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Update: Ancestry partner with Photomyne
2. Partnership with Photomyne Now with Ancestry announcing their new partnership with Photomyne, here’s what Ancestry has to say, “…With Photomyne, Ancestry now gives you an easier way to digitize old family photos, by scanning and uploading multiple photographs at once through the Ancestry mobile app. A process of cropping, rotation, and image enhancement is…
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Ancestry Stories: An Exciting Addition
So, quite a bit has happened with Ancestry in the past week in the form of new and exciting features. Here’s one of them: Ancestry Stories If you’re familiar with Instagram, then you’ll probably be familiar with it’s stories feature. This is Ancestry’s spin on it, telling your family’s history in a nice simple format…
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#MyGenealogyStory
Welcome to my story in genealogy. This’ll hopefully be one of many blog posts you’ll see today sporting this hashtag. If you’re wondering what I’m on about, see this: So sit back and read on… So how did I start? Well it had been 5 days since my granduncle passed away and a load of…
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Genealogy For All: Let’s Keep the Discussion Going!
So firstly, a thank you to Natalie Pithers of Genealogy Stories for letting me post her notes that she took from the discussion. Those who attended should’ve gotten one final email from us. And before I get into the notes, please follow the [brilliant!] creator of the hashtag #GenealogyForAll – Mish. Now all involved have…
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How Do You Spell That?
Now, when you’re searching for a name – you always have to try alternatives for that name as it could have often been spelt a bunch of different ways. For example: Smith, Smyth, Smithe, Smythe. But highlighted from Vera on Twitter, that when she encountered someone had the surname Printer Friendly (yes, you read that…
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The Side Effect
To think that this is my first post in almost a year! Oops. I’ll do an update post another time as I want to write about this first. Now onto the post, with Ancestry announcing a change to their Terms and Conditions (Judy G. Russell covers it here and here) there has been a lot…
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Week 6: Same Name
This prompt at first I thought was going to be hard to do mainly because I am the only Daniel in my family on both sides however there is one that came before me – my 2x great grandfather Daniel Fraher. Daniel “Dan” Fraher was born on November 16th 1852 in Seskinane, Tooraneena, Co. Waterford…
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Genealogy Lists
Well over on Twitter, I started a thread of genealogy related lists whether its for looking up your Emerald Isle Ancestors or searching for those on centre stage these lists will hopefully help and please check back often for updates! (Click on the link to be taken to the list) If you want to be…
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Relationship Pictures for Family Tree Builders
Okay, so I did a poll on my social media telling you all about pictures I did that have the relation from the root person to another person’s profile in the tree. They are all 1000 x 1000 pixels so crop them if you need to! Hope these help you and enjoy… NOTE: I have…
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Week 3: Long Line
I’m getting back into the swing of writing more #52Ancestors posts. This post I’m going to talk about the names that have popped up in my tree or “A Long Line of Johns” There are three generations of Johns The first John I don’t know much about other than the fact that he lived in…