don't know what's going on. Try again. Alright, so we go back to the details, we click on christening, actually, yep, tag sources, click on that, and then select source. And now it should say one source is attached. And it's taking a second for it to do it. Alright, so while it's doing that, we're going to go back here to wrong family. We'll come back here to Pear Jupson. So it should be attaching that. We should have a christening show up over here on the right. And it still didn't do it yet. So it's it's lagging a little bit. So once I have these standards, oh, this one, the christening isn't standardized. Do that. I would tag the source. If it didn't do it, I would try it again. Yesterday, family search was being really slow, so sometimes that happens. But I can see over here on my research helps, there's five things. There's three sources, and then there's some hints. There might be a missing child, they might have another spouse. Those are ideas for me to look for. So I could attach all those, but first I want to just analyze what I have. Um, I have there's a wife, Johanna Nystrom. She does have a birth and a death. I noticed that the marriage date is kind of wonky. It should say 21 December, 1889. So I can click on that and edit it. And then you can see if I click there, then I can just select the standardized. I don't know the place. I do know that they were in Sweden. Um, it wasn't like they were moving countries all the time, and especially this time period. So I feel very confident to say I can put Sweden in there. That will allow Family Search to search for records, and it may come up with an actual Swedish uh marriage record if I don't have one already. All right, the next thing I do is I look at what's going on here. Now, this is something that might freak some of you out when you see this. You're like, what do I do and why is this here? We've got Pear here. He's in bold. That means we're on his person page. There he is again, and there's no spouse, but I have a spouse here, and they were married in 89, and she was died in 96. So maybe he had another spouse. Let's click and see who's attached. I'm going to click on this little drop-down arrow. So it's Selma Amanda, and her ID number is ends in 5S5, it looks like. And this is V2T. So it appears that these are the same person. We'll find out in just a second, that have been entered in twice by two different people. And so we'll probably need to merge. Um, so let's click on Selma Amanda's name. And she was born the 12th of January, 1891, in Anderslaw. Well, it's kind of fun to see some green temp green boxes. Let's see what it shows when we this one up here. Also, green boxes, and it's the same 12 January 1891. Now, if you notice under here, it just says Anderslaugh. It's just one um word, and this is likely the parish, which is um we need to make sure we have the full standardized date. So I feel comfortable now combining these two. So you say, well, how do you do that? So the easiest way is I'll keep the one that's already attached up here to Pear and Johanna. So I come down to the one on the bottom and I click on this little ID. Do you see how it says ID copied up here? Now that that's copied, I can come up to this Selma Amanda and I don't click on her ID. I click on her name. I click on Selma Amanda. And once I get into her, I scroll down and you can see there's some hints for her. And I come down here to the tools and I do merge by ID. You can do possible duplicates if it picked it up. It didn't pick it up for some reason. So I do merge by ID and I do Command V or Ctrl V and paste. That was that ID that it copied, and I say continue. So now it's on the merge duplicate page. So it's nice. It says these people have no significant inconsistencies. And it says please review and make sure there's nothing off. And all of this looks good. It will bring over anything new that I didn't have. The parents match. This one is the father without the wife. But you know that in she was born in 91 and they were married in 89. This is their child. So we're gonna resolve that other problem of that floating, um, floating Selma. So we scroll down and we say merge. And the name matches, the parents match, and so I'm gonna say merge. You don't have to check every single box, you need to check at least one to show that you were having some thought. Um, so it's doing its merge right now, and um, it looks like it's just being a little slow. There we go. All right, so now Selma Amanda is is merged. So we've got a couple of things that we need to fix. One, she's connected here in a second marriage, but there's really not a second marriage that we know of right now where she has a biological mother. There's a potential that he could have remarried. She became a stepchild to another woman and she could potentially fit in this spot. We don't have evidence of that right now. So what we're going to do is make sure she's connected to her mother and her father who are biological. And this is just a duplicate. Do you see it's 5LK 5LK is what Pear Jepsin or Yepsen ends in. So I'm going to unlink her. This is a duplicate box that we don't need. And so we're going to click on the pencil, and this helps us edit the relationship this time. So I'm going to remove her from this father relationship. And so I remove, and it gives me the option to remove the parents