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Memorial Tribute for Dan Duncan

A few weeks ago one of my clients, Dan Duncan, a well known businessman and philanthropist, passed away. His passing was unexpected and we were just days away from shooting new footage for a another tribute video on the Duncans. Both Dan and his wife Jan were chosen as the 2010 Tapestry Award recipients by Interfaith Ministries, a local non-profit whose mission is for all faiths to work together to create a more compassionate society.…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on May 5, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments

New software uses spreadsheet for 'shadow census' data

Check out the news article at http://www.ldnews.com/columns/ci_15002013# ; from the Lebanon Daily News, Pa

Added by Raelyn Davis on May 5, 2010 at 7:33am — No Comments

Then and Now

So I've been doing some genie searches for my "adoptive" Civil War people Nathaniel Ross and Gotifred Haffenstein of the 28th WI Volunteer infantry Co. H and Co. B respectfully. The 28th WI website has a compiled a list of the costs of gear that the men needed back then. I've added todays prices for the items I could find being made today that are similar to those of yester year. This how I will show the differences: Then/Now.

During Civil War/Now

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Added by Leeann Boone on May 3, 2010 at 5:45pm — No Comments

WANTED! Family History (aka Genealogy) Research Stories

My new book consists of stories about miracles that

happen while doing family history research--those uplifting occasions when you realize you've received help from beyond the veil finding vital information.

Wonderful things happen with family history and I feel many people around the world will enjoy reading about them.

If you’d like me to consider your story for inclusion in this book, please email me at xtrafam@yahoo.com as soon as…

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Added by Anne Bradshaw on May 3, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Researching in Spain- The Archbishop of Burgos's Archives

“El Archivo Diocesano de Burgos” is the archive for church records in the city of Burgos, Spain, located at the Archbishop’s palace next to the Burgos Cathedral. This northern city is also famous as the hometown of “El Cid”, the famous warrior also known as Francisco Diaz de Vivar, the national hero of Spain. Any church records no longer held at the individual churches are stored here. So, any very…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on May 3, 2010 at 8:02am — No Comments

New Web services may impact finding your family history

In an article reported in Mormon

Times by Michael De Groote, Alan E. Mann, manager of

Genealogical Community Services told an audience at BYU's

Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy about ten new

web services that are changing the ways we share… Continue

Added by James Tanner on May 2, 2010 at 2:32pm — 1 Comment

Clear Data Entry in Family Trees

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Added by Jo Kotylak on May 1, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

FamilySearch Beta Review

With the addition of over 300 million records to the FamilySearch

Record Search website and the same records to the FamilySearch Beta site, it is becoming

apparent that the now-traditional FamilySearch.org website will likely be

totally revamped in… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 30, 2010 at 8:25pm — No Comments

The Remake of True Grit-A Classic Western

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/02/24/true-grit-remake-is-really-happening-coen-brothers-cast-their-mattie-ross/

As you can see I'm not taking lightly to this! I watch the original for the bantering between Mattie Ross and Glen Campbell's Le Beuf!

Added by Leeann Boone on April 29, 2010 at 9:26pm — No Comments

Happy Belated Birthday and Early Angel Day Mom

I just want to take a moment to say happy birthday mom and happy angel day mom!
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30323245

Added by Leeann Boone on April 29, 2010 at 9:13pm — No Comments

FamilySearch 2010 Best New Window Application

April 27 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah- The MagiKey, LLC. (http://themagikey.com) is the winner of the FamilySearch 2010 Software award for "Best Windows Product" for its new genealogy software MagiKey Family Tree

with Census Tracker (patent pending). MagiKey Family Tree is designed

to research, record, organize, and share family history data, and opens,

reads, and saves in GEDCOM, the…

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Added by Raelyn Davis on April 29, 2010 at 5:28pm — No Comments

Announcement of over 300,000,000 records added to FamilySearch Beta

Apparently at the same time over 180 new collections of records were

added to FamilySearch's

Record Search (also known as Record Search Pilot) the same records

plus most of the existing records from the Record Search were added to

the … Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 28, 2010 at 7:34pm — No Comments

FamilySearch Record Search more than doubles the number of collections

In a little heralded and unannounced move, FamilySearch

has added more than double the number o records to its Record

Search Database. The number of collections went from 163 to 341

today, 27 April 2010. The list is incredible. Some of the countries that

have new records have never had an online presence previously, such as

Uruguay,… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 27, 2010 at 6:20pm — No Comments

Multimedia Storytelling Reaches Technological Heights with Brian Storm

At the end of March I attended an all-day workshop on Multimedia Storytelling led by Brian Storm of MediaStorm, an award-winning company based in New York and focused on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms.

The workshop was put on by FotoFest, a Houston based arts organization, as part of their 2010 Biennial.

FotoFest’s purpose “is to promote…

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Added by Stefani Twyford on April 27, 2010 at 11:57am — No Comments

Old San Juan Cemetery

A few months ago we took a vacation to Puerto Rico. It's the perfect place to explore early American Colonial History. San Juan was founded in 1521, and the explorer Ponce de Leon was one of…

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Added by Heather Wilkinson Rojo on April 27, 2010 at 11:07am — 1 Comment

Record Search adds almost 4 million Non-conformist records

FamilySearch's

Record Search has added a huge index of 3,920,183 records of

English Non-conformists held at the National Archives in London. These

records are known as RG4 through 8. For example, RG4 are

registers… Continue

Added by James Tanner on April 27, 2010 at 7:24am — No Comments

What do I need to know and do to restore damaged photos -- Part Three

In thinking about my last post, I realized that I had mentioned that all digital editing is destructive. That issue needs to be explained further especially to anyone involved in restoring scanned

images of old photographs.

Before taking even the first step in restoring old photos, you should understand what happens when an image is scanned or otherwise digitized. The

digitization process involves creating a numerical representation of the

information…

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Added by James Tanner on April 26, 2010 at 9:46pm — No Comments

Mom's Birthday Surprise, Need Your Help

HI Everyone,

I am asking for your help if you think this would be fun.

Mom will be 90 in June. I thought it would be fun if she received cards from people wishing her a 90th birthday. Someone mentioned 90 cards for 90th birthday, so that is my goal, the more the better.

My brother is giving her a celebration party but this is something she can remember and cherish for a long time.

She is the one that got me started in genealogy. I know some of you are… Continue

Added by Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico on April 26, 2010 at 6:17pm — 1 Comment

Northern Ireland Douglases

I am seeking help with these Northern Ireland families

Matthew Ford Married Elizabeth Knox in 1750. She was the sister of Viscount… Continue

Added by William Douglas on April 26, 2010 at 12:17pm — No Comments

The Mayflower - Some New Insights in a New Book

Making Haste from Babylon by Nick Bunker is a new history of the Mayflower Pilgrims with in-depth research from apparently hitherto untapped archives. Author Bunker also went to the places prominent in Mayflower history. It's a "non-standard, non-linear" history with promising trivia and anecdotes which shed new insight into the character and actions of the usually lauded and glossed-over reality of these men and women. It's true that "heritage"… Continue

Added by William S Dean on April 26, 2010 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment