Thursday, November 3, 2016

Layton FamilySearch Center Open House

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FamilySearch has announced the opening of a new FamilySearch center in Layton, Utah. The goal of the center is to provide a fun, family orie...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016

#RootsTech 2017 Free Pass Contest

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Once again I am giving away a RootsTech plus Innovator Summit 4-day pass ($299 value) to one lucky reader. (If you win and you’ve already ...
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

#RootsTech and Family Discovery Day Keynotes

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In the past several weeks RootsTech 2017 has announced some of the keynotes for RootsTech 2017 and Family Discovery Day. RootsTech keynotes...
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Find A Grave Community Event Finds 211,655 New Graves

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Ancestry’s Find A Grave community event on the 7th through the 9th earlier this month resulted in an additional 211,655 new photographs on F...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Ancestry.com Releases We’re Related App

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Ancestry.com has released a new smartphone app: “We’re Related.” The app appears squarely aimed at capitalizing on social media to spread in...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Ancestry’s Nathan Murphy Elected Fellow of ASG

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Nathan Murphy of Ancestry.com subsidiary, ProGenealogists, was elected earlier this month as a fellow of the American Society of Genealogist...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Oops

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A user posted a comment about my article, “ Darned Records: I’m My Own Grandmother .” It appears we’ve been had. Dear Ancestry Insider, I...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

FamilySearch Adds 141 Million New Record Hints

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Two years ago FamilySearch added a feature (available on Ancestry.com for many years): record hints. FamilySearch compares names from its hi...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Monday Mailbox: Entering Unknown Persons in Family Tree

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I know nothing about the parents of my 4x-great-grandmother Mrs. Betsey Ann Embody. https://familysearch.org/tree/p...
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Darned Records: I’m My Own Grandmother

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UPDATE 21 OCTOBER 2016: Reader Joe Lowry posted this comment: I regret to inform you that the Florida Sun Post is a fake or satirical news p...
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

#RootsTech End of Early Bird Pricing 14 Oct 2016

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I received this from RootsTech: Early Bird Discount Expires in Two Weeks! Save over $100! Regularly priced at $269, you can purchase a R...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Ancestry.com Receives Economics Award

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In their Fall 2016 edition , Utah Valley BusinessQ recognized the top 50 businesses in the area. They rated Ancestry.com as the number six ...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Monday Mailbox: FamilySearch Sign In “Woahs”

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Dear Ancestry Insider, Do you happen to know if there is any reason we have to sign in every time we use FamilySearch? Is there any moveme...
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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...