Monday, November 29, 2010

Los Angeles Family History Library Opens

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Photo by Richard Radstone, LDS Church News When it closed for remodeling, it was the Los Angeles Regional Family History Center. Nove...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

We Want Tech: Stitching Folio Size Documents

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At the 2010 NGS Conference GenTech Luncheon David Rencher presented “The Top 10 Areas Where Technology Can Still Make a Real Difference in...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Monday Mailbox: Indexing Place Names

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“When census enumerators wrote ‘Ind.’ and the person is named Charlotte Smith,” wrote Brad, “and yet the birthplace is transcribed as India...
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Mailbox Monday: Family Hydra

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Regarding “ Family Hydra ,” the census family with two heads, thank you all for your comments and John and Joan especially. Dear Insider, ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Can You Say “Surprise Child?”

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We depend upon records to reveal the “truth” about our pasts. Yet sometimes records have anomalies. Some are amusing or humorous. ...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Answers to Indexing Illustration

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These are the eight presidents from yesterday’s indexing illustration : How’d you do before knowing something about the names? How'd...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Indexing Errors: Test, Check the Boxes

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Last week I talked about Elizabeth Shown Mills's lecture on boxes we trap ourselves in. And I asked that everyone come prepared today t...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

New FamilySearch Beta Website

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Last Wednesday FamilySearch revised their beta.familysearch.org website. Yesterday I reviewed some of the changes in the library catalog. ...
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Monday, November 15, 2010

New Family History Library Catalog Beta

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Last Wednesday FamilySearch revised their beta.familysearch.org website. Today I’ll review the library catalog. Tomorrow I’ll look at othe...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

Family Hydra

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We depend upon records to reveal the “truth” about our pasts. Yet sometimes records have anomalies. Some are amusing or humorous. ...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

Surveys: FamilySearch Wiki

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I recently participated in a survey about the FamilySearch Wiki . It was short and sweet: You have been invited to participate in this ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

BCG Lecture: Elizabeth Shown Mills

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I wrote last week about the Board for Certification of Genealogists lectures in Salt Lake last month. I was able to slip away from work t...
Friday, November 5, 2010

“Celebration of Family History” Rebroadcast

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BYU-TV is broadcasting “A Celebration of Family History,” the 2010 NGS Conference special event featuring Henry B. Eyring , the Tabernacle...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

A Big, Annual Thank You to BCG

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The BCG seal is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists My thanks to the Board for Certification of Geneal...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Mailbox Monday: GEDCOM

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Hi there, I'm part of the GEDCOM-L mailing list and it was raised 2 days ago whether anyone was working on g...
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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 ...