I briefly read something we can designate 10 individuals in our tree for enhanced research by Ancestry behind the scenes. Know where I can do this? Can’t find it now…

I have a great grandfather who changed his surname from Thurber, to White. I’m not sure if it was done legally or if he just started going by the last name he wanted. Is there a way to check old legal/court records (without paying, lol I’m flat friggin broke)

https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov You can research Marriage Birth and Death certificates for mid 1800s-early 1900s It’s helpful for confirming parent names and birth years/ ages as censuses are not always accurate with the ages

Does anyone know anything about the Singleton family who lived in Claiborne County Tennessee in the late 1800s? I have an ancestor, Kissiah Hurley, who is listed as a Singleton on the 1900 census, but I cannot find out how or why she became a Singleton. I know she was widowed by her first husband John P. Fuller and they had two girls together, but in 1900 she has three girls. Her youngest girl, Sarah Singleton, is my great great grandmother. I would like to know which Singleton man was Sarah's father. I am starting to think maybe the Singleton's were Mormons, but I cannot find any proof. Or were the Singletons just good Christians that took in my widowed ancestor? Please, does anyone know anything about the Singleton family?

One of my hobbies is researching my ancestry online. I’ve been able to get quite far on some lines, like back to early Florentine nobility with Ranario Rambuto Gherardini , born 654 CE., a Lombard warlord and a forebear of the founders of the Florentine Republic.

I took a different path recently and got onto new ground altogether. Starting with Walter Fitzotho, the Warden of Windsor Castle born 1037, I decided to take the branch of his wife Nest ferch Rhys, King Henry I of England’s side-chick and a daughter of the Welsh Tewdyr (Tudor!) clan, and see where that went.

Public record turns to history, history turns into legend, and legend into myth. Along that path, I found my way back into Welsh mythology. It seems my futherest possible ancestors on this path were Tegid Foel, sire of the kings of Gwynedd and Ceridwyn the Witch Goddess of Poetry. Myth, legend, history, and public record make them my 52nd Great Grand Father and Mother! My research took me on a winding path through the records of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Burkes Peerage, the Fitzgerald family histories, Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, the Arthurian legends in the Annales Cambriae and Historia Brittonum, and finally the welsh legendarium of The Mabinogion (which doesn’t even claim to be history). Once the halfway reliable dates stop with the Fitzgeralds in 1037, taking 25 years per generation and normalizing that to the BS dates in Bede et al, I get back to 350 CE or so— late Roman Briton. It works because Tegid was supposed to be a Roman Auxiliary cavalry leader. Ceridwyn is supposedly immortal and lives under Lake Bala (Llyd Tegid) in Wales. Ceridwyn is still worshiped by some Wiccans.

If they ever lived at all, they probably lived in a turf hut, painted themselves blue, wiped with leaves, and burnt enemies in wicker baskets. It’s all a nice story anyway.

Hello.

Is it possible to do genetic research to try and get to know the father of my great-great-grandfather? (My great-great-great-grandfather) I only have a grand-aunt, sister of my grandfather. I can't do Y chromosome genetic research on her, but i can do it on me right? I have 2 possible people, which can be a wrong guess also (based on census and newspaper). Thanks in advance!

I'm looking into my 2nd great-grandfather who moved over to England from Ireland in the late-1880s / early-1900s. From his english death certificate he died 14th December 1907 "aged 35", putting him born in 1872. The only census report in England in 1901 says 31 years old, putting him born in 1970.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie

I've searched Irish civil records on the above genealogy site and found a name match for a birth record dating 11th Nov 1875. All other name matches are decades out.

I'm aware some Irish records got destroyed. Is it a stretch to presume the inaccuracies in the english records are wrong and how likely is it that this irish record is a match with no other person on the database showing?

Edit: His parents are named on the birth certificate so the dilemma is to trust this is him or end that line of family there.

TIA

I've been on Ancestry for probably about 10 years, and did DNA like 6 years ago (around). I have a very large tree (~33k with my family and my husband's family)

The issue I keep running into is having to re-add people to my tree over and over again. Like I'll open it and suddenly there are TONS of people that I know were already there but now are gone and need to be re-added. I know some of them I've added multiple times (they have weird names so I remember lol).

I opened it today and it looks like it's suddenly coming up with IDEK but it's got to be over 100 at this point that I know were there but now are gone.

The other issue is that when I'm trying to add people in ThruLines it sometimes won't let me. It *looks* like it's going to let me add it, but then when I hit refresh, they absolutely won't save. And it's really random why they do or don't work (it seems like when I first start adding, it will allow me to add most or all, but the more time I spend working on it the higher the fail percentage goes but that could just be my perception).

I have talked to Ancestry about both of these issues. I did this big long marketing research meeting with them and asked at the end...they didn't know what could cause it but said contact support, but they were also not able to give me any answers. They suggested it could be glitchy due to how large my tree is but it was more like meh not sure but that could be it?

