Let's dive into how to use MyHeritage's website to research their record
collection to find your ancestors.
We're going to talk about researching the record collections on MyHeritage
so let's hop over to the website and get started.
So there are two places where you can begin
researching your ancestors records, so first you can go straight to the
research tab drop down menu or you can take advantage
of some of the hints right here. So let's go ahead and dive into a number
of the record matches so i'm going to go ahead and explore the
Canada burial records, 26 of those, so
Abigail Comfort born Abigail Schneider. So
one thing that's a little bit different here on my heritage
is that the way they present the names of females
so the maiden name is within the parentheses and this is what their
married name should look like. So something to keep in
mind so we have that she had a birth date of
1805 a death date of 1879,
this is from Lincoln county not Ontario, this is from Lincoln county Ontario,
we're going to go ahead and review the map. All right so i'm going to go
here and i'm going to look through the match and
this is what i like to call an index it cannot see
the original image upon which this information is based.
When you want to learn more about the record collection you can click this
little I this information graphic and then you
can see what the collection has to say.
Click on search this collection this will give you all the information
about the record collection and sample and so
on and so forth. The first thing i have to decide is, is
this about my ancestor? Well I do know that Abigail comfort was
buried in the Lanes Cemetery in Lincoln county Ontario. So i'm going to go
and go ahead and click confirm
the match. Once I do that Now we're going to compare
the MyTree on MyHeritage with the information from
the Canadian Burial Index. So
i'm not going to although it says it's different i'm not going to override this
because her married name is Comfort
and her maiden name is Schneider.
I have a more complete birthday over here the burial place is Lanes Cemetery
it's different, but I want to go ahead and
just keep the the place pure i wish there was a little
way we can put like a note that says what
cemetery name and then we'd have the place here
but the source comes over and to me that's the most important part is the
source comes over and will be saved to the tree. So that's
done and I can go back to the Canadian Burial Record Collection
and go through the next hints that I have. The next one I thought
I would explore is, my favorite, city directories. So go over
here to city directories and this has George Karlsberger
i'm gonna go ahead and see if in 1887 he was
in this city directory. I'm going to zoom in
we have a Charles and a Conrad and a Jacob
and we have this Karlsberger and I happen to know this,
I mean this George is the only George Karlsberger. So i'm going to go ahead and
confirm the match and save to my tree and this time i'm going to bring the
resident information over, but
I can also edit it while i'm at it. So i'm going to go ahead and add Franklin
county Ohio so i can have my localities the same i'm going to leave
off the occupation because it doesn't stay with that 1887. if
occupation stayed with 1887 and in the residence then I would keep it,
but I bring over the source citation and save to MyTree. There you go and so
now you can see all the records I've collected for
George down here on the bottom, So what's really great when you start
going through your record matches that my heritage finds for you
is that as soon as you find one my heritage starts looking for more
and then your it's almost like a never-ending cycle to get caught up with
all the hints that they provide you. So what other questions do you have
about searching MyHeritage's record collections
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