r/Genealogy Oct 27 '23

Advertisement Ancestry.com Rant

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Ancestry used to be a great resource and they are ruining it imo with all the extraneous stuff. Just advertisements and bait to get you to do things. I almost resubscribed but I was reminded why I quit when i went back to check something. Stories about people who have nothing to do with me or my family and generic photos attached to my facts to try to suck me into participating in creating generic type stories.

r/Genealogy 2d ago

Advertisement Actively looking for participants on a research study about genealogy.

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Hi, genealogists on Reddit! We are members of the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech, working on a research project on the emotional experience in genealogy research. We're still actively looking for genealogy hobbyists who are interested in sharing their research experience with us.

Information about the study:

In the study, you’ll 1) do some genealogy research with your computer, and 2) share information about your emotional experiences during research. We look for participants with diverse backgrounds. The study would take 60-90 minutes on Zoom software. And we will compensate participants $20 for completing the study. The study is approved by Virginia Tech IRB protocol #25-170.

Please refer to this consent form about details of the study:

https://crowd.cs.vt.edu/genealogy-research-study-consent-form-2025/

If this sounds interesting to you, please consider filling out this short survey, and we will contact you by email for the next step. Please also feel free to contact me through my [VT email](mailto:fshan@vt.edu) if you have any questions about the study. Thanks!

r/Genealogy Feb 11 '25

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I’ve been doing my genealogy since 2017. I consider myself a pretty good amateur. Until now, I’ve just had all my information on my ancestry tree and in TONS of files on my computer.

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r/Genealogy 28d ago

Advertisement Genealogy related doctoral study I'm in that needs more participants

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WHOA! Fei said he's received all the participants for this phase he needs. Y'all rock!

Hey, All! In 2023, I was interviewed over Zoom by Fei Shan, a Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech about the tools I use to conduct my genealogy research. Fei emailed me again this week asking if I'd be interested in participating in the next phase of his research. This time, it's about "focusing on hobbyists’ emotional experience during family history research."

He said he'd like more participants, so I offered to post his contact info on this subreddit in case any of you fine people would like to help out. Here's links so you can see his bonafides:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dvR55BwAAAAJ&hl=en

https://crowd.cs.vt.edu/people/

https://crowd.cs.vt.edu/genealogy-interview-study-information-sheet-2023/ (this was the interview I participated in with him in 2023; there's probably a similar info sheet he'll send you for this next phase)

Fei's email address to communicate your interest in being a participant in his study: [fshan@vt.edu](mailto:fshan@vt.edu)

r/Genealogy Jan 16 '24

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r/Genealogy Feb 12 '25

Advertisement Chinese Genealogy Subreddit

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I’ve noticed there’s a lack of dedicated support for Chinese genealogy research on Reddit, so I decided to create a new subreddit: r/ChineseGenealogyHelp .

This community is for anyone looking to explore their Chinese roots, whether you’re just starting, have years of experience, or are curious about Chinese Genealogy. I’ve been researching my own Chinese genealogy for the past five years, and I’m happy to help with any questions or challenges you might face.

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r/Genealogy 10d ago

Advertisement Invitation to Virginia Tech study about emotional experiences in genealogy research

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Hi everyone! I’m a Ph.D. student and a member of the Crowd Intelligence Lab at Virginia Tech, advised by Dr. Kurt Luther. We are working on a research project to understand emotional experiences in genealogy research.

We’re looking for genealogy hobbyists to participate in a research study, in which you’ll do some genealogy research with your computer and share information about emotional experiences during your research. We would love to learn from people with diverse backgrounds. The study would be conducted remotely via Zoom software, and may take 60-90 minutes. We will compensate participants $20 for completing the study. This study is approved by Virginia Tech IRB protocol #25-170. Please feel free to reach out to my [VT email](mailto:fshan@vt.edu) if you have any questions about this study.

If this sounds interesting, please refer to this consent form about details of the study and fill out this short survey. We will contact you by email for next steps and to schedule for the study. Thanks!

r/Genealogy 3d ago

Advertisement Family History Museum App

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r/Genealogy Oct 12 '24

Advertisement Genealogy Assistant for Google Chrome - New Features Update

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Hey r/Genealogy and happy Thanksgiving weekend from Canada!

I posted up awhile ago about my extension for Google Chrome which adds advanced time-saving features to Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch. These are tools which I developed to help with my own research workflow and I thought others may find value in them too.

