The Related Content Pane on Ancestry.com Image Viewer

One of the blog posts I found interesting yesterday was The Ancestry Insider's post on Ancestry.com Adds Related Content Pane to Image Viewer.  I didn't have time yesterday to try it out, but I did today.

I've been searching for descendants of my Richman/Richmond great-grandparents, so I used this feature to see if I could find additional records for Ethel Judson, born in 1890 in Connecticut, who married James Henry Richmond (1886-1913) in 1911, and they had a daughter, Anna Richmond, in 1912 in Connecticut.

I searched for Ethel Judson as a young lady in the 1910 U.S. Census and found her residing with her parents in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut:

As you can see, over on the right side of the page are "Suggested Records" for Ethel R. Judson, including:

*  Ethel R. Spaulding in the 1920 U.S. Census
*  Ethel R. *dson on the 1900 U.S. Census
*  Ethel Judson on the 1920 U.S. Census
*  Ethel Judson on the 1910 U.S. Census
*  Ethel Richmond on the 1930 U.S. Census

I clicked on the "View original image" link and saw the image in the Interactive Viewer:

Up above the image, on the right side of the screen to the left of the "Tools" link, is the NEW "Related Content" link.  When I clicked that, a panel containing links to "Related Contents" opened:

The "Related Content" contained four of the five potential related records similar to the "Suggested Records" on the screen above:

*  Ethel R. Spaulding in the 1920 U.S. Census
*  Ethel R. *dson on the 1900 U.S. Census
*  Ethel Judson on the 1920 U.S. Census
*  Ethel Judson on the 1910 U.S. Census

So that works pretty well, but it's interesting to me that the links provided are not identical to the "Suggested Records" on the first screen!  Clicking on each item on the "Suggested Records" and "Related Contents" links above reveal a non-identical list of other records for this person, and not all of them are for this person.  While she is listed as Ethel R. Spaulding (married) in the 1920 U.S. Census, she is listed as Ethel Richmond (divorced) in the 1930 U.S. Census with daughter Anna.  I have been unable to find the Spaulding that apparently she had married by 1920.  I lose track of the daughter Anna Richmond (age 18 in 1930 Census) and hypothesize that she either died or married before the 1940 U.S. Census was taken.

Try out the "Related Content" link on the Interactive Viewer at your pleasure - you may find a record for one of your ancestors that you had not found previously.

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