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FamilySearch Record Search more than doubles the number of collections
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
Record Search adds almost 4 million Non-conformist records
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
images of old photographs.
digitization process involves creating a numerical representation of the
information…
Added by James Tanner on April 26, 2010 at 9:46pm — No Comments
What do I need to know and do to restore damaged photographs? Part Two
The photo above was scanned from small, 3 x 5 inch photo. As you can see the
original is badly creased and torn. After spending some time with Adobe
Photoshop, here is the first pass at removing some of the most obvious
defects: (Click on the images to get a full size view).…
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Added by James Tanner on April 25, 2010 at 7:19pm — No Comments
What do I need to restore damaged photographs? Part One
In the recent episode of Who Do
You Think You Are, Susan Sarandon carried around a old laminated
photo of her grandmother. With today's technology, she could have had
the old photo scanned and restored, however, that was never mentioned in
the episode. Neither did they mention, later on in the… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 25, 2010 at 8:54am — No Comments
Please read the interview with David E. Rencher on NFS
of Genea-Musings
has a multi-part
interview with David E. Rencher, Chief Genealogical Officer for…
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Added by James Tanner on April 23, 2010 at 8:35am — No Comments
Who was Ralph Carum Tanner? And why do I care?
Family Tree containing information supposedly about my
Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner. Primary in those problems was
the addition of three extra children to the Henry Martin/Eliza Ellen
Tanner Family including one "Ralph Carum Tanner." In searching the Web and in
New… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 21, 2010 at 9:41pm — No Comments
Contradictions in genealogical research
Great-grandfather, Henry Martin Tanner, on Ancestry.com. This is not an
observation about Ancestry.com as such, but more about the legions of
people who post their family records online. When I look at the entries
for Henry Tanner, I find what I already know, that he had two wives (and
at the same time also). But that is not the issue, one of the
contributors to Ancestry.com has Henry Tanner listed with his… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 21, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment
RootsMagic 4 Releases Update with FamilySearch AutoMatch
the program becomes the first software program to automatically match
people with their counterparts on New FamilySearch. In an announcement dated
March 26, 2009, the company;s news release stated:
As… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 20, 2010 at 9:17am — No Comments
Clicking on green arrows
life completely involved in genealogy. Back in the early to mid 1900s
she used the limited resources she had available in Salt Lake City, Utah
combined with the U.S. Mail, to research thousands of individuals.
After inheriting her huge files, I spent another ten years or so
digitizing and entering all of the information into computer files.
Grandmother Morgan had three children before her husband… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 19, 2010 at 8:07pm — No Comments
Impressions of the iPad
computer and good number of hours each week in genealogy related tasks. I
am always interested at anything that might make my life a little
faster or easier, although I would debate whether or not computers
really make life any easier. Since I have been working on a hourly rate
and keeping track of my time for over 35 years, I am acutely aware of
how much time it takes to perform tasks on a computer.… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 18, 2010 at 8:52pm — No Comments
Why I use Apple computers especially for genealogy
all the rest of my computing. The obvious first question is why waste
time/money/frustration with using a computer to do Windows 7 in
emulation when I can be a "just as fast" PC for less money? The
beginning response is that the Quad Core i5 iMac is a lot
faster than even I need for my thousands of graphic files, videos, audio
files… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 17, 2010 at 5:35pm — No Comments
Apples big and small for genealogy -- Part One
Apple Inc. is a topic that draws both praise and criticism. In case you have been on an expedition to somewhere they don't have telephone, TV or Internet service, you may not be aware that Apple has just released a new product called the iPad. Apple now sells six, soon to be seven, major product lines, MacBook laptop computers, Macintosh desktop computers,…
ContinueAdded by James Tanner on April 16, 2010 at 2:00pm — No Comments
Searching for perfect in genealogy programs
but like running after rainbows, you just never know, you might finally
find what you are looking for. In response to a comment on one of my
posts, I decided to compile a wish list of features I would like to see
in my perfect genealogy program. All of the perfect features fall into
three categories; necessary, useful and imaginary. You will likely
recognize some or all of these features in many… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 16, 2010 at 8:42am — No Comments
Closing in on Kerlin's Well
Ewing Young led a large trapping party west from Taos, which at
the time was still part of Mexico, over the Mogollon
Plateau (now the Colorado Plateau) and west along the south side of the
Grand Canyon… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 15, 2010 at 9:07am — No Comments
What do we mean by features in genealogy programs?
are highlighted by the promotional materials. For one example, if you
look at the Family Tree Maker Website,
you will see a link to product features. Often, the features of…
Added by James Tanner on April 14, 2010 at 7:40pm — 2 Comments
More Apple Genealogy
Genealogy. John Newmark
in his TransylvanianDutch
Genealogy & Family History blog had a lot of comments. All of
his comments, as usual, are very good and to the point. I do agree with
his… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 13, 2010 at 9:14pm — No Comments
Apple for genealogy
doing genealogy on Apple Macintosh computers. As it turns out, the list
of available programs is very limited, and there are barely enough
offerings to make the Macintosh a viable platform for those doing their
family history. But there are at least two or three programs that
compete favorably with anything available on the Windows/PC type
computers.
The now old Personal Ancestral… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 13, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments
Apple Computers and genealogy -- all things great and small
II with a primitive program that was entirely text based and used a dot
matrix printer with fan-fold paper. I remember that I ended up
re-entering my entire file a number of times either due to data crashes
or to incompatible upgrades. The amount of information about each
individual and family was minimal, but the promise of organization and
convenience was worth the effort to keep entering… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 12, 2010 at 9:03am — No Comments
Using information from New FamilySearch
Center ask me about a problem she was having with New FamilySearch.
She had a huge pile of printouts from her Personal Ancestral File
program and was methodically going through each one and comparing the
information to that found in New FamilySearch. She was… Continue
Added by James Tanner on April 9, 2010 at 8:37am — No Comments
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