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.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Contest images fixed

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Sorry about the small images in The Perfect "Search" Storm contest article. I have fixed them. You can know begin the contest. Al...

The Perfect "Search" Storm

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I've been meaning to do a search "shootout" for a long time, pitting Ancestry's old, exact search against Ancestry's n...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

New FamilySearch

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Remember, I am not a spokesperson for either Ancestry.com or FamilySearch International. This article gives my opinion as to the history, c...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Visiting NARA: Civil War Soldiers & Sailors

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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, December 10, 2008

Compiled Military Service Records

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Compiled Military Service Records When researching volunteers, start with the compiled military service records. Some years after the Ci...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

NFS Rollout update: NFS Version 0.95 released

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Las Vegas rolls live 27 January Dear Ancestry Insider, OK! Here is the deal we have been waiting for... Las Vegas will go live ...
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Monday, December 8, 2008

Visiting NARA: Genealogical Research Section B

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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...
Friday, December 5, 2008

Visiting NARA: Guide to Genealogical Research

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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...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

NFS Rollout update: Las Vegas Temple to roll live

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R.B. in Las Vegas wrote Wednesday morning to say, While getting ready for the day today my Blackberry seemed a little busier then norm...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Phish Bait

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Off topic warning: This topic is not about genealogy, but may still be of interest to those who wish to learn more about Internet scams. P...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Church News: Joseph B. Wirthlin, Oldest Apostle, Dies, Age 91

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I just learned of this news release from lds.org: SALT LAKE CITY 2 December 2008 Elder ...

Table of Contents: Visiting NARA

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I recently made my first visit to the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). I've written a series of articles designed to ...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Visit FHL + tour temple interior

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Draper Utah Temple  Courtesy Scott G. Winterton/ Deseret News We interrupt our regularly scheduled series about visiting the National...
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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