Friday, August 31, 2012

FGS: FamilySearch Key Messages

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At a preconference blogger dinner, FamilySearch ’s spokesperson, Paul Nauta, presented FamilySearch’s key messages for the Federation of Gen...
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FamilySearch Citation Report Card

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At the FamilySearch Blogger Dinner of this year’s annual Federation of Genealogical Societies conference , FamilySearch spokesperson, Micha...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Become That Dynamic Destination

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“Family history is a destination,” said D. Joshua Taylor, business development manager for brightsolid. “It’s all about the destination.” Ta...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Ancestry.com Free Census Weekend, Time Machine

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Just in time for the Labor Day weekend, Ancestry.com is offering its entire U.S. census collection for free through September 3rd. The 25 c...
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FamilySearch Announces Post-1940 Community Project

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FamilySearch recently issued this announcement: North American Indexing Volunteers Invited to Join New US Immigration & Naturalization ...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

FTM Lucky 13

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For owners of Family Tree Maker (FTM) 2012, 2013 is proving to be a very lucky year. Ancestry.com recently announced that they will not be ...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

Ancestry.com Finalizes Archives.com Purchase

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Ancestry.com recently announced it had finalized its acquisition of Archives.com for approximately $100 million in cash and assumed liabil...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

BYU Conference: Church History Library Online

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Alan Morrell presented a session titled “The Church History Library’s Online Presence and Databases.” While he is currently the curator of M...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

FamilySearch, Fold3, National Archives Joint Project

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The National Archives recently released a new video in their “Inside the Vaults” series that highlights the project to digitize the Civil Wa...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Suzanne Russo Adams: Search Paradigm Shifts

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Suzanne Russo Adams, content strategist for FamilySearch , spoke on the topic of “Paradigm Shifts When Searching Online Genealogical Records...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Ancestry.com Free Scanning at FGS Conference

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Ancestry.com is again offering free scanning at the 2012 annual Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference . “Ancestry.com will offer a...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Uploading Images to FamilySearch

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Dear Insider, Recently, I have had a few genealogy people insist that FamilySearch has no intention of making it possible to upload images...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Darned Son-in-law

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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, August 16, 2012

Ancestry Killer, Six Years Later

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Here’s something interesting I ran into recently in my tickler file: LDS Church Building “Ancestry/MyFamily Killer” Word on the str...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Echo King: Result Ranking Unveiled

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Echo King presented “Searching Ancestry.com ” at the 2012 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy . King is director content product ...
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Monday, August 13, 2012

Monday Mailbox: Classroom Use of the Ancestry Insider

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Dear Insider, I read at the end of your article: “All content is copyrighted by the Ancestry Insider unless designated otherwise. See http:/...
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Serendipity at the BYU Conference

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Sue VerHoef is an archivist for the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Last week she had the pleasure of attending the BYU Conferen...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Rod DeGiulio: All About Records

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“It is an emotional thing for me,” said Rod DeGiulio, pausing for a moment. Rod DeGiulio is senior, executive vice president of records for ...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

The Ancestry Insider Honored as One of Best 101

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I’m humbled and honored that the Ancestry Insider has been chosen as one of Family Tree Magazine ’s 101 best family history web sites for 20...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

George Ryskamp: Apples and Oranges

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George Ryskamp presented “Apples and Oranges: Trees on Ancestry and FamilySearch ” at this year’s BYU Conference on Family History and Genea...
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