r/Ancestry • • 19h ago

How many generations back have you been able to trace your ancestry?

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7 so far for me.


r/Ancestry • • 13h ago

Please help me decipher this name. About 10 rows down

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This is a marriage between
James Clark and Margaret ?

Whoever transcribed this has it reading Deleigh but I don’t think that is right.
It looks like the row beneath has a similar if not the same surname too.


r/Ancestry • • 10h ago

Stuck at great-father because he was in orphanage

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r/Ancestry • • 14h ago

Continuing the search for Susanna’s missing family; Finding Clues within DNA matches?

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r/Ancestry • • 15h ago

Ancestry to RM12

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r/Ancestry • • 23h ago

Tracing the Holmes family (Laois/Kildare), Dublin Kirwans, and the Zimbers of New Ross via the German Black Forest

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been researching my family history for nearly 30 years and recently put my findings into a blog to share the unique records, migration paths, and stories I've uncovered. If anyone is researching the same lines or regions, I would love to connect and compare notes!

My main research hubs and breakthroughs include:

  • The Holmes Family: Centred historically in Co. Laois and Co. Kildare (specifically Monasterevin).
  • The Zimbers of New Ross: Tracking the Zimber family's journey from the German Black Forest (Schwarzwald) to New Ross, Co. Wexford. This includes the stories of two brothers: Joseph Zimber, who migrated from New Ross to Montreal, and Rifleman Fred Zimber, whose travels took him through Canada, Australia, and Fiji before he tragically died at the Battle of Ypres in 1915.
  • Black Forest Ancestry (Germany): Deep-dives into the German side of the tree, including Josef Hummel of Neukirch (covering faith and revolution in 1848) and the tragic fate of "witches" in the Faller family tree.
  • The Kirwans of Dublin: A line based firmly in Dublin. I look at Edward Kirwan Snr's time in the British Army on the North West Frontier, as well as his son Edward Kirwan's role in the struggle for Irish Independence.
  • The Ashmores of Waterford: Following their trade as painters from Waterford City to Portlaw and Curraghmore.

You can read the full, detailed breakdowns of these records and family trees here: https://holmesfamilyireland.blogspot.com/


r/Ancestry • • 19h ago

Flag Family Tree of a Multigenerational Utah Mormon

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r/Ancestry • • 20h ago

Is it possible to transfer events between trees on Ancestry?

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You can copy a person's information to another tree, but it only transfers their basic information: family, birth/death dates and locations, and marriage information. Divorce info doesn't even transfer over...

I'm moving things around and there's a lot of details I want to stay attached to each person. Do I have to re-add all of that manually?


r/Ancestry • • 1d ago

Death Certificate

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Hey there! Can anyone read the cause of death on this death certificate and the mothers information? Thank you! This is my 4x great grandfather's death certificate! And for fun, his son Hjalmer (and his sons wife!)


r/Ancestry • • 1d ago

Where can I find arrest/prison records 1920-1930's. (Tennessee)

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Several of my ancestors were "notorious" Bootleggers during prohibition in Memphis, Tennessee. I have their names but nothing is coming up. We know one of the three of them died in prison, and the others got arrested many many times for prohibition but are unable to find any record of him at all. They would be my Great Great Uncles.


r/Ancestry • • 1d ago

Anyone interested in sharing an Ancestry.com subscription?

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Ancestry allows you to share an All Access plan with up to four other people, while keeping all of your personal account details and trees separate and private from each other. You can link your own account without having to create a new one.

I have seen people use reddit and other forums to find others who would like to split the cost of membership. Is there anyone who would like to split one with me? Send me a DM!


r/Ancestry • • 1d ago

Can anyone tell me the name of the parish or the residence of these people?

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The remainder of the document goes on to say that it in the County of Norfolk, England.


r/Ancestry • • 1d ago

Terminology

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Please can anybody explain what Hekhen Makon stands for on 1891 uk census please? It’s under relationship.


r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

I made a map that shows who held your ancestor's town on any day you pick, with the treaty or law behind the border

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If you've got immigrant ancestors, you've probably run into problems like this. The census says Germany or Austria, the church book names a village, and today that village is in Poland. Both can be right depending on the year. So I made a map for it. You pick a date and it shows who held the land on that date. In the picture, Munich is in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1865 and in the German Empire by 1895. Click a country and its card quotes the treaty or law behind that border, with a link to the original text.

