Monday, August 30, 2010

FamilySearch In a Corner

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As I explain in my charter, FamilySearch releases a lot of information to the public, but only in out of the way corners. That’s where I co...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Background Color Counts

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The background color of a blog website affects how clipart appears. Below, I show how clipart looks on four different backgrounds: white, bl...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

Finding Previous Articles

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Ever want to find a previous article on the Insider’s website ? My website , like so many other blogs, provides three ways to find old artic...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Salt Lake Expo This Weekend

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If you’re at the Salt Lake Family History Expo this Friday and Saturday, come by and say hello. If you come, be forewarned. The event web...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Community Trees

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I have done a lot with Beta, Pilot, nFS, Forums and Wiki. This Community Trees thing has generally puzzled me. ...
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Mailbag Monday: Magnifying Images

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Dear Friends, Thank you for your feedback last week on desktop tree managers and on magnifying images. Dick Eastman wrote about another ...
Friday, August 20, 2010

FamilySearch’s Many Websites

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In the years since FamilySearch introduced www.familysearch.org , their offerings have splintered into a dozen mostly disconnected websit...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

New Wiki Design Debuts at FGS

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FamilySearch debuted a new look on its Wiki for its series of state research outlines. The wiki series replaces the printed outlines former...
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Mailbag Monday: FamilySearch History Book Count

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I just have a question. The BYU family History books site used to have about 60,000 books digitized and searchab...
Friday, August 13, 2010

FamilySearch and Ancestry.com Announce 2011 Technology Conference

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At a press briefing held today, 13 August 2010, 2:00 pm MDT, FamilySearch made the following announcement: New RootsTech Conference to B...

FamilySearch Indexing Tips

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Several years ago the Ancestry Insider published a series of tips for FamilySearch Indexers. Here is a list, to make it easier to check o...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

FamilySearch Indexing by the Numbers

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Records Indexed Annually 200 million – New goal for 2010. Each record must be keyed twice and revisited a third time when the first two...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Ancestry.com Acquires Genealogy Research Firm

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Ancestry.com announced another acquisition Friday. Ancestry.com is acquiring ProGenealogists , Inc. in a move that it describes as “extendi...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

August 2010 New FamilySearch Tree

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FamilySearch updates its new FamilySearch tree (NFS) around the middle of each calendar quarter and the time is approaching for the next u...
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Monday, August 2, 2010

Mailbag Monday: Genealogy Program Choices and More

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Salt Lake Family History Expo Dear Ancestry Insider, A couple quick questions - I took a long at the outline - many open TBA spots - how doe...
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

101 Best Free Websites for 2010

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Family Tree Magazine’s September 2010 issue announced their choices for the 101 best websites of the year . This year magazine editors chos...
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Monday, July 26, 2010

The Insider Going Outside (Corrected)

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Oops! The correct address for the example website is http://claytonraymond.blogspot.com . Kind readers, Some of you wrote about the lack o...
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The Insider Going Outside

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Kind readers, Some of you wrote about the lack of articles last week. No, I haven’t been sick. No, your spam filter did not eat my newslett...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Links to Individual Collections

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Dear Ancestry Insider, How can a specific database (e.g., "Scandinavia Vital Records Index") be accessed directly without having a...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Reporting Ancestry.com Indexing Errors

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I am in the FamilySearch indexing project, and am very worried about the incidence of errors in indexing. PLEASE...
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