video above and if you're just wanting to see what's new on
Family History Fanatics, be sure to check out the video
as well. So, make sure you are using all the strategies I
description box and if you're ready for more tips and tricks
sure to check out the show notes. The link is in the
help you to break down some brick walls, find facts that
you're going to find your ancestor listed on that lawsuit
water district or something like that but just the lead
of times your ancestors going to show up in records
neighbors, you're going to find them show up and sometimes in
records of relatives, your ancestors can show up as
court cases, I've seen this before, it just lists the first
on how to climb your family tree, be sure to check the
you hadn't even realized existed and so forth. So, be
are neighbors suing something like maybe the city or the
person in the court case there's quite a few people that
witnesses, as neighbors, on land, purchases, there's a lot
record like that when we're they're there, they're just
indexed improperly but again, I said with the indexing or the
showed before and then go apply em to the kin and the neighbors
and you're going to be busy for a aisle and hopefully this will
neighbor is listed but if you go look for the neighbor,
that you hadn't expected but if you will search for their
in Canadian records and one time it showed up as some Stein
In any case, I couldn't find them. I couldn't find them and
spelling of the last name Zumpstein turned into this
that name just keeps getting spelled so many different ways
uncles, all all of the people, all of the relatives. Look for
Elizabeth Blue was miss recorded in the record and she
clues that were in the census record, I discovered that
and once I searched for the neighbors, I looked a page
Pitney because she wasn't showing up in the census
forward and page back and all of a sudden, I found the weird
I couldn't find them in the records by doing online
it's this other person in the household and that becomes
for Geraldine Rang but this time I'm going to add another
Canadian ancestor of mine. Their last name is Zemstein and
of a sudden, there was this Elizabeth Blue that showed up
records and a lot of these other records, court records
fathers, sisters, brother, uncles, grand aunts, grand
ancestors online at your theme of your tips just by looking
up under Caroline Geisler and maybe she shows up and and with
relatives show up in those documents. So, mothers,
her grandfather because she did live with William Long for a
When you're looking for land records, wills and probate
little bit so I can do that search and now I have this 1910
person to her family tree so this time I'm going to do more
Brown. So you can do add a we've done a spouse. We've done
going to return to family search and it's very simple to
really was my missing Elizabeth. So, sometimes you
and getting married to Emma Sherman and Emma father of the
other things and marriage date, a resident's location and I can
Since that is still too broad, I can start searching by
husband's last name was Billman and so I could search for her
in a census record and by process elimination and the
with other family members and you're you know who they are.
start seeing Sherman Baker Brown and Emma. Sherman and
handy when you're trying to pick up children and what's
name. But I can go ahead and click apparent. And I can find
actually the one that applies to my family. Samuel Curtis
opportunity to type in your ancestor and those other
surnames they could be under so in the case of Caroline Geisler
could be an uncle it can be any person that you know that they
sumpstein or steam even. So, that helps us in a particular
this G I E S E L E R. That's a new one. It's supposed to be
search for Kim. I had lost Elizabeth's weekly Sparks
collection, adding a race, adding a place. There's so many
Sherman Brown with a father named Samuel. And this is
it's easier to do a name search than the address than and
family. So then, what I did is I looked for their neighbors
zoomed in for you Sherman Brown more options and I'm going to
click on add a spouse and I'm just going to type Emma. I'm
not finding Emma. But I know her last name was Townsend.
you to do this your person plus another person's search I
name Brown. Maybe they misspelled it or changed the
going to see the rest of your ancestors and like, oh, I
history research and I know many of you viewers have said
Emma. Sherman and Emma, Sherman and Emma. All these records.
