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#UTPCruise - this is a long cruise being 18 days, and we start with many days that we dock at a new city. On those days, all the genealogy cruisers have the day off to visit the destination and to take whatever tour or to relax and catch their breath. Those days, we only have a single talk at 8 p.m. following ...

#UTPCruise - Boarded the Celebrity Solstice at 2:30 pm. We had a few hours to get our cabins organized and then headed off for supper. All the Conference participants had a corner of the main dining room in the 6 p.m. session reserved for them, and so it all began. At 8pm, we met for the "Meet and Greet". ...

#UTPCruise - Cheryl and I arrived in Auckland after 24 hours of travelling leaving -22C temps for +25C and the extra sunshine of the longer days that come with summer. Auckland in a cosmopolitan city of 1.5 million people, making up one-third the population of New Zealand. The world has homogenized to the ...

Brian Madsen came through and it was worth the wait. This is the earliest GEDCOM standard yet that has been rediscovered. Regarding the copyright, I did have an email conversation with Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist in November 2014 about it. Her opinion to me was: “the Church … distributed its ...

Further adventures in the attempt to rediscover the long lost early GEDCOM standards have once again come up with something significant. You may or may not remember that just over a year ago, I started this venture: Newly Rediscovered: GEDCOM 4.0 (and a bonus!) More GEDCOM Archaelogical Discoveries ...

Although I’m not at #RootsTech this year, I’ve found this the easiest one yet to feel a part of from afar. The live streaming is better than ever, and the Twitter feeds I follow include dozens of people in attendance who are doing a great job with live updates and links to blog posts about the event. On ...

Dates in genealogy are messy. Four years ago, I wrote a series of posts on some of the aspects of dates as defined by GEDCOM and some of the bad dates you see in GEDCOM files in the wild: Sort of a Date How About a Date? Out on a Bad Date In a recent post by on the RootsDev Google Group, Gary Stanley ...

Well, it took a little longer for me than the other prolific genealogical bloggers who I follow, but I’ve finally reached this milestone with this post. So a time to look back at the 1000 posts. My first post was on November 7, 2002. It was a short one just to get started. That was over 13 years ago and ...

My last post took a look at the SEX tag in GEDCOM and came up with a way to guess at it when it is not specified. Tamura Jones challenged me and thought that records that do not state the sex are rare. He asked how useful is trying to figure it out for other cases, and I should stop after my rule number 1. ...