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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 answer to all of the above is:  The FamilySearch Family Tree works extremely well, it is full feature...

  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,  MyHeritage's 2020 report, the Findmypast online family tree, FamilySearch's new "Ancestor Discovery Pages," the American Ancestors periodicals, my FOREVER box, my 2020 summary posts, and several distant cousin contacts.  The attendees discussed their genealogy gift...

 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 you store the image? When you sync RootsMagic with your ancestry tree how does this record appear, i....

  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 cutting back in-person presentations due to travel issues, but COVID did the job for me. *  I created...

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 don't think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email usage, and mobile device usage, each of which require one or more click throughs to get to the co...