Saturday, March 29, 2008

Cyndi's List Highlights Free Stuff

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Cyndi Howell announced this week the creation of a new category in Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet , "Free Stuff....
Thursday, March 27, 2008

You Will Hate Ancestry's New Search, Not!

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Did you learn WordPerfect and then make the grueling switch to Word? Are you a "classic" Family Tree Maker (FTM) user drowned by t...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Two Ancestry Presidents Contrasted

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The two keynote speeches at this year's BYU Computerized Family History Conference gave attendees the unique opportunity of seeing two o...
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Friday, March 14, 2008

Computerized Family History and Genealogy Conference

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[While I'm not a fan of train-of-thought writing, you may never hear about my attendance at this conference if I don't take a shallo...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

RootsWeb moved onto Ancestry.com

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Tim Sullivan, CEO of the Generations Network today posted the following notice on the RootsWeb blog : As you know, The Generations Network ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Richard Turley steps down as head of FamilySearch

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the Church ) announced today the appointment of Richard E. Turley, Jr. as assistant Chu...

PAF is only mostly-dead

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Gordon Clarke read an official statement at the FamilySearch Developers Conference today announcing future migration paths available to user...
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Thursday, March 6, 2008

And now, the story can NOT be told...

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You're tired of me whining about the pitfalls of employee blogging, I know. If it gets too thick for you, just skip this article. I won...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Where are the results of indexing projects?

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Insider, I have a question that perhaps you can answer, and forgive me if you already have somewhere, or if the information is on the Fami...
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Sunday, March 2, 2008

I Felt Two Hands

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This is another in the Ancestry Insider's series called Serendipity in Genealogy . Hildo Rosillo Flores of Piura, Peru started his fami...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

New FamilySearch Delayed

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The possible rollout delay for New FamilySearch (NFS) that I reported last time has materialized into a major shutdown of the rollout. On ...
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

NFS Rollout News for Presidents' Day

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I wish I had some cute tie-in between the New FamilySearch (NFS) rollout news and Presidents' Day, but I don't. In fact, it isn...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Google Views Ancestry & FamilySearch Streets

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Google announced today that Salt Lake City along with 8 other areas has been added to Google Map's Street View , which displays street ...
Thursday, February 7, 2008

Myra Vanderpool Gormley

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This is one in a series of encyclopedia articles describing people, products and companies in the genealogy industry. When you hear a noted ...
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Buick Heritage Sweepstakes

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To commemorate African American History Month and in conjunction with the release of African American Lives 2 , Buick and Ancestry.com hav...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

NFS Rollout News for Super Tuesday

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The 24 US states holding presidential primaries may not be the only thing making today super. If Mesa, Oakland and Snowflake successfully g...
Sunday, February 3, 2008

Unbelievable Name Count Claims

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What are we to understand by genealogy vendors name count claims? When WorldVitalRecords.com claims "872,278,874 Names in 5,389 Databas...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Why make it hard to volunteer for FamilySearch Indexing?

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Why does FamilySearch make it so hard to find the FamilySearch Indexing site? Yes, yes, I know that FamilySearchIndexing.org ought to be eas...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Where have all the Mailing Lists Gone?

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Way back in the frontier days when we circled the wagons at the end of the day and hooked up our 300 baud modems, mailing lists were one of...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

New FamilySearch offered to all consultants

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FamilySearch has announced availability of New FamilySearch accounts to any consultant that finishes a 1 hour course. Said the announcement,...