Thursday, October 30, 2014

Two Days Later Would Have Been Too Late

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences. Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable mirac...
Monday, October 27, 2014

NARA Online Genealogy Fair

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This week the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) is holding a three day genealogy conference, of sorts, on the internet. If...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Alaska’s Darned October 1867

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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 15, 2014

ICAPGEN Conference Coming 1 November 2014

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ICAPGEN provided the following press release about their upcoming conference. (I’m not doing very well on my two article goal this week, am ...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Free Ancestry.com Genealogy Toolkit

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This last week, Ancestry.com released a free genealogy toolkit. It is simply a PDF file containing a list of (and links to) free resources o...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry Library Edition

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Dear Ancestry Insider, My wife and I have been asked to teach a class of newbies “How to use AncestryLibrary” and while doing a little res...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Serendipity in Genealogy from NEHGS Readers

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It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincidences. Olympian luck. Phenomenal fate. Tremendous intuition. Remarkable mirac...
Thursday, October 9, 2014

FamilySearch Search Page Changes Cause Consternation

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In recent months FamilySearch has been experimenting with different designs for the historical records search page . These changes have led ...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

FamilySearch Adds Audio File Upload

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[Update: Since I previewed this article last Saturday, FamilySearch removed the reference to the inaccessible list of OS/browser combination...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Ancestry.com Organizing Find A Grave Community Event

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Fresh on the heels of FamilySearch’s troubled but successful world-wide indexing event , Ancestry.com is organizing one of its own. “We love...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

RootsTech Expects to Fill Up Quickly

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I received an email from RootsTech last week. They say they “expect this years’ event to fill up quickly, so please make sure to register e...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Browsing Images on Ancestry.com

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I have been enjoying Ancestry.com , but I do have one question.  If you suspect the record you need is in a particula...
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Ancestry.com News Ketchup

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I have no time. I’m behind. Time to ketchup… Find A Grave Celebrates 100 Million Photos Jim  Tipton founded Ancestry.com ’s Find A Grave ...

FamilySearch Invites You to #MeetMyGrandma

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FamilySearch began a campaign last weekend encouraging people to share memories of grandmas (and by extension, other family members). Their ...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Monday Mailbox: Numbers Instead of Place Names

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Hello Ancestry Insider: I subscribe to your blog postings and enjoy what you write and the way you write it. I’m wondering if you coul...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Ancestry.com Updates Mobile App – Receives Technology Patent

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The BYU and FGS 2014 conferences and their aftermath have kept me busy. Things are settling a bit and I’m starting to empty my in box. At th...
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

FamilySearch’s Electronic Books - #BYUFHGC

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Dennis Meldrum and Tim De Graw gave a session titled “What is Happening with FamilySearch Books” at the BYU Conference on Family History and...
Monday, September 15, 2014

Conference Early Bird Discounts Extended – Deadline Today

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The end of special registration discounts to RootsTech and the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) conferences snuck up on many of us...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Ancestry Insider Photographed at FGS Conference

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A reader caught this photo of me at the recent Federation of Genealogical Societies conference: New readers may not be aware that I am the...
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