Ancestral Findings

Since Valentine's Day falls in February, it is a good time to explore how our ancestors celebrated the day of love and how their traditions can help us learn more about them, their lives, and who they were as people. One way our more recent ancestors celebrated Valentine's Day, similar to what we do today, was by exchanging cards. This tradition began sometime in the early to mid-1700s in England and eventually spread to the United States. Here is what you need to know about our ancestors and Valentine's Day cards. The first Valentine's Day cards on record were from at least the mid-1700s, and possibly earlier, in Great Britain, and they were hand-made. Some families still have these early cards in their possession among their heirlooms, and the handmade, hand-written cards provide deep insight into who their ancestors were as people, and how they expressed love to different people in their lives, from family to lovers... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/valentines-day-and-our-ancestors/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Birth records did not shift from "nothing" to modern certificates overnight. For centuries, most births were documented through churches, town clerks, and community systems that varied widely from place to place. Even when governments began requiring civil registration, compliance was uneven, and older religious systems often continued alongside the new civil system. That long transition is why you can have one ancestor with a clean birth certificate, a sibling with only a baptism entry, and another relative with nothing obvious at all, even though they were born in the same region. The purpose of this article is to help you understand the middle chapter of the story. This is the period when record-keeping became more systematic, but not yet standardized everywhere. When you understand how and why that happened, you can predict what records should exist for an ancestor's time and place, and you can avoid wasting time searching in the wrong jurisdiction or the wrong record type... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/birth-records-through-time-part-2-parish-to-civil-registration/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Birth records can feel like a modern invention because we usually meet them as government certificates, neatly formatted and easy to file. The truth is older and more uneven. People have always needed ways to preserve the fact of a birth, who a child belonged to, when that child arrived, and where the family stood in the community. Long before standardized certificates existed, births were tracked through household memory, religious records, and local record-keeping. Knowing history helps you research better today because it explains why birth records look so different from one place to the next and why an official certificate may not exist for an ancestor you are trying to document. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/birth-records-through-time-genealogy/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Same name ancestors can fool even careful researchers because the records are close enough to look convincing. The county fits. The time period fits. The ages are close. The hints line up. It can feel like you have a match when you really have a blend. This last article is about the step that keeps your work clean long term. You stop collecting only "supporting" records, and you build a proof case. A proof case is a short, organized argument that answers one identity question and shows, with evidence, why one candidate fits and the others do not. If you can build a proof case, you can defend your conclusion later, and you can hand the work to someone else without it falling apart... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/same-name-ancestors-proof-case-method/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Same name problems rarely get solved because you find one perfect record that settles everything. More often, the break comes when you stop staring at your ancestor's name and start paying attention to the names surrounding it. That's because a name like John Smith or William Jones can appear dozens of times in the same county. In that situation, the main name in a record is almost useless by itself. The separating clues are usually the witnesses, the bondsmen, the sureties, the neighbors, the appraisers, the administrators, and the other people who keep showing up with one candidate and not the other. This method is one of the most practical tools you can learn. It works if you are brand new and only have a handful of records. It also works if you have years of experience and you're digging into deeper court and probate material. The process stays the same. You collect the surrounding names, you track them in a structured way, and you let repetition build proof... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/same-name-ancestors-use-witnesses-bondsmen/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Same-name problems are one of the biggest sources of bad trees. You find a record for a name that fits the right county and the right time period, you attach it, and then hints do the rest. A spouse appears. Parents appear. Children appear. In five minutes, a whole family is "built." Then a year later, you notice something that doesn't fit. A second household with the same name. A land sale that conflicts with your person's location. A probate file that names different heirs. Now you're stuck trying to untangle a knot you didn't mean to tie. The best way to prevent this is to stop relying on single records to prove identity. Most identity problems are solved by building a pattern across time. The tool that forces that pattern to show itself is a full timeline that includes every candidate and every record, even the ones you wish did not exist. This method is not complicated, but it does require discipline. It also works in almost every place and time, even when the surviving record set is thin. The goal is simple. You build two separate, internally consistent timelines that cannot belong to the same person, and you document why each record belongs where it belongs. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/same-name-ancestors-prove-identity/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

I'm Done Being Mad I didn't wake up calm. I woke up tired. Tired of being irritated at ink. Tired of being annoyed at paper. Tired of holding grudges against people who have been dead longer than electricity has existed. That's what this is about. Not traffic. Not politics. Not people on the internet... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/im-done-being-mad-at-genealogy/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Every family tree is built as much from absence as it is from presence. Names, dates, places, and relationships draw most of our attention, but they are not the whole structure. What often shapes a tree more than anything else is what is missing. Blank space. Not the kind created by neglect or incomplete work, but the kind that remains even after careful searching. The empty boxes. The unconnected lines. The generations that refuse to attach themselves to anything solid. That blank space is genealogy's most honest element... Podcast Notes:  https://ancestralfindings.com/power-of-i-dont-know-genealogy/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #IDontKnow

