The Ancestry Insider

The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.

Monday, May 11, 2015

AncestryDNA Negative Publicity

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There were two stories released last week that did not show AncestryDNA in a positive light. On 1 May 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundat...
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Thursday, May 7, 2015

Ancestry Hacker Internal Contest

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As a former software engineer, I was interested to see an article about an internal programmers’ contest at Ancestry. They gave their progra...
Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Review: Research Process QuickSheet

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Today I’m reviewing Elizabeth Shown Mills’s QuickSheet: The Historical Biographer’s Guide to the Research Process. This QuickSheet consists...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

FamilySearch Place Research Tool

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I noticed the other day on the FamilySearch Labs website that FamilySearch is no longer supporting its Place Standard Finder . They have re...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Today Last Day to Preregister (#NGS2015GEN)

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Today is the last day to preregister for this year’s national conference of the National Genealogical Society (NGS). The conference is to b...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Review: The FAN Principle QuickSheet

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Has it been three years since Genealogical Publishing sent me a bunch of publications for review? I apologize; if I’m going to accept public...
Monday, April 27, 2015

AncestryDNA $79 Sale Today

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To celebrate DNA day, AncestryDNA is offering its $99 DNA kit for $79 today. With AncestryDNA it’s always a good idea to wait for their $79 ...
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Thursday, April 23, 2015

FamilySearch Worldwide Indexing (Arbitration) Event

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FamilySearch currently uses a double-blind methodology for indexing. (They’ve indicated that this could change for some projects. See “ Fami...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Ancestry Academy

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Wow. This is Ancestry.com’s second big announcement while I’m on this road trip. They need to do a better job of coordinating with my schedu...
Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Insight Into FamilySearch’s Record Acquisition and Indexing

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Recently, FamilySearch’s Jake Gehring disclosed details on how FamilySearch decides what to acquire and what to index. Here’s a synopsis of ...
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Monday, April 20, 2015

Civil War Docs Free on Fold3 Through End of April

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Fold3 is offering free access to its Civil War collection of documents. The offer goes through the end of April 2015. See http://go.fold3.co...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

Hidden Treasures at Ancestry.com (#RootsTech #FGS2015 #RTATEAM)

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At RootsTech last month, Crista Cowan and Juliana Szucs presented a session titled “Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.com.” Unfortunately for...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Contrast AncestryDNA and Oxford Study Maps

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Here’s an interesting contrast. A recent study by Oxford University showed regional pockets of DNA in England. A recent article on the Ances...
Monday, April 13, 2015

Big AncestryDNA Announcement

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I confess. What you’ve been reading the past two weeks and what you will read next week were written back in March. I’m on the road at the m...
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Thursday, April 9, 2015

Short Lesson on Research Reports

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I recently read “ Branch Out Contest Winner: Alison Marcoff ” on the Ancestry Blog. It is basically a research report created by a professio...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Free Research Guides from Ancestry.com

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In a recent Ancestry Blog post , Ancestry Anne pointed out several short, free research guides. Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors on Ancestry...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

Insider Ketchup: 3 April 2015

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There’s too much to write about and I have no time! Time to ketchup… What’s New on FamilySearch—March 2015 “Each month, FamilySearch publi...
Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Astonishing New iPhone App: Lick It DNA

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“There’s an app for that.” Now there is an app that will perform a DNA test for you. It is free. It only takes seconds. And no additional ha...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

NARA Suspends Ancestry.com Scanning Operation

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On 16 March 2015, Twitter user “RM Cooper” posted , “Ancestry’s doing a digitization project with our WW2 records. Person caught ‘improperly...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Last Day for #NGS2015GEN Discount

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Don’t forget. Today is the last day to get a discount for this year’s annual conference of the National Genealogical Society . The conferenc...
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