If you load your tree, the Atlas tab puts your ancestors' births, marriages and moves on the borders of their own year. You don't need a tree to look around and explore, though. You can just run through the map and look at borders, historical markers, Roman roads, old maps, and a few other layers. In the US, I've even got a lidar layer on there (it's called Landscape).

It's a work in progress, and every year shows how much of it has been checked so far (about a third of 1871, nearly all of 1990). Europe from 1816, the US from 1776 and Canada from 1867 follow their sources. Everywhere else, and earlier, the borders are approximate and labeled that way.

The tree file gets read in your browser and isn't uploaded or stored anywhere. The only thing that leaves is the place text, so the places can be looked up and put on the map. It's free for anyone to use, no subscription, no paywall.

treealive.com/atlas

If you see a border that's wrong for a village you know, tell me and I'll check it against the source. And if there's a region you'd want checked first, say which and I'll try to direct research that way.


r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

Committed registry office fraud twice and then seemingly disappeared.

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r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

Father and Mothers info

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I just started using ancestry.com today, and when i put my mother’s name in past residency’s immediately showed up however for my father there’s absolutely nothing. They both filled out the same documents, lived in the same homes and everything, i’m very confused on how my mothers information is all out there and my fathers isn’t despite them filling out the same stuff.


r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

Who are these people??

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r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

trying to find my grandpas mom

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hey friends! i didn’t know where else to ask, but im hoping for some help :). my grandpa has gotten older obviously, and i would love to find a picture/record of his mom. she passed when he was 5, and has no pictures of her. we recently found a picture of his dad and sister, but i would just really love a picture of his mom. what would be the best way to start digging into records? my grandpa was born in mexico, and apparently didn’t get a birth certificate until he was able to walk because mexico was still rebuilding itself after the revolution (his dad literally fought in the cristero war). i have no idea where to start really… any sort of tips/help would be so appreciated!! this may be crazy but i just feel so determined to let my grandpa see his mama one more time.


r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

Searching for a Danish cowboy: my great-grandfather left Denmark in 1904 for a ranch in Montana

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r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

How to find Jewish ancestors using historical records?

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I’m trying to trace my Jewish family line across multiple countries, but I’m struggling with changing borders, transliterated names, and incomplete records. Which archives and databases contain immigration, community civil, or religious records?


r/Ancestry • • 2d ago

Has anybody else used Gemini to find relatives that Ancestry can't find?

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First Google found a genealogical site that Ancestry didn't know about. Then last week Gemini found info about my father's military service that happened before I was born.

So last night I tried to find out about John Taller of Nova Scotia. I asked it a few questions and it gave me a link to a site that listed my 4 x great Grandfather, Newport Tallow.

It also showed that the surname had changed from TALLOW --> TALLER --> TYLER.

Anyway, double and triple check the info before putting it in your tree.


r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

How to access international records?

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r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

My family in Lithuania 1936

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Sadly, all of them perished in the Holocaust except for the women in the back with the scarf, Pnina Igra (nee Romanov)

If anyone somehow recognizes anyone else in the photo, I’d be so grateful, I recognize a couple, Dobrusha Frank (nee Berebeichik), Basha Leah Kagan (nee Frank), Freidel Romanov (nee Frank), and Pnina Igra (nee Romanov) But that’s about it. There might be some Rushanski’s in this photo as well, I’m not sure.

They’re all from the Ratnycia, Druskininkai, Merkine, Vilnius, Grodno area.


r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

I think I found my family’s clan?

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Haggart is the clan my Nan says we are from and I tried to find out tartan and it came up with many very different ones so could someone please help me by seeing if you know it or if you where I could maybe find it and if I’m in the wrong subreddit please tell me or if there is a better one for this.


r/Ancestry • • 3d ago

Hit a brick wall. UK/Ireland Grandad

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Hello all. I sent off my DNA and got my results a few years ago now with the hope of finding out who my paternal grandfather was. My grandma never gave any info as she was a very strict Catholic and was not married so always brushed off my requests and my dad had never fellt that he was able to question who his dad was.

I've found this line of my family and closest relative shares 330cm but they weren't able to advise as to who our common relative would be. I have enough matches that I likely know my granddas surname.

The relative is very likely dead now and know some stories are best left untold but id really like to get answers that my dad was never able to get.

I've heard of Angels on Facebook and other enthusiasts that have been able to help but im not on Facebook so im hoping someone could help or at least advise help please !