Unofficial Ancestry.com Workbook: A How-To Manual for Tracing Your Family Tree on the #1 Genealogy Website

by Nancy Hendrickson

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Ancestry.com! Ancestry.com keeps growing, but how can you find your ancestors on the huge and ever-changing site? In this workbook, an essential companion to the Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com, you'll learn how to use Ancestry.com to its full advantage with detailed guides to searching Ancestry.com's digitized records. Each section briefly discusses how to search Ancestry.com for a particular type of record (including census records, vital records, and historical publications), then shares detailed, illustrated tutorials that put those strategies into practice. And with the worksheets and genealogy forms in each section, you can easily plan your own Ancestry.com searches and apply what you've learned. The workbook    • Introductions to using the seven most important record groups on Ancestry.com, plus tips to navigate AncestryDNA and use DNA test results in your research    • Step-by-step case studies showing how to use Ancestry.com to find ancestors and solve research problems    • Fill-in worksheets and forms that let you apply the book's techniques to your own research Packed with expert advice, handy worksheets, and real-life search scenarios, this workbook will give you the hands-on knowledge you need to mine Ancestry.com for your family's records.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

466 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 10, 2017

About the author

Nancy Hendrickson is a non-fiction author who writes about diverse industries for books, magazines and the web. Nancy has recently turned her writing talents to fiction, and is currently working on a cozy mystery as well as an historical time-travel novel. Nancy lives in San Diego, California and is available to give talks on all facets of non-fiction writing.

When not writing, you can find Nancy somewhere in the frontier west - delving into the people and events of a bygone era, all while listening to the tales spun by the resident ghosts. Nancy is the one with the Canon DSLR, the little Canon Elph and the digital recorder!

Catch up with Nancy at http://nancyhendrickson.com

Reviews

[Sheri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This workbook explains how to use Ancestry.com complete with practice exercises. I appreciate the search strategies at the end of each chapter as well as the forms and worksheets throughout the book. I just wish I was organized enough to use those forms and properly file them away for later reference!

[Linda Hartlaub · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is a hidden gem in the world of genealogical publishing.

The book reviews the search functions and the card catalog at Ancestry.com. It then proceeds through the various records collections from census records through Ancestry DNA. It creates a comfortable and logical flow chart to complete a thorough and comprehensive search of your ancestors’ records. Ms. Hendrickson gives clear instructions and exercises to use the information in each chapter that will bring your searches in accordance with the Genealogical Proof Standards.

The Appendices that were deleted from the Unofficial Guide are found here and include checklists to further your searches along with forms and census abstracts.

[John Wood · Rating 4 out of 5]

This workbook is a companion to "The Unofficial Guide to Ancestry.com" but can definitely be used as a stand-alone resource. It covers the various areas of Ancestry.com including the DNA section, very helpful in orienting users to this complex site and strategies for climbing their family tree. Each chapter includes several sample exercises which can be used to make similar inquiries into your ancestral history. Also, very useful URLs are listed, likely, the best of these are links to download all the worksheets used in the book. The Ancestry.com website is so fascinating and amazing that it is easy to take a shoot then aim approach. This book is very useful to guide the new user in taking a more organized approach.

[Lynda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nancy Hendrickson knows how to write a HELP book. I studied this book via Kindle Unlimited.

Just tons of good information re how to make better use of Ancestry.com. I've probably gone through this book four or five times and feel like I have just scratched the service.

If you have an Ancestry.com subscription, I highly recommend you obtain a copy of this book.

[Jim Parker · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is definitely a useful tool.

[Suzanne Pixley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Liked it so well I bought my own hard copy.