Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Bill Mangum–What’s New with FamilySearch in 2012?

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You’ll recall I railed on Ancestry.com after their RootsTech class titled “Five New Things to Try at Ancestry.com.” (See “ You Are Wasting...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Susan Easton Black’s Great Joy

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Susan Easton Black addressing a group several years ago. Photo credit: R. Scott Lloyd, LDS Church News “The biggest problem they had to fa...
Friday, February 24, 2012

FamilySearch/Ancestry.com Cooperating?

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Credit: Featurepics On 17 February FamilySearch issued a press release announcing the last month’s newly published record collections. Fami...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

“Against the Policy of the Church”

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“The LDS Church has suspended access to its genealogy database for a church member who last month had a posthumous proxy baptism performed f...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Next Stop, St. George Family History Expo

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The Ancestry Insider discusses the St. George Family History Expo with Expo organizer, Holly Hansen Now that RootsTech ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Annual Legal Notice Publication

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It has been a year since I last published the legal disclaimer for my website and articles. This notice can be found at any time at the bott...
Friday, February 17, 2012

Serendipitous Doppelgänger

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable miracl...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

RootsTech Wrap Up

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Saturday, 4 February was the last day of the RootsTech conference. The conference was larger and more successful than its debut year. Atten...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

You Are Wasting Your Money

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“You are wasting your money,” said Anne Mitchell, if you aren’t clicking through to see images on Ancestry.com . “Always look at the image.”...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Church Magazine RootsTech Write Up

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RootsTech was the subject of seven articles in last Saturday’s LDS Church News , published by the Deseret News each week in Salt Lake City...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Help Save the SSDI

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Call to Action - Help Save the Social Security Death Index  Your help is needed in our Stop ID Theft NOW! campaign ...
Friday, February 10, 2012

Promised URLs

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Private message to attendees of my RootsTech Gems class: Watching for new content at Ancestry.com : Watch for announcements at http://bl...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

A Monstrosity, Wonderful Thing

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“When you see all this kind of stuff, it’s really confusing,” said Ron Tanner of the mistakes and redundancies in new.FamilySearch. “How do ...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

What Does it Take to Get a Good Result from Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com vice president Tony Macklin once told me that genealogists like to have control of their searches. They liked exact search beca...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

The FamilySearch Indexing and Linking Tool

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Grant Echols, principal engineer at FamilySearch presented “The FamilySearch Indexing and Linking Tool” at last week’s RootsTech conference...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Tim Sullivan: A Fantastic Era in Family History

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“We don’t want to build things because they’re cool,” said Tim Sullivan, “but because they provide a better experience.” Sullivan, president...
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FamilySearch Watch Feature

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I recently experimented with the FamilySearch watch feature of Family Tree (and legacy new.FamilySearch). You can indicate which people in y...
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Saturday, February 4, 2012

Rolling in the Aisles Comedy at RootsTech

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He was one funny guy. We were rolling in the aisles. I’m not talking about the Thursday evening comedy performance of Ryan Hamilton (altho...
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Ryan Heaton: A New GEDCOM

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“Legacy GEDCOM has done a great job,” said Ryan Heaton, “but it’s time to move on.” Ryan Heaton, senior software engineer at FamilySearch, ...
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Jack Reese: Advanced Photographic Techniques

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“We sometimes encounter damaged documents,” wrote Jack Reese, “that are difficult to read because they have faded due to exposure to water, ...
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