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, October 19, 2015

Monday Mailbox: RootsTech 2016 Conference Class Schedule

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I can't seem to find a [RootsTech 2016 class] schedule online. I'm wondering if there's anything I'...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

RootsTech 2016 Early Bird Pricing Ends Monday

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RootsTech announced earlier this week that they have extended the early bird pricing deadline to Monday, 19 October 2015. Purchase a full, 4...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

New Ancestry: Bug or Odd Behavior?

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Here’s a bad behavior of the New Ancestry. You’ll recall that Family Events are births and deaths of family members that show up in a person...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Riverton, Utah Seminar to Address Using Family History to Help the Incarcerated

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I received this press release from FamilySearch: Riverton, Utah (October 1, 2015)— The Riverton FamilySearch Library has announced a free f...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Ancestry Deletes Hundreds of Databases

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Fellow blogger, Rander Seavers, discovered last month that Ancestry.com had deleted over 500 databases. (See Randy’s “ Where Did 567 Databas...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Monday Mailbox: Square Portraits Are Back!

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Who says Ancestry.com is not listening? In a major reversal, Ancestry has reverted portrait photos to squares, similar to Old Ancestry. They...
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Monday Mailbox: Adding Media as a Source

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Hi, I'm puzzled by your comment [in “ News Ketchup for 8 October 2015 ”] that New Ancestry doesn't support n...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Star in an Ancestry.com Commercial

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This is pretty short notice, but I only learned of the offer today. The submission deadline is Tuesday, 13 October 2015. Ancestry.com is run...
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Friday, October 9, 2015

Darned, Stout Rope

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Records are the darnedest things. And one in particular is particularly darned. It is, perhaps, the most famous will in American genealogy. ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2015

News Ketchup for 8 October 2015

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Time to ketchup… October is Family History Month and Ancestry.com is sponsoring a number of activities to celebrate. Besides the Find A Gra...
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NARA Renews Ancestry.com Partnership Agreement

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2010 photograph of NARA Digitization Project Manager, Erin Townsend, viewing newly digitized and published records on Ancestry.com. Image...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Ancestry.com at Banking Conference – Part 1

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On 30 September 2015 Ancestry.com’s Howard Hochhauser gave a presentation at the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference. I took extensiv...
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Monday, October 5, 2015

Monday Mailbox: Ronald Vern Jackson and AIS

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Dear Readers, In my article “ Monday Mailbox: How Fast Was the 1860 Census Indexed ” I talked a bit about Ronald Vern Jackson and Accelerat...
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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Find A Grave’s Community Day 17 October 2015

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Ancestry.com has announced that this year’s Find A Grave Community Day is scheduled for 17 October 2015. Ancestry’s Jessica Murray said “Las...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Comments about the New Ancestry

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Thank you to everyone for your comments. I have gotten stricter on comments about other commenters. I’m no longer accepting comments that ch...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

How to Navigate Around the Internet Archive Search Bug

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There is a bug in Internet Archive’s “Search Inside” a book feature. Don’t trust it. Let me tell you what to do instead. Let’s say you foun...
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