One of the effects of using online genealogical databases in our research is that we need to enter a country name to completely identify each family history location. Back in the day before online databases, American researchers just assumed that readers of their research reports about American ancestors would know that a location reference was
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Hooray! Ancestry.com Adds New York Death Records
If you have ever tried to research death records in New York State, you know it was a big pain. The state death index existed only on microfilm and was accessible only in a half dozen libraries across the state. You had to know the year of death to be able to browse these records
Read on »More on Gift of Family History from Finland
Yesterday, I received the email below from my brother, Walfrid. It was a follow-up to the subject of my post on Aug 8 (http://www.collectingancestors.com/2017/08/10/a-gift-of-family-info-from-finland/ ) Wallace, Attached is my translation of Kaapro Kustaanpoika Huuskonen. I had help from Matti [a cousin in Finland and the provider of the subject biography] in translating a couple of places,
Read on »Uncle Walter’s Marriage Found Online
Today, I opened one of the hints on Ancestry.com and it led me to the marriage record of my great uncle Walter Chase Dingman. I had visited the Archives for Trumbull County, Ohio, in Warren, more than 15 years ago to obtain a paper copy of this marriage record. Now it is available online. If
Read on »Ancestry.com Serious about Developing Its People Resources
The following announcement was issued recently by Ancestry.com: LEHI, Utah and SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2017 — Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, today announced that Evan Wittenberg, most recently the Senior Vice President of People at Box, Inc., has joined the company in the new position of Chief People Officer.
Read on »Conversion to LastPass
Well, here I am again. Finally. I have been very busy daily for more than a week with transitioning from Roboform as my password manager to LastPass. I have completed that process and checked out each of 195 different log-in/sign-in items. They all work after I updated some obsolete URLs and passwords in my Roboform database.
Read on »RootsMagic Releases New Version with TreeShare with Ancestry.com
Yesterday was an exciting day. RootsMagic finally released its TreeShare functionality with Ancestry.com. This means that a RootsMagic family tree can be linked with an Ancestry.com family tree. Hints from Ancestry will show up in the shared RootsMagic tree. And changes made in either tree can be carried over to the other. This requires downloading
Read on »Flu Pandemic Claims a WWI Soldier from Ohio
This is another installment in my ongoing WWI research to commemorate America’s Centennial of entering the War in 1917. “To Appear Saturday” read the headline on page 9 in the Hutchinson News for Tuesday, 16 Jul 1918. The Reno County, Kansas, newspaper was reporting that local men had been notified to appear for physical examinations: Thirty-three
Read on »RootsMagic Moving Closer to Syncing with Ancestry.com Family Trees
Thanks to Randy Seaver and his Genea-Musing blog, I was able to view a video created by Bruce Buzbee about how his RootsMagic personal computer database program (Version 7) will shortly be able to “sync” with family trees in Ancestry.com. His post is here: http://www.geneamusings.com/2017/05/rootsmagic-provides-video-demonstrating.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geneamusings%2FlEXw+%28Genea-Musings%29. The new capabilities of RootsMagic 7 in working with trees in
Read on »Shocked To See Ancestry.com Advertising on The O’Reilly Factor
Because of the recent news about sexual harassment cases involving Bill O’Reilly on Fox News, and because of the news about advertisers leaving his show, The O’Reilly Factor, in droves, I tuned in last evening. I don’t normally watch Fox News; MSNBC is more to my taste. I wanted to see who remained as advertisers
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