Monday, August 4, 2008

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Partnership

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A Natural Fit Last week I joked about this partnership, but this is something I've been hoping for for a long time. In fact, the deal ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Indexed Records to Remain Free on FamilySearch.org

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FamilySearch issued the following statement earlier this week to clarify the announcement of its partnerships with Ancestry.com and findmyp...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

NFS Rollout News for 30-July-2008

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I'm baa-ack! I felt sorry for Randy when he took a week off during NGS (or was it FGS?) and missed a couple of announcements. I take tw...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Never Received the NFS Training DVD?

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It seems to be a common experience that family history consultants in districts switching to New FamilySearch (FNS) are informed of the exis...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Future of Ancestry.com

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An anonymous commenter left this message: Congrats Insider - very nice move. Once the church has indexed as much as Ancestry what t...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

FamilySearch Certified

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FamilySearch is offering certification for products that use their new API system to allow 3rd-party interaction with New FamilySearch (NFS)...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

NFS Rollout News for 22-July-2008

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I'm afraid I have a little confession to make. Since my last day of work at Ancestry on 11-July-2008, I have been out of town on vacatio...
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Monday, July 21, 2008

More Problems Viewing Images

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I received several comments on my post Ancestry Image Viewer Bug Fixed . One person wrote, I am still having problems. I have viewed my...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

The Future of PAF (Take 2)

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A statement on the future of PAF received widespread distribution recently when it was sent to the FamilySearch Family History Consultant E...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Indexing Tips: The Palmer Method in New York City Schools

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To the young person attempting to read cursive handwriting for the very first time, or after only a brief study in school, indexing cursive ...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

World Archives Project Beta Begins

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Last week Ancestry.com released the beta of its World Archives Project, its entry into the volunteer indexing arena. Those selected as beta ...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Indexing Tips: The Palmer Method

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To the young person attempting to read cursive handwriting for the very first time, or after only a brief study in school, indexing cursive ...
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Monday, July 14, 2008

Indexing Tips: 1900's American Handwriting

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To the young person attempting to read cursive handwriting for the very first time, or after only a brief study in school, indexing cursive ...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Kendall Hulet Interview, Part 2

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Last Monday I got to speak frankly about Ancestry's New Search with Kendall Hulet, director of product management. (Kendall and I go way...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

NFS Rollout Update: Eureka! They've Got It!

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The New FamilySearch (NFS) rollout has resumed after a two-week hiatus, probably caused by the NFS outage at the end of June followed by ...
Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Inside the problems of Ancestry's New Search

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Upon hearing a rumor that Ancestry.com intended to turn off its Old Search sooner than later, I posted an article pinging you, my readers, ...
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Sunday, July 6, 2008

Serendipity in Genealogy: Hunting Hannah

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It's coincidence, hunch, synchronicity, fortuitous luck, guidance, paranormal, spiritual, karma, ESP, visitation, life-after-death, fate...
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Friday, July 4, 2008

Blogging at FamilySearch

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Happy Independence Day, everyone! There's so much I want to explain about my change in employment and there's so little time to wr...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Don't Tell Anyone But...

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The editorial policy of this blog is to report on, defend and constructively criticize two major genealogical websites, Ancestry.com and Fam...
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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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