What's new in Ancestry and Creating Family Book

We had a good attendance today at our DIRT meeting.  The topics we covered were:

• Personal genealogy stories shared from around the room
• Update on Phil Pritzlaff's AncestryDNA spreadsheet approach: Video Click here
• What's New in Ancestry: Video - to be redone
• FamilySearch Record Seek to move web file information: Video Click here
•     Handout for Record Seek: Click  here
• Discussion on Creating Family History Book and next steps: Video Click here

Future sessions will be on AncestryDNA and continuing the project on Creating Family History Book.

 AncestryDNA Matches - Step by Step build of excel spreadsheet

    We welcomed Paula Murphy to our DIRT community.  We also had some fantastic successes by our members as they shared their own genealogy research.

    Our key topic was  AncestryDNA Matches - Step by Step build of excel spreadsheet.  This bridged off of Phil Pritzlaff's presentation on April 27.  For those who want to actually create a similar spreadsheet for solving brick walls with DNA, this session was a step by step approach to creating your spreadsheets with hints on using Microsoft Excel.  Click here for the video replay.  Click here for the handout guide.

    We then covered some of the Surname mapping websites for use in genealogy.  Click here for replay.