A short tutorial in how to find Family Trees on Ancestry Library Edition, Ancestry, and associated with AncestryDNA results. Charity C. Rouse, Spartanburg County Public Libraries

1. Finding Family Trees on Ancestry
and AncestryLibraryEdition
Charity C. Rouse
Director of Local History
Spartanburg County Public Libraries
kroom@infodepot.org
Screenshots taken
23 July 2018

2. Finding Family Trees on Ancestry and
AncestryLibraryEdition
• The following screenshots illustrate my
method of finding family trees on
Ancestry.com and AncestryLibraryEdition
• Once you link to the search page, the
process is the same so I will show where
you find the link on AncestryLibraryEdition
first, then on Ancestry.com
• Then we will look at ways to find the
“right” tree

3. Ancestry
Library
Edition
• You may have
to scroll down
to find the
“Quick Links”
• Locate “Public
Member Trees”
(see arrow below)

4. Ancestry.com
• Hover mouse over “Search” in the top menu bar
• Select “Public Member Trees” from the drop down
menu

5. Search Public
Member
Trees
• You have to search
using someone who
might/should appear
in the tree you are
seeking
• You cannot (to my
knowledge) search by
the name of the tree
first
• Same interface on
both Ancestry.com &
AncestryLibraryEdition

6. Lots of results (313,604). How to focus? Use the filters on the left. See next slide.

7. • Used filters to select born in South Carolina, died in Virginia
• Reduced results to 201 trees.
• I know I am looking for Jasper Thornhill Rouse, so that eliminates the first result.
• The names of the trees are blue hyperlinks. See next slide for what I clicked…

8. • Clicked on the top result with the correct person in the tree
• Switched from LifeStory to Facts view (my preference)
• Name of tree in top left corner, you can navigate through that tree using the buttons
above the blue arrow.

9. Finding trees from your
AncestryDNA results page
• Some people
make it easy
and have a
tree associated
with their
results.

10. Finding trees from your AncestryDNA results page
• Some people don’t have a tree associated with their DNA results
• Now what?
• Click on the green View Match button by each match to find out more information

11. If your match has a tree, this is what it looks like in the Pedigree and
Surnames tab (down about the middle of the match page when you
clicked the green button from the matches list)

12. If your match does not have a tree in their profile, this is what it looks
like in the Pedigree and Surnames tab. Not a lot of help.

13. If your match has a public tree in their profile but it is not connected with their
results, this is what it looks like in the Pedigree and Surnames tab. Note, there are
two tree choices (see blue arrow). Use with caution since you don’t know where
the DNA fits with the tree (if it even does).

14. Hope this helps you know how to look
for trees in AncestryLibraryEdition,
Ancestry, and AncestryDNA
• Final note: It may be easier to just Google
what tree you’re looking for. If it is public and
searchable, it will show up in those search
results.