When you're on Ancestry.com, you can click on any hint leaf for any of your members. In the green bar right above "Ancestry hints for [name]", click on "View all hints."
This will bring up all hints for everyone in your tree. You can then search by specific person, records, photos, stories, or member trees.
I found quite a few cool documents searching this way, including the charter for the city of Kingston, NH, which mentions the names of several of my ancestors. Annoyingly, the image was not full sized, and a message sent to the submitter requesting a larger copy via email has yet to be answered.
Bear in mind that "photos" don't just include photos of the people, but also photos of buildings, graves, etc, and documents that have been scanned... unfortunately, it also includes clip art that people use to indicate immigrants, family crest, etc. I say this is unfortunate because the clip art and family crests aren't useful and merely add to the volume of images to scroll through; I really wish people would stop using them.
This is a good way of seeing hints for many different ancestors/family members at the same time.
This is a good way of seeing hints for many different ancestors/family members at the same time.
Hi Karen - Good topic! I found some very early photos of some distant ancestors by doing this on Ancestry, and made some good connections with some distant cousins researching those same people too. Have you made many connections through Ancestry's DNA program? I haven't yet, but I've been seeing more potential matches roll in lately.
ReplyDeleteKaren... I'm glad to know someone else is a little annoyed by the 'graphics' that people use as images for their ancestors. I didn't know why it was annoying until I read your words 'it adds to the volume of images'. That's exactly right. I really do wish the habit would stop. But who am I?
ReplyDeleteHi Ryan! Yes, I found a photo of a 3rd great-grandmother and great-great aunts and uncles on Ancestry.com, and connected with some distant-- and not so distant-- cousins.
ReplyDeleteRe DNA, I was actually able to find out the parents of a great-great grandmother of mine by connecting with a distant cousin through the DNA program, which was really neat.
Hi Devon-- I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds that irritating. I really don't think there's any point in having a family crest or clip art of a ship or, worse, clip art indicating "direct ancestor." I wish people would save images for photos/portraits of the actual person, graves, documents, or objects connected with that person.
ReplyDeleteThanks for you comments, guys!