Friday, October 29, 2010

Records Say the Darnedest Things: Missed It By That Much

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Welcome to a new series, “ Records Say the Darnedest Things .” We depend upon records to reveal the “truth” about our pasts. Yet sometim...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Genealogist-ologist-ologist

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Dan Lawyer defines Uber-Techno-Genealogist-Ologist Photo by R. Scott Lloyd, © LDS Church News Dan Lawyer, FamilySearch.org produ...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Genealogical Maturity Model

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The Genealogical Maturity Model is a framework for personal growth. © 1971. All rights reserved. This is a “table of contents...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

Clip Feature of Google Books

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Did you know that you can “clip” portions of public domain Google Books to share in your genealogy on the Internet? The portrait to the righ...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

We Want Tech and We Want It Now

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At a luncheon during this year’s National Genealogical Society conference David Rencher presented a top 10 list of technologies he wished ...
Monday, October 18, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Redbook Online

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Hi I noticed during the NGS conference last April in SLC that Ancestry.com announced that the "Red Book...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Go Cruising With the Ancestry Insider!!

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Exploring Your Roots Cruise on Royal Caribbean 's Freedom of the Seas Seven fabulous nights in the Eastern Caribbean with...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Can Copyright Be Claimed on Digitized Public Domain Documents?

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Last week I wrote “ Can I Freely Copy Public Domain Documents? ” and asked interested legal minds to respond to some questions. James Tanner...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

New FamilySearch Rollout Continues

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Rollout of the new FamilySearch Tree (NFS) to the general public is eagerly anticipated by many. Before that can start, FamilySearch must ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Footnote.com Acquisition

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Most of you know that Ancestry.com announced they are buying Footnote.com. Here is some information about Footnote.com that may interest you...
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Friday, October 8, 2010

Research Your Family Tree, by the Allure Insider

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Another cousin of mine, the Allure Insider, recently interviewed Megan Smolenyak. (Cousin Allure is the family beauty expert.) To read her ...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Can I Freely Copy Public Domain Documents?

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The law probably requires that I disclose to you that I am not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV. The following opinions should not be cons...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Mailbox Monday: Community Trees Redux

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Dear Insider, I was wondering how family trees or community trees get put on the FamilySearch Community Tree website. Can ordinary folk...
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Friday, October 1, 2010

The More Things Change…

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Quoting from a FamilySearch brochure: This [product] will enable you to: Coordinate your family history research with others working on ...
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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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