or replace the parents. I'm not replacing, and I always check this box. It won't allow you to move forward unless you say I have reviewed the relationship, sources and notes. And then I say remove parents. And then I will just say this is a duplicate relationship. Duplicate relationship. All right. Remove. Okay, so now do you see that's gone? And now we have a nice, clean little family. Except, notice there's a couple of things we can still do. She doesn't have a death date, he doesn't have a death date. If I click on her, no spouse. Also, this Anderslav, I we need to have that a little more filled in. And she doesn't have her father's last name. So we're getting to the point in 91 that she would have taken on Yepsen. Basically, about 1880 and after they take on the last name instead of patronymics. So I need to put a last name in for her. So I'm going to scroll up here and I'm going to put in Yepsen. And that's what we're assuming. Look at this, though, up here. There's a Selma Amana Nestrum. So that's something that I will need to check out. I'm going to put Yepsen right now because that would be the pattern, the name that her father had. It would help me connect her to her father. And then I would add Nystrum. If I find out for sure that's her, um, then I could add the Nystrum after after that. I'd like to have the Yep Sin and Nystrum because it proves the parental relationship. If her father was, if she was born pre-1880, I would have her last name would be Pearson or Pear's daughter. And you may be saying, holy cow, you just confused me and all that. Um just know that we want to make sure that they have a last name and that it corresponds with the record. All right. Or um what happens in that country for that family. So she that nice term, I will want to check that out. Um, I'm not getting any other my heritage hints right here. So I do want to fix this. I want to click on this and make this standardized. I think you got the idea that it's good to get that standardized. And then Anderslav is actually in Mamahoofs. It's Anderslov, which is with a V or a F that's pronounced the same to them. And um, so now if you look here, you may wonder why in the world do I get all of these choices? So the place name people have tried to give you what it was called in certain time periods. So you see this Anderslav Treleboris Kona is in 97 at present, but previous to that, to 67, it was in Mamahoose. So we're gonna click on that and then we're going to say save. So I don't always put a reason in that place. If I'm editing, I'm not putting a reason unless I feel like I need to clarify it. Usually I like to do that if I have a record that will um work with that. So now we've got, I like to find a death or proof that she lived past the age of eight. So let's go to the sources that we have already and let's look at this nystrum, Selma Amanda Nystrum. If I click on this, I can see that there's a record and it's in birthplaces andersloth, 12th of January 1891, and the same name for the first two. So where did that nestrum come from? So let's go look at the record. Let's go view the original document. The first thing is I'm trying to prove that she lived past age eight. Then there's a lot of other information I sense is I'm going to be able to find and work on. So if I make this a little bit bigger, I'm looking for Selma. There she is. Selma Amanda, and she's listed as a daughter. So the reason that she was listed, this is we talked about this before. In the Swedish records, and I don't know if there's any other ones, when they first started getting put into AI, they were giving all of the children the mother's maiden name because in the Swedish records, the mother kept her maiden name into the 1900s. And so um almost all the records have the maiden name. So AI incorrectly assumed that all the children were the maiden name of the mother. So she really is not Nystrum. Um, but her father, Pered Yepsen, actually took on another name of Dalen, D-A-H-L-I-N. So there's a chance that she could be Yepsen, she could be Dalen, or it could be something different. Um, but you can see all of these kids are still living at home. If they have, oh, I guess this isn't a child, this is a neighbor. So Selma and Nils Gustav, um, they don't have a last name listed here. We talked about this previously, but in the Swedish records, they they were not listed with their whatever name they took, whether it was the patronymic father's name, which was tradition 1880 for sure, and before they took that. Um, or if their father had a military name, there's a possibility they could have taken that, or if he changed his name because he was a merchant, and so he wanted to have a more distinguished um last name. That's a possibility. But standard, they took their father's first name plus son or plus daughter um previous to 1880. So this is in a little bit of a gray area where you've got to do a little more digging. Um, but we see the families crossed off. Sometimes when a record they're crossed off, it's because they moved, or sometimes it's because they died. When all of them are crossed off like that, it's usually because they moved. And there would be a note, and it said they went to in 94, they went to this other farm on the Slaugh number five. So we could follow them that way. All right, so now I know that I can go back to