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The Ancestry Insider
http://ancestryinsider.blogspot.com/
The unofficial, unauthorized view of the big genealogy websites. Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org aren't the best communicators, leaving a need for the Ancestry Insider. The Insider reports on, defends, and constructively criticizes these organizations.
Our Future Rooted in Our Past
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Our Future Rooted in Our Past is dedicated to reviewing the various website available for Genealogists and Family Historians for research and education of the genealogical research process.
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Crash Course in Family History
The Ancestry Insider | December 15th 2009 by Ancestry Insider
This is one in a series of reviews. Important legal notices concerning my reviews can be found at ancestryinsider.blogspot.com . At the Salt Lake City Family History Expo many months ago Paul Larsen, author of Crash Course in Family History : An Eas read more
State Census Records Online
AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors | December 13th 2009 by Miriam Robbins Midkiff
With the announcement Wednesday from Ancestry that they had added the Nebraska State Census of 1885 to their collection, I realized that there is a plethora of state census records now available online, something that wasn't in existence ten, even fi read more
Internet Genealogy Going Down?
The Ancestry Insider | December 11th 2009 by Ancestry Insider
First off, rumors of my demise have been premature. I may be preoccupied with the dead, but I still occupy a place among the living. More on my silence in just a moment. Second off, rumors of the demise of Internet genealogy are also premature. Yes, read more
Utah: 'Genealogical pit bull' Helen Radkey
Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog | December 8th 2009 by Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Helen Radkey has been instrumental in uncovering posthumous baptisms of Jews in the LDS church records. Two stories on Friday in the Salt Lake Tribune focused on her work and the new FamilySearch system that may not stop inappropriate names slipping read more
Free Cheshire Poll Records
English Ancestors | December 6th 2009 by janetmc
The Cheshire ,England Register of Electors 1842 to 1900 is available here free. If you are unsure of dates or place then just try the name of the person you are looking for .http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1415240;p=coll read more
Greek Surnames - Searching Indexes
HellenicGenealogyGeek | December 3rd 2009 by Georgia Keilman
Greek Surnames Do you have Greek ancestors who migrated to the United States or Canada but you can’t find them on any of the passenger ship indexes? Do you think you have tried all the alternate spellings when doing your searches? I ran acro read more
FamilySearch Indexing, You Confuse Me
Begin with 'Craft' | December 2nd 2009 by Valerie Craft
I've been trying to be more active indexing with FamilySearch Indexing, especially since The Georgia Archive is asking for help indexing their 1928-29 death certificates. I always find that it's easier to transcribe local documents, because you're read more
Paradox is Indexing
Enduring to the End | November 29th 2009 by Paradox
One of the claims to fame for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is our interest in genealogy. One of the programs in the Church that allows us to do this is FamilySearch Indexing, where we digitize the handwritten data--census reco read more
Research: Online: Using the IGI
Genea-blog-y: The Genealogy Blog | November 23rd 2009
One of the most useful web sites for researching your family tree is the IGI (International Genealogical Index) database, at FamilySearch.org. This site contains thousands of baptismal/christening, marriage and death records from all over the world, read more
Adding Other Search Providers to RootsMagic 4 WebSearch
Genea-Musings | November 23rd 2009 by Randy Seaver
RootsMagic 4 has a number of Standard Search Providers in their WebSearch capability - they are Ancestry, Ancestry Message Boards, Family Search, Find a Grave, Footnote, Genealogy Bank, Google, Bing, Rootsweb, World Vital Records and Yahoo. That's w read more
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FamilySearch Record Search pilotMore free online records for Brazil, Massachusetts, Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.The states of Texas, Ohio, and Iowa were added to the U.S. 1920 Census at FamilySearch’…
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