Friday, April 29, 2016

Darned Sketchy Death Certificate

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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, April 28, 2016

FamilySearch Search Tip: Exact Search

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FamilySearch recently tuned the Exact setting of its search system. Next to each text field in the FamilySearch search is a little square. C...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Legit or Phishing Scheme?

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Several readers have alerted me to a possible phishing scheme masquerading as an email from Ancestry.com. Reader “T” reported that he recei...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Ancestry DNA $79 Sale

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Ancestry.com is running their periodic $79 sale for their DNA test kits. They list at $99 and regularly go on sale for $89. The $79 sale pri...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Suspicious Links

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Links 1 and 2 both go to Ancestry.com. Links 3 and 4 both go to AncestryInsider.org. See Tuesday’s article (once Tuesday comes) for an expl...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Kindergarten Serendipity

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Shelley Hallman shared with me this story of serendipity. My family always tease me about my habit of questioning people I meet who share ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

AncestryDNA Improvements Coming

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Ancestry.com announced recently that it will be making improvements to AncestryDNA. The refinements will result in a better list of those yo...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

NGS Conference Approaching Quickly - #NGS2016GEN

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This year’s National Genealogical Society Family History Conference , 4-7 May 2016, is bearing down quickly upon us. It will be held in Fort...
Monday, April 18, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry Tree Indexing Follow-Up

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Reader JudyBG was concerned about the news that Ancestry.com was not indexing all persons in Ancestry Member Trees. (See “ Monday Mailbox: A...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Serendipity: Big on Genealogy

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Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—Mormons—are known to be “big on genealogy.” So when a Florida family had to di...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

New, Free Ancestry Academy Course: War of 1812

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Ancestry.com usually charges for Ancestry Academy courses (other than those about its own products). They’ve made an exception in the case o...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Monday Mailbox: A Banns Date Does Not a Marriage Make

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Dear Ancestry Insider, What is the difference between the third date of calling banns and a date of marriage? Nothing, according to the in...
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Friday, April 8, 2016

Random Document Serendipity

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Applicants for certification from the Board for Certification of Genealogists are sent a photocopy of a random document for analysis, much ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

RootsWeb FreePages Data Loss

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When the RootsWeb servers crashed, I warned that some later loss was possible. Companies run backups periodically. Any information added to ...
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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Mocavo’s Free Forever Promise No Longer

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On 10 October 2013 Mocavo founder Cliff Shaw announced that his website would remain free forever. When Mocavo brings content online, it b...
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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Silver Lake Buys Part of Ancestry.com

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Ancestry.com LLC announced last Friday that an investment firm, Silver Lake, has purchased some of Ancestry. You and I can’t buy shares in A...
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Monday, April 4, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry Tree Search Broken

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Can anyone tell me why a tree I have at ancestry does not come up in a search for any of the names in it or even wh...
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Friday, April 1, 2016

GEDCOM Lives!

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For many years users have hoped for a GEDCOM standard extension that would enable the reliable transfer among genealogy programs of sources,...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

More Accusations of Plagiarism Leveled at Barry Ewell

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Accusations of plagiarism have once again been made against author, speaker, and website publisher, Barry Ewell. On 11 March 2016, Thomas M...
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