Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ancestry.com Versus FamilySearch Indexing Quality

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I’ve warned before that no matter what index you use, you’re going to find your relatives misindexed. You have better context than cold inde...
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Monday, July 30, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Olympics

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Do you think the Ancestry Insider might be interested in republishing a blog post? “In celebration of the L...
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Monday Mailbox: Catalog Corrections

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Dear Ancestry Insider, How does one get changes made in incorrect titles to some Historical Records in the FamilySearch Card Catalog? This...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Ancestry.com Laps FamilySearch in Indexing Horse Race

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While the FamilySearch indexing map looks good, Ancestry.com has published twice as much. Amidst growing reports that t...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

BYU 2012 Family History and Genealogy Conference

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In times of distraction we might describe ourselves as being “half there.” I confess that for the first half of the month, I was only “half...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Fold3 Discount for NGS Members

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The National Genealogical Society (NGS) recently announced a discount to its members on the purchase of a Fold3 membership. Fold3 is a subs...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com Indexing Inaccuracy

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I hope that the accuracy rate for the FamilySearch 1940 Census Indexing is better than what I have experienced wit...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: Future of the New Catalog

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ancestry.com Takes Lead in 1940 Census Race

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For Ancestry.com , Friday the 13th was a lucky day. With the release on that day of indexes for 15 additional states, Ancestry took the lead...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: New FamilySearch Catalog

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: Refine Your Search Results

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: Parent Search

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: Wildcards and Exact Search

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
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Friday, July 6, 2012

Mr. Darnedest Street

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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. Some are i...
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Thursday, July 5, 2012

Kehrer Webinar: International Genealogical Index

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I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The webinar was ti...
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Census Indexing Horse Race Update for 30 June 2012

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The big news this week is that Ancestry.com has released six new states! Pennsylvania 9,900,180 records ...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Features of the FamilySearch Collection List

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This week I’m sharing some of my notes from the 21 June 2012 webinar by Robert Kehrer, senior product manager, search technologies. The web...
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Monday, July 2, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Fantastic Webinar

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Dear Ancestry Insider, A fantastic webinar a couple of weeks ago revealed this gem: both old and new catalogs now access the same datab...
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...