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Dear Randy: "How is FamilySearch Family Tree Working Out For You?" A society colleague asked me this question in email recently.  She knew that I have used FamilySearch Family Tree for about ten years now, and that I have written about why I use it.  For example, see Dear Randy - "Why Do You Use FamilySearch Family Tree?" My colleague particularly wanted to know if it is more accurate than it used to be, and how often do I have to "fix" a profile to reflect my own research. 1)  My short an...

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week: 1)  Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group meeting on Wednesday on Zoom with 24 attendees.  I reported on the death of former member Olive Lenane, the RootsTech 2021, SCGS Jamboree and NERGC conference,  MyHeritages 2020 report, the Findmypast online family tree, FamilySearchs new "Ancestor Discovery Pages," the American Ancestors periodicals, my FOREVER box, my 2020 ...

 Reader Nancy emailed me asking: "...For now I will continue with RootsMagic 7. I have once again read your post:    https://www.geneamusings.com/2017/07/my-best-practices-for-rootsmagic.html and you are very clear on what you do not do with respect to Ancestry hints but I am not clear on what you actually do. Do you go to the hint, accept or reject, and then if you want the information you add the record (image) to RootsMagic with your own citation, as if the hint never existed? Where do y...

  Looking back over the past year, I see that I pursued these genealogy and family history related activities: 1)  Speaking *  Gave two presentations to Orange County California Genealogical Society in September via Zoom. *  Gave a presentation to Whittier Area Genealogical Society in October via Zoom. *  Gave a presentation to Larimer County (Colorado) Genealogical Society in November via Zoom. *  Gave a presentation to a Chula Vista PEO group in October via Zoom. *  I had planned on cu...

C)  Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post - those who read them on an Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email. Another measure of popularity or readership might be in the number of comments generated by each post.  I dont think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email ...

Promising never to bother zuckerberg again. and tmz reporting that he sought advice from zuckerberg for a, quote, major personal problem. and he wouldnt say what advice he was seeking, only that it was not computer related. heres the samples of the messages he sent to zuckerberg on facebook, the first one, quote, please help me and then im ready to die for you. he continues, please, understand my pain. another one, intended for zuckerbergs sister reads, quote, dear randy, please respond before i...

From his on-line worth, mark zuckerberg, whose net worth is billions, getting a restraining order against a stalker. laura ingle has the ironic story from new york. >> reporter: the situation has gone beyond a poke or a friend request on facebook, for zuckerberg and what at first appeared to be friendly greetings turned into concern for facebooks ceo, mark zuckerberg, who now has a restraining order against his alleged stalker and he says he has been followed, surveilled and contacted with langu...