Discovering Ancestor Identifiers Post Immigration

DURATION: 24 MINUTES.

In this Module we call Pam Holland, our US-Based Genealogist for help on uncovering more ancestor identifiers in the US for our Dolphin family.

• Click on the play button in the video below to start the lesson.
• You can also click on the 4 arrows below the video to make it as large as possible for viewing.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

• We call Pam Holland for advice on searching inside ancestry.com to discover more records in the US that will act as ancestor identifiers before making the leap back to Ireland.
• She advises on the best US record sets to investigate to decide if we have the right couple so far.
• She talks about record set availability in ancestry.com from state-to-state.
• She advises us not to limit our search to ancestry.com

ANCESTRY.COM TREES FOR THIS LESSON:

NOTE: The ancestry.com trees below are available only to current ancestry.com members. However, you do not need these trees to follow the training above – we just include them as a bonus.

• The Dolphin family tree we shared with Pam Holland can be found here.

FURTHER REFERENCES AND RESOURCES FOR THIS LESSON:

• Stage 3 of the Research Roadmap – Carrying out Post-Immigration Research – is available here.
• Gathering Ancestor Identifiers lesson from the Research Roadmap is here – a blank ancestor identifier worksheet is available to download here.
• Go here to ask Pam Holland a question in the forum.
• Family History Learning Hub from ancestry.com

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