Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Funny AncestryDNA Commercial Parody

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A coworker alerted me to this video from the CBC show, This Hour Has 22 Minutes . It is titled, “"Have you ever questioned your family’...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

Monday Mailbox: AncestryDNA Genetic Community List of Surnames

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I was playing with this new feature but I did not see the list of Associated Last Names. Would you tell me where to...
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Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Ancestry Launches New Genetic Communities

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Ancestry launched Genetic Communities last week. “Think of the AncestryDNA ethnicity estimates on steroids, and you’ll have a sense of what ...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

Monday Mailbox: Find A Grave

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Dear Readers, Many of you had strong feelings about Ancestry’s new design of Find A Grave. You can see it at www.gravestage.com . Here are...
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Saturday, April 1, 2017

The Old Find A Grave to Live On?

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The specter of a new design for Find A Grave has many a Graver rolling over in his grave photos. As I reported earlier, Ancestry showed the ...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Elusive Bug in Ancestry Search

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For years people have told me that there are bugs in Ancestry’s search. It was returning something it shouldn’t. But each time they sent me ...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Ancestry and Family Tree Maker Synchronization Announcement

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Last week Ancestry announced that Ancestry editions of Family Tree Maker will cease to synchronize with Ancestry Member Trees as of 29 March...
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Monday, March 27, 2017

Monday Mailbox: Preservation of Photos and Stories on FamilySearch

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Dear Ancestry Insider, I have been using FamilySearch Memories as my main repository for family history-related photographs and documents...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

NGS 2017 Conference Early Bird Registration Deadline is MONDAY (#NGS2017GEN)

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Monday is the early bird deadline for the National Genealogical Society 2017 Family History Conference ! Gak! I should have warned you earli...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

The New and Improved Find A Grave Shown at #RootsTech

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At RootsTech 2017 Peter Drinkwater showed off a late-alpha prototype for a new Find A Grave website. Fearing the worst, he was quite happy ...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

AncestryDNA Personal Discoveries Project

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I visited my DNA page last Saturday to see if the new Genetic Communities feature has launched yet. It hasn’t. But I did see something new. ...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Don’t Let Your Research Be Flushed Down the Toilet

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The Monday Mailbox, “ 17 Years of Research Being Flushed Down the Toilet ,” drew lots of great suggestions on ways Larry—or anyone else—can ...
Friday, March 17, 2017

Insider Ketchup for 17 March 2017

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Lot’s of stories I didn’t get to this week. Time to ketchup. I received my March 2017 newsletter from Ancestry. The newsletter linked to a...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Watch #RootsTech 2017 Videos

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I’ve written a lot about RootsTech 2017 . Whew! That was quite the conference. According to FamilySearch, RootsTech reached 180,000 people a...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

New Additions to Ancestry Management

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Ancestry announced recently the addition of two members to their executive management team: Nat Natarajan, from Intuit, Executive Vice Pre...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Future of Family History Center Microfilm

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FamilySearch Family History Center staff are increasingly having hard times keeping their microfilm readers operational. Parts are becoming ...
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Monday, March 13, 2017

No, They Can’t Change Your FamilySearch Genealogies File

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I responded to a question about preserving genealogies in my article “ 17 Years of Research Being Flushed Down the Toilet .” I pointed out F...
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Friday, March 10, 2017

Legassick Serendipity

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Christine Edwards submitted this tale of serendipity to my RootsTech contest. Thank you, Christine! I was staying for a week at a small hot...
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Thursday, March 9, 2017

It Keeps Ancestry’s Kendall Hulet Up At Nights -- #RootsTech

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I had a chance to speak with Ancestry’s Kendall Hulet at RootsTech 2017 . Kendall has been with Ancestry since about 2003 and has risen to t...
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Family Tree Futures Presented at #RootsTech

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At RootsTech 2017 Ron Tanner, group product manager for FamilySearch, presented a session titled “FamilySearch: Family Tree Futures.” Ron p...