Do you want to create a family tree on Ancestry that looks great and is super functional
wonderful? I want to share with you a couple of things that you can do to make that happen. Now,
some of you are more loyal Fanatic fans and experienced Ancestry users. So, I invite you to
go ahead and watch this video. And if you do like it, make sure you share it with your genealogy
buddies so they can create an enhanced family tree as well. As you build your tree, you should
be sharing photos you have gathered, particularly of your close family members. As well as places
you've been and documents you have gathered. So, let's make sure you know how to upload a photo.
To add a photo to a profile, all you have to do is make sure you navigate to the Galleries Tab. So,
if you're on "Facts," click on "Gallery." And then click "Upload Media." You can also click on the
icon if you're adding a first picture to someone. So, I'm actually going to go that way upload,
and I'm going to drag and drop my picture from my desktop onto the works surface. Now, I can go
ahead and add details about Helen's picture. I can say it's a portrait. I can say when it was taken
the place and. So, on, but I'm gonna go ahead and click "Done." Another thing if you have multiple
people in the pictures, you can also add this picture to the multiple people, but it's just
one person. So, I'm going to click "Done.". And now, I have a picture of Helen to decorate the
family tree. Now, this is an underutilized feature that is on Ancestry, and that is My Tree Tags. In
the description box, you're going to find a link to the Show Notes that will take you to a whole
series about the My Tree Tags. But for now, let me show you how to tag your tree. So, let's say I
know a number of things about Helen Corey Teller. Now, I'm going to just pretend for a little bit.
Some things are true. Not everything is true, but we're going to go ahead and add Tree Tags. So,
click on this little icon right here. There are a number of different things I can choose from DNA,
life experience, relationships, research status. So, I'm actively researching Helen. Um. She is she
complete. No, she's not complete. And let's say that she had no children. And let's say that she
was a teacher. Now, I added this custom tag, and you can watch that video on how to create custom
tags. I'm going to go ahead. And add that notice I can hit "View." "Save Tags." And it's all saved.
But I don't have to do anything. I don't have to hit save or anything, and all these tags are
right here under her profile. Other people will be able to see these tags if your tree is public.
They will not be able to edit those tags, which is kind of nice. Um. But let's say you find out,
"oh no! Actually Helen. Actually had a child." So, go back and we'll remove that, um, tag. And now,
we just have these two, and we're good to go. Did you know that you can serve as a source citation
for the knowledge that you have? If you know the name of your parents. If you know what day
that you celebrated their birthday, you can be your own source. Now, let's pretend that
you actually knew Helen Corey Teller in person. And let's pretend that you actually attended her
funeral. So, what you can do is you can create a source of your knowledge. So, we're going to click
"Add Source," and we can select a source. So, anytime you add a source to the tree,
it will be populated here. But we're going to create a new source. Title Required. So,
for a personal source about myself, I'm going to say "Personal Knowledge." The author is me.
Where I lived and my publication date. I'm going to skip all of this information. And I'm going
to click "Save the Source." Now, we're going to go through and say what are the specifics
of the information provided by the source. This is just for transcription of texts. This is going
to be anything that you know. So, for instance, let's pretend I had attended the funeral of Helen
Corey Teller. I can go ahead and put that information and then say, "I can attest to
when and where she was buried." Now, we're going to go and select the facts that I can attest to.
And then I'm going to hit "Submit." And now,
if I click "Personal Knowledge," you're going to see that my knowledge of my
relative is connected to the death date and the burial date. As you do genealogical research,
you probably have a lot of notes that you're taking. Ancestry has a built-in note-taking
service that can help you keep your notes where your research. So, click on this Tree Tag
edit icon. There's some other ways to get to it, but we're going to click on that one.
Click on "Notes." And now, we have a place to write our notes. Now, your note can be
anything. Your note can be something about, uh, where people are from or what you need to do.
Your notes will be private, only for you. But if you decide to add a comment, you could add a
comment like this. And then that is made available for anybody who comes across your public tree.
Notice the comments will pop up right here. Your notes will pop up there. Now, did you know that
you can add more details to the events that are listed in the timeline? And in that profile,
by adding extra details to these little snippets, you can visually keep track of your ancestors,
their movements, and the things that happened in their life. So, let's start documenting the
extra details we discovered. Now, as you're doing research you're going to stumble across
some facts that you're going to want to keep track of. So, I know that she lived at house number 710
on Walnut Street. But if I go back to the profile, all I have is that her residence
is, um, in Windsor. But I can change that. I can click "Edit." And now, I can add in a description-
710. And I can decide whether I want to show that on a map. And this will show this Life Event in
those stories. Click "Automatically generate a story" and save. Click all of that. You're going
to see that residence- Windsor - stays the same, and then Walnut Street is there. Now, you can add
all sorts of information here- the occupation, who she was living with, the property value that they
specify, how many days they worked. Any detail that's on that census record you can put right
here, and that will help you keep track of all the different details. Because notice, this is nice,
but something like this is better. When it's time to start looking at the profiles on your family
tree, this is especially helpful if you are new to genealogy. But it's also a good reminder for those
who have been doing research for a little while. Let's go look at the timeline. So,
here is the Timeline Page. Often we come into the Profile Pages when we're on something that looks
like this. But click on the "Life Story," and Ancestry is going to create the sentences. If you
selected that setting that said, "Hey, you know, automatically create the life story stories."
Then they'll show up on here. But as you can see and I go down, we've got birth, residence,
birth of brother, another residence, marriage, death of father, death of mother, death of husband
and so on and so forth. So, this is basically her life story and some paragraph forms. I really
like when they include some maps. And there are some settings you can actually change this up a
little bit. Click on this dropdown arrow, and you can turn on and off historical insights.
And then it can impact your tree. I'm not seeing any historical insights in this particular tree,
but I know I've had them in my Ohio families that I've researched and my Canadians.
So, get familiar with this timeline. And you're thinking, "hmm, uh, how am I going to get this
timeline to work?" Well, that comes from when you add information to this sheet right here.
Initially, you probably had a form that looks like this when you started building your tree. "Hey,
I need a person's name. I need to know the birth date, death date, birthplace, death place.
And when you click "Save," then those two the birth and the death automatically show up. For
any time you add a new relative, the fact that I have the birth and death dates for her father
and her spouse that also feeds into the life story. And notice these records or these resident
information are tied to records, and that is what feeds the timeline. When you see 1920, 1930,
and 1940, all those records feed that timeline. So, get really familiar with the timeline. So,
what other enhancements to your family tree am I missing? Make sure you leave a comment in the
comment section below. And if you're ready to learn how to do more things with Ancestry.com, be
sure to check the playlist above. And if you want the latest video from Family History Fanatics,
check out this video right here. Hey guys. If you noticed that I had a clothing wardrobe change
during the end of this video, it's because I butchered the end. So, yeah, good. Good call.