It's a small gesture but seriously, respect peoples' time & effort in helping you out. You can also use this trick to find photos of your. This method is how my kids chose photos for our water color project and our ancestor tracings. It's perfectly OK to ask for any info if you're looking for fresh leads, but you can help people to focus their efforts & look at the correct sources if you are more specific. The first part of the video shows you the picture view of what you’ve uploaded and at 1:20 it will show you how to find everything that everyone in FamilySearch has added about your ancestors.

Be clear & specific about what info you want help finding.

Don't make people waste their time by duplicating work.

Include as much known information as you can.

This advice will get you the best response from your research requests. *Click on the thread titles to see the history Related Subs

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Search Google Images Do a simple google search for the ancestor (s) that you are looking for and click on 'images' at the top so only google images show up, which speeds up the time and allows you to look through images only.

Please do respond to those who offer their time to help you, even if just to say thanks. Do a search for one of your ancestors names and see who it pulls up.

Everyone needs to see links without obfuscation. Fire & forget isn't polite, and will be considered spam.

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Don't post living peoples' personal info.r/Genealogy Researchers Genealogy Resources If you are looking for specific help on a specific region, this post has a list of people willing to help with searches and lookups regarding certain areas.

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