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 Café. 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...