Five Minute Find: Favorite Genealogy Myths Debunked

Spend 5 minutes with Anne Gillespie Mitchell aka Ancestry Anne as she walks you through 6 genealogy myths and why they aren't true.

1. Native American Ancestry: Great-Great-Grandma Was an Indian?
2. Names Changes at Ellis Island: Why Your Family Name Was Not Changed at Ellis Island (and One That Was)
3. Burned Counties
4. All Records are Online
5. Everyone has Recorded Vital Records: Ancestry Wiki Vital Records
6. Government Records are Correct -- Online Trees are Wrong