Tuesday, August 30, 2011

One Week Free Access to Ancestry.com Migration Records

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Ancestry.com announced yesterday that it is offering free access to select immigration and naturalization records through the Labor Day holi...

FSI My Accuracy

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“My Accuracy” helps volunteers doing FamilySearch Indexing see how well their work survives the arbitration process. The feature was introdu...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry Removing Find A Grave Photos?

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Dear Ancestry Insider, The email below was sent to me by one of my students. [Insider Note: I’ve removed identifying information from the st...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Darned Non-English Indexers

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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. Some are...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Insider Ketchup for 23 August 2011

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I’m way behind on Ancestry.com news stories. Time to ketchup. Ancestry.com has announced its plans for Footnote.com. As some surmised...
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Beyond the Walls of Your FHC

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“We should not confine ourselves to the brick and mortar walls of our family history center,” said Art Johnson in his session at the 2011 BY...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Monday Mailbox: Copy and Paste FHLC

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Dear Ancestry Insider I copy and paste Family History Library catalog entries into a bibliography and into search lists for counties where...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

The FHLC is No More

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At the 2011 BYU Family History Conference Robert Kehrer, FamilySearch product manager, said that the Family History Library Catalog (FHLC...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Make More Data Free

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“Our goal at FamilySearch is to make as much genealogical data available for free as possible,” said Robert Kehrer, senior product manager f...
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Thursday, August 11, 2011

Coming Soon to a FamilySearch.org Near You

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During the 2011 BYU Family History Conference, Robert Kehrer, senior product manager for FamilySearch, spoke of features coming to FamilySe...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Ancestry Personal Profiles

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“My generation clicks on anything just to see what it does. Your generation doesn’t click on anything unless you know what it does,” said An...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

The July 2011 Release of FamilySearch.org

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A new version of the FamilySearch.org website was released last week and Kehrer showed several new features at the recent 2011 BYU Family H...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Ancestry.com is an Animal

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“ Ancestry.com is an animal,” said Michelle Ercanbrack of Ancestry.com at the BYU Family History Conference. Ercanbrack’s session was “Tip...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

FamilySearch Embracing the World

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“Some of the problems that archives are facing are almost overwhelming,” said Ransom H. Love in his keynote remarks yesterday at the 2011 B...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

New Generations of Genealogy

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“What a gift,” said D. Joshua Taylor of genealogy on prime time television. “Once they’ve had a taste, they always come back for more.” Tay...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

BYU Genealogy Conference Opens

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Dennis E. Simmons, immediate past president of the Family and Church History Mission at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Monday Mailbox: County or Parish?

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Dear Insider, I enjoy reading your columns. Thank you for all that you do.  I have a problem with Ancestry.com that I have written ...
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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Ancestry.com Allows Image Citations

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I was pleased recently to see an option to create citations for images uploaded to Ancestry.com member trees: Is that new? I'm at t...
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