Friday, May 8, 2009

Outage, Outstanding, Outsourced, FamilySearch Indexing

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Service Outage The FamilySearch Indexing service experienced a major disruption last week. Tuesday morning volunteers were having proble...
Thursday, May 7, 2009

Too Old for New FamilySearch?

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Some interesting thoughts were posted to FHCNET recently about learning the New FamilySearch program. Joan Raney of North Carolina lamen...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009

New site features coming to Ancestry.com

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Monday night Ancestry.com broadcast a "town meeting" attended by about a thousand people. Mike Ward, Ancestry.com PR guy conducted...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

NFS's Helper Feature

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Jim Greene , former New FamilySearch (NFS) product manager, recently explained what the Helper function is and why it is present in New Fam...
Saturday, May 2, 2009

Happy Old Folks Day!

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Not far from the intersection of the Great Salt Lake Principal Meridian and Baseline ( Utah’s point of origin ) stands a monument with a b...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

What is NFS?

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Hello, I enjoy your newsletter very much. Guess I'm out of the loop here but what does this mean, "NFS Ro...

NFS Rollout News for 28 April 2009

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I've got the NFS Red Zone map updated. And there are green dots!!! Two temple districts have gone live: Twin Falls Idaho on 14...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820

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Elizabeth Shown Mills' latest QuickSheet, Citing Ancestry.com Databases & Images , illustrates a basic citation template using the ...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Some Ancestry.com and FamilySearch Videos

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Here's a couple of videos to alert you about. The first is called, "Family History  - made simple" and is a product of StuffMa...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

Book Review: Citing Ancestry.com

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As an employee of FamilySearch now and Ancestry.com before, I don't want this column to become a conflict of interest. So I don't us...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Someone Wanted Me to Go Through the Film Again

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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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Monday, April 20, 2009

Loretto "Lou" Dennis Szucs

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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 whi...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Top 25 most popular 2009 genealogy blogs

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ProGenealogists recently announced their "25 Most Popular Genealogy Blogs for 2009" awards. We are very honored to be part of th...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Latest Record Search Collections

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The table below shows the most recently released or updated FamilySearch Record Search collections, with the most recent at the top. You can...
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Monday, April 13, 2009

You've Seen the Movie, Now Read the List

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Researchers at a state library in Sydney, Australia have found a copy of Schindler's famous list. While there is no single, original li...
Friday, April 10, 2009

New Website for Utah/Idaho NFS Rollout

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FamilySearch has created a new website to facilitate the rollout of New FamilySearch (NFS) to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latt...
Thursday, April 9, 2009

NFS Rollout News for 8 April 2009

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I've updated the New FamilySearch (NFS) rollout map with the last month's changes. Here are the districts in transition: T...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Breaking news: break-in news

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A 14 March 2009 break-in to the offices of FamilySearch International may give Salt Lake City police the break they need in solving a spree ...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

FamilySearch Record Search News

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Explanation I am playing with some of the information I learned at the FamilySearch Developers Conference. I've included code above t...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ancestry.com announces Ancestry Séance

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This first day of April, Ancestry.com announced yet another new service to help members investigate their family history: Ancestry Séance. ...
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