Free eBooks Unofficial Guide To Ancestry.com: How To Find Your Family History On The No. 1 Genealogy Website Available To Downloads
Master the world's #1 genealogy website and discover the secrets to Ancestry.com success! This book, updated in 2016 to include the most recent changes to the site, will help you get the most out of your Ancestry.com subscription by showing you how to take advantage of all the world's biggest genealogy website has to offer--and how to find answers to your family tree questions within its 14 billion records, 60 million family tree and 32,000 databases. What you'll learn:Step-by-step strategies for structuring your searches to find what you're looking for fasterHow to drill down to specific records, time periods and topics using the card catalogDetails on each of Ancestry.com's historical record collections, including what you can expect to find in them--and when you need to look elsewhereTips for creating and managing your family tree on Ancestry.com, as well as connecting your tree to others on the siteTimesaving tricks to maximize your Ancestry.com Hints (the "shaky leaf"), Tree Sync with Family Tree Maker, and the Ancestry.com mobile appEach chapter includes step-by-step examples with illustrations to show you exactly how to apply the techniques to your genealogy. Whether you've just begun dabbling in family history or you're a longtime Ancestry.com subscriber, this book will turn you into an Ancestry.com power user!
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Family Tree Books; Third edition (November 18, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1440336180
ISBN-13: 978-1440336188
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #7,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Books > Reference > Genealogy
First of all, I got the Kindle version and it is perfect for genealogy to be able to electronic search, copy web links, tips and lists into OneNote (or EverNote) without manually rewriting them. Anyone who says this book is an old repeat of Ancestry.com Help pages has NOT read the book. It is full of advice, strategies and tips and as of today (Feb 16, 2015) was last updated in 2014. Of course there are some how-to's to do certain tasks and why not? But instead of re-writing all the Ancestry Help pages the author sometimes just provides live links to Ancestry.com Help. Instead of Ancestry's FAQ style of instruction this book is more of a conversational workflow style. Between this book, Ancestry Help and the Ancestry Community you will probably have 90% of everything you will ever need for your genealogy. (anybody want to buy my 6 other genealogy books that are now redundant?)BTW you DO NOT need a Kindle tablet to read a Kindle book. You can download the book on your own device type (Mac, PC or mobile) with the suitable app. All my How-To books are now going to be in Kindle version.
I am a four year member of Ancestry and have always found the Unofficial Guide to be a very helpful book. If you are looking for the maximum benefit from your membership then you should get this book
Not exactly what I expected. I thought this would be a guide to using Ancestry.com, sort of like an "Ancestry for Dummies" book, but it's not. It's more generalized about the various ways to find genealogy info on other websites and NOT so much on how to work with the Ancestry.com website. It has some good info, so I gave it 2 stars, but it's certainly not what I expected or wanted. For example, I really needed instruction on how to transfer info from another person's tree to my tree when we had a mutual ancestor, or how to correct errors (and there are ton of them) and that kind of thing is not covered at all that I could find. It's incorrectly titled, very misleading, as far as I'm concerned.
I love this book. There is so much about Ancestry I didn't know. So many "extra" places to go to search. I keep it close as one of my best "to go to" research tools.
Excellent book on using complicated software! Ancestry.com may look simple at first, but it's easy to make mistakes. This book helps guide you through the possible pitfalls and explains various techniques of getting the most out of your subscription. A must for every user!
Thorough and well written by somebody who knows what she is talking about
I was little overwhelmed by " new info " on how to do a search and theses processes had /were evolving just my skills in genealogy research are evolving.Just the resources 35+ yrs ago were "books on the shelf" now access now is much easier, limited by only not knowing the records exist and bureaucracy of getting to the records. There is SO much I have to do to make sure my children know their ancestors and are proud of those ancestors AND be glad I was ablearchive what have and that more complete info was findable. I will re-read this book many times in my continuing genealogy and my old hard copies. There is always something learn in something you've already read.Don't give up, on your search for "family ", because there, is really a forest we have to navigate from "roots to sprouts". We have to adapt how we do things.Otherwise we won't grow. Get the book, read it get busy.
Really easy to use! Lots of tips on other than the basic places to search, and how to use these other searches. On my first search I found an army death record with a photo of my 3great grandfather from the Civil War! That find alone was worth the purchase price of this book.
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