Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Guiding Principles for Cleaning Up Messes in Family Tree – #BYUFHGC

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This is the second of two articles about Ben Baker’s presentation at the 2015 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy . Ben’s topic w...
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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

My Family is all Messed Up on FamilySearch Family Tree – #BYUFHGC

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Ben Baker spoke at the 2015 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy . His topic was “Help! My Family is all Messed Up on FamilySearch...
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Powerful FamilySearch Partner Apps – #BYUFHGC

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“Have you ever said to yourself, ‘If only FamilySearch would do this one thing?’ ” asked Jimmy Zimmerman, product manager for FamilySearch F...
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Monday, August 31, 2015

Monday Mailbox: How Fast Was the 1860 Census Indexed

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Howland Davis sent a question in response to my article, “ FamilySearch Indexing Not Keeping Up .” Dear Ancestry Insider, Interesting art...
Thursday, August 27, 2015

The Future Will Bring Automated Indexing Tools – #BYUFHGC

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“It’s not that we don’t like our [indexing] volunteers,” said Jake Gehring. “We would just rather have them work on things that only [humans...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

FamilySearch Should Increase Indexing Efficiency and Utilize Partnerships

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FamilySearch is not keeping up with indexing the records it digitizes and improvements in three ways could help fix this, according to Famil...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

FamilySearch Indexing Not Keeping Up – #BYUFHGC

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“FamilySearch just isn’t indexing records fast enough,” said Jake Gehring. “If that is the case,…then what do we do about it?” Jake is direc...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Lisa Elzey #BYUFHGC Presentation, Part 2

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Yesterday I wrote the first part of my report about Lisa Elzey’s presentation at the 2015 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy . ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Lisa Elzey Talks WDYTYA and Story Telling - #BYUFHGC

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“A lot of the questions I get about my job are about how we do the research for WDYTYA,” said Lisa Elzey at the 2015 BYU Conference on Famil...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Ron Tanner Fields Questions at - #BYUFHGC

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Ron Tanner, product manager for FamilySearch Family Tree fielded questions during his presentation, “FamilySearch Family Tree Road Map,” at ...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Last Day of “Fuel the Find”

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Today’s the last day to participate in the FamilySearch Worldwide Indexing Event, “Fuel the Find.” The goal is to have 100,000 people index ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Ron Tanner Discusses Family Tree Road Map at - #BYUFHGC

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Ron Tanner, product manager for FamilySearch Family Tree spoke to the topic “FamilySearch Family Tree Road Map” at the 2015 BYU Conference o...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Book Your Conference Hotels Early

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#NGS2016GEN - I see that the NGS 2016 conference website is now live. Registration doesn’t open until 1 December 2015, but as the website s...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Ancestry.com Hiring Shows Future Plans

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I happened across Ancestry.com’s job listing site . According to one job listing , Ancestry’s employee count is 1,400. Many of the job openi...
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