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Taking a Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) Course - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Oct 2021
Today, I completed week 6 of my 10 week SLIG course. Every Wednesday afternoon between Sept 15 and Nov 17, I’m being presented with two 75 minute lessons on Researching Russian Genealogy Records. There’s a 30 minute break between the lessons. There’s 15 minutes after the 2nd lesson where we’re given ...
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Can GEDCOM 7.0 Succeed? - Blog comment by acproctor - 20 Oct 2021
In principle. HTML defines the structure of the text (paragraphing, footnotes, etc) and it would be up to some CSS to style it -- "punctuation" is essential in anything worth reading, and so I'm guessing that the wrong word was chosen above.
However, a possibility that isn't mentioned anywhere that I can see ...
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DMT 4.3 - New FTDNA File Format and Matching Algorithm - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Aug 2021
I have released Version 4.3 of Double Match Triangulator which includes changes to allow it to read the new Family Tree DNA segment file format. On July 1, Family Tree DNA announced changes to their matching algorithm along with other updates on their blog: Updates To Family Finder, Featuring Improved Matching ...
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My Week as the WikiTree Challenge Guest - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Jul 2021
@WikiTreers is a free One-World family tree set up like a wiki. It has been in operation since 2008. It currently has over 27 million profiles. The community of people who use WikiTree set up various online social events and challenges amongst themselves to encourage improvement of the quality of their tree. ...
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Come see me. This is my week on the WikiTree Challenge - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Jul 2021
This Wednesday, July 14 at 3 p.m EDT, I’ll be introduced as the @WikiTreers guest for the week. I’ll be on the panel of the Livecast which will be about an hour long. The first half hour will be the “reveal” of John Boeren, whose week they’ll have just finished up. The next half hour will introduce ...
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The WikiTree Challenge – From the Inside - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Jul 2021
I wrote several months ago about the WikiTree Challenge: No Genealogist Should Miss the WikiTree Challenge Each week, WikiTree is holding a challenge for all the people who use WikiTree as part of their “Year of Accuracy”. They invite a genealogy special guest – usually someone well-known amongst ...
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Genealogists: Do Your Biographies! - Blog comment by uwem - 2 Jul 2021
Hi Louis,
FWIW: neither "Leib" nor "Braunstein" are Hebrew. These names are of German origin, meaning "Body" and "Brown Stone/ Rock".
-Uwe
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Genealogists: Do Your Biographies! - Blog comment by cjkotecki - 1 Jul 2021
Thanks for describing the benefits of writing biographies, whether at Wikitree or anywhere. I started writing biographies at Wikitree because my now deceased cousin left behind hundreds of them, for everyone we were related to, from data she had gathered through interviews and local records that are not ...
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Genealogists: Do Your Biographies! - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Jun 2021
When I first started doing my genealogy in 1974, I didn’t have a genealogy program to use. I started just like everyone else, simply recording information, and how everyone was connected in hand-drawn family trees. I had access to a Script document processor utility on the mainframe at my University that I ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by tsturg - 1 Nov 2021