Monday, June 30, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Downloading Your Ancestry.com Member Tree

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Dear Ancestry Insider, How do I retrieve my Ancestry.com family trees? I have many. If possible, how do I get them added to a GEDCOM file?...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Serendipity and a Grandmother Named David

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences. Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable mirac...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

FamilySearch Shaky Leaf Hints

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Overshadowed by Ancestry.com ’s denial of service attack, last week FamilySearch quietly released its version of the Ancestry.com shaky lea...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Ancestry.com Attacked by Zombies, Part 2

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Monday of last week, 16 June 2014, zombies attacked the Ancestry.com website as I explained last week. (See “ Ancestry.com Attacked by Zomb...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com Consolidates Find-a-Grave Collections

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My comment recently about software designers and genealogical correctness resonated with reader BUWTBlog. Dear Ancestry Insider, [You wr...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

#NGS2014GEN Simple Serendipity at the Library of Virginia

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I intended to publish this as part of another article about the 2014 annual conference of the National Genealogical Society , but it never s...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Ancestry.com Attacked by Zombies

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Ancestry.com users have been from annoyed to outraged the past several days because Ancestry.com has been in and out of commission. On thei...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Appy Applauds Ancestry App

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MediaPost Publications announced the 2014 annual Appy Award winners last month in New York City and Ancestry.com ’s mobile app won—again—in...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Ancestry.com Not Dropping Autosomal DNA Test

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Ancestry.com ’s recent announcement that they were discontinuing some of their DNA tests confused some people. (See “ Ancestry.com Announces...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Monday Mailbox: FamilySearch Partnerships and Effect on Family History Centers

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Dear Ancestry Insider, This week I received notice that LDS FamilySearch users now have the ability to subscribe to Ancestry.com at no cost...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

Serendipity in Genealogy: The Name Was Plainly Displayed

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The Extraction Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was the forerunner to today’s FamilySearch Indexing . Thirty ye...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Find-a-Record Location Search

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I recently wrote about a new companion product to FamilySearch Family Tree: Find-a-Record . (See “ New FamilySearch Add On: Find-a-Record ....
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

New FamilySearch Add On: Find-a-Record

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I recently received an email from Justin York of Genealogy Systems alerting me to their new product, Find-a-Record. Ancestry Insider, We re...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Collect, Collect, and Collect

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Dear Insider, I heard Tom Jones speak at RootsTech2014 and I had the same "aha" moment. [See “ Using Case Studies to Learn .”] An...
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Friday, June 6, 2014

Darned White House

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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, June 5, 2014

Ancestry.com Announces Retirement of Several Websites

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Ancestry.com announced this morning at 10:00 MT that it is retiring several of its websites. The websites are MyFamily.com MyCanvas.com ...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

FamilySearch Enhanced Attach Feature

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During the National Genealogical Society 2014 Conference (#NGS2014GEN) I briefly mentioned FamilySearch ’s new enhanced attach feature. Tod...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

FamilySearch Announces Plans to Release Hinting Feature

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“ FamilySearch will soon release a feature called ‘hinting,’” according to David Green, FamilySearch spokesperson. It sounds exactly like A...
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Monday, June 2, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com Linking Images to Tree

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Dear readers, Ancestry.com responded with more information to my article about linking images to persons in your member tree (see “ Ancest...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Darned Boys in Dresses

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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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