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, April 11, 2012

FSI: Top Two Tips

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Field Help is located in the bottom-right corner As I have helped new indexers this past week, I’ve had to teach them two things righ...
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Social Security Death Index Redactions

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In recent months Ancestry.com and FamilySearch have taken steps to make up for the failure of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to utilize...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Browsing an Image-Only Collection

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I came across an image so hard to read on Ancestry.com , I doubted the original microfilm could possibly be as bad. It was the World War I d...
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Monday, April 9, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Insider Unfair

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Insider Unfair to Archives.com Dear Insider, The NARA census website is working well now (Tuesday night, Pacific time), and my Twitte...
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Friday, April 6, 2012

Serendipity in 1940

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidence. Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable miracl...

#1940Census Status Update for 5 April 2012

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Ancestry.com didn’t seal up 3rd place Thursday. They increased from 66% to 86%. They will almost certainly finish today (Friday). FamilySe...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

#1940Census Status Update for 4 April 2012

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Today MyHeritage crossed the image finish line. Early in the day they finished loading all states. The online buzz about MyHeritage has bee...
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FamilySearch Indexing Numbers

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In their latest Indexing Update, FamilySearch revealed some interesting numbers. Since 2006, FamilySearch has dramatically improved its abi...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

#1940Census Status Update for 3 April 2012

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Today the MyHeritage horse appeared out of nowhere and moved into first place with 58% of the census published. If that weren’t enough, the...
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Details Behind the Failed 1940 Census Launch

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During the live launch event of the 1940 Census, Census Director Robert Groves was set to search for a member of his family. But the image n...
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#1940Census Last Status Update for 2 April

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As I write this it is closing on the close of 2 April in the Eastern United States and it’s time for a final status update on the launch of...
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Monday, April 2, 2012

#1940Census 6:20pm EDT Status Report

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FamilySearch Indexing has released the first indexing project early. Projects for the first states are available now! NARA/ Archives.com ...
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History is Still Waiting - #1940Census

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1940 Census 4:00pm EDT Status Report. I’ve updated my 1940 Census button shown to the right. FamilySearch leads in states loaded by one. A...

#1940Census 2:00pm EDT Status Report

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1940 Census 2:00pm EDT Status Report. Ancestry.com leads the horse race followed by FamilySearch.org . NARA/ Archives.com is currently a ...
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1940 Census 1:00pm EDT Status Report

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1940 Census 1:00pm EDT Status Report. Ancestry.com leads the horse race followed by FamilySearch.org . NARA/ Archives.com is currently a ...

1940 Census 10:00 EDT Status Report

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8:00 MDT Status report FamilySearch.org – ED information searchable for Delaware. Some images available. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9....
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