Binge DNA for Native Americans, Obituaries, underground railroad, enslaved, Google maps, newspapers, homestead, auctions, timelines, and more from Robin Foster, Roberta Estes, Dr. Shelley, Drew Smith, Char McCargo Bar, and Lisa Louise Cooke
* The Fix Isn’t In! & Catching Clues from Obituary to UGRR
* DNA for Native American & Virtuoso Visualizations: Bathtubs, Pools, and Puddles
* OCR: Oh, See Yourself Searching Digital Newspapers & Visualize Your Ancestors with Google
* There's More Than Dirt in a Homestead File & The New Woman
* This Timeline Has Steps & Bidder Up: Using Online Auctions
Check out our curated playlists of past episodes.
The playlists are organized by topics so you can do a deep dive any time you need a quick start!
Learn all about taking DNA tests with Special Guests Dena Marie, Your DNA Guide Diahnn Southard, Blaine Bettinger, Patti Hobbs, Roberta Estes.
In these episodes, we'll tackle which DNA test to take, how to prepare for DNA results, deciphering results, finding family members, including how to find your Native American ancestors.
* DNA and Genealogy
* Preparing for DNA Results & Finding a Great Grand with DNA
* Exploring DNA Results/Enslaved in Northern Records
* DNA for Distant Ancestry & Ticking Off Ancestors
* DNA for Native American & Virtuoso Visualizations: Bathtubs, Pools, and Puddles
* Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Bringing a Funeral to Life & It's Yo Mamma's DNA: Mastering the Mighty Mito"
Find a collection of videos on Black Genealogy specific-subjects that cover a range of African American topics and geographic areas including free people, indentured, enslaved, slavery, slave births, Freedmen's Bureau, fraternal organizations, newspapers, freedom, underground railroad, enslaver, British West Indies, emancipated, passing.
Special Guests: Sharon Batiste Gillins, Franklin Carter Smith, James Morgan III, Aaron Dorsey, Michael Hait, Leslie Anderson, Char Bah McCargo, Phillip Nicholas, Paul Schopp, Art Thomas, Linda Crichlow White
* Freedmen's Bureau
* Finding Enslaved People
* Finding Fraternal Ancestors
* Evidence of Freedom
* VA Slave Births
* After You Find the Last Enslaver
* After the Freedmen's Bureau
* Enslaved to Enslaver in the British West Indies
* Twisted Road to Freedom
* Enslaved, Emancipated and AME
* When Race Isn't Just Black and White
These videos center on census records contains tons of ancestry details. Some of the subjects include birth locations, state census and methodology for know when the tick is when there is no name in the earliest census records.
* Pinpointing Census Birth Locations
* Confirming Your Ticked Off Family
* Ticking Off Ancestors
* Can You State the Census?
* Census Rules
These videos feature a mix of map-specific topics from: aerial maps, cadastral maps, Google Maps, and more with special guest speakers: Lisa Louise Cooke, James M. Beidler, and Michael John Neill.
* Mapping Ancestors
* Aerial Maps
* Place Names
* Placing Your Person
* Visualize Your Ancestors with Google
From the Revolutionary War to World War II, this playlist highlights topics from pension index cards, and the Grand Army of the Republic and more with Special Guests: Craig R. Scott CG, FUGA, Michael Strauss AG, Jonathan Webb Deiss, and Walt Lafty.
* Beyond Revolutionary War Pensions
* Searching for WWII Veterans
* The Pension Index Quartet
* Missing Record Options (Military)
* GAR Ancestors
This special LIVE episode explores what it means to be “Philly”. Whether by nurture or nature, being Philly is unique. We'll probe Philly-isms and interesting online collections documenting Philadelphia families. Guests Harold Burnley and Valerie Harris school this Jersey Girl on what it means to be Philly. Good thing that we got through the genealogy before talking about the block of grey meat!
Find this episode of "How Philly Are You?" at Genealogy Quick Start on YouTube
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County and town records such as marriage, estate, probate, court, deeds, wills, can be found in the county.
Find episodes with Special Guests from: James M. Beidler, Michael John Neill, and Ari Wilkins.
* Estate Inventories
* Estate Records
* Probate Records
* Married, Civil Records
* Court Records
* Doing the Deed
Watch genealogy videos on vital records covering topics such as: death records, slave births, identifying burial spots and locating heirs in this playlist.
* Death Records
* Slave Births
* Finding Heirs
* Identifying the Burial Spot
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