Monday, June 28, 2010

Evidence Management Diagram Revisited

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Last week I wrote about evidence management and the New FamilySearch Tree. The plan this week was to write about Ancestry.com Member Tree...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Advisory Notices: Evading Emending?

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) invites patrons to inform them of quality problems in NARA collections posted on pa...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What About Current Problems?

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Ancestry.com added the missing ship, Etruria, to Browse of New York pass- enger arrivals on 13 November 1893. Ance...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

The Evidence Architecture of the New FamilySearch Tree

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See “ Evidence Management ” for an overview of this series and for links to other articles. Let me show you that the New FamilySearch Tre...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

NARA Responds to Ancestry.com Issues

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently responded to accusations that Ancestry.com posts NARA record collections ...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Ancestry.com Missing Documents

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Staff at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently responded to accusations that Ancestry.com posts NARA record co...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Genealogist or Gossip

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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists [including genealogists] are no better than gossips. Penelope Fitzgerald In ...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Rrrrr -- SPAM Comments -- Rrrrrr

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I apologize for the SPAM comments that are being posted to my website. I know some of you subscribe to comments and have to wade through the...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

No, You’re Not Traveling Through Time

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While it’s true that the Ancestry.com Bloggers Day was held back in January 2010, I never got around to putting together a table of contents...
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Ancestry.com Bloggers Day 2010

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Click each of the following links to read about each presentation made at Ancestry.com’s Bloggers Day 2010. Introductory Presentation...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Close, But No Cigar

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  In the New FamilySearch tree, records are combined into folders from which summary values are selected. Image courtesy: Famil...
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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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