Thursday, October 31, 2013

Darned Black Cat

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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...
Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Hotel Rooms for NGS Conference Quickly Selling Out

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The National Genealogical Society announced recently in their What’s Happening newsletter that hotel rooms are selling out quickly for the...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013

FamilySearch Announces Source Contest, Sunset of NewFamilySearch.org

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“ new.FamilySearch.org is scheduled for Read-only status at the end of this year,” Ron Tanner recently posted on FamilySearch.org . Tanner...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Ancestry.com Halloween Contest

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Ancestry.com is giving away an iPad and three other prizes this Halloween season, starting this weekend, Saturday, 26 October 2013. The An...
Friday, October 25, 2013

A Story of Serendipity from the LineageKeeper

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From the LineageKeeper to Randy Seaver to David Adams to me, here’s a story of Serendipity. “There are times when you are a participant in ...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

AncestryDNA Gets Big Update

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Last week Ancestry.com released a new, upgraded experience for their autosomal DNA tests. Not only will new purchasers get the enhanced res...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Monday Mailbox: Free Remains Free

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I am very upset about the changes in familysearch.org ! Now I will not have access to the same level of free infor...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

FamilySearch/FindMyPast Announce Agreement

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FamilySearch and FindMyPast owner, DC Thomson Family History, announced yesterday the family history strategic agreement du jour. More than...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

MyHeritage Announces Partnership With FamilySearch

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“We've entered into a strategic partnership with FamilySearch which will add billions of historical records to MyHeritage,” said Aaron G...

Darned If They Do, Darned If They Don’t

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FamilySearch recently made a change to its display of pedigrees for unmarried users. FamilySearch had received complaints from some who wer...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Serendipity from Three Semis

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This story of serendipity comes from Leroy Kelly. I share it in his own words. Back in 1976 I found myself in New Orleans for a conference...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

FamilySearch Family Tree Feature Updates

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“The last couple of weeks have seen some changes to [ FamilySearch ] Family Tree,” wrote Steve Anderson in a recent blog article . This and...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

FamilySearch Photos SEO

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One of the holy grails of corporate websites is SEO: search engine optimization. Corporations like to have their website show up at the top ...
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Ancestry.com Adds Related Content Pane to Image Viewer

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Ancestry.com has added a new feature to their image viewer. Click Related Content to show a pane along the right side of the window that sh...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Monday Mailbox

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Dear Readers, I am trying an experiment, starting today. I have set up my publication schedule so that newsreader, Twitter , and Facebook ...
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Friday, October 4, 2013

Multigenerational Photographs

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Distributed online by ArcaMax .
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

FamilySearch Announces My Family Booklet

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FamilySearch last week announced the introduction of a new family history tool for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa...
Wednesday, October 2, 2013

FamilySearch Annual Business Meeting

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“Elder Allan F. Packer and I recently met with Family History Department employees and missionaries in our annual department business meetin...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Ancestry.com Buys Find a Grave

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Yesterday Ancestry.com announced its purchase of the FindAGrave.com website. During the last 18 years users have contributed 75 million pho...
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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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