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“Who Else Has Viewed This Record?” Find Living Relatives!
There are lots of ways to find historical records about your ancestors online. But it can be just as helpful to know who else is looking for and using the same records you are! Use these hints to make connections with living relatives and grow your family tree.
Here are two ways to learn who else has added a specific record to their trees, and who else is researching the same people you are:
1. On Ancestry.com, when you are looking at an image of a record, there’s a sidebar to your right called “Related Content.” Click on it. Below other suggested records you will see a list showing anyone who has saved this record to their trees. You’ll see a link to that username and you can contact them. (See image right.)
2. On LostCousins.com, you can enter the names of relatives whose names appear on specific censuses. Their database will search for others who are looking for the same people. This is a great resource for people with British Isles roots, as the site originates from there. Here are the censuses they support:
- England and Wales, 1841, 1881, 1911
- Scotland, 1881
- United States, 1880, 1940
- Canada, 1881
- Ireland, 1991.
Basic membership at LostCousins.com is free, but has limited functionality. You can only contact new people during certain windows of time during the year. With a £10 annual subscription, you can make new contacts anytime.
Looking for more ways to find living relatives? Check out the Premium eLearning Video: Unleash Your Inner Private Eye! Lisa reveals 9 strategies and tools that will help you connect with long-lost cousins who may just hold the key to your genealogy brick wall! Available to all Premium eLearning members now. Not a member? Sign up today!
Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Episode 115 Features 10 Cool Things You Can Do With Evernote
If you’re a Premium member on our site, you can now access Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast Episode 115, “Newspapers, Evernote, DNA and a Heartwarming Story.”
This episode is PACKED with news and ideas YOU can use to move your family research forward now. Here are some highlights:
- 10 Cool Things You Can Do With Evernote when you’re traveling (you have to hear these ideas–they’ll save you a lot of fuss on the road)!
- Great advice on what to keep on your hard drive v. what to keep on Evernote;
- A conversation with a listener who reunited lost heirlooms with the right family–the advice I gave her and how it went;
- An interview with Genealogy Gems’ resident DNA expert Diahan Southard on a recent news story and its impact on genetic genealogy;
- A recent news story about Canadian birth brothers who were reunited–but are still looking for their sister;
- Updates on two great online tools, PERSI on FindMyPast sites and the FamilySearch Standard Location Finder; and
- an update on content at the British Newspaper Archive and some great U.S. newspaper history trivia.
Not a Premium member yet? You’re missing out on the “plus” content in Genealogy Gems Premium Podcast episodes! Click here for more on becoming a member. Our low annual membership rate is, we think, the best value in genealogy education out there. You don’t just get access to these meaty podcasts: you get unlimited access to Lisa’s online video classes for an entire year. Check it out!
Interested in learning how to use Evernote for genealogy? Click here.
Cruise the Caribbean with Me! Legacy Genealogy Cruise 2015
Want to cruise the Caribbean in style with me–while learning smart strategies for family history research?
I’m pleased to announce I’ll be the featured speaker at the 12th annual Legacy Genealogy Cruise. We embark on June 20, 2015 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA and will visit Labadee, Haiti; Falmouth, Jamaica; and Cozumel, Mexico on the luxurious Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Sea ship.
During the seven-day cruise, I will teach seminars focused on getting buy nebulizer medication online quality genealogical results, quickly. You’ll receive loads of strategies and tips you can start using right away, from high-tech solutions to busting brick walls. I will join Legacy Family Tree’s Geoff Rasmussen and others who will offer classes on Legacy and other genealogy technology.
Click here more information or to register! You can also call their travel coordinator, Christy, at 1-800-557-8601 or send an email to LegacyFamilyTreeCruise@gmail.com.
See you on board!
