Tuesday, August 9, 2016

RootsWeb Update as of 6 August 2016

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Ancestry.com let me know that they are in the middle of fixing RootsWeb.com. They thought they would be done last week and were supposed to ...
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Monday, August 8, 2016

Steven Michael Law (1960-2016)

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Steven Michael Law, age 56, passed away July 28, 2016, with his family by his side. He struggled against complications of a severe case of g...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Darned Image Citations

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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, August 4, 2016

FamilySearch Product Road Map by Brian Edwards – #BYUFHGC

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At the 2016 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy Brian Edwards of FamilySearch presented “FamilySearch Past, Present, and Future ...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

FamilySearch Hinting by Robert Kehrer #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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Robert Kehrer presented a session titled “Using FamilySearch Hinting” at the 2016 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy . Robert is...
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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

“FamilySearch Mobile Tree App” by Todd Powell #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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Todd Powell presented the topic, “FamilySearch Mobile Tree App” at the 2016 BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy held last week i...
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Monday, August 1, 2016

Insider Ketchup for 1 August 2016

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The BYU conference has kept me busy and there are more articles coming all this week and next. Not much time to cover regular subjects! Time...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Nobody Told Me – #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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“It’s the stories that we remember,” Paul Milner said. Paul delivered the Thursday keynote at the 2016 BYU Conference on Family History and ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Turning the Model Upside Down #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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FamilySearch wants to turn upside down the usual order in which people engage in family history, said Steve Rockwood in his keynote address ...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

That is Where the Love Is #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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  Credit: Ivan Majc, Adriatic North Mission “As you talk about the ancestors, that is where the love is,” said Paul Cardall. “That is where ...
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Monday, July 25, 2016

BYU Conference Center Handicap Parking Changes #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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Attendees of this year’s BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy should be aware of the impact of construction at the conference cen...
Saturday, July 23, 2016

BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy #BYUgen #BYUFHGC

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The BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy starts Tuesday, 26 July 2016. If you are thinking about your pioneer ancestors this week...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Darnedest Political Obituary

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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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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

DNA Versus Extremism

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I hear all the time about people testing ethnicity from different companies and getting different results. I’ve heard from a person or two w...
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Monday, July 18, 2016

Monday Mailbox: City Directories and Newspaper Gaps

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Dear Insider, I am frequently frustrated by egregious gaps in ancestry.com 's online  standard reference materials. The most recent ca...
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Friday, July 15, 2016

Russian Serendipity

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This is my adaptation of a story shared by reader Brian Palmer. Thanks, Brian! (See his original here .) Jennifer Low volunteered to serve ...
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Thursday, July 14, 2016

History’s Future Depends on You - #TheWorldsRecords

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I received the following announcement from FamilySearch: From July 15-17, [2016] FamilySearch International and supporting organizations a...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

FamilySearch Family Tree Outage Minimal

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The scheduled outage and system upgrade of FamilySearch on 27 June 2016 seems to have gone smoothly. The upgrade is an attempt to prevent pe...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Alternatives to RootsWeb WorldConnect

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Dear Ancestry Insider, RootsWeb/FamilySearch/Ancestry--I've worked 20 years on Ancestry.com and joined RootsWeb only to find entirely ...
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Friday, July 8, 2016

Darned Lazy Spouse

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Reader Donna Toole shared this darned record. Thank you, Donna! EDITOR SUES FOR DIVORCE.                   ------ Declares Wife Stayed In...
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