Sunday, June 29, 2008

Please Enter Sources in NFS

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I am probably guilty also. I'm not too happy with the way New FamilySearch (NFS) prompts for sources. I stand among the ranks of those t...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Ancestry Subdomains

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Last month, Genea-Musing's Randy Weaver did an article about the subdomains on Ancestry.com . Seaver gives excellent descriptions of w...
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Friday, June 27, 2008

FamilySearch Clearing Out Inactive Indexers

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FamilySearch is taking steps to cancel the accounts of individuals that have signed up to do indexing, but have been inactive for some time....
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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Ancestry Image Viewer Bug Fixed

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Yesterday Ancestry "published" a fix for the Enhanced Image Viewer bug that has affected a lot of you. When the user tried to vie...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

NFS Rollout Update: United States Phase 2 Milestone!

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I made that up. I didn't know how else to put it in a headline, but the New FamilySearch (NFS) rollout has hit an important milestone....
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Ready for Ancestry's Old Search to go away?

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I've seen a lot of pronouncements from some of you that you plan on sticking with Ancestry's old search. Unfortunately, it may not b...
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Gordon Clarke says old FamilySearch to be shut down

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I bet FamilySearch's Gordon Clarke loves the blogosphere. Recently the writer of the Shoebox Genealogy blog reported : In our dis...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Ancestry posts nearly 100 new German Databases

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Visitors to my website Wednesday afternoon may have been the first to see that Ancestry has posted 90+ new German databases. They also go...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

FamilySearch Plans Online Training Test

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Source: FamilySearch. © IRI, Inc. FamilySearch is testing the possibility of conducting online training of its family history consultants. ...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Iowa Floods Affect Libraries

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Three Libraries Seriously Damaged   Photo credit: excaliburdj   The State Library of Iowa reports three libraries have been seriousl...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

FamilySearch Indexing Tip: Open E

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The FamilySearch Indexing project helps point to information on old handwriting styles by the Genealogical Society of Finland. I didn't...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Generations Network files suit against Millenia

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A search of Federal District Court filings and dockets reveals that The Generations Network (TGN) filed a complaint Monday against Millenn...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Keeping Track of Changes in Your New FamilySearch Tree

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FamilySearch Labs employee Dan Lawyer shared a concept on his blog being considered for New FamilySearch. Imagine you'd like to kn...
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FamilySearch Update: 72 million Names Added to Mexico Baptism Records Collection

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FamilySearch issued this press release this morning: The Record Search pilot has added 72 million new names to its Mexico Baptism collect...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

FamilySearch Home Page Changes

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Change Reveals Unusual Characteristic of Church The significance of another change to the New FamilySearch home page may be lost to ...
Monday, June 16, 2008

TempleReady Online (New FamilySearch) article mentions Ancestry Insider

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Michael De Groote, writer for the Mormon Times section of the Deseret News , contacted me last week while he wrote a story about the rollou...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Ancestry Newspapers Free Through 19-June

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Sorry I've taken so long to inform you; there's still several days to take advantage of this free offer. Here's the full announc...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Ask a Librarian -- Florida's Virtual Reference Service

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I notice several dozen libraries in Florida offer real-time chat with librarians. ( Ask a Librarian -- Florida's Virtual Reference Servi...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

Ancestry Indexing Project Beta

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People who signed up on the the Ancestry World Archives Project's introductory page received an e-mail last night with further informa...
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Ancestry Employees Get First Look (Take 3)

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With Ancestry's announcement yesterday , I can now fill in most of the blanks in my original post of 21-April-2008. On 21-April-2008 T...