12 Mar 2026 TAG Meeting Summary

Leader: Janice Moerschel

We mentioned upcoming events, as shown at the EWGSI.org website.

I mentioned the website: Goldiemay . This site claims to help genealogists do and/or organize their genealogy. I have no experience with it ... yet. If you try it, let us know what you think! An initial free account is available.

For Ancestry subscribers with a "full access" subscription,you may now see "full text search" at Ancestry. This was demonstrated by TAG attendee Britt Ravnan, who first joined us today. Thank you, Britt!

We watched:

1) Connie Knox with Crista Cowan at RootsTech (15:22 min)

Highlights:

The Fold3 website now has full text searching and is using handwriting recognition. Search for any ancestor by name.

Ancestry is now pushing roughly 5 million additional record images, including probate files, through the same full-text search pipeline.

• The new Photo Insights feature uses AI to analyze photos and documents in your gallery, estimating date ranges, locations, and historical context.
• Full document transcription is available for anything you upload to Ancestry.
• Ancestry Preserve lets you ship a box of physical photos, slides, film reels, and documents to be digitized and automatically added to your tree.
• 90 new US DNA Journeys have been added, focused on migration patterns within the United States.
• A redesign of the person profile page and the hints review workflow is coming soon.

2) Video from Rootstech: "Discovering Ancestry's New Content Tools and Record Experiences" (about 13 minutes)

3) We also watched a video about "Networks," a feature available to ProTools Subscribers. (Note that this video was not well received by attendees.  ?)

1) Family History Fanatics (almost 48 min.)

Other videos about Ancestry's "Networks" that may be of interest:

Lisa Lisson: (about 14 minutes)

Ancestry Aimee: (about 21 min.)

Our next meeting of TAG is Thursday, April 9, 2026. If you have a Revolutionary War ancestor, share their story (or stories)!

Attendees: (25):  Albert Calderon, Ardis Storms, Britt Ravnan, Carol Hsu, Charlotte Sullivan, Chris Murphy, Christine Klukkert (Calif.), Dan and May Cotton, Dianne Bongarts, Don Robinson,  Doug and Oweta Floyd, Janice Moerschel, Judy Benson, Julie Rosenhoff,  Kelley Taylor, Linda Shorb.  (Calif.), Marge Mero. Paula Davis, Ron Marvin, Ruth Halligan (Calif.), Sandi Gaffney, Susan Harms, Virginia Omoto.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to any who are Irish ... or who just like to celebrate anyway!