I’ve had great fun this weekend catching up with RootsTech activity. From the formal web streams, to blog posts, and videos produced by those on site, I’ve truly enjoyed it. Among my favorite of the material I took in this weekend though was to hear the update from Ron Tanner on FamilySearch’s Family Tree. After […]
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When the 1940 US Community Census Project was announced, I wondered if I’d even take the time to participate. However, I quickly realized this would be a great opportunity to become more familiar with the FamilySearch Indexing software and give back at the same time. Soon after signing up, I decided to go ahead and
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This morning I was quite happy to see that the US Community Project has shared information from societies participating in the indexing on their Society Dashboard. I am pleased that the group I’ve coordinated – the TNGenWeb Project, has placed 10th in the list of “large” societies! Our group currently has 36 members and they
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This has been a fun day! With the release of the 1940 census there has been a lot of excitement among many to see the records. Technical glitches abounded online as unexpected demand crashed the NARA website but there was still plenty to do. What did I do? I made a half-hearted attempt to locate
I added a new icon to my sidebar this evening — the 1940 Census Ambassador Badge. I joined last week as I am going to be contributing to the creation of the index. So much has been made available online about the upcoming census that I will not rehash here. In short, when the census
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Tonight while going onto the FamilySearch website to look for a death certificate in TN, I saw two new collections in their list of records. Just added today, these browsable only collections are: Tennessee Probate Court Records, 1795-1927 – has records from Carroll, Carter, Coffee, Davidson, Dickson, Franklin, Hardin, Hawkins, Henderson, Henry, Johnson, Lauderdale, Lincoln, Madison,
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For my professional work I am a knowledge management information specialist. That means I help people manage and organize information. It is clear to me that I was meant to do this for I LOVE to work with and organize information. With the explosion that occurred this past weekend with RootsTech I saw an opportunity
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Over the past few months I have been contributing to FamilySearch’s Research Wiki. In August I did a post describing my overall & positive impressions of the site. Essentially, it could become the Wikipedia for Genealogy if enough of us contribute to it. FamilySearch already has an impressive number of volunteers contributing to the Indexing
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I love newspapers. I truly do. Anything I can do to promote their accessibility is one of my passions. I am pleased now to learn that an African-American newspaper of Evansville, Indiana (where my husband’s family is from), is now available in it’s online! The Evansville Argus was published from June 25, 1938 – October
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Today while reading a blog post on the FamilySearch blog, a phrase they used with regard to their Research Wiki caught my eye — the blog post mentions that anyone using the wiki “need look no further” than their Research Wiki. The Research Wiki, while a great resource, is far from needing to be the