Friday, June 29, 2012

Five Million Records Would be a Record

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FamilySearch announced last Saturday its challenge that the community set a new record for records indexed in one day. The old record sits ...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Census Indexing Horse Race Update for 27 June 2012

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Perhaps horses are the wrong metaphor for the census indexing race. Not even marathons take this long. Yet another week has passed and there...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Classic Family History Library Catalog is Preferred

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While FamilySearch.org contains a new catalog, FamilySearch continues to prefer users use the classic catalog. The FamilySearch.org catalo...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

FamilySearch Indexing App Q and A

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I recently wrote about the FamilySearch mobile Indexing app. (See “ The Betaness of FamilySearch iPad Indexing .”) FamilySearch must have b...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Classic FamilySearch is No More

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Without fanfare last Monday FamilySearch turned off the home page of its Classic.FamilySearch.org website, redirecting traffic to the curr...
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Friday, June 22, 2012

Serendipity in Embroidery

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidence. Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable miracl...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Census Indexing Horse Race Update for 20 June 2012

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Two weeks have passed since my last update . Ancestry.com and MyHeritage have not released any more states. In that two weeks FamilySearch...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Attaching Records to Trees: Ancestry.com and FamilySearch

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Attaching records to trees is now a reality for both users of Ancestry.com Member Trees and users of FamilySearch Family Tree. (Unfortunat...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

FamilySearch Source Box and Ancestry.com Shoebox

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FamilySearch recently released Source Box, their version of the Ancestry.com Shoebox. This feature lets users bookmark records to make it ...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Surreal Southern California Genealogy Jamboree

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Surreal. That’s the word that describes my experience at the 2012 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree this past weekend. Picture this. ...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Census Indexing Horse Race Update for 6 June 2012

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Today we got a clearer picture on how the 1940 U.S. Census index publication horse race might play out. It might not be what you expected. ...
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The Betaness of FamilySearch iPad Indexing

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Last time I gave a brief introduction to FamilySearch ’s iPad indexing app. Today let me talk about the unfinished edges. This is a beta app...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

FamilySearch Indexing on iPad

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The thought of doing FamilySearch indexing on an iPad is intriguing. How convenient would it be to take a couple of moments here and a coup...
Monday, June 4, 2012

War of 1812 Records Free During June

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To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the commencement of the war, Fold3 has made all of its War of 1812 records free to the public durin...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Where’s the Ancestry Insider? Burbank Edition

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Forget about Waldo. Forget about Carmen San Diego. Where is the Ancestry Insider? Come next weekend, June 8th through the 10th, I’ll be in ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Ancestry for iPad

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I got an iPad! The very first app I downloaded was Ancestry.com ’s Ancestry. I love the look. It’s amazing how effective a good background a...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

1940 Census Update for 28 May 2012

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I don’t have much time, so I’ll make this quick. (Percentages are my own estimates.) FamilySearch Indexing has reached about 50%. FamilyS...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

RootsTech 2013 Call for Papers

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Interested in presenting at next year’s RootsTech conference? Submit proposals at www. rootstech.org from now until 15 June 2012. Accordin...
Friday, May 18, 2012

Elizabeth Shown Mills Citation Website

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At the recent National Genealogical Society ’s 2012 annual conference I was lucky enough to attend one of Elizabeth Shown Mills’s classes. B...
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

1940 Census Update for 16 May 2012

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Bad News Images for the 1940 census were digitized from microfilm, according to Miriam Kleiman, public affairs specialist for the US Nation...
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