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Find Sources with Ancestry.com’s Explore by Location

You can discover sources of information about relatives you may not have been aware of. Ancestry.com has a feature called explore by location that will show you research resources by location. These resources can give you ideas about sources of information you hadn’t thought of or known about. In this video: Ancestry.com Explore by Location [...]

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Easy, Free Way to Share and Backup Genealogy Files

I just started using a service called Dropbox to store a remote backup of my genealogy database and share GEDCOM files with family members and other genealogists. Free accounts are limited to 2GB of storage. More space is available for a monthly fee. The drop-dead easy install creates a folder in your home folder (you [...]

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Lineascope.com Now Does Parent Child Relationships

Lineascope.com has been updated! Here are the changes in this release: Parents’s can be specified in an individual’s birth event. Be sure to add fathers and mothers to the birth events you documented before this release. Parent’s names have been moved from the subject table to a new parents table on the individual sheet. Biological [...]

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New Home for Lineascope.com Discussion

I want to dialog with you all about Lineascope and your experiences with it. At the same time, I don’t think that this is the place. I don’t want MacGenealogists who aren’t interested in Lineascope to be inundated with news and comments about it. So I’ve created a group on GenealogyWise.com called Lineascope.com Fans. If [...]

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I Built Something For You

While I’ve been enjoying time with my family I’ve also been working on a project for you. I’m ready on this special day (my birthday) to extend to my MacGenealogist friends, this invitation: Please use the evidence driven genealogy application I’m building. I call it Lineascope. It’s an Internet application for recording, analyzing, and presenting [...]

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Ancestry.com “Tree To Go” iPhone App

I’ve checked out the iPhone (and iPod touch) app recently released by Ancestry.com. The free app is called Tree To Go. It enables you to examine and update the trees you have on Ancestry.com through your iPhone—no, you can’t search the databases at Ancestry.com through the app. A synchronization feature keeps the data in your [...]

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