FTM 2009

Ancestry.com Blog - » Family Tree Maker 2009 - See an Ancestor’s Life Migration Path: "One of the new features in Family Tree Maker 2009 is the ability to see an entire migration path for an ancestor’s life."

Ancestry.com Blog - » Message to Family Tree Maker 2008 Owners: "our loyal Family Tree Maker 2008 customers will get a free upgrade to 2009"

Ancestry.com Blog - » Family Tree Maker 2009 Release: "Take a look at what’s new since the original release of Family Tree Maker 2008. Features available for the first time in Version 2009 are marked with an asterisk (*)."

DearMYRTLE

DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour: DearMYRTLE's Family History Hour 19 Aug 2008 genealogy podcast


WorldVitalRecords Blog » DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour Genealogy Podcast Features WorldVitalRecords.com: "genealogy podcast for August 19, 2008, is available online and includes Whitney Ransom McGowan, corporate communications director for FamilyLink.com talking about the upcoming innovations to WorldVitalRecords.com and FamilyLink.com. Whitney’s portion of the podcast starts about 47 minutes into the program."

AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors: News from WorldVitalRecords.com:

News from WorldVitalRecords.com

WorldVitalRecords.com just published its 100th issue of its free newsletter, the Family History Bulletin. You can take a look at some of their original newsletters and see how it's evolved over time. They've also announced a new partnership with the Dundurn Group to bring more than 400 genealogical and historical books online."

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10

Nuance - Leading Speech Recognition and Imaging Solutions
Users can dictate directly into Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook Express and most other Microsoft Office applications running on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Vista. Dragon also supports popular programs such as Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and AOL. Users can even control menus and dialog boxes in these applications. Navigate the desktop by voice: launch or switch applications, save or print documents, and more - all by voice. You can now also benefit from Natural Language commands in Mozilla Firefox, and the ability to activate a hyperlink by just saying part of its name.

in effect this works as an alternative keyboard in almost any program, and is particularly good with long word like legal and medical terminology

Easily.co.uk

Easily.co.uk - Search domain names, domain name registration, email & web hosting servers

Summer is almost gone, although based on our lack of sunshine here in the UK we might not have noticed it starting. But that does not stop us spreading some sunshine cheer and what better way to start than with a birthday celebration! Born in 1999, Easily is 9 years old tomorrow.

Please celebrate the day with us - on Wenesday the 27th of August - by benefitting from a discount of 19,99% off any new .co.uk/.com/.eu domain names and on any EasilyShop hosting products. This offer is limit

recommended if you must have your own domain (which may die with you if the fees are not paid)

LDS Net Forums (unofficial site)

http://www.lds.net/forums/family-history/13814-updates-byu-education-week.html

Craig H. Miller, an engineer who is currently employed by the Church as Director, Membership Needs reported today at BYU Education Week some pretty astonishing things that are being worked on to add to FamilySearch.org - Family History and Genealogy Records.

Among other things, there is about 18 times more data stored in the granite mountain vaults than is contained in the entire Library of Congress. (Doesn't that libary contain every book published in the USA?) Anyway at the rate it is happening right now, ALL of the data in the granite mountain will be available online in about eight years! And that is in addition to "terabytes" of new data that comes in every week from "an army of volunteers" who are digitizing records all over the world.

At present it takes 16 steps for members in Utah to get a name ready for temple work. In some stakes outside of Utah that has been reduced to four steps, and it can all be done from one's own computer at home, then straight to the temple. The intermountain states will be added when scaling is done and even larger computers are online to handle the huge number of members in those states.

But have a look for yourself what's coming up:

FamilySearch Labs

You might be able to also access http://new.familysearch.org

England and Wales 1911 Census

Welcome to the official 1911 Census website: "The 1911 census service will be launching soon (2009) and when it is available you will be able to search over 36 million records of people living in England and Wales in 1911" (except disability until 2012)
first as pay per view here, later by subscription on Find My Past