Yes...i started using books in family search. I had really good luck.

I read and watch everything you do! Many thanks. My best PERSI find was an entry in an East Texas journal from a woman who owned a used bookstore. She submitted the births, deaths and marriages from a Bible that turned out to belong to my Mississipi gggrandfather, including the names of my gggrandmother who had only initials on the marriage record and tombstone.

I really like these longer news style videos because you add a lot of background information about the things you are giving news updates about. I didn’t know about the 1940 vs 1950 census as it relates to college students, for instance!

2022 began with exciting Ancestry DNA news and a Story Scout hint that I was a descendant of the Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller. After spending 3 months proving 6 generations I became a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants in October. Then, after posting this discovery to a Rankin DNA site I belong to a remote cousin got in touch and helped solve a decades long brick wall on my Rankin maternal line. So, 2022 was an amazing year for family genealogy for me!

Thank you for all you do for us genealogists 😊

Quite a bit of endogamy within the Amish community. And their repetition of names is legendary. Thanks for the year end wrap up!

Thanks for all the great information. Wish you a great year ahead.

The 1950 census helped me find that my dad and his parents were living in Maine while my grandfather was going to seminary, switching out of being a lumberjack. My dad's mom was a Manager in a department store and headed to work on her nursing degree

Amy, I hope you are okay. It seemed like you might not have been feeling top notch tonight ♥ thank you for this recap, very helpful! I haven't found the best Geneology site yet then. NONE have the answers I need/am looking for

I wish I could have caught this live. Watching the recap from VT

thanks for a year of great information. happy new year!

I always make a point , hey I'm kin to such & such person & you can tell people hate it until I say yeah I'm kin to you also 😂

hoping coca cola comes through on the sponsorship, Amy!

I wish I would have something happen to find my one ancestor, for where he was born. I think it was when the Canadian border was moved because I have found him living at various times right around Sherbrooke Canada, border between Maine or Vermont as an adult with my great grandmother being his daughter. I know I will be emotional

Sorry to be commenting so much. It was surprising to me, how similar my own parents DNA was to each other. Then how much my own DNA of what I got from each, was also so similar. My mom was adopted and I haven't dared to try and figure out her family. I THINK I found her birth family and also think something is up with my dad's side for why I can't find this one ancestor. I am very French Canadian. Ancestry has put me in Native American communities in Canada on both sides

People who don't label photographs have no excuse! Well, except for the fact that in the past couple decades people mostly don't have prints made to label. In 50-60 years, people are going to look back at this period and wonder at all the 9:16 aspect ratio video and lack of preserved stills from important family events (lost in phone upgrades or whatnot), and they're going to curse this generation. And, PLEASE don't stick that tiny screen in front of me and expect me to enjoy viewing your wonder photographs on a dang smartphone! Email them to me, so I can view them on my big monitor. I actually use still cameras and camcorders, don't even own a smartphone. Footnote for anyone bored enough to be reading this, a tip. Your smartphone is perfectly capable of recording video in landscape mode, so that when the video is played on a normal monitor, 2/3rds of the screen isn't blank.

Isn't that the goal of Family Search because of being from the Mormon religion? It IS their goal to have only ONE big tree.