Friday, May 31, 2013

Serendipity in Carpooling

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Calvin Knight of Kaysville, Utah used to drive Bryan Wise to work each day because of Bryan’s health. Bryan was Calvin’s brother-in-law and ...
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Thursday, May 30, 2013

FamilySearch World Wide Camera Operations

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Image Credit: FamilySearch © 2013 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. In a 17 May 2013 email to partners, affili...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Providing Feedback to Ancestry.com Product Managers

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Ancestry.com has a mechanism allowing you to send feedback to the decision makers of the different features of their products. Click “Get...
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

WDYTYA Comes to TLC

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Click to go to the TLC website. The upcoming season of “Who Do You Think You Are?” is moving to cable. It premiers on TLC on 23 J...
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Monday, May 27, 2013

Mailbox Monday: FamilySearch Irrelevant Results

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I got lots of great responses to the question, “Do you have a fix that you’d like to see on FamilySearch .com or Ancestry.com ?” (See all th...
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Thursday, May 23, 2013

#NGS2013 – The Future of Family History—According to You!

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What fix or feature do you wish Ancestry.com or FamilySearch would provide? At the 2013 annual conference of the National Genealogical Soci...
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

#NGS2013 – TRON, Mr. Spock, and Willie Wonka

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I don’t seem to be able to take notes at conference luncheons. That was certainly the case at the luncheon presented by Ancestry.com’s Sabri...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

#NGS2013 - Ancestry.com’s Mobile App

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(C) 2013 by the National Genealogical Society, Inc. Used by permission of the National Genealogical Society and the photographer, Scott Ste...
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Friday, May 17, 2013

#NGS2013 – Futures for FamilySearch Family Tree

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Whenever possible, I attend sessions presented by product managers so I can report on the future plans that they often reveal. (Too bad Ance...
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Thursday, May 16, 2013

#NGS2013 – FamilySearch Family Tree, An Item or Two

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A lot of expert, accredited, certified genealogists present at the annual conference of the National Genealogical Society . I learn a lot. ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

#NGS2013 – Stump the Genealogist

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Friday I attended a presentation in the Ancestry.com booth titled “Stump the Genealogist.” Crista Cowan fielded questions from the audience...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Family Tree Magazine Honors the Ancestry Insider

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I am humbled to learn that Family Tree Magazine has honored the Ancestry Insider blog as a Family Tree Magazine 40 Best Genealogy Blogs in ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

#NGS2013 – Cutting Through the Confusion: Research in Upstate New York

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At the 2013 annual conference of the National Genealogical Society , Karen Mauer Green presented a session titled “Cutting Through the Confu...
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Thursday, May 9, 2013

#NGS2013 - Online Tools for Genealogists

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Barbara Ann Renick presented “Online Tools for Genealogists” at the 2013 annual conference of the National Genealogical Society (NGS). Ren...
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#NGS2013 - Using FamilySearch.org to Unearth Your Family Roots

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At the 2013 annual conference of the National Genealogical Society , Beth Taylor of FamilySearch presented “Using FamilySearch.org to Uneart...
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#NGS2013 - Documenting the Lives of Mormon Women

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“Why is it it is so hard to find information about our women ancestors?” asked Gena Philibert-Ortega in her session at the 2013 annual confe...
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

No Time is Ever Wasted Doing Research

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“No time is ever wasted doing research, if we learn,” said Marian Smith at the opening session Wednesday morning of the 2013 annual conferen...

Debunking Misleading Records by Thomas W. Jones

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We have to make an act of faith and trust that a record is wrong, said Thomas W. Jones. That is, we need to mistrust that a record is correc...

#NGS2013 Insider Room Map

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I’m finding the room map of the conference provided by NGS to be confusing. So I’ve created my own. This won’t be useful to most of you, bu...
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

#NGS2013 Conference App for Laptop

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Did you know that the NGS 2013 Conference App is available for use on your laptop computer? As long as you have an Internet connection, you ...