Thursday, May 8, 2014

#NGS2014GEN State Collection Pages on Ancestry.com

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“Understanding State Collections on Ancestry.com” was presented by Crista Cowan, Ancestry.com’s Barefoot Genealogist. Who was that guy in th...
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#NGS2014GEN Genealogists’ Declaration of Rights

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In the opening session of the National Genealogical society 2014 annual conference, Jordan Jones announced the participation and support of...

#NGS2014GEN Comet Ison

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Jim Ison, FamilySearch area manager gave the luncheon presentation at the FamilySearch luncheon Wednesday at the 2014 annual conference of ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

#NGS2014GEN Newspapers.com

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Peter Drinkwater addressed the topic, “The Scoop on Newspapers.com.” Drinkwater is with Ancestry.com who owns and operates Newspapers.com ....
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#NGS2014GEN Opening Session

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“If your history goes back far enough in the United States, then somewhere you have a Virginia ancestor,” said Sandra Treadway, Librarian of...

#NGS2014GEN FamilySearch.org Blogger Dinner

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FamilySearch’s Paul Nauta and Jennifer Anderson prepare to address bloggers at NGS conference FamilySearch addressed several topics at th...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

#NGS2014GEN Is Here

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General sessions of the National Genealogical Society ’s 2014 annual conference begin tomorrow. If you can’t make it to the conference (or ...
Monday, May 5, 2014

#NGS2014GEN Is Almost Upon Us

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The National Genealogical Society ’s 2014 annual conference is almost upon us. If you’re there, come say hello. I’ll be at the press table o...
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Friday, May 2, 2014

Darned Origins of Family Legends

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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 ...
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

AncestryDNA Management Changes

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I noticed a couple of items on LinkedIn recently regarding AncestryDNA. Kendall Hulet has been appointed “vice president of product – DNA at...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Ancestry.com Adds Page Control for Swedish Church Records

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One of the things that makes browsing images difficult on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org   is that the image numbers don’t match the page...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

FamilySearch Donates $1.5 Million to MoAR

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Dennis Brimhall addresses MoAR press conference Photo courtesy Lisa J. Godfrey Dennis Brimhall , president and CEO of FamilySearch Intern...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Fold3 Commemorates Civil War Commencement with Free Access

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I received this from Ancestry.com (the company, not the website): To remember the commencement of the Civil War in April 1861, Fold3 invi...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

#NGS2014GEN Conference Pre-Registration Deadline

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If you’re planning on going to the 2014 National Genealogical Society ’s 2014 annual conference, today is the last day to pre-register, but ...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Hiding Dead Individuals Online

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Dear Ancestry Insider, We living genealogists place dead ancestors on various websites such as FamilySearch, Ancestry.com , and RootsWeb Wor...
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Short Easter Greeting

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My goal is to make this blog inoffensive to readers of all religions and denominations. On this Easter morning, permit me a short aside. Mor...
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Thursday, April 17, 2014

FamilySearch Obituary Search

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A couple of people have pointed me to https://familysearch.org/obituaries/ . This is a useful little page for searching for obituaries on Fa...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

FamilySearch Breaks, Fixes Image URLs

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Several weeks ago users of the FamilySearch.org website reported that bookmarked URLs to images on FamilySearch.org stopped working. User...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Win Ancestry.com Subscription, DNA Test, and Research Package

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This month you can win a free Ancestry.com sub-scription and other prizes worth more than $3,000. In Ancestry.com’s Branch Out Contest six ...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

Monday Mailbox: More RootsTech Sessions Than I Thought

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Dear Readers, Two weeks ago I told Claire that all the recorded RootsTech sessions were available on the RootsTech website. Several reade...
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