20 years of ancestry MISTAKES in 9 minutes

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Interesting. I lost all of my genealogy research years ago - flood and computer crash. All of my elderly relatives are dead and while they were alive they refused to talk. Sad.

Can't get over the difference in your appearance in the thumbnails. You don't look like the same person. Not saying that's bad, or even talking abt aging. Your family journey has changed your appearance as well as perspective

I think of genealogy as a way to understand history. I've enjoyed visiting the graves of my ancestors, looking at the places they lived, mapping their moves, and imagining the circumstances that they were in.

Even dna tests can yield genealogical surprises, mine unexpectedly united a cousin on my Anglo-Saxon side with her long lost father my uncle, through conversing about how we matched on Ancestrydna.

@NYTN I too have been at this for a long time, since about 2005. One lesson that I try to teach others but I myself keep forgetting and fighting with, is that truth often is stranger in fiction when it comes to families, and just because something seems unbelievable does not mean it is not true. I solved a tough mystery just a few days ago, and the implications of the solution are so important to so many people in my family that I actually am divided about telling them. The shock power that comes with genealogy discoveries is potent, and demands careful handling.

I love watching you blossom, I came upon you accidentally and I continue to lurk. Bless you!!!

Those "mistakes" have produced such a large wealth of knowledge and I am thankful for them. I have learned and continue to learn SOOO much about the history of people from your content. Keep on "mistaking". 😉❤☺

Thanks for continuing to share your family story. I have found very similar roots as you from ancestors trying to pass. Irish, Italian, Black American, French, Spanish, West Asian, Native American. NY and Louisiana as well. Crazy small world. We're like admixture cousins. 😀

Appreciate you sharing your journey. Now that I'm in my 40s I've started thinking about my family's journey and migration. I've learned a lot, but wish i had that curiosity when I was younger when more elders were alive. So many neat things... I just found out my grandfather and his brother played baseball in the negro leagues. These stories really help give our families unique identities.

It is very liberating learning where and whom you really come from. You inspire a lot of us to follow suit. ✅💯👍🏾

I love doing Genealogy but I gotta tell you I have such a diverse bunch of Ancestry that I have to go in several different directions and learn several different languages, including Latin for church records. I have to go to records in Prince Edward Island Canada, Quebec, Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, mainland, Italy, and Sicily, and Malta. Diversity in ancestry means also a lot more work needs to be done instead of all in one spot.

Nice your journey is teaching you “Devine Empathy “. I am learning that as well. I am more “protective “ of the “human race “ and our intermingled cultures and history. I enjoyed this episode. Peace and blessings. The more Ancestry I learn, the more I realize how we are all connected.❤

Went to the family cemtery plot and saw a name I didn't know. So I asked my (then living) who she was. The family called a "flapper" and she was murdered...this led me to look her up and she was my great aunt and was killed by her boy friend in the back of a taxi cab ( she was a married woman) 😬🙄scandalous 😮

I have gotten nowhere, too much going on to get going with this! I really wish that I had more to work with, the material I need is long since lost now and not a whole lot of family available or living to get much information from. But I am glad that you have come this far from your start 20 years ago! What you have uncovered about your family is so interesting, and I do wish that you uncover so much more! Good luck to you for this adventure!

Hey cuz, we all have the notes all over the place, but the work is being done connecting us. I personally love that for us! Shout out to Couzan Alex for holding us down!

Love your channel. I came across you researching ancestry and you had interviewed some of our relatives. I have two that are favorites in this moment. The first like many of us has to Angelina or Angelique Hasinai Dumont. I heard the half of her story on the East side of the Sabine first so it was really mind blowing to learn that she's the only woman with a Texas County named after her as well as a major River and even a National Forest. Plus the way she comes through in our tree is so epic because I haven't counted yet but it's certainly over a half dozen branches but that's probably not that unique considering where we're from. So grateful to learn all this. I called my Dad the other day to tell him about all that and it felt great to be able to let him know that the forest he used to patrol as Warden is literally named after one of our Grandmothers. I can tell that really touched his heart. The other I wanna mention is one of my Grandfathers his name is Juan Nepomuceno De la Cerde. From Los Adaes his ancestors are affiliated with a lot of the old Spanish military of Nueva España. He's half Caddo. I've hit a bit of questioning of where it really goes beyond him so I'm just taking it slow and focusing on making sure that we get it right. There's a small Texas town named after him and as sad as is to say. He is literally resting underneath an old East Texas Courthouse right alongside Gil Y'Barbo. So one of the coolest feelings so far in this genealogy journey is that realization that whether we are bacc home or here in Eastex where we've lived for decades we're still 10 toes down on ancestral land. I was telling my son yesterday as we swam to really think about it of how many kids get to grow up swimming in the actual creeks and bayous and all along the countryside that he has such a deep connection to? I wish all kids got to have that relation to the land so am way grateful that mine do. We need to get a car tho so we can go bacc home and be more useful to everyone. It means so much to me. Thanks for these videos.

Good morning neighbor lady, have a great weekend!!!😊

My family history journey started in 1991. I started by answering a letter from a relative I had never heard of, then researching at the public library, then the nearby Family History Center, and writing to other distant relatives who had done research. The biggest mistake, to use a phrase in a letter from a newly found fourth cousin, was "researching the wrong family". She had wasted a bit of time with that, and I was determined to to follow suit. As it happened, I researched a wrong family a few times, because I was overconfident that I knew what I was doing. Internet resources helped me expand my tree, but my biggest advances came from DNA testing. One thing I learned was that my mother-in-law was adopted as an infant; I had to detach all of my wife's maternal ancestry from the tree and start from scratch. DNA evidence suggests that my grandmother's father may have been born between his mother's first and second marriage. It's a never ending journey. These days, the mistakes are fewer and smaller and easier to correct.

My experience was similar. My parents were very guarded with what they said. I didn't find out about his native roots until I took a DNA test. My mom seemed unwilling to discuss her roots in slavery so I researched as much as I could on my own.