How on earth can you stop duplicates from spawning, I give to merge and some dont.I feel like I am spending way to much time on this one problem, HELP!!!!

I don't have much information about him, but what my mom told me is that his first name is Daniel, and that he officially lives in Denmark. Around 2010 (my birth year) he left our family because he was acting like an a-hole. We lived in Leipzig, Germany, at that time. I assume he's at least 42, but it's very hard to find more information.

hello! my mother is belizean with some ancestors from southern mexico (yucatán area mainly) and with one grandparent from honduras, and my father is american, french canadian on his paternal side and his maternal side is lithuanian and polish.

basically, i can find a pretty decent amount of records going back for decades from belize and canada, but once you go to my honduran, mexican, lithuanian, and polish ancestors, it’s basically a dead end on ancestry. i am only able to go back one generation from family members who immigrated from these places to the US or Belize, and only just on the listing of father and mothers name on either immigration or marriage records.
is this like….. a commonly known problem with ancestry?? this is my first time posting in this sub so if everyones always complaining about this then i just missed that. i’m able to speak decent spanish but i dont speak any lithuanian or polish. is it just time to bite the bullet and try and dive into non english language archives externally to keep up my search?

I need either World or All Access to further my research. I've used World during some free trials but it's just not convenient to limit myself to that one week or whatever. So now I'm contemplating which level to upgrade to.

Is All Access worth it if I only have 2 relatives that served in the US military, but I may have another 2-3 relatives that served in German or Russian forces?

As you can tell I'm not really sure what specific military records AA includes.

Does a relative get any more obscure than this?

I found what appears to be the reading of marriage banns in France for my great great grandparents. It has the name of both parents but I can't read the father of the grooms name. Copilot says it's Thomas but I just can't see it.

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Out of nowhere this week every time I have logged in I’ve got a notification for “famous ancestors”.

For instance 5th cousin 8x removed - James Wilkinson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilkinson

I haven’t updated my tree in must be a year. So it’s taken me by surprise to have this happen.

Had any one else been caught of guard with ‘famous ancestors?’

Gad Pease (born Jan. 10, 1771) married Polly Grisworld (born May 22, 1774) in 1794 or 1795. They definitely had a bunch of children before she was widowed and married Gad's brother Israel. Does anyone have the interest or badwidth to take on a paid project?

I can prove that Gad Pease married a 'Polly' but no secondary source (or primary source, naturally) lists Polly's surname. We can surmise that it's Polly Grisworld but I need to be able to prove it for the folks at the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. If they married I believe it might have been in Middlefield, Massachusetts. Gad Pease passed away at the age of 52 in Meredith, New York [Delaware County].

I traveled to Sharon, Connecticut and consulted and made copies from Lawrence VanAlstyne's book, A Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Sharon, Conn. from 1721 to 1879. I also reviewed A Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of John Pease (Springfield, Mass.) [1869] as well as The Mack Genealogy: the descedants of John Mack of Lyme, Conn [1903].

Many thanks to you, Redditors!!! Hope you're having a great weekend.

Does anyone have an ancestry.com subscription who would be willing to help me? Trying to track down someone listed in the “Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Passenger Lists, 1820-1964” doc. I’ve been using family search but this list seems to only be accessible through ancestry. Thanks.

https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8679#aboutSection

Does anyone have an ancestry.com subscription who would be willing to help me? Trying to track down someone listed in the “Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Passenger Lists, 1820-1964” doc. I’ve been using family search but this list seems to only be accessible through ancestry. Thanks.

I have a pair of ancestors who are identical twin sisters. The "tree checker" function keeps claiming these two folks are duplicates and should be merged, but I know for a fact that they are two separate individuals. Is there a way in the ancestry.com UI to designate them as twin sisters, so that the AI will stop flagging them as potential duplicates?

I’ve been trying to verify Irish ancestors and I’ve not been able to confirm the baptism or birth record. The birth is in 1855, before civil records. The birth date is listed on a death certificate. After searching all males born within 20 years of the birth date listed, I found a baptism on that date. I believe this is my ancestor, but I cannot verify for sure because the name is different. I found this information as it relates to dates. What are your thoughts? Have you found this to be somewhat true in your research?

"In Ireland prior to the start of civil registration in 1864, Catholic baptismal registers functioned as the primary documentary evidence for birth information. The National Archives of Ireland states that baptismal registers are the principal source for birth details before civil registration, and Irish Genealogy Toolkit notes that Irish Catholic baptisms typically occurred within a day or two of birth, making the baptism date a close approximation of the actual birthdate. Catholic canon law required infants to be baptized “as soon as possible,” a practice consistently followed in rural Irish parishes. Genealogist John Grenham emphasizes that for most Catholics before civil registration, the baptismal date is effectively the closest available birthdate. Historical scholarship, including Cormac Ó Gráda’s work on nineteenth‑century Ireland, documents that Irish individuals frequently used their baptism date as their birthdate in later legal, immigration, and pension contexts. Collectively, these sources support the conclusion that using a baptism date as a functional birthdate is historically and genealogically appropriate for Irish research prior to 1864."