her, and I'm not going to add that nystrum. So, and I know from that other record that this one was in she was a daughter and in '91, and this was from 1890 to 98. She didn't was not listed as dying. So um I can feel pretty comfortable that she was age eight. But I also have, let's see if we have another record over here that we could check. You always want to make sure you have a record that proves that they lived past age eight before you go start doing all of the work for them. And family search is just being a little slow. Um so oops, there I was about to do it. Nope, did not do it. So that's Selma. And then she has a brother. Hopefully, it'll let us do it. We may have to, we may have to be done with that at this point. So, what I'm gonna do is now I'm gonna continue to work on this family. I'll be able to reserve their names uh and do their work. And so that all came for because I was curious about this picture of Yepah and from this book. So um the next thing I want to show you is we talked, I kind of did a lead-in last week into um family search or into Ancestry, some of the new things that are coming with Ancestry. So on Ancestry, you have the ability when you get your free account to upload four generations of your tree into Ancestry, which will then help you find more records and connect with more people. So I have several trees in here. I have some that are my own, and then if here, if I go to trees, I can go to my trees. Oops, it says I'm not connected to the internet. So hopefully it's still recording. Alright, let's see. Let's refresh and see if we're still recording. We might have to stop right here and connect. Reconnect. It says it's still recording. So crossing our fingers, we're still recording. All right, let's go back here to Ancestry and refresh the page. There we go. So I have some different trees that I am owner of or an editor, or I have some trees that are shared with me. So I'm going to show you my tree. We're gonna go here. Um, so I I'm on my tree. I want to show you how to get there though. Let's go to the main page of Ancestry. Because if you're new, if you've done This is a long time. This is old hat. Um, hopefully, there will be some things that you'll learn from this. So you go to trees, choose your tree. So I'm gonna go and it will go to the last person that you were on. Um, so here I was on Carl. Um, we talked about this last week. That you look over here on this right side, and down here where it says temple status, you can click on that. And what it does is it searches and it'll tell you if the ordinances are complete, if they're connected to family search or not. These ones I just added, and I already know that they're in there. Um, but if I go down to let me go to the next page. So you can see I have a lot of complete, and that may happen with you. Um, it gives me three pages. So this is not my entire tree, it's just whatever I've uploaded to Ancestry. But if I come down here, I saw one that uh was not here. Um so I've got Carl Grant Houts. Um, I can say connect and it searches to see if it's in Family Search. Um, and it said it found this match, Carl Grant Houtz. He was born in Springville and he died in Monterey. So I know that this is my guy based on my experience. So, but if I did not, if it came up and it was not a match, I can now click add to family search and it will add it to Family Search. So, for those of you like my friend Tina, who's had a tree on ancestry and has been trying to get her people over, this is a very easy way for you to see if you've already had them in there and if not, and if their temple work is done, and if not, put them into family search and get them reserved. So, otherwise, I click on this little button right here and I can say connect person. So now he's connected to Family Search, and then I can bring over information from Family Search or share the information into Ancestry Tree back and forth. All right, and the last thing I want to share with you is super fun. Um, it is with using AI within Family Search. So I'm gonna go here to review this document. Um, this is under my hints, under if I'm on a person within my tree. And I'm looking at this and I'm saying, is this my family? Yes. It's Charles and Christina, Alfreda, Ida, and Henrietta, those are all my relatives. So I'm gonna save this to my tree. I'm going to say yes. Now, what I get to do is I get to choose what I want to bring over and what I don't. Mine is more correct on this site, so I'm not going to check this box. The residence, it's automatically bringing over because it's brand new. Then down here, it's um I need to connect Christina, and I have an exact date, so I'm not going to replace that. Residence, it brought over, and then a child, Ida. Yep, that matches. And I have Ida, Ida C. That's more correct. So I'm not going to check anything on this side. Again, it brought that residence. So I'm going through with all of their kids and attaching it. And then I'm going to save to tree. Alright. So I'm going to have this record that's going to be saved to my tree. So now I'm going to go to the gallery. So that's one way. That's not doing the AI. I jumped, I jumped off the path for a minute to show you that. So I'm going to go to my gallery to see what I have here. So I have a map here, and I can click on it. And over here is this Discover One Insight. So