The Ancestry Insider

The unofficial, unauthorized view of Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org. The Ancestry Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these two websites and associated topics. The author attempts to fairly and evenly support both.

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...
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