Has anyone else had issues similar to these? Or know what might be causing them? I'm guessing there is a way to download and save externally but given the amount of money I spend on Ancestry I consider that pretty lame on their end lol.

I would love to hear input on what you do when you feel like you've exhausted every resource and just can't come up with a document

Anyone outside of the US successful made a account with e-yearbook? I tried making an account this morning for my history research but my PayPal was declined I've contacted customer support and waiting on a response but just wondering if anyone else has faced this issue?

I have a female ancestor who between the years 1888 and 1896 had three daughters. I have delayed birth certificates for the older to listing their father as a John P Fuller. The youngest daughter is always listed as a Singleton, and on the 1900 Census the mother and all three girls are listed as Singleton's with the mother as head of house (no man listed). Their mother's maiden name was Hurley, so I would like to know why it changed to Singleton after having children with John Fuller. I cannot find anything on John P. Fuller other than his name on the two delayed birth certificates. Was it normal back then for widowed or divorced or separated woman to legally call themselves Singleton? Or is it more likely that my ancestor remarried and was widowed or divorced twice between the 1880 census and the 1900 census? (I don't have the 1890 census because they lived in Tennessee and their census was destroyed in the D.C. fire). My ancestor did end up marring to another man, William Lawson, her daughters are listed as step daughters to him, with her older girls listed as Fuller but her youngest still listed as Singleton, until just before her youngest got married. At the age of 22 her youngest daughter is listed as a Lawson on a census record, but I know she got married not long after that. Do you think she took that Lawson last name because the Singleton one was made up or because she didn't know who her real father was to list on her married paperwork?

Can anyone help make sense of any this, please???

I don’t know my paternal side of the family well - I know my father had one sibling- a sister. I now have a new match to a half-uncle on my paternal side. In others experience would this mean my father has a half brother or could it be could it be a great uncle ?

I have an Ancestry All Access account. I also have a subscription to newspapers.com publishers extra. I've just realized that at some point in the past Ancestry changed their all access account from newspapers basic to newspapers publishers extra. So...apparently I've been wasting $11.95 per month for a separate newspapers subscription that's included in my Ancestry subscription. I've been in touch with Ancestry customer service who says I have to deal with newspapers.com. Newspapers.com only offers a caller the option to leave voicemail...no live operator. It's been over a week and they don't respond to the voicemails or my emails. Any suggestions as to how to reach them? Also, does anyone know when "All Access" began offering the publishers extra version of newspapers.com? Just curious how much money I've wasted on a duplicate subscription. Thanks!!

His name is Juan Esolk, he was born between 1828 and 1839 and died in 1912. He was born in Germany and magically appeared in Uruguay, married to Cleta Caldas and 5 children (maybe there are more, but I'm not sure), these are:

- Aurelia Esolk Caldas (my great-great-grandmother)

- Juana Esolk Caldas

- Josefa Esolk Caldas

- Juan Erasmo Esolk Caldas

- Augusto Esolk

I've been trying to find something else about Juan Esolk for days, such as his parents, grandparents, siblings or records of his birth or baptism, but I haven't found ANYTHING besides what I mentioned before. It's as if this person has appeared out of nowhere.

There are also no records of his trip from Germany to Uruguay, and I don't know why he changed his last name. The surname Esolk seems limited to my family line, as everyone living or dead with this surname is related in some way to Juan Esolk.

I have also seen that the last name changes in certain records, in some it is Osolke, and in others, it is Esolh or Osoltec... all of this has been confusing and has generated more questions than answers. Was he escaping from someone or something? Has he destroyed all the records himself? Is there another explanation? Why does there seem to be almost no information about him?

There is NOTHING about his wife, Cleta Caldas, apart from what I said before, I only know that she was born in 1840 and died between 1898 and 1910. Apart from that there is nothing about her family, I don't know if she had siblings or anything similar. There is nothing about her parents either, it is as if they both had appeared out of nowhere.

Sorry for all the yapping, but I need more clues to tell me if he had siblings or who his parents are. This has become a huge family mystery, and maybe there is something more behind all of this.

Thank you very much for your time and for reading this entire Bible, this is very confusing.

JUAN ESOLK: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G67K-ZL8

CLETA CALDAS: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GBBH-3JT

PD: I've tried to search in Ancestry too, but I couldn't find anything.

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I'd like to know about where exactly my surname, Janiszewski, came from. The earliest records I have are in the village of Kozolin, but they later lived in Niedarzyn, and Lutomierzyn after that. All are in the Gralewo parish.

The oldest record I have is my ancestor Kasper Janiszewski's marriage to Katarzyna Kupecka in 1797. Kasper was 42 years old, a bachelor, from Kiełbowo and the son of Tomasz Janiszewski and Katarzyna Jędrzejowicz. I have been trying for quite some time to trace my surname back to its origin, but I cannot find any more info beyond this. It may be worth noting that there was an Ewa Wozniczak (nee Janiszewska) living in Lutomierzyn in the late 1700's, daughter of a different Kasper Janiszewski. I have not been able to connect them.

Anything new whatsoever would be greatly appreciated!