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Chat transcript

18:32:20 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Thanks for joining us tonight. Let us know where you’re watching tonight!
18:32:32 From John Purdy to Everyone:
    Hello everyone. No snow down here in Hastings, East Sussex!
18:32:45 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Please add any questions to the Q&A box and we’ll endeavour to get through as many as we can.
18:32:49 From Kathy to Everyone:
    I'm in the lounge
18:33:02 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Sounds comfy Kathy!
18:33:35 From Debbie Hill381511 to Everyone:
    Hello from cold,wet kent
18:33:47 From Lynne Barry to Everyone:
    I am in  Caerphilly.
18:33:51 From Tony Carraher to Everyone:
    Hi from Southwater West Sussex
18:33:57 From Jackie Tench to Everyone:
    From Cirencester where it is definitely chilly
18:34:15 From Michael Langdon to Everyone:
    Hello from a cold Edinburgh but no snow so far!
18:34:53 From Jim to Everyone:
    Hello from a cold Co Durham
18:35:23 From Nancy McWilliam to Everyone:
    Hello from Dundee, Scotland.  Very cold but we seem to be between snow in the North and snow in the Borders.
18:35:58 From Carole Hilton to Host and panelists:
    Hi from Carole in Bolton
18:36:41 From Laura House to Host and panelists:
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/innovate/solutionsgallery/
18:36:48 From Stephanie Roberts to Everyone:
    Very snowy Nottinghamshire!
18:37:32 From janet to Everyone:
    Hello from cold, wet Southampton!
18:38:20 From Anne Wroe to Everyone:
    Hello from snowy and chilly West Yorkshire
18:51:36 From George to Everyone:
    ??? What is difference in Records between Fold 3 and Forces War Records
18:54:39 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    I am here
18:56:16 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    Look at any part of a tree and highlight a person, not the home persoon. What you just did on horizonalt view, can you do it on veticla view
18:59:51 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    Not sure why I do not see the 3 dots you used when in the horizontal view
19:00:45 From Paul Vanston to Everyone:
    Brilliant! Ancestry tech support didn’t give any useful answer. Thanks.
19:01:14 From Laura House to Host and panelists:
    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
19:01:43 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
19:02:11 From John Purdy to Everyone:
    I can't see Laura's links!! I asked a question in the Q&A about that.
19:02:33 From John Purdy to Everyone:
    Sorry, I see the latest one.
19:02:58 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Laura’s earlier link: https://www.familysearch.org/en/innovate/solutionsgallery/
19:03:21 From John Purdy to Everyone:
    … but not the one with the link to 3rd-party tools to extract GEDCOM files from MyHeritage.
19:03:43 From John Purdy to Everyone:
    Ah, I see it now!!
19:04:08 From Laura House to Everyone:
    https://www.familysearch.org/en/innovate/solutionsgallery/
19:08:18 From Carolyn Greenwood to Everyone:
    much later censuses were looked at not 1841
19:11:40 From Kathy to Everyone:
    What happens if the T&Cs change?
19:12:07 From Helen S to Everyone:
    Notes are private though even in a public tree, so the chances of Ancestry doing anything with them is low.
19:14:59 From Gwenda to Everyone:
    What were the free Genealogical courses you referred to?
19:17:04 From Kathy to Everyone:
    Strathclyde did a free course c4-6 weeks but do download everything as you go along as you cannot access info after the course finishes.
19:17:40 From Gwenda to Everyone:
    Thanks
19:18:19 From Carolyn Greenwood to Everyone:
    There are some Home Guards records, I picked one up this week
19:20:15 From Carolyn Greenwood to Everyone:
    I saw the Home Guard thanks to a Hint
19:22:18 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    I will ask support
19:23:54 From Helen S to Everyone:
    If you sync with Family %ree Maker, this downloads Alltwen records automatically
19:24:22 From Helen S to Everyone:
    *all records
19:29:18 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    https://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/centreforlifelonglearning/genealogy/
19:29:28 From Lance Racey to Everyone:
    I have two large trees nearly 20,000 people on each and want to prune. What tools on Ancestry will speed this process?
19:31:58 From Jessie to Everyone:
    Pharos Tutors have a great range of online courses at various levels. Highly recommended!
19:33:25 From Kathy to Everyone:
    I found a good page on Ancestry under Sitemap, then Help and a Support Topics appears at the top with lots of information available at various levels
19:33:54 From Carolyn Greenwood to Everyone:
    Family Tree's own courses by Michelle and Donna focus heavily on Ancestry.
19:34:24 From Helen S to Everyone:
    On Ancestry US, they are starting a new education program Ancestry.com/education Alao Crista Cowan runs a group called Pajamas and Pedigrees that contains a ton of education on Genealogy and Ancestry
19:36:41 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    Crista Cowans chat about protools was good last week.     Focused on everything except dna matches, that in the December webinar
19:37:38 From Ian OBrien to Host and panelists:
    Please can the links placed in the chat be collected together and posted along with the recording on Family Tree Plus
19:39:33 From Helen S to Everyone:
    Channel Islands was fun this time 🤣
19:40:01 From janet to Everyone:
    How can I save the chat?  Previously I have clicked the 3 dots, but I cannot see them.....
19:41:47 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Janet, we will save the chat and share it with everyone along with the recording, tomorrow.
19:44:52 From Family Tree Plus to Ian OBrien, host and panelists:
    HI Ian, we will collate the links as you suggest. Thank yoU!
19:45:44 From Jessie to Everyone:
    £7.99 a month!
19:45:56 From janet to Everyone:
    Thank you for this info!  Perhaps it has helped others too!
19:45:57 From Helen S to Everyone:
    Check out the Ancestry.com/education link for a whole webinar on pro tools that can go into more detail than Laura has time to do now
19:46:29 From Lance Racey to Everyone:
    Thanks Laura, Chris and all. Very interesting and useful.
19:46:35 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    If you’re not yet a Family Tree Plus member, do have a look at the online membership which offers at least 4 webinars every month! https://www.family-tree.co.uk/membership
19:46:51 From Helen S to Everyone:
    Thank you both
19:46:54 From Stephanie Roberts to Everyone:
    A super session thank you.
19:47:01 From Lynne Barry to Everyone:
    thank you both
19:47:16 From Kathy to Everyone:
    Great talk, Laura and thanks to Chris, too
19:47:26 From John Maxey to Everyone:
    Great session, thanks
19:47:39 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Thanks everyone for coming along tonight, hope you’ve learnt as much as we have!
19:47:40 From Carole Hilton to Host and panelists:
    Thank you for a really informative session
19:47:41 From Jessie to Everyone:
    Great session: thanks to you both!
19:47:44 From Peter's HP to Everyone:
    Very useful. Thank you
19:47:48 From Carolyn Greenwood to Everyone:
    Thanks Laura, Chris and all on the background team.  Very good idea to have an open questions session
19:48:04 From Helen S to Everyone:
    Family Tree Plus is great
19:48:12 From Wendy’s phone to Host and panelists:
    Very informative many thanks
19:48:13 From Kerr to Everyone:
    Thanks Laura and Chris and Matt and bacgground crew
19:48:14 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    https://www.family-tree.co.uk/how-to-guides/webinars
19:48:24 From Family Tree Plus to Everyone:
    Thanks all! Stay warm!