Friday, March 27, 2009

A History of the NFS Rollout B.R.Z.

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This article is a historic snapshot of the rollout of New Family Search (NFS) in the period "Before the Red Zone" (B.R.Z.). The Re...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Death of Ancestry.com's living person database

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Ancestry.com's Gary Gibb recently announced the demise of the U.S. Public Records Index, a database with a billion names culled from re...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Church History Library closing, not the Family History Library

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FamilySearch has issued an announcement designed to ward off confusion that might be caused by the similarly named Church History Library an...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Conference on Computerized Family History

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While you're waiting for my remaining reports of the FamilySearch Developers conference, I thought I could depend on the kindness of str...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

FamilySearch Developers Conference: Family Tree

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A new release of FamilySearch Family Tree has probably been released by the time you read this, so I thought I'd report what I learned a...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

FamilySearch by the numbers

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I see numbers and various stats published pretty often and I think, wouldn't it be great to have all of them collected together in one p...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Disturbing family secrets...

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Did you see this comic in Sunday's funny papers? Click for a larger, readable copy. © 2009 Universal Press Syndicate - All Rig...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

BYU Family History Technology Workshop report

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Ancestry Insider covers conference live On Thursday I tried a grand experiment: live coverage of the BYU Family History Technology Work...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

FamilySearch Developers Conference Awards, Take 2

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As I mentioned earlier, the 2009 FamilySearch Software Awards were announced and handed out during lunch on Wednesday (11 March 2008). ...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

FamilySearch Developers Conference kickoff address

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First, some random thoughts. At the start of the keynote I was concerned that I'd not seen ANYONE from Ancestry.com. But fifteen minutes...

FamilySearch Developers Conference Awards

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As I mentioned earlier, the 2009 FamilySearch Software Awards were announced and handed out during lunch today. [Oops! I was just asked to e...
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FamilySearch Developers Conference Lunch and awards

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We just had a wonderful lunch, over which awards were presented. I'll try and get a list, so I don't leave anyone out.

FamilySearch Developers Conference keynote

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The keynote was given by Phil Windley, PhD, CTO of Kynetx and former CIO for the state of Utah. His title was, "The Power of Open Data....