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...