The Ancestry Insider

The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Visiting NARA: Other records online

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). This is one in a series of articles inspired by t...
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Ancestry.com map feature lost

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On November 13th Ancestry.com announced a new mapping feature for their Member Trees. The announcement, originally at http://blogs.ancestry....
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Monday, November 24, 2008

Visiting NARA: NARA records on Footnote.com

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). This is one in a series of articles inspired by t...
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Friday, November 21, 2008

New name for GSU and FamilySearch?

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The Canadian census press release from FamilySearch received earlier this month sported a new name for the organization, "FamilySearch...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Visiting NARA: Records in your home town

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). This is one in a series of articles inspired by t...
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

NFS Rollout update for Temple Tuesday, 18-Nov-2008

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Theoretically, one more temple went live with New FamilySearch (NFS) this week, although there has been no official acknowledgment (that I...

Helen Radkey

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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...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Serendipity in Genealogy: Nothing on earth left to do

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It's coincidence, hunch, synchronicity, fortuitous luck, guidance, paranormal, spiritual, karma, ESP, visitation, life-after-death, fate...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Visiting NARA: Colored sheet finding aids

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). This is one in a series of articles inspired by t...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Giving Your Family Tree for Christmas

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Reader Fawn Eutzy writes, I am attempting to find the pricing for ancestry.com   I want to have a family tree style book made for my mo...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

Ancestry.com ombudsman

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In a recent article, Ancestry's Ranked Search , I crossed the line and called GNW "stupid." I should not have done that. I am ...
Friday, November 7, 2008

Visiting NARA: Pulling Records

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). This is one in a series of articles inspired by t...
Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Visiting NARA: Research Card

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This is one in a series of articles about visiting the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). The information in today's a...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Visiting NARA: Hours and Security

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This is one in a series of articles about visiting the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). The information in today's a...
Sunday, November 2, 2008

Introducing the “Ancestry Toolbar”

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I love Ancestry.com. One idea I pushed while I was at Ancestry.com was a browser toolbar. To the best of my knowledge, no actual work was s...
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