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Does the map portion come into play if you haven't clicked in the little box .. for example you entered place of marriage and there is a box that says show map on Life story.

Can you merge people without Pro tools?

Learning about the mapping tool was great.

Are pro tools available on Ancestry UK?

Thank you so much! I learned some new ways to use my fan charts.

I recently purchased pro tools and the new thing I learned was the ability to expand the fan chart to 7 generations (and the other features of the fan chart).
My wish list would be to be able to expand DNA matches to 7 generations as well.

I recently purchased pro tools and the new thing I learned was the ability to expand the fan chart to 7 generations (and the other features of the fan chart).
My wish list would be to be able to expand DNA matches to 7 generations as well.

I've used Descendary Report to share with family.

Can ProTool be used without a subscription? (e.g. I'm interested in the DNA pro tools but not the subscription)

I learned about Tree Mapping. Not a feature I had tried yet. AND I learned I've still got room to grow my tree as I'm not at 99K yet. LOL

Always great listening to your tutorials…..fan chart was something I did not pick up …being able to view 7 generations now…great……thank you

l give ahnentafel chart to family so they can easily identify where the ancestor is when reading a printout/story of a particular person/ family l have given them.

Is there more Zoom with Crista Cowan on wed's coming up

Finding floating branches - great webinar!

I just got pro tools so I wanted to know what I can do with it

How to print out reports

Goodluck filtering by the name Mary

I excited to start using the mapping feature!

Hi Crista, Can I print from Maps? Thank you.

Thanks, Crista for another awesome video. Have you covered in a video how to use the grouping with the different colored squares for ancestors? If you have can you tell me where I can find it? I would really like to see how to use that grouping tool.

Love your content. I watched the recording.

Great info. Question: can we (or when will we be able to) export filtered lists as CSV files?

One branch of my family goes to the 1600s. Since that is more than 7 generations, what would be the best way to set that up?

Tree checker has to be the best. Too often you can miss dup people and conflicting facts. Like adding a death or birth date may throw doubt on some of their children.

Really enjoyed this and how to use both the lists and charts better and how to utilise the filters for better searching. I liked the Pro tools explanations as that's helped convince me I do want to add that in the New Year

Descendancy Reports and how to increase the font size! Also a reminder about the Vertical Tree View. LOVE Pro Tools!

Okay, I could see where it might be worth paying for the tools but I don't get charging to have more generations on a fan charge or to tell you which ancestor has more pictures than others and which ancestors have more hints than others because I can pretty much get that part of it for free on family search. I can also get a family group chart with sources along with a pedigree chart, I do think it's cool though that they have other reports that family search does not offer. I am however waiting for them to add something really big that will make me want to buy pro tools. I keep hoping that maybe they've added something I will say Wow to but not yet. Maybe one day. Although it was good to learn about it, so if they do eventually add something great, I'll know how to use it.

I hesitate purchasing another subscription right now. I an unable to locate my great great grandparents death information - certificate, date, place...nothing. This applies to both paternal and maternal great great grandparents, and would be between the 1880s and 1920s.

I went ahead on faith that protools would be great - so glad you did the video. I have been a long time user of FTM and their tools - so I rejoi😊ce that prot tools is adding those features plus even more! This video is a great review of some of these tools but each needs more study and practice to more fully understand their application and power. I look forward to more of your wonderful video tutorials! Thanks so much for all you do for us!❤❤

I learned about the Heat Map on the fan chart and what the other mapping feature can do

For the reports, I'd love the flexibility to choose the data in a report, and I'd love to be able to print a person's full life story, similar to the life story option on each person's page.

❤am watching a recorded version. Can I use mapping feature to list every one who lived near Cortland Nebraska between 1863 and 1940? We have been clipping the local newspaper to build a
Data about our town because we will be 150 yrs old in just a few years

sorting matches

Since race plays a such huge factor in wading through tons of data can someone please explain why race is still Not a basic category when searching?

While it sucks that this world prides its self on race division, especially in documentation, I'm surprised the race space isn't right after name...