Divorce Records Are a Genealogy Goldmine Divorce records are one of the most overlooked sources in family history research. Many people assume their ancestors never divorced, or they assume that if a divorce happened, it would be obvious and easy to locate. In reality, divorce existed far earlier than most researchers expect, and the records connected to it often contain more personal detail than marriage records ever did. These records document conflict, separation, property, children, and movement in ways few other sources can. Divorce research matters because it explains gaps. It explains why a spouse disappears from a household, why children appear in unexpected places, or why property changes hands without explanation. When other records fall silent, divorce records often speak clearly... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/divorce-records-and-what-they-reveal-about-your-ancestors/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Before welfare offices and Social Security checks, there was something older and far more personal. There was each other. When I look at my own ancestors, this shows up clearly. They lived on farms where the nearest neighbor might be a mile away. Today, that sounds distant. In their world, it was close enough to matter. That mile represented connection, not isolation. It meant someone could walk over if they had to. It meant help was available, even if it took effort to reach it. Those neighbors mattered because life demanded cooperation. Weather did not wait. Crops did not pause. Illness did not schedule itself conveniently. When something went wrong, there was no hotline to call and no agency to apply to. What existed instead were people who knew each other's land, habits, and circumstances... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/before-safety-nets-there-was-each-other/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

There comes a point in genealogy when you sit back, stare at the screen, and realize you are not moving forward anymore. You are still working, still searching, still opening records, but nothing new is coming in. You have been here before. Most people who research family history long enough eventually find themselves in this same spot. It usually happens quietly. You open a database you have already searched dozens of times. You adjust a date by a year or two. You change the spelling of a surname that you already know has been searched every reasonable way. You click through the results with a small sense of hope, even though deep down you know what you are going to see. Nothing. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/when-to-call-it-quits/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

There is a moment in almost every genealogy project when temptation shows up. It does not usually sound reckless. It sounds reasonable. It sounds efficient. It often arrives as one simple sentence, "This must be the same person." That sentence has damaged more family trees than missing records ever could, because it pushes the story forward without proof, and it does it in a way that feels productive. Assumptions feel helpful because they fill the quiet places. When the paper trail goes thin, your mind wants to keep moving. You want to connect the last solid record to the next solid record, and you want the line between them to be clean. The trouble is that assumptions do not age well. They harden into "facts" through repetition, and once other conclusions are built on top of them, the mistake becomes difficult to remove without rebuilding the whole section of the tree... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/temptation-to-assume-genealogy/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Coming Back to the Paper Trail Last time, we stood inside a gap, ten years of a man's life with no clear paper trail. No neat answers. No satisfying explanation. Just silence, the kind that shows up in family history more often than most people expect. Today, we return to the records, not to force a conclusion, but to listen again. Because sometimes the past does not speak louder. It simply speaks later, and when it does, it changes the work you need to do. When Samuel Carter reappears in the 1860 census, the shift is immediate. He is no longer a young laborer living in someone else's household. He is a husband, a father, and a farmer. The census does not tell us how he got there, but it does tell us that he got there, and that difference matters. In genealogy, a reappearance is not a clean ending to the mystery, it is a new starting point. It gives you fresh facts that can be used to tighten the timeline, refine the geography, and test the theories that might have been tempting during the silent years... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/when-the-records-begin-speaking-again/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

