Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Thought I would share this DearMYRTLE blog post.

Thought I would share this DearMYRTLE blog post. It applies to all of us, especially those of us who use Ancestry Member Trees to help with our research.

Thanks Myrt

Russ

Originally shared by DearMYRTLE

Please index all names in my Ancestry.com tree
DearREADERS, Yesterday's Mondays with Myrt hangout featured a discussion introduced by Randy Seaver's "Does the Ancestry Member Tree  Index "Prune" Trees?" posted on his Genea-Musings blog. Since then the Ancestry.com message board query initially identifyi...

http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2016/02/please-index-all-names-in-my.html

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

I have seen many Facebook posts that are examples of what Jill andKirsty are talking about.

I have seen many Facebook posts that are examples of what Jill and Kirsty are talking about. I am GLAD Kirsty made this blog post and that Gill shared it. I am passing it along.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Tony Proctor's incredibly thoughtful post reminding genealogists andgenealogy software to step back from the focus...

Tony Proctor's incredibly thoughtful post reminding genealogists and genealogy software to step back from the focus on lineage at the expense of ancestral stories. His recent trip to RootsTech gave him hope and he now reports on conversations with vendors.

http://parallax-viewpoint.blogspot.com/2016/02/evolution-and-genealogy.html

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Here is the official Ancestry.com Blog on the Family Tree Maker update.

Here is the official Ancestry.com Blog on the Family Tree Maker update.

This is exciting news for ALL, not just those of us who use FTM2014 but also those who use RootsMagic. I have seen that Roots Magic expects to have a new feature that will use the option mentioned in this blog post.

http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2016/02/02/good-news-for-users-of-family-tree-maker/#sthash.G9hIgRMF.hpvt

Sorry in my delay in posting this, but I was on an airplane or 3 tryingto get to Salt Lake City.


Sorry in my delay in posting this, but I was on an airplane or 3 trying to get to Salt Lake City.

This company developed FTM-3, so they do know the program.

More when I find out more.

Russ

Originally shared by DearMYRTLE

News from Ancestry.com:
Family Tree Maker will continue with a new owner, and RootsMagic will sync with Ancestry.com. Here's the link: http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2016/02/mackiev-acquires-family-tree-maker.html