Thursday, September 29, 2016

Find A Grave Global Cemetery Meetups Planned

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As they did last year, Ancestry is organizing Find A Grave cemetery meetups this year, for 7-9 October 2016. Attend one of the locations alr...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Ancestry Insider is a #RootsTech Ambassador

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I’m pleased to accept the invitation to be a RootsTech 2017 Ambassador. Registration is now open for RootsTech 2017. According to the mes...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Linda K. Gulbrandsen and FamilySearch Partners – #BYUFHGC

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This article will be of interest mostly to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Linda K. Gulbrandsen of FamilySea...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

John Huff and FamilySearch Family Tree – #BYUFHGC

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John Huff of FamilySearch gave a presentation titled “Making Data Decisions in Family Tree” at the recent 2016 BYU Conference on Family Hist...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

MyHeritage Provides FamilySearch Source Button

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Click to view an infographic FamilySearch announced last week that MyHeritage is providing a button to create a source in FamilySearch’s Fa...
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Friday, September 16, 2016

The White Mormon and the Black Muslim – A Tale of Serendipity

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This story, written by Lee Davidson, originally appeared in the Deseret News in Salt Lake City in 1997. The woman seemed as different from...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

#FGS2016 Ends – More Conferences Coming Soon

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In my FGS conference bag was information about NGS 2017 and FGS 2017 (and beyond) conferences. In my mailbox, was a message about yet anothe...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

FGS Next Project – #FGS2016

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At their 2016 conference the Federation of Genealogical Societies announced both the completion of their Preserve the Pensions project and ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Anna Swayne’s Cracking the Case with DNA – #FGS2016

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Anna Swayne, a ten-year veteran of AncestryDNA presented “Cracking the Case with DNA” at the 2016 conference of the Federation of Genealogic...
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Friday, September 9, 2016

Serendipity in Denmark in the Middle of Nowhere

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Margaret Abildskov Uploaded by Frances Gardner Watkins to FamilySearch.org It is as though our ancestors want to be found. Uncanny coincide...
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Thursday, September 8, 2016

Coming to America by Juliana Szucs – #FGS2016

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Juliana Szucs, social community manager at Ancestry.com presented “Coming to America: Finding Your Ancestor’s Arrival Record on Ancestry” at...
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016

From Content to Discovery on Ancestry.com – #FGS2016

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Saturday morning at the 2016 conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies I was honored to attend the Ancestry.com  breakfast pre...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

1812 Pension Files Campaign is Complete - #FGS2016

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  Credit: Ed Donakey In a stunning announcement at the opening session of the 2016 conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies ...
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Monday, September 5, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Public/Private Tree Indexes

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This news is a bit old (17 August 2016), but things have been hectic the past four weeks, so I’ve only now been able to publish it. Dear An...
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Saturday, September 3, 2016

Congratulations, Lou Szucs - #FGS2016

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Me (left) and Lou (center) at the FGS Gala Just a few days ago I mentioned that the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) was founded...
Friday, September 2, 2016

#Genealogy Past, Present, and Future – #FGS2016

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  Credit: Ed Donakey J. Mark Lowe, Mary M. Tedesco, and CeCe Moore presented the opening keynote at the 2016 Conference of the Federation o...
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Schedule for Ancestry.com Booth Presentations at #FGS2016

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As promised:
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Societies Day at #FGS2016

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  Credit: Jen Baldwin, @ancestryjourney Wednesday was Focus on Societies Day at the 2016 Conference of the Federation of Genealogical Socie...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Beta Test to Earn Free Year Subscription to Twile

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I received the following invitation from FamilySearch: As someone who attended last year’s Innovator Summit at RootsTech, you may remember...

Stop by Springfield, Win Prizes - #FGS2016

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The main part of the 2016 conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies starts tomorrow, 1 September 2016 in Springfield, Illinois...