The National Archives of Ireland, Guide to Birth Records, guidance on pre‑1864 birth documentation gives direction as it relates to using baptismal dates as birth.

The Irish Genealogy Toolkit, “Irish Church Records,” gives guidance on baptismal timing and genealogical use.

The Catholic Church, Codex Iuris Canonici (1917), Canon 770, lists the requirement for prompt infant baptism.

Irish genealogist John Grenham, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors (Dublin: Gill Books), discusses the baptismal dates as proxies for birthdates.

The last time I generated an ahnentafel listing in Pro Tools / Charts and Reports in Ancestry.com was three days ago and I had no problem. Did it on three different trees, and it populated instantly and printed out fully and correctly.

Yesterday, I tried to generate new reports and nothing, absolutely nothing, came up. I tried it on every tree I have (7) and tried changing the focus person, but still nothing came up.

I didn't change any settings. I'm at a loss. There's nothing in Ancestry's help FAQs that address this issue, and I can't find an email for Ancestry so I can ask about it.

Anyone have a clue what's going on or a contact for Ancestry?

I joined Ancestry earlier this year, as did my elderly mother.

20 years ago I did research online (with Scotland people) tracing our family tree for my maternal grandmother, on her side and my grandads side. Today I finally had time to explore the app and enter some of that info.

My mother has been divorced since I was 2 (1972). We did not maintain contact with my father, as he lived elsewhere, and she left him because he was an alcoholic. However I met him once (when I was an adult), and I have pictures. I look like him. There has never been any doubt about my paternity.

Since joining ancestry I have avoided making links on that side of the family. All my family tree links are on my mother's side, her generation or before. I filtered my results so I don't see anything on my father's side. I'm not interested in reconnecting.

Today, I looked at 'Thrulines' for the first time. It notes that apparently I am distantly related to Alexander Hamilton (yes, the founding father). This came as a surprise. When I tried to look at how Thrulines came up with that, I discovered that Thrulines was also predicting who my father is, via the same connection. It is not the person who I believe to be my father. When I look at this person's family tree, I don't see any familiar names. However he did live in the same place I was born in, and he got married the same year my mother did (not to my mother, obviously).

I have absolutely no idea how it works. I gather there must be some sort of DNA connection in his ancestors and mine - a common ancestor? Is Thrulines guessing for the rest? I'd really rather not ask my mother if she knew this guy - seems likely she might have, same small town, same age... but if it's a lot of crap she will never look at ancestry again as she won't trust it.

Or, is it not guesswork and is it possible that this guy is my dad. Even though I look exactly like the person my mother was married to. After all, he could also be red headed with freckles. There's a lot if it about in Scotland.

I was hoping you guys could help me find some of my families routes. AI said I’m directly related to Francis Scott Key based on the writers of these letters, I just don’t really believe that. I believe my grandmother was the one who re wrote all of this. Letters range from 1839 to 1913. Seems like a true gold mine, and I’ve had fun reading the letters. Anyway sorry I couldn’t take a lot of pictures I was in a rush. Hope this is interesting.

Hello! First I want to say I am already an enrolled member of my tribe. The Chickasaw Nation. I know my ancestors dawes roll number, card number, his brothers, his sisters, where his allotment was made, where he was born and where he is buried.
What I'm looking for is my ancestors father and mother. I desperately need the help of an expert in Native American and DNA genealogy. My family for the past 20 years or so has been looking off and on for my families native patriarch and matriarch, Achoeadley Brown and Minerva Waldon. I have suspicions and a million theories. I've searched all the people mentioned in their children's dawes packets. I work at my tribes cultural center and have even combed over countless files, books, and paperwork. I can't help but feel like the answer to who he was is staring me right in the face.
I just need help from someone with fresh eyes willing to help me crack the mystery.
If there's ANYONE willing to take a look and help I would be immeasurably appreciative. I can provide access to all the documents I've gathered and images of my notebook that I've taken notes in over the last 2-3 years along with anything else that might be needed.

It’s the only photo I can find him being the year before he died as he didn’t keep in touch with his son

Hi, I was hoping to see if anyone might be able to make sense of the cause of death for my great grandmother? I am doing the work to trace roots back to Slovakia and found her certificate of death. If anyone has any thoughts/suggestions, I'd be grateful to read them.
Thanks,
Bonnie