Friday, November 27, 2015

AncestryDNA Lowest Price Ever

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Ancestry.com is offering AncestryDNA for only $69 from now until the end of day (EST), 30 November 2015. The promotional e-mail reads: Ance...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

New Ancestry Soon to be the Only Ancestry

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On 16 November 2015 I received notification that “on December 15, the new Ancestry will be the only Ancestry.” This caught me by surprise. A...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

Monday Mailbox: When an FHC is Not an FHC

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Recently, a search of the FamilySearch Book Catalog of digital images resulted in the "restricted Image" ...
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Friday, November 20, 2015

Darned Federal Birth Certificates

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We depend upon records to reveal the “truth” about the past. Yet sometimes records have anomalies. Some are amusing or humorous. Some are in...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

RootsTech Contest Deadline

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Remember that tomorrow is the contest deadline for the Insider’s RootsTech 2016 Giveaway. Send me an example of a darned record. Darned re...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Bad Merges in Family Tree

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I was affected again by a bad merge in FamilySearch Family Tree. Someone had merged a Tilford in Virginia with a Telford in Ireland to produ...
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Monday, November 16, 2015

Monday Mailbox: What is a Record?

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Dear Ancestry Insider, When Ancestry or FamilySearch says they added "100 million new 'records'" what are they really de...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Ancestry.com Releases Mexico Collection

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During last month’s Dia de los Muertos celebration, Ancestry.com released a major new collection: “ Mexico Civil Registrations of Death .” ...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

Monday Mailbox: SSDI

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Wondering if you have any information on when the SSDI might be updated. It’s almost a year behind, and that’s crea...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

The Water Bottle Dream

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I had a dream that my dishwasher deformed my Ancestry.com water bottle. Do you believe in dreams?
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Thursday, November 5, 2015

RootsTech 2016 Free Pass Contest

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RootsTech 2016 will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 3-6 February 2016. Some of the hotels have alr...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

RootsTech Announces 2016 Opening Keynote Speakers

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Last week RootsTech announced the keynote speakers for the opening session of RootsTech 2016 , to be held February 3rd through the 6th at th...
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Monday, November 2, 2015

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com vs. FamilySearch.org Census Search

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I am trying to create a specialized research project on African-Americans in 1910 of Precinct 8, Saint Lucie County...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

Darned Pitfalls in Records

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Tom Jones shared a quote in his NGS 2015 conference presentation that I liked and thought I would share. Helen Hinchliff said, The reconstru...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry Maelstrom

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Dear Readers, My article “ Ancestry.com at Banking Conference – Part 2 ” elicited some pretty deep felt emotions. I reported on a presentat...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Review: Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org

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When I first heard about the book, Unofficial Guide to FamilySearch.org , I expected I wouldn’t like it. That was many weeks ago and I don’t...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ancestry.com at Banking Conference – Part 2

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On 30 September 2015 Ancestry.com’s Howard Hochhauser gave a presentation at the Deutsche Bank Leveraged Finance Conference. This is the sec...
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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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