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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