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James Tanner's Blog – March 2010 Archive (23)
Genealogy e-Book publishing
out the cost of self-publishing a bound book. It is sort-of like the
sticker shock of trying to buy a new car. Now all that is in the past.
With the advent of the new e-readers like the Amazon
Kindle, Apple… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 31, 2010 at 9:18pm — No Comments
Finding Kerlin's Well -- the search continues
we drove north out of Phoenix by way of Prescott to the small community
of Ashfork
which is west of Flagstaff on I40. The only directions we had to the
rock where my great-grandfather carved his name in 1877 was the brief
description of "9 miles north of… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 30, 2010 at 8:15am — No Comments
Several new features in update of New FamilySearch
the program in addition to the mandatory use of the LDS Account and
User Profile. See previous post. These new changes are outlined in the PDF document,
"What's New in the New… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 29, 2010 at 8:35pm — No Comments
New FamilySearch password upgrade mandatory today
As of today, 29 March 2010, you must register for the new LDS Account to
gain access to New FamilySearch. Quoting from the New FamilySearch startup page,
We are changing the sign-in system…Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 29, 2010 at 8:36am — No Comments
Changes in New FamilySearch's API force updates to connecting programs
you will likely see a notice of an upgrade. Programs connecting to the
New FamilySearch
program are all being substantially changed by changes in the API or
application programming interface. Quoting from… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 29, 2010 at 8:16am — No Comments
Developing a metageanalogy
is the study of the nature, aims and methods of philosophy. I would
submit that, in the same vein, a metagenealogy would be the study of the
nature, aims and methods of genealogy. I did not originate the term "metagenealogy"
but its previous use, as far as I can… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 28, 2010 at 9:49pm — No Comments
Finding Kerlin's Well -- I begin the search
turns out to be very elusive. March in northern Arizona is an
interesting month. Warm sunny days can turn icy cold and very windy. Our
first expedition turned out to have all types of weather.
Read… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 28, 2010 at 2:43pm — No Comments
Finding Kerlin's Well -- a study in genealogy research
Well is real departure from my usual topics and format. This story
begins about 130 years ago in northern Arizona on the Beale Wagon Road.
Henry Martin Tanner, my great-grandfather was traveling across Arizona
in a wagon to settle on the Little Colorado River at a place called
Allen's Camp. Along the way they suffered greatly from lack of water,
not an unusual problem in Arizona at the… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 24, 2010 at 9:23pm — No Comments
Over 60,000 books scanned in Family History Archive
Family History Archive passed the 60,000 mark for items scanned into
the free online digital library. As of March 24, 2010 the total was
60,144 items. As described by the Family History Archives Website
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Added by James Tanner on March 24, 2010 at 8:28am — No Comments
Fair use and genealogy
information without permission. Genealogy is made up of two large
components; narratives and facts. Names, birth dates, death dates,
relationships, and other "facts" are not subject to a claim of
copyright. Writings, interpretations, narratives, photographs, designs,
drawings and many other original works are subject to a claim of
copyright. In addition, ideas are not subject to copyright. A list… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 21, 2010 at 4:28pm — 1 Comment
Claiming a copyright
cases, those documents many be subject to claims of copyright. It is far
easier to claim a copyright to an old document than to actually prove a
claim for breach of copyright. It is not uncommon to find references to
a copyright for documents that are clearly, legally not subject to any
possible copyright. Unfortunately, most discussions of copyright issues
are rather more inclusive than… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 18, 2010 at 9:13am — No Comments
New Registration and Sign-in for FamilySearch Websites
the genealogical organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is moving towards using a unified sign-in system for all of their Websites. This change will allow users to have the same
user name and password, not only for all FamilySearch Websites, but for other general LDS Church Websites as well. Because some of the sites have information specific to members of the Church, there
are two basic systems; an "LDS Account" for those who are Church… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 17, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments
Almost 2.5 million records added to Record Search
Record Search has added nearly 2.5 million images of the
Netherlands, Zuid-Holland Province Civil Registrations from 1811 to 1942
and additional records to the Netherlands, Gelderland Province Civil
Registrations from 1811 to 1950.
Read more...
Added by James Tanner on March 16, 2010 at 8:52am — No Comments
Free online classes from the Family History Library
announced that it is making its popular classes available for free on FamilySearch.org.
Now you can access these classes at anytime you wish. Quoting from an
article in the… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 15, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments
Should New FamilySearch be a wiki?
another of my many, many relatives has added yet another set of birth
dates or death dates to one of my grandfathers, great-grandfathers or
great-great-grandfathers (or grandmothers). These regular additions to
the existing information in New FamilySearch would not be nearly… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 12, 2010 at 10:19pm — No Comments
More thoughts on the 10 generation issue
documenting 10 generations. Please see "Documenting
10 Generations Revisited" by Randy Seaver and
follow his links. I realize that the topic died a rather quick death in
the blog community. But there is an underlying issue, what kind of
documentation is… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 10, 2010 at 8:57am — No Comments
Can you document 10 generations?
post on Genea-Musings
entitled "Can you document all names back 10 generations" highlights a
few interesting issues. One of the first is the fact that I write this
blog from way outside the "in" group of genealogy… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 9, 2010 at 8:59am — 1 Comment
TV Show has huge impact on Google searches
Are?," one thing is very evident, Google searches on the term
"genealogy" have spiked in the last couple of days. At the bottom of
this Blog page there is an app that shows the number of Google searches
for two terms, "genealogy" and "family history." Both terms show a
decided upswing in the last few days. The increase in searching for
"genealogy" is dramatic given the recent history.…
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Added by James Tanner on March 8, 2010 at 8:08am — No Comments
10.4 million free records added to RecordSearch
astronomical scale. FamilySearch's
Record Search announces the addition of New York State to the 1920
U.S. Census records already online. This addition constitutes an
additional 10.4 million names. With all of the other records being added
daily to the Internet, why… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 8, 2010 at 7:56am — No Comments
Record Search adds more Mexican States to the Catholic Church Records
FamilySearch's Record
Search Pilot has just added Baja Sur, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa and
Sonora to the Mexico Catholic Church records. This brings the total
number of states and regions contained in the collection to twelve. If
you are unaware, Mexico… Continue
Added by James Tanner on March 7, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments
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