Wednesday, March 11, 2009

FamilySearch Developers Conference 2009 begins

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Did she tell us her name? Anne Roach just started (at 8:30) the FamilySearch Developers Conference 2009 at BYU. I'll be giving you a str...
Thursday, March 5, 2009

NFS rollout news: Chapter 2, The Red Zone Rollout Map

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A new chapter in the rollout of New FamilySearch (NFS) is starting, and it seemed to me that we needed a new rollout map. The color code rem...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

NFS Rollout update for Texas Independence Day

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Happy Independence Day, Texas! It's been a long time since we heard a good rollout rumor, but this last week that has all changed. John ...
Monday, March 2, 2009

St. George Expo Report Report

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Off topic warning: This article contains no useful information whatsoever. If you read any further, don't write and complain! The St. ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Fire, water, ice destroy the 1890 Census

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Some people think the 1890 US Federal Census perished by fire. In truth, part did. Others think it perished by water. That also is true for...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

FamilySearch has been busy

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Of course when I'm too busy for blogging, interesting things happen. But in case you haven't seen them all yet, let me update you. I...

FamilySearch dual 2 hour outage 1st thing Tuesday

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From the FamilySearch Record Search Pilot Site collection news: 23 Feb 2009 - Record images will not be available for viewing on the Record ...
Monday, February 23, 2009

With Russians invading, we left everything

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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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Thursday, February 19, 2009

FTM 2009

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Arnie Krauise has done a biting benchmark of FTM 2009 performance. Read the whole thing at " FTM 2009: A Comparison ." Among othe...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Solving Problems in NFS

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After my post, " Solving Problems on Ancestry.com ," reader Sue Barnsley took me to task for bashing Ancestry.com. I know I must ...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Record Search Pilot unavailable today from 9 to 5

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According to a collection news post on 16 February 2009, ATTENTION! the Record Search Pilot will be unavailable from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM M...
Monday, February 16, 2009

Solving Ancestry.com Problems

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The Ancestry.com Help page sported a special, new announcement earlier this month: If you encounter an error page when trying to acces...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

The Insider Out

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The Ancestry Insider is scheduled to make several public presentations in the near future. The first is at the... St. George 2009 Famil...
Thursday, February 12, 2009

Record Search images unavailable Friday 12 AM to 2 AM

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FamilySearch International posted a notice on their Record Search pilot website yesterday indicating that images will be unavailable on Frid...
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BYU Genealogy Conferencing Triple Header

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Again this year Brigham Young University (BYU) is poised to deliver a triple-header in genealogy conferencing in mid-March at the BYU Confer...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

All a-twitter

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"If you aren't familiar with Twitter, it is one of those things, like MySpace, that sounds totally ridiculous and stupid when you ...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Standards of an archive-quality digital record repository

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Recent online discussions among members of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) have raised issues about FamilySearch Interna...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Wrong images in FamilySearch Record Search

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I received this inquiry back at the end of October 2008: On June 13, 2008, I wrote to Family Search: In the Texas Death Records 18...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

FamilySearch news bytes

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My goodness. Did you see I consigned my former employer to the small status of "bits" yesterday compared to the broader and higher...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Ancestry news bits

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I'm way behind in my list of news items about Ancestry.com, so here goes a bunch of them, just so I can take them off my list. If you d...
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