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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