Friday, October 28, 2011

Darned Oliver, Kankakee, Illinois

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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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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Information Provenance

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Although I have years of experience with the old FamilySearch, I'm using the new one for the first time. I a...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

FamilySearch Data Centers and Second Vault

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FamilySearch disclosed last week that it uses three data centers and is planning a fourth. A data center is a place where an organization c...
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Monday, October 24, 2011

Monday Mailbox: Is FamilySearch a Branch of Ancestry?

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Several people pointed out an important place to access the 1870 census that I left out of “ Monday Mailbox: Searching the 1870 Census .” Un...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Booklet Review: German Genealogy at a Glance

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Once again I’ve been asked to review one of Genealogical Publishing Company’s (GPC) “At a Glance” series . Genealogy at a Glance: German Gen...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

New Pedigree Resource File: Sources and Notes

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We saw Barbara’s letter * in yesterday’s “Monday Mailbox” and Friday’s “Darned Records” article. Barbara may have been using one of the n...
Monday, October 17, 2011

Monday Mailbox: How Do I Fix PRF

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Dear Insider, How does one ask Familysearch.org to correct a Pedigree Resource File? A copy of an obit has been posted to show the ...
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Friday, October 14, 2011

Darned Pedigree Resource File

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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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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Progress in the War for Columnar Search Results

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Tables arrange data into rows and columns. They are a time proven way of organizing and presenting data. Once upon a time, Ancestry.com uti...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Awesome Maps

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I’m map folk. Maps run through my veins. So at the Federation of Genealogical Societies annual conference last month when Jake Gehring of F...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Monday Mailbox: Searching the 1870 Census

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Dear Insider, Hi there, Is there any way of searching the 1870 US Census records? Great to be able to view the images especially as I don...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

FamilySearch Surpasses Ancestry.com?

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David Ouimette of FamilySearch said that their collection of the highest quality genealogy records has surpassed Ancestry.com ’s. He made t...
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Monday, October 3, 2011

Monday Mailbox: URL Citation Principles

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I received the following in response to my article, “ It’s Not My Fault! URL Citation Principles .” Dear Ancestry Insider, OK - som...
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Sunday, October 2, 2011

Leader Calls Upon Church Youth to Research Ancestors

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“The youth of the rising generation have a key role to play in this great endeavor,” said David A. Bednar. Bednar, an apostle of the Churc...
Friday, September 30, 2011

Darned Gender-Specific Names

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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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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

It’s Not My Fault! URL Citation Principles

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I apologize about the broken FamilySearch image links in last Friday’s article, “ Darned Second Enumerations .” But I must say, IT WAS NOT M...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Ancestry.com Planning New and Expanded Health Offering

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The Insider has learned from an undisclosed source that Ancestry.com is planning to rebrand and expand its DNA offerings into genetics and h...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Darned Second Enumerations

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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...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Darned Physicality and Organization

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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, September 13, 2011

19.40 and Some Change

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File photo: Ransom Love conference presentation “What if we took the 1940 census and made it a community project? Really!” said Ransom Love ...