watch for that wherever you've got records because you're going to have the ability for AI to give you some information. So if I click on Discover One Insight, it's going to do some thinking and analyzing. And then it may give me a hint about what I can do. So it's taking a second to do that. That's what you have to remember with AI, you just have to have a little patience. Um then I come back here. I'm going to go back to let's go back to my tree. And I'm going to go to Hannah Nielsen. She was my third great grandmother, and let's go to her profile. So I'm going to go in here to her. Let's go to the household to her sources. You go to the gallery or to the sources. So I'm going to view the source, and I'm going to notice this. This is a new button, listen and explore. So this is using AI. If I click on this, and this is really fun. If you're in trying to engage somebody in your family to understand a little bit more about their family, that it's more than just this record written in cursive that I don't even understand. It's going to do some searching and creating, and it has the ability to do an audio file for you to hear it analyze what it found. So it's still thinking. So let's go back here and see. So this actually gave me an about 1915 to 1925 date. I don't know if that's true or not. I would want to do a little more digging to determine that, but it thinks that that's probably the case. And if it was, um it then I can save it. So this estimate. So it says this map shows individually named farm owners with acreage, a format common in early 20th century county atlases and plat books. And then it says the town name, Hordeville, and Bluffed Precinct style labeling matches the plat maps produced in the 1910s and 1920s. So you can see how it pulled that information from the web and then made that estimate. So I could say save or move on. I'm not going to say save because I'm not sure on that. Let's come back here. All right, this is so cool. So notice this is in beta, so it's not going to be perfect, but it can be a great tool. So it gives me um typed out in the information about this entry. But then look at this. I can listen to their story.

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So I click play, and you should hear a household in AMOD. This record opens a window into another time and another life. On the page of a Swedish household clerical survey, between 1856 and 1861, we meet your third great-grandmother, Hannah Nil's DR.

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Okay. So those of you listening, remember this is beta. One, she did not pronounce omod the right way. She also said Hannah Nils daughter or Neil's DR instead of Neil's daughter. So there's some things that it still has to work through, but it's going through and it's telling me the story of her life based on this record. So if you're audio, um, an audio learner or you retain information this way, this is really cool. You have the ability to say thumbs up, thumbs down. I'm gonna say thumbs down because it did some things that I didn't love so much. But I also can download this. I can click on this little tray with download, and now I have the ability to share that. I also can click on these three dots and I'll get a transcript. And then I could take what I like, edit it, and then I can add it to my family search memories. Just make sure that you note that this was produced with the help of AI and you. Um, then you have down here all of these different things to teach you. We are in the best age ever for learning about our ancestors in such a fast and easy way. Our library is right here, right here in front of us. So I can learn about how these clerical surveys worked. So it will start thinking, and in the same format, it will pull up information and will tell me about that. So, have we talked about a lot today? So there we go. So this is telling me how it worked, how they were organized, that the Hustru um is the spouse, the wife for Anders Tolquist, and it gives me an idea of what to do and how to use it. And I could go and learn about patronymics. We talked about that, and you might be saying, I'm really confused about that. You can come in and find that as well. So this is in beta, it's something that's being worked on. Um let's unshare screen. All right. Well, you come to the end and you go, whoa, my hair is a little flyaway. Um I hope that you see the importance of one, using the physical copies along with what we have digitally. Um, you came along with me for the ride, and from a picture, I was able to find some missing work that needed to be done. Um, I'm as I do some more discoveries, I will share with you next week what else happened and what the end result was for this family on the descendants of this YEPA person who was in this book. So I invite you to find a book, go on Family Search, um, go on archive.org, go on Google Books, and type in your family name and see if you can find a history of a county or a place. Um, see if you can find something that um you can practice on. And if you can't find any books, if there aren't any books that are available, get on family on Ancestry and make sure that you've got your tree and practice finding records and then using this new AI tool. And I'd love to hear in your comments um what you think. So have a great week. We'll see you next time.