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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.

Monday, May 31, 2010

“Evidence: There’s No Better Rule”

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See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview of this series and for links to other articles. “You [are not] responsible for my mistake...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Of Sources and Citations: All Bets Are Off

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Image © 2009, Conor Ogle . Some rights reserved . See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview and links to other articles in this ser...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

NGS Conference Not the Last SLC Snow

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Just a quick note on yesterday’s weather in Salt Lake City. Attendees of the National Genealogical Society Conference in Salt Lake City we...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Evidence Management

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A researcher acquires sources, extracts information, identifies evidence, and analyzes all in all to reach a defensible conclusion. This is ...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Evidence Management in the Wild

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See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview of this series and for links to other articles. This week I’ll start to evaluate the streng...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Take the Virtual Vault Tour

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Did you miss the Verkler virtual vault tour at the recent National Genealogical Society conference? FamilySearch has placed the tour onlin...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

FamilySearch Consolidating Utah Family History Centers

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The Riverton FamilySearch Library  Photo courtesy Al Hartmann/The Salt Lake Tribune FamilySearch announced last week that it is conso...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Evidence Management Explained

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See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview and links to other articles in this series. Evidence management is hard to understand from jus...
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Friday, May 7, 2010

Why Can’t You Get It Right?

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See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview and links to other articles in this series. Ancestry.com and FamilySearch , why can’t you get...
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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Family Tree Maker Support For New FamilySearch

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On the final day of the NGS Conference, Ohana Software ’s newsletter announced they are beta testing a version of FamilyInsight that suppo...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A Celebration of Family History

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I mentioned yesterday that the highlight of the NGS conference for me came in the middle of A Celebration of Family History ...
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Monday, May 3, 2010

NGS Conference Highlights: Part 1 of a Hundred or So

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Gosh, I have so much to tell you. Oh, by the way: hello, I’m back. After two weeks of nose to the grindstone preparing for the conference, ...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Hidden Gems: Fast Places to Eat Near the FHL

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Postcard from Paradise Dear readers, Having more fun than… well… more fun than is usually legal in the state of Utah. Thank you, Nationa...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Hidden Gems: Participate in David Rencher session

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Sorry I’ve been silent these many weeks. First I was slurping up all the documents Ancestry.com scanned for me at the St. George conference...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Vault Vednesday: Single Day Registration

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The NGS Family History Conference begins next Wednesday, 28 April 2010. There are just 7 days left! Did you know you can register f...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Conference Week on a Budget

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As far as the NGS Conference, by now you all know I recommend attending the whole shebang. But I also realize that $245 plus four days of e...
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