Thursday, February 23, 2023

Farewell again to FamilySearch

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Update I was going to update this with the good news that FamilySearch had once again made their pages accessible, and that for the last fe...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

FamilySearch Place Names Chaos redux

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Yet another example of the way in which FamilySearch is gradually destroying the records it has taken decades to collect. This is the thir...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

FamilySearch Place Names Chaos

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A few months ago I posted an article about FamilySearch's "standardized place names" introducing errors (see FamilySearch Intr...
Friday, October 29, 2021

FamilySearch introducing errors

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Genealogists using FamilySearch should be aware that FamilySearch, like some other interactive genealogy web sites, has begun introducing au...
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Monday, September 07, 2020

JSTOR resources during COVID-19 | About JSTOR

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JSTOR resources during COVID-19 | About JSTOR : Expanded free access for everyone through December 31, 2020 26 journal archives in Pu...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

A shirt-tail cousin, and other relationship terms

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About 45 years ago I had a letter from a distant cousin on the Growdon side of the family, Monica Louise Deragowski of New Orleans in the US...
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Monday, August 24, 2020

Getting the best out of FamilySearch

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On several online forums I have been reading complaints from people who are upset because they "started their family tree" on Fami...
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Saturday, August 08, 2020

Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry, Leading Online Family History Business

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Blackstone to Acquire Ancestry, Leading Online Family History Business, for $4.7 Billion - Blackstone : New York, August 5, 2020 – Blackst...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Farm and family in early nineteenth-century Fife : the diary of Thomas Graham Bonar of Greigston

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Farm and family in early nineteenth-century Fife : the diary of Thomas Graham Bonar of Greigston : The Greigston diary was written by Tho...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Notes from a small island

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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson My rating: 4 of 5 stars For years I've been living under a totally mistaken impression of...
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Sunday, March 01, 2020

Society of Genealogists and FamilySearch announce partnership to digitize family histories - Society of Genealogists

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Society of Genealogists and FamilySearch announce partnership to digitize family histories - Society of Genealogists : The Society of Genea...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Free pedigree page downloads from JayDax

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Free pedigree page downloads from JayDax : Two free HTML pedigree chart template files are available; a simple chart and an advanced chart ...
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Friday, January 10, 2020

Rootsweb genealogy mailing lists to close

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The announcement was made almost secretively: Rootsweb mailing lists for genealogists will be closing on 2 March 2020. For three decades R...
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Put not your trust in the Internet to keep your data safe

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Over the last decade I've noticed a change in the way people speak of genealogy software. In the past we assumed that the software was...
Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Mega-List of Paying Markets for Horror, Dark Fiction and Poetry

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Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Mega-List of Paying Markets for Horror, Dark Fiction and Poetry : Much like other genres of spe...