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  44. 44 1940 U.S. Federal Census Tips and Tricks, Part 2 by AncestryCom
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Published on Feb 19, 2013

Crista Cowan discusses some excellent tips on how to search the site and maximize your results on Ancestry.com

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  • justdoitkathy

    justdoitkathy 2 months ago

    Even though I'm a very experienced searcher and ancestry user I picked up some tips from this presentation. Good job - thanks!

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  • Jim10293

    Jim10293 2 months ago

    Can you speak to using search through FTM? I don't like to search with ancestry.com as I prefer being able to merge the data into my tree and change the media filename to something more descriptive that is easier to recognize among all the other files. like 1860 Federal Census, Bath, ME, George Sadler family.jpg.

    I have not seen any way to manage media within ancestry. Also, I can see all the other data including citations if I work through FTM.

    Thanks.

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  • Paul Boston

    Paul Boston 2 months ago

    I have been unsuccessful in finding my Grandfathers' parents and siblings.

    I have asked his youngest daughter and only living child. She only knows he had a brother, no grandmother or grandfather names. They probably deceased when she was young. I have tried checking 1880C as he was born in 28 Feb 1879. I cannot find any one from Perryopolis, PA, that shows he was born in that family. Help!!!

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  • Erin Wallace

    Erin Wallace 2 months ago

    Great video! I use the filters a lot but never had come across the additional location filters before and figured out why. Discovered that if you don't type in the Country, the additional location filters don't appear. So if you put in just Iowa, or county and state but not the country USA the only 2 filters that appear are restrict to exact and default settings.

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  • Pam I

    Pam I 2 months ago

    Great info, I like the hint of right click to open a new tab - never knew about this before.

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  • Eric Basir

    Eric Basir 2 months ago

    Thanks for the search tips. Great work.

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    Eric Basir 2 months ago

    Thanks for the search tips. Great work.

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    Eric Basir 2 months ago

    Thanks for the search tips. Great work.

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  • Robert Pulse

    Robert Pulse 2 months ago

    I am having trouble researching “Harry Pulse” In newspapers. Ancestry’s search returns every instance of Pulse in the papers, and of course most deal with the medical pulse. Can you help?

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  • Robert Pulse

    Robert Pulse 2 months ago

    Well after a LLLong wait the document is down loading to my computer. If I was not writing this, I would have totally missed the down load. Went back to Save and was able to attach to tree.

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