Friday, September 27, 2013

Darned Family Dog

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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 a...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Temporary, Free Ancestry.com Subscription for Schools

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In my coverage of the FGS Conference’s Librarians’ Day I mentioned lesson plans available from Ancestry.com to help teachers. It turns out...
Tuesday, September 24, 2013

FamilySearch Indexing Stats

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The latest FamilySearch Indexing newsletter came out 6 September 2013. Here’s a quick update on the indexing numbers given in the newslett...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Monday Mailbox: Uploading Images of Sources

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Nowhere does “ FamilySearch Family Tree Road Map ” talk about uploading documents as sources. For example, a funera...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Serendipity in a Rare Bible

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Image Credit: Ed and Dawna Jones More than 40 years ago a man walking through an alley came upon an old, antique Bible in a trash can. He r...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

FGS 2015 Conference Merges with RootsTech

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The Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) announced during their 2013 annual conference that they had combined their 2015 conference w...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Layoffs Hit FamilySearch Staff

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This is old news, but you may not have heard before. I came across it on my way to the FGS conference and this is the first chance I’ve had ...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Strange New World at #FGS2013

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You may recall my discovery of a strange new world on the cover of the FGS Conference brochure. (See “ The Ancestry Insider is an #FGS2013 A...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Monday Mailbox: Checking Out FamilySearch Books

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Dear Readers, I recently came across this message to FamilySearch . Title: Reservation List for Books From: J Date: 11 September 2013 Th...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Serendipity in a Graveyard

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Betty Martin was researching Samuel T. Foresman, Civil War veteran, husband, and father of three. Trying to find Samuel’s death date, Betty ...
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Thursday, September 12, 2013

FamilySearch Image Count Inflation

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An anonymous tipster (not a FamilySearch employee) pulled me aside at a recent conference to tell me that FamilySearch.org inflates its cl...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

WDYTYA Research Takes More Than an Hour

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“One comment I hear about the show [ Who Do You Think You Are ], is that they make it look too easy and that it must have taken a lot of res...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

More Information on Ancestry.com/FamilySearch Agreement

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In a blog post Friday (6 September 2013), FamilySearch addressed some concerns raised by the recently announced Ancestry.com /FamilySearch...
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Saturday, September 7, 2013

RootsTech Early-Early Bird Special Expires Monday

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FamilySearch is offering several different early bird discounts to different groups. The first discounted price, available to the general p...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Plugging in Photos and Stories to FamilySearch Family Tree

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At the 2013 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy , Tim Cross of FamilySearch presented a session titled “Plugging in Photos and S...
Thursday, September 5, 2013

Ancestry.com Announces Extensive Partnership with FamilySearch

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I just received the following press release from Ancestry.com :   ANCESTRY.COM AND FAMILYSEARCH TO MAKE A BILLION GLOBAL RECORDS AVAILAB...

Merging People in FamilySearch’s Family Tree

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Conflicts prevented me from attending two sessions at the 2013 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy that looked like they would b...
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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

FamilySearch Family Tree Road Map

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Conflicts prevented me from attending two sessions at the 2013 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy that looked like they would b...
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ancestry.com Search Improvements

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Last month Ancestry.com released improvements to the search results obtained when beginning a search from your tree. “For the large group ...
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Ancestry.com Implements New Old Search

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If you are an Ancestry.com “Old Search” user, you definitely remember the 27 June 2013 announcement that it would soon retire its Old Searc...
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