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, June 30, 2016

New Ancestry Academy Courses

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Earlier this month Ancestry.com released a new kind of course on its Ancestry Academy product: free quicktips. Each are five minutes are les...
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FGS Early Bird Discount's Good Through July 1st

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"The FGS conference early bird registration discounts are good through July 1. https://www.fgsconference.org/registration/ ." ---P...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Plan Now to Attend a National Genealogical Conference

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Registration for this year’s (2016) annual conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies is open and the early-bird pricing ends t...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

AncestryDNA Database Reaches Two Million

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Ancestry.com announced last week that their DNA database has reached two million test results. “We are excited to announce that AncestryDNA ...
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Monday, June 27, 2016

Monday Mailbox: RootsMagic to Sync with Ancestry.com This December

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Dear Readers, Last week’s mailbox drew good responses. I invite you to read them at “ Monday Mailbox: Replacing Family Tree Maker .” Two of...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Serendipity in Genealogy: Luckiest Researcher in the World

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In 1997 David Rencher attended the Federation of Genealogical Society’s conference in Dallas, Texas. While there he was doing research in so...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

FamilySearch Announces Shutdown, Upgrade

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Users of FamilySearch started seeing a banner last week indicating the website would shutdown Monday, 27 June 2016 at midnight MDT (2:00am E...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Replacing Family Tree Maker

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Dear Ancestry Insider, My Wife is FAR from happy with what has happened and is continuing to happen with a Program she is TOTALLY dependen...
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Monday Mailbox: Change Your Email Address

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Hi--love to read your newsletter.  I have a new email address and can't find anyplace on your site to "cha...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Serendipity and the Old White Plow Horse

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In 1970 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had no temples in Washington state, so groups would make the long trips to Idaho ...
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

“Barrage of Records” Causing Problems

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Could you report on the recent dumping of duplicate records into the FamilySearch Family Tree? Where did they come ...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

RootsWeb Hardware Upgrade

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“We are currently working to move the entirety of RootsWeb to new machinery that can handle the load and be backed up in a consistent and re...
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Monday, June 13, 2016

Monday Mailbox: BillionGraves

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Hi Ancestry Insider, I want to help with some gravestones as I have many, but they weren't done on a cell phone.  I have them as jpgs....
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Basketball versus Serendipity

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Several years ago David Rencher was on business in Atlanta, Georgia and took the opportunity to drive to Montgomery, Alabama where he hoped ...
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Thursday, June 9, 2016

AncestryDNA New Ancestor Discoveries

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Many view Ancestry.com’s “New Ancestor Discoveries” as so much bunk. I’m one of them, or was one. Ancestry has presented me with 22 Discover...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

FHL Block Party This Saturday Ends at 2:00 PM

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Looks like a case of my right hand not knowing what my left hand was doing. My article yesterday gave the wrong end time for the Family Hist...
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AncestryDNA and Momundo Contest

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Travel search website momundo.com has teamed up with Ancestry.com (and 23andMe for Germany, Spain, and France) for an interesting two-phase...
Tuesday, June 7, 2016

FamilySearch 2016 Summer Events

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FamilySearch has announced two events for later this summer. FamilySearch Indexing has announced their 2016 event is to be held 15 July at ...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Ancestry.com’s Crista Cowan Podcasts

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I love Crista Cowan and used to listen to her via podcast when I’d walk in the morning.  Then all of a sudden I cou...
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Friday, June 3, 2016

Serendipity in Washington, D.C.

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David Rencher had a haunting feeling that he had not accounted for all the daughters of Abraham Rencher, son of his immigrant ancestor. Davi...
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