Samuel. And maybe Samuel doesn't really have the last
of strategies is to search as a couple or a family unit. But
variations that aren't coming up with the different you know
need to go look for Ken. Now, that's just for census record.
them all and you might just find those records for your
Thankfully, Ancestry has kept my search page but I can go one
census record for Geraldine Rang who lived with William
I can see, I haven't, I just did this Geisler's spelling,
for that kin person. Now, there were times this happened to a
put both parents. I can do just one. So in this case it was
searches. No matter what I tried, I couldn't find a
George and George and Henry and those are the ones I expected
didn't know this record was for them existed. Until we have
more advanced indexing options and online sources, it pays for
with those different last names with her second husband Mike
that I want to do house history research city directories is
So, if I go back down up at up here to the search search page.
For the sake of time, I'm just going to lightly touch on these
record. So, when I started looking for her daughter, all
a it. I'm going to try Geraldine. I'm going to look
Long it's not her father it's not her mother not her spouse,
the document but when you get into the document, you're
especially, a lot of these are filed under the lead person on
us to search for Erkin, all of their records to see if our
really really useful when you have people that start living
happening in their lives with the marriage records for your
Caroline try no surname and then two more surnames to see
ancestors you know the last name but you're not really sure
try this again with just a parent. Notice I don't have to
she her maiden name is actually Caroline Mock. Her first
married name is Caroline Geisler and then her second
is particularly handy if your ancestors lived on Madill
groom and all of these other records and this is really
some other strange last names so I can do Michael Billman and
Well let me try surname. Just the surname and the husband and
I'm going to do other and I'm going to look for William Long
were probably living with and so put in their name plus the
because maybe she does show up under Mac. Maybe she does show
that. So, here I'm on the US City Directory collection, just
what the first name was and this is also an awesome
if I can find more records about the family. So I'm
other person's name let me show you how family search allows
ahead and do a play search. Really handy. The next series
you're you're not going to see Madill Street in the search
going to type Emma and see what comes up. I need to close out
wildcards and things that people tell you to use. So go
the key to making this work is to know a specific location
was an option when I was searching English Paris Records
cottage name or that home name in the record collections that
like this and so this is a way to catch the very spelling
about doing a house a a place search is you can also do house
notice doesn't have an S just look for one of the parents and
the first one is ancestor plus spouse. Ancestor plus parent
then ancestor plus some other person it could be a sibling it
some of things and zoom it out a little bit but I'm going to
last two strategies. The another one, the next one is to
allow it but over on city directories over on Ancestry,
stuff. So, really great way to find your ancestors and for me,
for house history searching because if you can see the
you can do a place search. So, I'm going to show you how to do
Street 1951 and then 1936 it's a Patterson in 1917, it's
names of the people that live there and then if you want to
fifty-three 114one Madill Street. One one four one Medell
the location you're researching has those, they're excellent
one 4 one Medill Street because that was the house number that
my Geisler ancestors lived in and I can see in nineteen
filter it down like that. Then let's say you know what? I'm
go to land records, you have somebody's names and sometimes
of the years and then I can narrow down so as I need to.
whenever possible try to search by a place name. I noticed this
to be there in William and so forth so what's really great
difficult if you understand the right strategies. In a previous
let's see what happens then so now I'm going to get Sherman
to find your genealogy records to build your family tree and
video I told you nine of the best online search strategies
figure out where your ancestor is. So do a broad search all of
the Columbus City Directories that have Medill Street for all
results. Instead you have to click on view record and notice
OSO Madill. We'll have to figure out what that means. 61
you only really need just one other person in the search. So
and the home of somebody had a name a certain name for the
works. So, I click search and I get a number of entries. Now,
Street but the city renumbered the houses. And you can't
there's four Medill Street. Another four Medil Street. Um
Mildell Street. I can search all of Medille Street. And this
just looking for Medill Street and let me show you how that
Columbus, Ohio and I'm actually going to take Medill off. I'm
that you're going to be researching. Mine happens to be
that collection and I can go down here and do keyword. Now,
cottage or the the house that they lived in. So, search that greatly and I can't wait to show you this example. So
Tracing your family tree online doesn't have to be that
ancestors are hidden because their names get butchered
today we're going to cover part two. Now sometimes your
right there.