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Friday, June 6, 2025

Major update to FamilySearch England Jurisdictions 1851 Map

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https://www.familysearch.org/en/labs/   The England Jurisdictions Map of 1851 has been a long-time FamilySearch.org feature. It has disappea...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

FamilySearch Catalog marks Full-Text search collections

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 The FamilySearch.org Catalog You might or might not have noticed sone new icons in the FamilySearch.org Catalog. Here is a closer screensh...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Over 1000 free genealogy videos

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  https://www.youtube.com/@BYULibraryFamilyHistory Just a reminder that the BYU Library Family History Center continues to post three or fou...

Reclaim the Records won the first-ever public release of the FULL New York State Death Index, from 1880 through the end of 2017

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Reclaim the Records  Quoting from the announcement: Reclaim The Records, a non-profit organization dedicated to government transparency and ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Computer Disk Storage Prices Continue to Decline

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  If you want to keep it, back it up. Computers and the associated devices are consumables. They are not investments. That means that any el...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Why is Thomas Hicks a revolving door ancestor?

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  Thomas Hicks MDCG-YHY is a revolving door ancestor.  He was called to my attention by a guest of the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake Cit...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Is AI helpful or merely trivial?

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As a genealogist, there is a division between activities that help and support genealogical/historical research and those that are mere play...