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GENEALOGY GADGETS & APPS FOR ALL OCCASIONS!

USING ANCESTRY PUBLIC MEMBER TREES

Malcolm Newport writes: There are many powerful features with Ancestry Public Member Trees but the interface is not intuitive. I will take some examples from among my ancestors to demonstrate a few tactics that I have found useful in order to better navigate my way around Ancestry Public Member Trees.

For anyone who is not familiar with the Public Trees in Ancestry, you need to log in to Ancestry and then choose ‘Search’ followed by ‘Public Member Trees’ and then

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