2013 Ogden Family History Conference

The following is from the Odgen FamilySearch Library.

For more information, please click here:  Ogden FamilySearch Library/Conference

Free Access to Military Records

The following is from WorldVitalRecords.

Hi Renee, In acknowledgment of Memorial Day honoring the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, we are providing free access to the entireWorldVitalRecords Military Collection.  Journey back in time to some of the most important conflicts in the world's history that impacted millions of families in the United States of America and many other countries worldwide. This free offer ends May 28th, so hurry up and start your search today. Sincerely, The WorldVitalRecords Team

ANCESTRY.COM AND TLC TEAM UP FOR NEW SEASON OF "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"

The following is from Ancestry.com.

World's Largest Online Family History Resource Sponsors TV Series with Personal Look Inside the Ancestry of Beloved Celebrities

PROVO, Utah, May 21, 2013– Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, announces it has teamed up with TLC, Shed Media US and Is or Isn’t Entertainment as an integrated sponsor of the upcoming season of the “Who Do You Think You Are?” television series, premiering July 23.

“We are thrilled to be teaming up with TLC, Shed Media US and Is or Isn’t Entertainment to bring this entertaining and inspiring series back for another season,” said Rob Singer, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Ancestry.com. “Charting one’s family history helps each of us better understand who we are. Through the journeys of these celebrities, we hope millions of Americans will see just how life-changing and rewarding genealogy can be and begin researching their own family history to make discoveries that tell them who they are and where they came from.”

“Who Do You Think You Are?” explores the roots of celebrities who embark on an intense personal journey to discover their family’s past. Some of the celebrities to be featured in these all-new episodes include Christina Applegate, Cindy Crawford, and Zooey Deschanel. Each of the 8 hour-long episodes reveal the real person behind the celebrity as they come to understand the lives their ancestors lived that helped shape the person they are today. As part of the show sponsorship, Ancestry.com provides important family history research on each of the featured celebrities, which is used to build out the story of each episode.

Produced by Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky, the show is based on an original format created by Wall to Wall Media. An earlier version of the series previously aired on NBC for three seasons.

For those interested to discover who they think they are, Ancestry.com offers a 14-day free trial for all new members.

About Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is the world's largest online family history resource with approximately 2.7 million paying subscribers across all its websites. More than 11 billion records have been added to the Ancestry.com sites and users have created more than 47 million family trees containing more than 5 billion profiles. In addition to its flagship sitewww.ancestry.com, the company operates several Ancestry international websites along with a suite of online family history brands including Archives.com, Fold3.com and Newspapers.com, all designed to empower people to discover, preserve and share their family history.

FamilyInsight Will Not Sync with FamilySearch Family Tree.

I am a little behind in reading my email so I just stumbled upon this announcement in the Ohana Insights Spring 2013 Newsletter.  It confirms the rumors I heard that FamilyInsight will not be updated to sync with FamilySearch Family Tree.

Insights into FamilyInsight:  Change is in the Air 

After careful consideration we have decided that AncestorSync will become our vehicle to work with the FamilySearch Family Tree and FamilyInsight will return to its original purpose as a premier tool for cleanup, file to file comparison and update, and file conversion tool.  As collaboration options increase, these two programs will function well together so you can send files that are well maintained.

For now, FamilyInsight will continue to work with new FamilySearch as long as new.familysearch.org is viable. However, there are some features that you should not use. When you are in the Full Synchronization mode, do not combine or separate records.  If there are multiple possible matches, find the best match, mark it as a Match, mark the others as Not a Match, then synchronize the record. If a record has been incorrectly combined, you can no longer separate from within FamilyInsight as the FamilySearch Family Tree deals with this issue differently.  If you try to combine or separate records, you will receive an error message. 

If you choose to add new information to the record on FamilySearch, take the additional step to verify that the summary information is correct. You can do this using the FamilyInsight View/Change Summary button on the upper right part of the Details window. The summary information is updated to the Family Tree. 

AncestorSync is still in development and it is not ready for sale yet.  We have overcome huge obstacles and we are now focused on perfecting data retention for each file format that we will work with.  It is exciting to see the progress but we still have a lot of work to do.  Keep reading the newsletter to stay informed about beta testing and release information.

Thank you for your continued support.  We look forward to providing you with great tools and new products as we move forward. 

Thank you for using FamilyInsight!