How to do your family tree on Ancestry
Family Tree Talk17 Mar 2025

How to do your family tree on Ancestry

Follow our quick guide to some of the key family tree tools on Ancestry, with Family Tree editor, Helen Tovey. Plus Family Tree designer Nathan Ward shares his research experiences of reading WW1 unit war diaries (it’s emotional). And a quick peek at Mitotree – the DNA tree that tells the shared story of our motherlines, going back 100,000 years!

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How to stop behaving like a headless chicken

How to stop behaving like a headless chicken

Usually family history can be a bit of an escape, can’t it? … An oasis of calm in our busy lives. But sometimes those research puzzles and projects and send us hither and thither like headless chicken...

23 Mar 48min

Starting a new chapter of your family history

Starting a new chapter of your family history

In this episode of Family Tree Talk, podcast co-host Nathan Ward shares his most recent discoveries and reflections with Helen Tovey. They discuss the family history process – considering: what does i...

16 Mar 40min

Is it time for the Genealogical Proof Standard?

Is it time for the Genealogical Proof Standard?

Podcast cohosts Nathan Ward and Helen Tovey chat family history, as Nathan discusses the research steps he’s taken recently to unpick an online tree tangle, dig deeper into the records, and work out o...

9 Mar 50min

Taken a wrong turn in your research?

Taken a wrong turn in your research?

Ertswhile newbie Nathan had nearly finished collecting all 32 of his 3x great-grandparents (superb effort, hey?) … when he realised that not all the facts were stacking up. Where had his research take...

2 Mar 43min

Game, set & match! A genealogy milestone reached

Game, set & match! A genealogy milestone reached

Family history erstwhile newbie Nathan Ward has only been tracing his family tree for a little over a year, but this week sees him ‘collect’ the final missing ancestor of his 3x great-grandparents. Bu...

23 Feb 42min

You are in charge! Tips to manage your Ancestry tree

You are in charge! Tips to manage your Ancestry tree

This week podcast cohosts Nathan Ward and Helen Tovey chat about the tools that help you manage your Ancestry tree the way that you wish: how to cope with hints; how to merge duplicate people on your ...

16 Feb 42min

The value of perseverance in family history

The value of perseverance in family history

Making a start on your family history can be a quick and simple thing to do. Keeping going, digging deeper, sticking to the plan and getting your goal accomplished are another thing entirely. This epi...

9 Feb 51min

Nuts & bolts of building family trees

Nuts & bolts of building family trees

In the latest issue of Family Tree Talk, podcast cohosts Nathan Ward and Helen Tovey talk about their recent tree-building exploits. Nathan Ward discusses his recent discoveries on his quest to add al...

2 Feb 47min

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