Tuesday, June 10, 2008

FamilySearch Update: 1850 U.S. Census (Select States), Czech Republic, and Philadelphia Marriages

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FamilySearch issued this press release this morning: FamilySearch Update 10 June 2008 The FamilySearch Record Search pilot has ju...
Sunday, June 8, 2008

NFS Update for 8-June-2008

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Two months until 08/08/08 and the Olympics. It's been a couple of weeks since I've updated the map, and there have been lots of chan...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

FamilySearch Indexing Tip: Handwriting Help

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I keep meaning to look up all those handwriting resources on the Internet and really learning to read the old-style cursive. But almost alwa...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

New records added to FamilySearch record search

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FamilySearch released this press announcement this morning. FamilySearch Update FamilySearch added 24 million new names from England bapti...
Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Ancestry Boosts Newspaper Collection

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Those who regularly check the Recent Databases widget on the Ancestry Insider website have known since last Friday that Ancestry posted a s...
Monday, June 2, 2008

What is FHCNET?

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This is another in a series of encyclopedia-like articles written by the Ancestry Insider. Some serve as extensions to my failing memory whi...
Sunday, June 1, 2008

FamilySearch Indexing Tip: Hiding Columns

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It really messes me up when a FamilySearch Indexing (FSI) project has two entry columns for the age when the original census only has one. T...
Saturday, May 31, 2008

NFS Update for Memorial Day: No News Was Bad News

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"Temple Tuesday" is my favorite day of the week. I look forward to hearing which new temple districts have switched to New FamilyS...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Genealogists are the new shaman

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I think genealogists are the shaman of our day. Mind you, we haven't assumed every duty of the ancient shaman, but we have assumed many ...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Death, Questions and Ancestors

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I was saddened to learn today that Emily Wilbur, co-host of the PBS series Questions and Ancestors , lost her spouse this past weekend. You ...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Free book AND free military records access

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Happy Memorial Day, everyone! I've previously mentioned that Ancestry.com's military records can be accessed for free through the ...
Saturday, May 24, 2008

FamilySearch Indexing Hints: Adjusting Highlights

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The semimonthly headquarters message for FamilySearch Indexing (FSI) on 16-May-2008 gave some great hints for adjusting highlights. Unfortun...

The wrong gender stays in New FamilySearch

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The Family: A Proclamation to the World warns of "calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets." © 19...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Solving the NFS problem of incorrectly combined records

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Several weeks ago Dave Merrill made a post on FHCNET (pronounced "fish-net," a message forum for Family History Center directors ...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Troubleshooting the Ancestry Image Viewer

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There have been a rash of people that started having problems with the Ancestry Enhanced Image Viewer out of the blue about a month ago. One...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

RootsWeb Adds Project Banners Today

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The day has arrived for the addition of headers to RootsWeb hosted genealogy project websites such as World GenWeb, FreeBMD, etc. RootsWeb C...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Are Incomplete Databases Ancestry's Policy?

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Ancestry Insider reader, Mike, posted a question recently and I thought you might all like to hear the answer. I have a question about...
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Monday, May 19, 2008

NFS Update: The World Distorted

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While its been a month since I've updated my rollout map, I've not been idle. Today I rollout a new map showing temples of the Churc...
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

New Databases at Ancestry.com

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Website Update If you happen upon any sawdust or tools left out, you'll have to excuse me. I've been doing a little work on the we...
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