Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Learning New Tricks

19 November 2012

Learning New Tricks

Updated 27 Apr 2013

Ancestry.com has been putting out really informative tutorials on the regular basis. Unfortunately their YouTube channel is a bit of a maze if you're trying to find a past one. If you can remember a word in the title you can just use their channel's search box but if you can't, well...
I've created a YouTube channel and organized playlists so we can easily find what we need. Another reason I did this is because Ancestry.com's videos are not the only genealogy videos on YouTube. I'm adding others as I find them. Playlist topics are:

✿ African-American Genealogy
✿ American Indian Genealogy
✿ Apps & Technology for Genealogy
✿ Archives, Libraries & Museums
✿ Becoming a Genealogist
✿ BMD: Birth & Baptism
✿ BMD: Marriage & Divorce
✿ BMD: Death & Burial
✿ Brick Wall Busters
✿ Census: U.S.
✿ Census: Non-U.S.
✿ Countries: Australia & New Zealand
✿ Countries Canada
✿ Countries: Central & South America
✿ Countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden
✿ Countries: Eastern Europe
✿ Countries: Great Britain
✿ Countries: Ireland
✿ Countries: Western Europe
✿ Countries: Other
✿ Digitization and Indexing
✿ DNA
✿ FamilySearch
✿ Genealogy 101
✿ Genealogical Societies & Conferences
✿ Google for Genealogy
✿ Immigration, Naturalization & Travel
✿ Interviews & Interviewing
✿ Jewish Genealogy
✿ Land Records, Maps and Location Research
✿ Military: Personnel - U.S.
✿ Military: Personnel - Other
✿ Military: Revolutionary War
✿ Military: American Civil War
✿ Military: Spanish-American War
✿ Military: World War I
✿ Military: World War II
✿ Military: Other Wars & Conflicts
✿ Miscellaneous
✿ Names (maiden, common, ethnic, etc.)
✿ News and Newspapers
✿ Organizing Your Genealogy Research
✿ Photos, Photography & Preservation
✿ Search Tips for Genealogy
✿ Software for Genealogy: Family Tree Maker 2012
✿ Software for Genealogy: Other
✿ States: Midwest
✿ States: Northeast
✿ States: Southeast
✿ States: Southwest
✿ States: West
✿ Websites other than Ancestry
✿ WDYTYA? and Other Fun Stuff

FamilySearch has a few tutorials but most of theirs are slideshows that are only available through their website's Learning Center. The wonderful thing about the FamilySearch tutorials is the number of countries, languages, and subjects they cover. Everything from lessons in Spanish about German research to learning how to read Scandinavian Gothic handwritten records. You can find tutorials by country, language, skill level, subject or format (audio, video, interactive slides or video and slides). There are some 5 minute tutorials on their YouTube channel as well as some short videos about different archives around the country. I've added some of those to the playlists.
The company that sells Legacy Family Tree software also provides video lectures. Their videos on YouTube are usually just 15 minute previews of videos that are available to purchase. Most Legacy Family Tree webinars are free for 10 days after the live event. I've included some of the previews for more popular topics in the playlists. Details about purchasing are below the video. Even if you don't purchase the video the preview can be helpful in other ways. It can help you decide between speakers at an upcoming conference or you may want to sign up for the next Legacy event that includes that speaker.
These are just a few of the channels represented in my playlists:

✿ AncestryAU
✿ AncestryCa
✿ AncestryCom
✿ ancestryuk
✿ Archivescom
✿ FamilySearch
✿ Genealogy Gems
✿ legacyfamilytree
✿ LibraryOfCongress
✿ NGSGenealogy
✿ SIArchives
✿ usnationalarchives

If you come across a channel I haven't found yet please post a link to one of their videos in the comments. Thanks!

Bookmark this page for the BUWTBlog channel playlists:
http://www.youtube.com/user/BUWTBlog/videos?flow=grid&view=1

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Barking has been "deemed offensive to [Ancestry.com's] brand" and is banned from their Facebook pages. In Ancestry's "Community" comments with links to Barking are censored.
Dear Emma, Hannah, Jemima, Mary Jane, and all of her other personalities agree that I use "the banner of 'education' to actually mock, deride and laugh at [Ancestry's] own customers" and I "can make [my] point concerning tree inaccuracies & cock-ups and their effect on our 'hints' system without being downright unpleasant and sarcastic about it."
Allen says, “your cute little blog is a waste of bandwidth at best”
Ann thinks I'm "...copying and pasting mistakes on trees and calling it a blog" and that my readers are "mean-spirited people...who like to have a laugh at the expense of others."
Sue was really offended by the “...continual stream of sarcasm and constant poking fun...What a nasty taste in my mouth your blog left me with. Unpleasant, sarcastic and jeering at people who you obviously see as your intellectual inferiors. Won't be reading that again.”
And finally from Les, "You truly are a horrible woman, pointing out mistakes is one thing but blatantly laughing and taking the p is completely out of order."

Why?

Researching our family histories we are bound to make mistakes. Hopefully we are quick to correct them. Unfortunately some people refuse to read or think before adding information to their family trees. Some trees have been abandoned so the errors are there for eternity. Here we will laugh, mock and shake our heads at the carelessness, stupidity and/or ignorance of those errors.
All examples are taken from trees published online.
I'll also post tips occasionally, though the messed up trees are a great example of what NOT to do.
If you have an online tree to suggest for a future post please send me a link: buwtree(at)gmail(dot)com

The Fine Print

1. Copyright: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License and is owned and administered by Loretta Gillespie.

2. Content: Barking Up the Wrong Tree is responsible for the content of this site, not including visitor comments. Barking Up the Wrong Tree reflects the personal views and opinions of Loretta Gillespie.

3. Credit: Credit is not given to tree owners to protect the clueless. A tree owner who discovers their tree on this site should correct their mistakes so no one else realizes they were once a clickophile.

4. Accuracy and Validity: While there are helpful pointers on Barking Up the Wrong Tree a majority of posts are intended to be humorous. The disastrous trees are copied exactly as they appear on Ancestry.com. These trees are being used to show others what NOT to do.

5. Images: Attempts are made to source images used despite the fact that the trees they are taken from do not include source information.

6. Comments: Barking Up the Wrong Tree will exercise its right to delete comments which are deemed to be spam, offensive, childish or just plain stupid.

7. Liability: The content at Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not to be taken as fact nor absolute. Barking Up the Wrong Tree contains posts that are humorous and posts that are research tips. Barking Up the Wrong Tree is not responsible for anyone who cannot tell the difference between the two. The sites that Barking Up the Wrong Tree links to via hyperlinks are not under its control. Those sites are responsible for the content of those sites. If you do not find the humor on Barking Up the Wrong Tree to your taste then stop reading. If you choose instead to send an email to the owner it may be published on Barking Up the Wrong Tree and mocked publicly.

Thanks to Thomas MacEntee for allowing the use of the GeneaBloggers terms as a template.