Did you know there are billions of records over on MyHeritage waiting for you to search for them?
In today's video, I'm going to show you how to navigate the search forms over on MyHeritage to
find records for your ancestors. While you can use Record Matches to build your family tree like I
showed in a previous video, you can actually begin searching the record collections as you would many
other databases. We're going to go over to click Research and "Search All Records." And notice
there's this minibar that MyHeritage has. You can type in a first and middle name, a last name. Year
of birth or place. You can also add details. Maybe you want to also add a father. Add a mother. You
would have to type it in and then click apply. There's also more details you may also add-
birth, marriage, residence, military, immigration, additional siblings, children, and siblings. Maybe
you want to add gender or keywords. All of these can go right up here. You can do a surname-only
search. You can do a first name with no surname. You can do a first name, no middle name,
surname, and birth year. You can do a lot of combinations here on this website/ so I am going
to try to search for George Karlsberger, born 1825. And I'm going to leave the place blank. When
I come down here, I'm going to see results from family trees. I'm going to see census .records,
another census record. City directories- love city directories. Then I'm going to keep scrolling
down. Now we're going to start name variations, Charlsworth. Karlsberger and Charlesworth? I'm
not entirely sure how those names show up that way. So I'm going to go ahead and click on match
exactly and update my search. I have some of the same records, but now I found a newspaper entry.
Now before I attach this to my family tree or rule it out. Because why is this showing up in
Napoleon, Henry County, Ohio? My ancestor wasn't from Henry County,
Ohio. When it comes to newspapers, you always want to view the record. So let's click in. And we're
going to not save it yet. We're going to expand the document. Now we can do it in the viewer here
to get a sense of where is the purple highlight. I think I saw it up at the top. There's the purple
highlight. So I'm going to expand it further. Go up to the top for the purple highlight.
And now we have Columbus, Ohio. You're going to find that a lot in newspapers where things happen
in another location but show up in a different record collection. Let's go ahead and look at this
article. It's kind of fascinating. I think. And it says: Dynamite Fiend Identity at the Columbus Bomb
Thrower established on July 16th. So two days before, the newspaper was printed. The man who
attempted to blow up the residence of city director of public works JP Bliss a week ago
has been placed under arrest. He right man has been cons.." I think it's supposed to be the.
"the right man has been secured beyond a doubt. In fact, he has made a full confession his name
is George Karlsberger, 35." okay, wait a minute! I searched for George Karlsberger, born in 1825
1895-1825 you should be 70. 1895-35 means that this George was born in 1860. So I can't
attach this record directly to the George I was researching. But let's see if they are related.
"his name is George Karlsberger, 35. He is evidently insane though his parents live here. And
he is unmarried. Karlsberger has lived for a long time in a shanty boat on the river and was found
there when detectives Mahoney and O'Neal went to arrest him. He staunchly resisted arrest, and in
the malay detective Mahoney was bruised in the face, and O'Neill had his hands smashed." okay,
that's great. But what we're picking up on. And he's 35 though his parents live here here- meaning
Columbus. He is unmarried. So we need to look for an unmarried George Karlsberger born in 1860
to see how this might be related. So that means another record search. So instead of closing this
out, I'm going to leave it open. And I'm going to open a new tab. And this time, I'm going to put
George Karlsberger. I'm going to do an exact match 1860 Columbus, Ohio. And I have city directories
in in 1907, 1886, 1885. Here's a George J Karlsberger born in 1861 Germany, 1920 patient.
Wait, that newspaper said that he was insane! He's been arrested. it's entirely possible that
he was put in an institution. What I really want to find a census records. So I'm going to filter
to census records. And I have this one in 1920. And I have the older one in 1900. This happened in
1895. What do I need? Well, I need a census record from 1880. Let's see if we can find that. How are
we going to get there? Well, we're going to go to a Record Search. And I'm going to open a new tab.
Before I use this form, I'm actually going to filter to the 1880 census. I'm going to type in
Karls with the spelling variation. And I'm going to put in a location. And I'm going to search. Now
notice that I put a surname with a question mark. That way, it could be an R or no R.,
And I didn't put a year. I did put a place. The residence place had to be Franklin County, Ohio.
And notice I now have an 1860 Karlsberger. So I'm going to click on that. The household members
are George, Mary, Kohn, and all of these. And it turns out this George is the same as this George
that I searched for. To confirm this further, I'm gonna go see if in the 1900 census. The one that
happened after 1895 has George as an inmate. So I'm in the 1900 census. I'm going to put George
but just part of the name with the asterisk Karlsberger. But I'm just going to stop at Karl
and put an asterisk. And then I'm going to put Columbus. And sometimes it's called Columbus City,
so I'm going to go ahead and throw that in there as well. Click Search, and I come up with
this result right here. This Karlsberger in Memphis, Ohio. I zoom in- number 18. I like that.
I really like that! Karlsberger. I can see why people have trouble reading that.
He's from Ohio. Oh, labor. They don't really tell me anything other than that
he's in the Columbus State Hospital. using the searches, I have found a newspaper clipping
about George Karlsberger, 35, from Ohio. I know that he is the son of the man that I was searching
and in addition to the newspaper article. I found an 1880 census record and a 1900 census record for
both the man I was originally searching for as well as his son in 1900. Before we continue, I
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Some other ways to navigate through what MyHeritage has for you. is you can click on
the type of record you're searching for. And you come back to that census page that I showed you
earlier. You can also search family trees, birth, marriage, and death records from around the world.
You can search for specific collections here on the right. Like that other types of vital records
and civil registration, and church records. Really great way to navigate through their collection
catalog. You can see the recently added collections here. And then there's a collection
catalog like a card catalog. Love. Love. Love. Love this. And you can filter through different
things in that way. So books and publications. Filter to the United States, and you can
refine it further. Notice they have a couple of locations. So if you have this New England Area,
you might want to check this card catalog out, so MyHeritage has a lot for you to do record
research and document research. So make sure that when you're done exploring hints, you go and do
more thorough research. Always have a genealogy research plan and add suggestions to that to keep
you on track instead of going down rabbit holes/ if you have more questions about MyHeritage,
please let me know in the comments. if you would like other videos on how to use MyHeritage,
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