Thousands of people, including Historical Archaeologists, use Ancestry and similar platforms to research people of the past 250 years or so. But sometimes there are obstacles that make these searches unproductive. Here I provide some tips on how to get around those obstacles to find the more elusive individuals or families.

Here are some useful links (note that some of them require paid subscriptions):

Ancestry: https://www.ancestry.ca/
Internet Archive (free): https://archive.org/
Newspapers: https://www.newspapers.com/

00:05 Introduction
02:10 Common problems
02:44 When there are multiple people with the same name
06:45 When you don't know the birth year
08:13 When you can't find someone in the census
12:52 When you can't find anything very interesting
17:43 Conclusions
18:31 Credits

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