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.

Thursday, March 17, 2016

#RootsTech: Ron Tanner – Family Tree in 2016 and Beyond

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In Ron Tanner’s RootsTech 2016 presentation about FamilySearch Family Tree, he shared a number of coming improvements. In 2016 FamilySearc...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

#RootsTech: Ron Tanner – Looking Back at Family Tree

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Ron Tanner began his RootsTech 2016 presentation about FamilySearch Family Tree by reporting some numbers about 2015: 2.5 million persons w...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Beware the Ides of March 2016 News Ketchup

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“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” Ancestry.com forecasted that RootsWeb would be back online about 15 March 2106 (today). I...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Monday Mailbox: B. Canada is Not British Columbia

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Robert Henry Kittson was born in what is now the province of Quebec, Canada. The Ancestry.com indexer of the 1881 cen...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Marriage in the Middle of the Night in the Middle of Nowhere

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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, March 10, 2016

#RootsTech: Robert Kehrer – #FamilySearch and a Famous Curse

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“This is an industry in transformation,” Robert Kehrer said. Robert Kehrer presented the FamilySearch sponsored luncheon on Thursday at Root...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Ancestry Insider Member of the #NGS2016GEN Official Social Media Press

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I’m honored to be accepted as an official member of the Social Media Press for this year’s National Genealogical Society Family History Conf...
Monday, March 7, 2016

Monday Mailbox: HeritageQuest

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I emailed Ancestry.com support last evening after talking with a support rep. He had no clue about my question. I f...
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Friday, March 4, 2016

Frederic Clift’s Darned First Marriage

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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, March 3, 2016

#RootsTech: Anne Mitchell – Become a Master Searcher on #Ancestry.com

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When you know what goes on behind the scenes when you push that search button, you are going to be a much better searcher and you’re going t...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

AncestryDNA In 29 Additional Countries

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There’s great news for those of you who are not descended exclusively from Indian Princesses: Ancestry.com has announced the availability of...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016

RootsWeb Website Update

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Ancestry.com has issued more information regarding the RootsWeb website outage. As many of you had assumed, it was a hardware failure. The ...
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Free Online Education for March

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The Family History Library has announced the schedule of its free webinars for March. They have also published several new courses in their ...
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