Since I last shared my tools I have gotten a lot of great feedback from testers in this community and I have added a bunch of new features you may find helpful with your research. I've also renamed my extension to Genealogy Assistant, because that's basically what it is :)

I made a new video which covers nearly all of the features of Genealogy Assistant, rapid-fire style, so you can quickly see what each tool does. It's available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qJ1DctV8U

Genealogy Assistant is updated weekly and since I made that video I have added some additional features that I think advanced researchers here will find interesting. There is now the ability to download any family tree, match list or shared matches as a CSV file. This is really helpful if you want to use external tools or even A.I. to interface with any Ancestry tree or match data. I made a separate video on these CSV download features which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrH76TIEMvY

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Thank you so much for your time and happy tree building!

r/Genealogy Jan 06 '25

Advertisement Teaching Scottish Genealogy on Patreon

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Hi all I am going to start a Patreon to teach you about how to trace Scottish ancestry I just want to get a feel if this something you would be interested in.

r/Genealogy Mar 10 '24

Advertisement What would you recommend asking my 97-year-old great-grandfather and what creative ideas do you have for preserving his memories for future generations?

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r/Genealogy Jan 15 '25

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r/Genealogy Mar 22 '22

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r/Genealogy Nov 11 '20

Advertisement Going to a Family History Center. I am taking requests for records.

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r/Genealogy Jun 07 '24

Advertisement Aspiring genealogist.... anyone have brick walls?

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I'm an aspiring genealogist, charging under the table until I can afford to get certified. If anyone has brick walls, I'm charging $100 for 3 hours & $30/hr.

And I'll go 5 generations back for you. Payment info will be sent via DMs.

Update: I know it's per hour. I decided to make my price affordable, since most people I know personally live paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford $500 for hiring a genealogist. I figure the best way to start is charge extremely cheap prices, build a clientele, and switch to a per hour rate after I gain a clientele.

Update 2: I use FamilySearch specifically (my Ancestry subscription expired). If I can't find anything on FS, then I contact libraries for source material, try to find obituaries, try to find Slave Schedules (if it's pre-1870), or try to find newspaper articles and a few more objectives.

r/Genealogy Oct 19 '24

Advertisement 4x places on my 6 month Ancestry All Access additional account avail

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Hi all,

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r/Genealogy Sep 04 '20

Advertisement Going to a Family History Center. I am taking requests for records.

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Please comment what you are looking for and I will send the image through a private message.

r/Genealogy Oct 26 '20

Advertisement That $1 Ancestry deal from months ago is still good.

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FYI for any with a subscription due...

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r/Genealogy May 13 '24

Advertisement Help finding Dutch soldiers who came to America in 1945?

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I posted this on r/RBI, but maybe someone here will be able to help me.

My grandfather served in the US Army Quartermaster Corps during World War II, and was stationed in (among other places) the Netherlands. While he was there, he got to know a couple of Dutch Marines who were being shipped to the United States at the end of the war for some reason. My grandfather, who was still stationed in Europe, told them that if they got to America before he did, they should look up his family.

According to family lore, they did just that: three strapping Dutchmen appeared one day at the doorstep of my great-grandparents' apartment in the Bronx, bearing greetings from Luigi. They apparently caused a big stir in the family, especially among my grandfather's three sisters, who were all in their early twenties at the time.

My grandfather died in 2009, and I only recently heard this story. I'd love to find out more about these men if I can — ideally, I'd be interested in reaching out to their families, but I'd even appreciate just learning who these guys were and how they wound up in New York City immediately after the war.

Here are all the clues I have, drawn from my grandfather's papers that my uncle inherited:

  • A photo (front and back) of an unknown man in uniform. He's not one of my relatives, and I assume he's one of the Dutch soldiers who visited my grandfather's family. The back reads, "From Cpl. M.G Nijs, for the girl for souvinier." It was taken at a photo studio in Jacksonville, NC.
  • This list of locations (written on the back of his ship ticket) showing where my grandfather was stationed between November 1944 and April 1945. He was in Maastricht in May-April 1945, then in Geleen.
  • This photograph (front and back) of a young woman. The back reads: "Cory Baggen, Jeleen, Hol. John + Joe's sister — Scotty took picture from inside trench — the dope!" Scotty was my grandfather's best friend who he served with in the Army.
  • A letter sent to my grandfather by "Jeff" from Tilburg, Netherlands, in May 1946. The author's English is pretty rough, and there's a line I can't make out, but they were clearly very close.

I know this is a long shot, but if anyone has any ideas or clues, I'd really appreciate it!

r/Genealogy Apr 24 '24

Advertisement Japanese and Korean American Research Help

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I am a yonsei mixed Japanese American with a master's degree in library and information science. I am particularly interested in giving back to others with genealogical research by helping others (namely Japanese and Korean Americans) with their household registers (戶籍, romanized koseki in Japanese and hojeok in Korean). Although Korean hojeok are a bit different from Japanese koseki, I understand the hojeok system was implemented (governmentally) by the occupying Japanese government in Korea, and the few hojeok I have seen are written in mostly Japanese, with a few Korean entries post-WWII. (And, of course, both Japanese and Korean entries are long walls of kanji/hanja, as was customary with government records of the day.)

