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Nicholas Pearsall helps us to clean up hints on Ancestry and sort through nonsense on FamilySearch (YouTube)

Posted on 6 March 2026 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn No Comments on Nicholas Pearsall helps us to clean up hints on Ancestry and sort through nonsense on FamilySearch (YouTube)
Ancestry, Best Evidence, Best Practices, FamilySearch, History, How To, How to Think, Research, Teaching, YouTube

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Getting info from a census record that only shows boarders; deriving surnames and relationships (YouTube)

Posted on 4 March 2026 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn No Comments on Getting info from a census record that only shows boarders; deriving surnames and relationships (YouTube)
Ancestry, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Census, Documents, Federal Census, History, Names, Possible Parents, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Tips and Tricks, YouTube

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How not to be offensive on FamilySearch (YouTube)

Posted on 22 February 2026 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn No Comments on How not to be offensive on FamilySearch (YouTube)
Best Evidence, Best Practices, FamilySearch, History, How To, Reparational Genealogy, Research, Tips and Tricks, YouTube

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On FamilySearch, merge duplicates of bad profiles from GEDCOMs when you can (YouTube)

Posted on 20 February 202620 February 2026 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn No Comments on On FamilySearch, merge duplicates of bad profiles from GEDCOMs when you can (YouTube)
Best Evidence, Best Practices, FamilySearch, How To, Names, Research, Teaching, Tips and Tricks, YouTube

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Ancestors Alive! on YouTube

Posted on 19 February 202620 February 2026 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn No Comments on Ancestors Alive! on YouTube
AI, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Birth Records, Census, Courtesy, dates, Death Records, Documents, FamilySearch, Find-a-Grave, How To, Learning, Names, Newspapers.com, Public Records, Research, Teaching, YouTube

I have discontinued my Patreon in favor of growing my YouTube channel, but I’m still playing catch-up here. I’ll post videos every few days. It would be a great support to my work if you would subscribe, like, tap the bell for notifications, and say or ask something in the comments.

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PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck

Posted on 22 August 2024 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck
#BioADay2022, Best Evidence, Best Practices, Biography, Death Records, Documents, FamilySearch, Google Maps, How To, How to Think, Names, Newspapers.com, Podcast, Podcast episode, Public Records, Research

First off, welcome back – to us all! Glad to be recording again. This season will be all about confirmation bias and the many ways it can get in the way of writing accurate life stories. My focus has been on FamilySearch in the past few years, so we’ll be talking about writing those Brief … Read More “PODCAST Ep 601: Confirmation Bias, Ethel McKinney, Harley Bowers, and Solon Selleck” »

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PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom

Posted on 1 February 2022 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Biography, Birth Records, Census, Death Records, DNA, Family Lore, Folklore, Marriage Records, My Discoveries, Names, Podcast episode, Research, YouTube

Here’s another biography I developed on my quest to achieve one biography per day on my platform of choice, FamilySearch. With each ancestor, I always start with the auto-generated Life Story on Ancestry, copy it and paste it in the LifeStory field on FamilySearch. Then, I augment it with facts from census, vital, and other … Read More “PODCAST Ep 504: BioADay2022 – Wiley Franklin Odom” »

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PODCAST Ep 502: BioADay2022 – Calvin Walker

Posted on 19 January 202231 January 2022 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 502: BioADay2022 – Calvin Walker
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Ancestry.com, Blogging, Census, Death Records, Documents, FamilySearch, Federal Census, Find-a-Grave, How To, Marriage Records, Names, Podcast, Podcast episode, Research

Have you ever set a goal or {shudder} made a New Year’s Resolution, and then not kept it? Yeah, you’re allowed to look at me and point on that one. I am a terrible offender. But this year, I don’t have a goal, or a resolution, I just have a hashtag. A THING, if you … Read More “PODCAST Ep 502: BioADay2022 – Calvin Walker” »

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PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!

Posted on 29 December 202131 January 2022 By Carolynn ni Lochlainn
PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!
#BioADay2022, Ancestry, Biography, Clubhouse, Facebook group, Family Cookbook, FamilySearch, History, How To, Podcast, Podcast episode, Recipe, Research, Social Justice Saturdays, Teaching, Twitter, Zoom

2021 is definitely in the running for my least favorite year EVER! It has given me reason to reexamine what I’m doing, however, both with the podcast and with my own work. Join me for a list of thank-you’s, and for an introduction of the quickest, easiest solution I’ve found so far to distractions, brick … Read More “PODCAST Ep 410: Get Lost, 2021 – Hello, #BioADay2022!” »

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