Jun
20
Family Tree Legends - another player?
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Family Tree Legends just released a 400 million record database.
Jun
20
OneWorldTree - OneGreatFamily meets competition
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It looks like www.ancestry.com has posted and announced their service to compete with www.onegreatfamily.com, but with all the features and information at the figures of MyFamily, Inc. In addition, it’s less expensive. According to an article on about.com, it’s under $50, whereas we paid $80 (as I recall) to use OneGreatFamily. We’ll see how they respond.
Jun
20
Libraries Loose Access to Family History Records
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This article tells me that libraries are a market for valuable family history databases. The Texas libraries were paying $480 k per year for HeritageQuest services.
Jun
20
Scrap Booking - A Possible Fit
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May 1st is Scrap Booking Day and it relates to FamilyLearn in many ways. Here’s an excerpt from the article.
“Scrapbooks are a wonderful way to keep track of our history,” Black says, “so down the road we are not just names on pedigree charts, but personalities.”
“I’ve always liked looking through family scrapbooks, looking back on old pictures,” Janke says. “I like preserving the moment. The journaling is very important to me, too. This way, we can pass on to the next generation what our life was like. It’s a historical document of our life.”
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Jun
20
A Move Toward Family History
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I found it fascinating that genealogytoday.com has released a database that focuses on more than the names, dates and places. Here’s the press release. Seems to be in line with FamilyLearn’s Mission.
Jun
20
The Need To Preserve Family History in a safe place
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A lady in Redding, California lost 7 years of family history work. Very sad. She’s 81 and can’t recreate what she has done. I can see why folks want to preserve their family history in a safe place. This is why John’s advocates using FamilyLearn as a place to preserve genealogy and family history records.
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