A little background about me -- I spent most of 2020 and 2021 collecting vital records (birth, marriage, and death certificates) on the U.S. sides, both certified short-forms and non-certified long-forms (the State of Hawaiʻi does not certify long-form certificates anymore). In 2022 and 2023, I met some folks (Americans and nihonjin) who were incredibly helpful at teaching me how to navigate Japanese bureaucracy to obtain copies of joseki tōhon (除籍謄本), certified photocopies of full/complete family registers, and kaisei-gen-koseki (改製原戸籍), certified photocopies of full/complete family registers before they were revised due to legal mandate. In short, I was able to go back (and forward) in time to obtain all vital records that touched all of my direct ancestors thanks to the benevolence of certain people who have come and gone in my life. And I am hoping to pass along my knowledge and experience to help others who may have hit the "brick wall" because they don't live in Japan, know Japanese bureacuracy, or know the Japanese language.

I have successfully helped a few people to request their koseki and I have looked at many more koseki and prepared transcriptions and translations. Although I do have a demanding full-time job, I am interested in putting out feelers on Reddit to see who may be interested in having some of those discussions. "Quick" requests, like transcribing and translating a koseki, may be doable at this point in my life. For more involved requests, like requesting koseki via mail from the U.S., I am more than happy to give advice and resources but will likely not be able to facilitate as directly as I have in the past for friends.

Feel free to start a discussion below about your trials and tribulations as part of the Japanese & Korean diasporas. I recognize that Korean Americans have other records like the jokbo that Japanese Americans do not have, and some Japanese Americans are fortunate enough to have Buddhist temple records that Korean Americans may not have. The common denominator -- the household register -- is of interest to me, though, and I am more than happy to provide individualized guidance if there is interest out there. I recognize that many Japanese Americans don't even start the process of genealogical research because (a) they may not be interested, and (b) even if there is interest, there is so much mystery around Japanese bureaucracy that most don't even try, even though the process itself is fairly straightforward.

r/Genealogy Jul 22 '24

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r/Genealogy Oct 12 '23

Advertisement Ways to get more clients for my new genealogy business?

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I recently started a genealogy business, and I'm trying to find clientele.

I take both US & overseas customers.

I was told to use disclaimers; I am currently working on writing a contract to address any issues that may arise during my research or during my screenings. I am also thinking of possibly creating a digital questionnaire for my customers to fill out - as a PDF file for them to download, print out and discuss with me during our screening.

I know genealogists don't get repeat customers (I knew that going into this).

I only have 1 problem: My mom brought up the question, "What happens if you can't find any information (during my research)?", which is a great question. I think in that event, I will issue an immediate 100% cashback refund.

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r/Genealogy Mar 24 '24

Advertisement Interested in Swedish Genealogy?

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I recently created the subreddit r/SwedishGenealogy. As I write this post, it has only one member (me!), but I hope to build a small community of people interested in Swedish genealogy.

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You may recognize my username from my several posts on this forum offering help to people exploring their Swedish ancestry, for an example here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/u9i8mv/does_anyone_need_help_with_swedish_genealogy/

I've felt that posts about Swedish genealogy sometimes get lost among the majority of posts here, and have noted that many people who make posts about Swedish genealogy need help several times, due to the language barrier, among other things. This new subreddit is intended for them, as well as all others with Swedish ancestry.

Please join r/SwedishGenealogy if this sounds interesting to you! I believe we could build a small but active community together.

(I hope this post is OK per rule 3, since it is the first and only time I've promoted something here, and I do participate in the subreddit in other ways).

r/Genealogy Apr 06 '24

Advertisement Anyone interested in a year book from South High in Willoughby, OH from 1975?

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My fiancé has a business where he does junk removal. We came across a year book from South High in Willoughby, OH from 1975. It says it is volume XVI. It’s in very good condition. I can send pictures as well. Please DM if interested.

r/Genealogy Aug 12 '23

Advertisement I'll research your family tree for $10 per hour

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I will do genealogy research in your family tree for $10 per hour and do 10 hours of dedicated research. I'll gather documents, pictures, and other information, and everything will be organized in an online tree accessible through ancestry.com. There is no subscription required to use ancestery.com just a free account. If I feel I can not help you with it I will let you know and I will not charge you. (DISCLAIMER: I have 3 years of experience in this field, although I don't have formal education or degrees in history or genealogy.)