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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