There are times in genealogy when the records speak clearly. Names line up, dates behave, and places make sense. You can follow a life forward with little resistance. Then there are times when the trail stops. Not with a dramatic ending. Not with a warning. Just silence. That silence is not rare. It shows up in nearly every serious family history project, and it is where many family trees start to drift away from evidence. This story sits inside that silence. It is about a man named Samuel Carter, a name common enough to create its own challenge. When a name is shared by many people, it becomes easier to attach the wrong records to the right person, especially when there is a gap and you want to close it quickly. The goal here is not to invent what happened in the missing years. The goal is to learn how to handle missing years without turning guesses into facts... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/between-the-lines-missing-years-genealogy-records/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Genealogy has ruined me in the best way. I can be perfectly content all day, and then I see a hint, a record index, a cemetery photo, or a single line in a probate packet, and my brain flips a switch. Next thing I know, I am down a rabbit hole, zooming in on handwriting that looks like it was written during an earthquake, trying to decide whether that squiggle is an "S" or a "J." I have learned to accept this about myself. I am a genealogist, which means I do something most people only do once in a while, and I do it on purpose. I chase names. I follow families across counties and decades. I compare sources that disagree with each other like they are arguing relatives. I build timelines, map migrations, and try to figure out why somebody disappeared from the records in 1900 and reappeared in 1910 with a different first name and the same three children. And when I get it right, when the evidence stacks up, and the puzzle clicks into place, it gives me a kind of satisfaction I do not get anywhere else... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/why-i-love-genealogy/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Federal homestead records sit in a sweet spot between law and lived experience. They were created to document a legal transfer of public land into private hands, yet they often preserve day-to-day details that do not survive in many other federal record groups. In plain terms, the government asked settlers to prove they did what the law required, and the paperwork produced by that proof can be unusually rich for family history. The phrase "homestead records" is used loosely, so it helps to define terms. A land patent is the final instrument that conveys title from the United States to an individual. Many patents are indexed online and are easy to find. A homestead land entry case file is different. It is the administrative case created during the process of gaining that patent. The case file is typically what researchers mean when they talk about the "bundle" of homestead papers. For genealogical work, the bundle is often more valuable than the patent, because it contains the reasoning, testimony, and timing behind the final transfer... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/homestead-case-files-family-history/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

When you first start researching your family, it is easy to believe every question has a record waiting somewhere. A birth certificate, a marriage entry, a census line, a grave marker, a neat little document that answers what you want to know and lets you move on. Then, sooner or later, you run into the place where the paper trail stops. The courthouse burned. The church book vanished. The county did not keep records yet. A person lived in the gap between two jurisdictions and left almost no footprint. In that moment, genealogy changes. It stops being a hunt for one perfect document and becomes the slower work of building a case from whatever survives... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/no-records-no-problem/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Marriage records are one of the three core types of vital records every family historian should learn to use. Birth, marriage, and death records often work together like a three legged stool. If you are missing one leg, the whole picture feels shaky. A marriage record can connect a woman's maiden name to her married name, link parents to children, confirm relationships you only guessed at, and point you toward a new place to search. Even better, a marriage record often answers questions you did not know to ask. It may tell you where the bride and groom were living at the time, how old they were, whether either person had been married before, what church or official performed the ceremony, who witnessed it, and sometimes the names of parents or even grandparents. In some areas, the record will also name the bondsman, surety, or person who gave permission for the marriage, which can be a close relative and a valuable clue. Marriage records also help you avoid classic traps. Many people share the same name, especially in the same county. A marriage record can separate two men named John Smith by showing different ages, residences, or spouses. It can also help you place the right children with the right couple, because the marriage date gives you a timeline that can be compared with census records and births... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/how-to-find-marriage-records/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

January is basically the genealogist's secret power month. The holidays are over, the calendar is wide open, and you can finally hear yourself think. While winter does its quiet thing outside, you get a fresh start indoors, with coffee, a cozy chair, and a brand new excuse to chase down ancestors. These "10 Must-Do Genealogy Projects for January" are built to kick your research back into gear, tame the paper and digital chaos, and pull you closer to the real stories hiding behind names and dates. Think of each project as one more clue, one more upgrade, and one more step toward turning your family tree into something that feels alive. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/10-must-do-genealogy-projects-for-january/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

Genealogy has a built-in problem that never goes away. You are trying to rebuild real lives from records that real people created, and people get things wrong. Sometimes the mistake is innocent, like a clerk mishearing a name or a census taker writing down a guess. Sometimes the mistake is intentional, like someone shaving off years, changing a birthplace, or hiding a first marriage. Even permanent things like headstones can be wrong, because the person ordering it may not have known the exact date, or the stone cutter may have carved it incorrectly. Indexes and transcriptions help us find records, but they also introduce new errors. One wrong letter can split a family into two or merge two separate families into one. Online trees can spread those mistakes fast. After enough copying, a guess can start to look like a fact, just because you see it everywhere. So how do you know when your research is accurate, or at least accurate enough that you would feel comfortable publishing it and building on it? You will never get perfect certainty in every case. Genealogy deals with missing records, confusing handwriting, reused names, shifting county lines, and stories that have been polished over time. Still, you can get to strong confidence by using a few basic checks that experienced researchers use again and again. These checks help you spot weak links early, before they become bigger problems... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/check-family-tree-for-errors/ Ancestral Findings Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast This Week's Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips