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Free online classes from the Family History Library
announced that it is making its popular classes available for free on FamilySearch.org.
Now you can access these classes at anytime you wish. Quoting from an
article in the… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 15, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments
Should New FamilySearch be a wiki?
another of my many, many relatives has added yet another set of birth
dates or death dates to one of my grandfathers, great-grandfathers or
great-great-grandfathers (or grandmothers). These regular additions to
the existing information in New FamilySearch would not be nearly… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 12, 2010 at 10:19pm — No Comments
More thoughts on the 10 generation issue
documenting 10 generations. Please see "Documenting
10 Generations Revisited" by Randy Seaver and
follow his links. I realize that the topic died a rather quick death in
the blog community. But there is an underlying issue, what kind of
documentation is… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 10, 2010 at 8:57am — No Comments
Can you document 10 generations?
post on Genea-Musings
entitled "Can you document all names back 10 generations" highlights a
few interesting issues. One of the first is the fact that I write this
blog from way outside the "in" group of genealogy… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 9, 2010 at 8:59am — 1 Comment
TV Show has huge impact on Google searches
Are?," one thing is very evident, Google searches on the term
"genealogy" have spiked in the last couple of days. At the bottom of
this Blog page there is an app that shows the number of Google searches
for two terms, "genealogy" and "family history." Both terms show a
decided upswing in the last few days. The increase in searching for
"genealogy" is dramatic given the recent history.…
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Added by James Tanner on March 8, 2010 at 8:08am — No Comments
10.4 million free records added to RecordSearch
astronomical scale. FamilySearch's
Record Search announces the addition of New York State to the 1920
U.S. Census records already online. This addition constitutes an
additional 10.4 million names. With all of the other records being added
daily to the Internet, why… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 8, 2010 at 7:56am — No Comments
Record Search adds more Mexican States to the Catholic Church Records
FamilySearch's Record
Search Pilot has just added Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa and
Sonora to the Mexico Catholic Church records. This brings the total
number of states and regions contained in the collection to twelve. If
you are unaware, Mexico… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 7, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
Google completes 500,000 volume digitization project with University of Texas
In a recent post on Inside Google Books, Google announced completion of their digitization
project with the University of Texas Libraries and the inclusion of over
500,000 unique Latin American volumes…
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Added by James Tanner on March 7, 2010 at 2:01pm — No Comments
Experiment confirms New FamilySearch hypothesis
program or its programmers. It appears, that despite their best efforts,
the relatively unsophisticated users of the program do not understand
or cannot follow the instructions and can thereby ignorantly produce
extensive duplication.
Having observed thousands of Ordinance Cards printed from New… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 6, 2010 at 8:05pm — No Comments
Record Search adds records from Illinois and the Netherlands
Record Search has added over 500,000 records from the Cook County,
Illinois Birth Certificate records. The collection includes the City of
Chicago and covers the time period from 1878 to 1922 containing over 1.5
million names. New records were also added to the Netherlands, Gelderland
Province Civil Registration. The collection… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 2, 2010 at 6:18pm — No Comments
WorldCat.org, Google Books and more...
libraries worldwide and catalogs over 1.5 billion items. Google Books
contains over 10,000,000 digitized books and magazines. WorldCat.org
and Google Books are now interlinked. If you search for a book on
Google Books and find the item, one of the options is to find the item
in a library. Clicking on this option gives you a link to… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 28, 2010 at 4:42pm — No Comments
New FamilySearch Questions finally get public airing
article in Mormon Times, opens the door for almost the first time,
to a main stream airing of some of the most glaring problems with New FamilySearch.
Although the article is low key, it points out some of more difficult
issues with the program. If you have been following the development of
the program at all, you will… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 26, 2010 at 8:22am — 2 Comments
Researching genealogy at the Library of Congress
years old, is recognized as the largest library in the United States and
has claims to being the largest library in the world. Its collections
are described as follows:
In 1992, the Library acquired its 100 millionth item. The collections now include
approximately fifteen million books, thirty-nine million manuscripts,
thirteen million photographs, four million maps, more… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 23, 2010 at 6:50pm — No Comments
Additional thoughts on the revolutionary challenge of New FamilySearch
(NFS) is
much more than a simple database of names, it is a revolutionary way of
presenting genealogical information that has far reaching and even
revolutionary consequences to the way family information is stored,
displayed and maintained. One aspect of the program (if you can call it
that) is the extensive help system.… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 22, 2010 at 8:29am — No Comments
The revolutionary challenge of New FamilySearch
change to become evident in any human activity. Genealogy has always
been a very narrow and some-what esoteric study. But now, FamilySearch's
New FamilySearch
(NFS)
database constitutes a revolutionary challenge to… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 21, 2010 at 10:12pm — No Comments
Reccord Search adds records from Norfolk, England and Paraiba, Brazil
The newest addition to FamilySearch's Record Search are the Norfolk, Church of England Parish Registers
from 1538 to 1900 and the Brazil, Paraiba region Civil Registrations from
1870 to 2006.
Read… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 20, 2010 at 3:42pm — No Comments
More comments on Back to Basics on Genealogical Research
I know it isn't his original quote, but Val D. Greenwood says, "A good cookbook does not make a good cook." (Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy.
Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2000). Neither does good
genealogical instruction… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 16, 2010 at 6:18pm — No Comments
FamilySearch Record Search Update February 14, 2010
has just added 16 counties to the Arkansas County Marriages. It has
also published the Mexico Catholic Church Records consolidating all of
the previously separately published Catholic Church records from
different areas in Mexico. Records from… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 14, 2010 at 2:03pm — No Comments
Back to basics in genealogical research--duplication of effort
There is a appropriate analogy to many of the questions I am asked at the Mesa Regional Family History Center, it is called building bridges
in the air. In genealogical terms it is called starting with the three
brothers that came from Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany, Norway or
where ever. Quoting from Val Greenwood, (Greenwood, Val D. The …
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Added by James Tanner on February 12, 2010 at 6:50pm — No Comments
How many digital books are there online?
The thought occurred to me to try and determine how many digitized books are now (as of February, 2010) online. Then, I would try to
estimate/guess how many of those are genealogy related.
I realize that the task is likely impossible, but I would like to have some idea of the magnitude of the online book community. My first stop
is Google Books. It appears that Google doesn't… Continue
Added by James Tanner on February 10, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments
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