Fille du Roi as Occupation?

 

If you have roots in 1600s Quebec, you likely have a few Filles du Roi or Filles a Marier on your tree. 

 

I did the genealogy of the family of a friend and they had many Filles a marier and Filles du Roi on their tree. I wanted to highlight them in my genealogy report. I found that the easiest way to keep track of them and make a list was to put Fille du Roi or Fille a Marier as an Occupation fact for that person. 

I am a big fan of the free program FT Analyzer for it's great features. I downloaded the gedcom for the above tree and uploaded it to FT Analyzer, then clicked on Occupations...

You can see that on this tree there are 10 Filles a Marier and 8 Filles du Roi. Clicking on the the occupation will give a list of persons with that occupation. This one is for the Filles a marier.

Although I have no Filles du Roi, I find it handy when looking on my tree for my ancestors that had a certain occupation.

The trick is to be consistent with how you write the occupation. You can see in the sample above I wrote the occupation mason three ways... mason, maçon, maitre maçon, whereas I was more consistent with the soldiers, starting the occupation with Soldat.

Filtering your Tags in your Ancestry Tree.

 

You have used the Tag feature in Ancestry - so how can that help you?

When I establish a DNA match or connection on my Ancestry tree I make sure to tag either the match or the connection, or sometimes both. 

I wanted to find all the people on my tree that have DNA connections, or are a DNA match, so I used the Tag Filters

Go to Tree View on your tree. It doesn't matter if it is family view or pedigree view.

Click on Tree Search (top right), then Filters.

Then choose DNA tags, and you can choose one of three... common ancestor, connection or match. I didn't necessarily want to know the common ancestor, but the person in my tree that the match is descended from. So I will choose DNA Connection.

Click Done. I get a list of all the 15 people I tagged as a DNA connection.

You can do this with all your Tags. I made custom Tags for people that I have found their will. 

I Tag someone when I have ordered their will and change it to Have Will when I receive it. So using the filter Have Will gives me a list of those 11 ancestors.

You can use one of the many pre-set tags that are offered in the four different categories, or you can create custom tags for whatever suits your purpose.