The Ancestry Insider

The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.

Friday, August 31, 2007

The Dark Side of Steve Morse's Wonderful Website

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Who is Steve Morse? Dr. Stephen P. Morse is a famous computer inventor, professor, author and researcher. He invented the great-grandfather ...
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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Ancestry.com Launches DNA Website

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This morning a user reported on the Genealogy-DNA mailing list that Ancestry.com has launched its DNA website at http://dna.ancestry.com/ ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Internet Biographical Collection Removed from Ancestry

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Ancestry just posted this message on its 24/7 Family History Circle blog: Earlier this week we launched the Internet Biographical Collect...
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Rush Indexing Project

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FamilySearch Indexing just did a rush job indexing West Virginia marriages for the West Virginia Division of Culture and History (WVDCH). ...
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Ancestry Trees outdo FamilySearch Trees

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Back in March, FamilySearch announced that the Pedigree Resource File (PRF) database had reached over 150 million searchable names, growing...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Who Is the Ancestry Insider?

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The Ancestry Insider blog is the unofficial, unauthorized view of the Internet's two biggest genealogy and family history websites: Anc...
Monday, August 27, 2007

FamilySearch Labs Updated

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Two updates have occurred in as many days on the FamilySearch Labs website. Record Search "In case you have not seen it there is new...

Top U.S. Family History Centers

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"Here. Publish this Internet report," crowed the Ancestry Insider as he tossed a piece of paper on a staff member's desk. ...
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Friday, August 24, 2007

BYU Conference: The Digital Pipeline - Chapter 4

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This is the last installment of our report on Bill Mangum's presentation, "The Opening of the Digital Pipeline," from the fina...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Dear FamilySearch, About Your Branding...

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An Open Letter to Steve Anderson, FamilySearch Marketing Dear Steve, You joked at a recent presentation that we in the audience probably d...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

New FamilySearch coming to Spokane

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Picture credit: FamilyForever.com Dear Ancestry Insider I live in the Spokane district and can say that we have a very active Temple and th...
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Sunday, August 19, 2007

BYU Conference: The Digital Pipeline - Chapter 3

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This is the third installment of our report on Bill Mangum's presentation, "The Opening of the Digital Pipeline," from the fin...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

FGS wrap up: Ancestry News

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Ancestry Shows New Ancestry Press Books at FGS At FGS this past week, representatives from Ancestry showed samples of professionally printe...

FGS wrap up: Triplets of different mothers

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In one of the most amazing stories to arise out of the FGS Conference, three prominent figures in the genealogy community learned that they ...
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Building Successfully Imploded Near FHL

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The destruction of the Key West Bank Tower one block from the Family History Library occurred this morning as planned. Click on a camera ang...
Friday, August 17, 2007

New FamilySearch coming to Billings, Montana

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A spokesperson for FamilySearch has confirmed the report on FHCNET that new FamilySearch is coming to the Billings Montana Temple. Our post...

Digitizing Allen County Library family history books

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The Allen County Public Library (ACPL), co-sponsor of this year's FGS conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana this week, announced an agreemen...

Records Access Genesis

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The Ancestry Insider is a slave driver. He wants his latest BYU Conference report published today. He wants all the news from the FGS confer...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

new FamilySearch in Billings; FGS Reports

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Just a quick report. There is an unconfirmed report that new FamilySearch is being rolled out to the Billings Temple District before the end...

Half a Negro Boy

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Dear readers, Every so often you see something that eloquently expresses why you do genealogy. This short video (below) is such a piece for...
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