Friday, October 3, 2008

FamilySearch Indexing Update

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FamilySearch released this message today: FamilySearch Indexing Update 3 October 2008 Over 29 million new names were posted this past w...
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Extras in the Ancestry.com New Card Catalog

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The New Ancestry Card Catalog is not only useful for finding titles of interest, it conveys an amazing amount of information. To search for ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008

NFS Rollout Update: An Even 100

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I'm happy to provide an updated New FamilySearch (NFS) rollout map and announce that Elvis has left the building! And since the last ma...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

FamilySearch Investment Presets

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WARNING: This article is largely off topic. If you don't want to learn about FamilySearch employee investment options, stop reading now....
Monday, September 29, 2008

Ancestry.com's Card Catalogs

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One of Ancestry.com 's hidden gems is its card catalog. Today we'll look at how to get to the card catalogs, old and new. In later p...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

What is a record?

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For Ancestry.com databases, sometimes we speak of database records. The concept of a record differs a little bit between database programmer...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Misadventures in Indexing

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Fine. I admit it. My indexing numbers are nowhere as big as Renee Zamora's . That's not to say I don't find it as meaningful. In...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

I *heart* your blog award

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People are so nice. Renee has awarded me an "I Love Your Blog" award. Thank you. And here's right back at you, Renee. The r...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Eric Shoup, of eBay, now Ancestry.com VP of Product

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Eric Shoup, Former General Manager for eBay Stores, Joins The Generations Network as Ancestry.com's Vice President of Product Manageme...
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Bravo Ancestry.com

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Yesterday afternoon Kenny Freestone of Ancestry.com announced that yesterday evening their tree serivce would be down for about 30 minutes. ...

NFS Rollout Update for 16-Sep-2008

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It's late, so I'll make this quick. I've updated the map and tables for this week's changes. See Temple Districts Using Ne...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Belfast Telegraph: What if Mormons are right?

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I hesitate to share this article with you, but if you are a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Church), you wi...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

New FamilySearch 0.94 Released

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I just noticed that New FamilySearch 0.94 has rolled live! I'm on my lunch break, so I'll have to be brief. This is nerve wracking. ...
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Indexing Tora! Tora! Tora!

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It was easy to cheer on both Ancestry.com and FamilySearch when I worked for Ancestry.com since Tim Sullivan continually reassured employ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Ancestry's Mythical OneWorldConnect

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Ancestry.com Dendrology 101: Ancestry's Mythical OneWorldConnect According to one competitor's website, Ancestry.com has a tree sy...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Ancestry Member Trees

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Ancestry.com Dendrology 101: Ancestry Member Trees Ancestry.com's latest and greatest family tree system is Ancestry Member Trees , ...
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Monday, September 8, 2008

OneWorldTree®

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Ancestry.com Dendrology 101: OneWorldTree ® OneWorldTree (OWT), like FamilySearch's Ancestral File, was an attempt to build a single,...
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Friday, September 5, 2008

Correction to previous article

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Yikes! As far as typos go, I committed a doozy in the last article, Details revealed about Ancestry.com Indexing Initative . Leaving out one...
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Details revealed about Ancestry.com Indexing Initiative

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Ancestry.com announced today additional details regarding the World Archives Project, their volunteer indexing initiative, including incenti...
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