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File formats for saving "original" photos -- Part Four
raises a number of major fundamental issues including most importantly,
the survivability of the format in the long term. The most recent issue
of the Family Tree
magazine has an article on Endangered Sources by Lisa A. Alzo. The article identifies various… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 29, 2010 at 8:15pm — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies? Additional Information
First, please notice the links in the sidebar to the individual articles
in each series. I will work at keeping them up to date.
Second:
Ian Tester from findmypast.com left
the following comment:
Just FYI, brightsolid online publishing have also recently acquired the FriendsReunited group, including genesreunited.co.uk which is the number 2 player in the UK market (behind…Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 28, 2010 at 6:11pm — No Comments
File formats for saving "original" photos -- Part Three
that I put the term "original" in quotes. The reason for that is
simple, what is an "original"? In pre-computer, pre-copy machine days,
the concept of an original was very much an issue. For example, in court
proceedings, we would often get into discussions about whether or not
the original document was being presented in court and whether a copy
could be substituted for the original. Those… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 25, 2010 at 6:12pm — No Comments
File formats for saving "original" photos -- Part Two
post on this subject, I covered some of my experiences with getting
into digital cameras. The point of that discussion was that the file
format used to store digital images depends on the availability of those
formats both from the hardware (the camera or scanner) and the
software. Before I can discuss this further, I need a few definitions.
First of… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 25, 2010 at 8:04am — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Four
installments of this series, I have been examining the ownership of
the larger genealogy oriented companies. In this post I examine GenealogyBank.com. Corporate
offices of the GenealogyBank are in Naples, Florida and their
"Operations and Production Facility" is located in Chester, Vermont.
They characterize there… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 24, 2010 at 8:26am — No Comments
File formats for saving "original" photos -- Part One
Save Original Photos in JPEG Format!"
got me thinking again about the format for storing digital images. One
of the first issues that came to mind was the limitations imposed by the
camera you select. Many of the consumer… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 23, 2010 at 12:53pm — No Comments
Guardian of research resources -- The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Associations and Institutions or IFLA characterizes itself as the
"global voice of the library and information profession." The
Genealogical and Local History Section of the IFLA has as its scope:
Our mission is to be a voice for genealogy and local history librarians in the international information community, to…Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 22, 2010 at 8:03pm — No Comments
In pursuit of Kerlin's Well -- a breakthrough
days ago, I was checking voice mail and found a message from Jack Beale
Smith. Mr. Smith is the author of a book on Kerlin's Well. In… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 21, 2010 at 6:17pm — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Three
Publicly owned corporations (even if only part of the stock is owned by
the public) have a whole stack of legal rules to follow concerning
financial reporting and ownership. For example, Ancestry.com's reports
are on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website.… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 18, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments
Scanning old film negatives
Those of you who are a little older may recall that when you took your
black and white film to be developed, you… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 17, 2010 at 8:37am — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies? Part Two
It is very difficult to rank the size of genealogy companies because there is no real category in the business world for genealogy. In a real sense, the genealogy companies are all information and service
companies. They either sell a service, such as printing charts, or
information, like databases of source documents and indexes. Although
Ancestry.com is clearly the leader, second place is a little more
problematical since Ancestry.com has several large sub-brand names…
Added by James Tanner on May 16, 2010 at 5:58pm — No Comments
Google Language Tools -- a boon to genealogists
You can type a search phrase in your own language, then Google Language
Tools will translate your search terms into the target language and
find results in the target language. Then translate the results back
into your own language for you to read. Google gives the following
example:…
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Added by James Tanner on May 15, 2010 at 5:09pm — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies? -- a comment
talked about Ancestry.com. One of my readers pointed out that
Ancestry.com is now publicly
traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Underwriters for the deal included Morgan Stanley,
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Jefferies
& Co. and Piper Jaffray & Co. It will trade under… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 13, 2010 at 8:24am — No Comments
Who owns the genealogy companies?
production, transportation and sale of goods and services, particularly
information services, in larger and larger international corporations.
The Internet reflects the world at large in concentrating a lot of
resources under the control of a few very large organizations. Perhaps,
finding out who owns and runs these organizations and where they are
located would be an eye opener. To discover this… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 10:13pm — No Comments
Genealogy's Star among MyHeritage.com’s Top 100 Genealogy Sites
of MyHeritage.com. As you can see from the
badge, Genealogy's Star was selected among the top
100 genealogy sites in the world. If you were to go back in my
archives, you would find that I have been… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 12, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments
Doing Research in Real Time
Time-An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!" (F308), at the text" title="http://www.ngsgenealogy.org" rel="nofollow"">National
Genealogical Society 2010 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. ,
presented by… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 11, 2010 at 11:11am — No Comments
Google Chrome vs. Firefox -- a genealogist's perspective
more interested in genealogy than they are in technology per se. Since both
avocations take a great deal of time, it is not surprising that they
would make decisions more in favor of doing genealogy than tinkering
around with the newest technological whiz bang. Some times I think my
brain is going explode trying to keep up even partially… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 9, 2010 at 9:30pm — No Comments
Bing vs. Google revisited for genealogists
in Mesa, Arizona, I frequently find that the Microsoft Bing search
engine has been activated on different computers. Bing was unveiled by
Microsoft on May 28, 2009 and went online on June 3, 2009, so it is
almost one year old. In one year, Bing has risen to become the third
largest search engine on the web by query volume. … Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 7, 2010 at 6:21pm — No Comments
Graphics in Genealogy Programs -- a review
Added by James Tanner on May 5, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments
New Web services may impact finding your family history
Times by Michael De Groote, Alan E. Mann, manager of
Genealogical Community Services told an audience at BYU's
Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy about ten new
web services that are changing the ways we share… Continue
Added by James Tanner on May 2, 2010 at 2:32pm — 1 Comment
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