Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Relative Finder, Ancestry.com Style

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What kind of product manager designed my alarm clock? The alarm sounds like a quarter-ton cricket. CHIRP! CHIRP! Right next to your head...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Monday Mailbag: Role of Gloves in Preservation

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Dear Insider, Oh, AI, there are indeed gems in the files. There are beautiful frakturs, my distant cousin's prosaic printed family...
Friday, September 24, 2010

A Story of Intrigue, Mystery, Larceny, Fraud, Tragedy, War, and Death

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Lots of wonderful, magical things have been found in pension files. I'm not speaking solely of information. For example, there is the ne...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Relatively Eye Popping

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If you have any eyes left to see, today I’ll give you a peek at Relationship Calculator. Relationship Calculator is the third of three eye p...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Evidence Management and Ancestry.com Member Trees

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In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway. Tucker Carlson You may recall...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Web Versus Desktop

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Dear Insider, I have been searching my family history for 10 years now. What started out as a list of 20 people that my great-grandmoth...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

More FamilySearch Indexing numbers

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"Sunday and Monday were our best indexing days this year," according to a statement issued by FamilySearch.org. "We indexed a...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

FamilySearch Digging Up Cemeteries

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FamilySearch is leading a genealogical community effort to develop technologies that leverage the power of the new FamilySearch (NFS) Tree ....
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Genealogy Web Search

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One prize in the genealogy community that is yet to be won is that of “the Google of Genealogy.” (I was thinking it would be funny to speak ...
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Monday, September 13, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Community Reference Links

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Dear Ancestry Insider, How does this differ from Ancestry.com 's "Web Links" that are available (though not prominently) ...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

We, the Community

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Tools and community connect to create great power, said Gordon Clarke in his Salt Lake Family History Expo presentation. Clarke is the Fam...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Killer Cool! Wow!!!

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Just heard about a killer cool presentation from the BYU Family History Conference. Wow. That’s all I can say. Wow!   Tim Cross example of...
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Monday, September 6, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Future of the NFS Tree

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Future of the NFS Tree Credit: Ancestry Insider, July 2008 Tree on the Peter Whitmer Farm Dear Ancestry Insider, THANKS...
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Friday, September 3, 2010

My Favorite Aunt Arlene

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Arlene Haslam Eakle (say “E-cull”) is the favorite aunt you always wished you had. I love the mixture of home-spun wisdom, professional kn...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Zero to Search Success in Sixty Seconds

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The room was packed. The room monitor did a great job of ushering late comers to the few free seats. Anastasia Harman was presenting this s...
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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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