The Ancestry Insider

The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

WDYTYA

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Dear readers, Are you one of those people whose stomachs tense up as your roller coaster car is clanking up towards the top of the hill whe...
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Changes to FamilySearch.org Website

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I started noticing changes to the FamilySearch.org website late last week. FamilySearch has changed all its search pages except the Catalog...
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Attend RootsTech for Free—At Home!

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Select sessions of RootsTech can be viewed live, at home, free of charge. The way it worked last year was that just before the session was...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Free Book Scanning This Week in Salt Lake City

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Drop off your books at the scanning booth behind the Cyber CafĂ©. Taking a page from Ancestry.com ’s free scanning service at RootsTech 20...

Florida Records Access

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It is time for another in my continuing series on record accessibility. Information is taken from the Records Preservation and Access Commit...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Family History Consultants Training

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Family History Consultants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with priesthood leaders, family history center direct...
Friday, January 27, 2012

Darned Missing Census Pages

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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, January 25, 2012

FamilySearch Posts Big Numbers

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Earlier this month FamilySearch issued a Records Update with some pretty impressive numbers. FamilySearch has recently surpassed 1,000 re...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

FamilySearch’s Shipley Munson

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Note : This article will be of interest mainly to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Please skip today’s article ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

South Carolina Records Availability

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It is time for another article on record accessibility. Information is taken from the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) whit...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

1940 Census Consortium

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Last month FamilySearch , Archives.com , and findmypast.com announced a community project for indexing and publishing the 1940 US Federal C...
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Monday, January 16, 2012

Ancestry.com Reviews 2011 Accomplishments

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Along with their look forward to 2012, Ancestry.com recently reviewed their 2011 accomplishments. Database Title Publ...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

New Hampshire Record Restrictions

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Christmas intruding on Thanksgiving? Retailers aren’t even in the same category as the U.S. presidential race. I’m ready for a break and thi...
Monday, January 9, 2012

RootsTech Discount Ends Friday

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If you haven’t registered for RootsTech yet, now’s the time. The $149 discounted price ends this Friday, the 13th. Then you’re looking at th...
Friday, January 6, 2012

The Darned Lazy Census Enumerators

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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, January 4, 2012

Iowa, RPAC, and Voting

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No, I am not about to rehash what today’s news is telling us about Iowa and political PACs. Instead, I thought this was a good opportunity t...
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Ancestry.com Story Upload Problems

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One of the areas that Ancestry.com excels in is media/story upload. I have a lot of stuff uploaded to Ancestry.com because it gives me a ba...
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Monday, January 2, 2012

Ancestry.com 2012 Plans

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Over the holidays Ancestry.com CEO, Tim Sullivan, announced “12 things you can count on from Ancestry.com in 2012.” There aren’t really 12....
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Holiday Vacation

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Dear readers, The holidays are already upon us and I am taking a holiday from writing. That’s not to say I won’t accidentally post some ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Newspaper Column Notes Ancestry.com Anniversary

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Deseret News writer Jasen Lee listens to Heather Erickson, director of corporate communications at Ancestry.com...
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