So why now would it not be used when searching for family?

While most highly melanated people carry the name of previous slave owners, knowing the race is more connecting to areas where plantation owner "Did Business"

During those times, people of same families were sold away to neighboring owners or in cases shipped away, but like that of cattle, where their was branding, there was that or the enslaved names were changed making the now search even more complicated.

Using a race categories assists in the weeding through the data process and helps in avoiding the unnecessary need to get your hopes up to a match to end fruitlessly....


Heck! This very small move can be a step in standing out from the other companies.. just say'n


Eventually, the obvious South East will be truly identified for what it is (highly melanated Indigenous peoples roots), with earlier and later out of Africa mixture...

(Like that of Spain and Mexico, Cuba, and Dominican Republic)
and properly categorized our indigenous roots for what it is and put us back on the map as the peoples of that area given our proper indigenous titles back.

At the end of the day however, the ancestors are awakening us to these facts as we speak.

Thanks for all you do though...

Every single video is appreciated ❤❤❤❤

Fantastic! I have ProTools and didn't know hardly anything about it. Excited to explore now.

Learn fan chart from any profile and to go back to main person😊

I enjoyed learning a more in-depth look at the mapping feature.

Just watched this video regarding Pro Tools and a little bit disappointed as I was hoping this would help me with a large problem. My Dad doesn't know who his real Dad is. However his DNA test has lots of DNA hits on his paternal side. But none of them have created trees. And none of them are responding to messages I am sending out to the matches asking for more information. He also has 1st and 2nd cousin DNA hits on his paternal side. But I have no means to link them to my tree through my dad. I have tried to make new trees from those individuals, but without their details. I am hitting brick wall after brick wall. It would be great if AI could be used to great a virtual tree via thrulines of my Dad's DNA paternal matches and place where his matches could be based on the DNA algorithms.

sort pro shared matches by added column ...

finding my floaters and adding a soft link via a weblinks !

When you were working with filters for the tree list and mentioned filtering to look at those who may have registered for the draft, I looked to see if there was a filter by gender, to eliminate females, but i didn't see that. Perhaps needed?

I'm following along as you point these new feature out, and it is taking days to get through because I am going down rabbit holes. Anyone else having this experience? Yesterday I tried the possible duplicates, when I spied the first one that grabbed my attention. Today I'm back watching the video. Such great information! Thank you for this!

Something I have been wishing for, is the relationship of "enslaved" to another person. Hear me out...when I run across an enslaved person in wills and add them as floating, the search by their descendant would be daunting, although time and location would help. I think having the relationship of slave owners to enslaved would be important to others searching for their enslaved ancestor. Am I wrong here? I really want to show that connection, to help others in their search.

I noticed your tag "Royalty/Nobility". I have a tag called "Notable" for those folks who were in politics, wrote a book, was an artist, etc, (one who murdered someone) so that they can be found easily. I also have a tag for unusual deaths. I had a lot of folks killed by railway accidents, so that is one that I created. Morbid, I know, but still of interest.

How can you fix the locations in your tree so that poorly formatted location no longer show?

What is the deal with not being able to access hints. The program seems to be asking more money. I can barely afford it now. If this is a permanent situation I don’t see me keeping the tree

I subscribed to Pro Tools, using it mostly to clean up my tree, no relationships and doubles. The reports are very interesting and I'm now seeing some of the end of line people who aren't connected. I started with 55,000 people (2 of us trying to figure out a few mysteries, and I wanted to clean it up and start fresh. Down to 26,000. I'm using Pro tools mainly to delete people, but sure can't figure out how it works because the "no relationship" list does NOT show all that have no relationhips. I'd like to know how it is designed to work, like what has to happen for those N/R people to be on that list. Thank you

Sometimes the pro tools indicates there is a duplicate, but it doesn't bring up the duplicate?

I learned about the sorting of shared matches thank you. You always do a great job.

The fan tree is no longer based on the person you are viewing - a change noticed in the past few days. Hoping that this is not permanent as you can no longer set the fan to display generations up from anyone except yourself!