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Dec 28, 2019 •
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We saw a lot of growth in Family Tree Circles this year.
New users: 5,170
New Journals: 1,063
Spammers stopped at the door: 16,915
Here's a quick look at the weekly traffic. This increase in ...
Dec 21, 2019 •
7217 views •
4 comments
This email went out the the Family Tree Circles mail list last night. If you didn't get it and would like to be on that list, click here to sign up for the list.
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It's been a busy...
Dec 13, 2019 •
6283 views •
7 comments
First, welcome to all the new and returning users who haven't been around a while. We've had a big boost in the past few days because I've been doing some outreach. Thanks to everyone for posting thei...
Dec 11, 2019 •
744 views •
4 comments
I just read about the volcano eruption and resulting deaths and injuries on White Island in New Zealand.
FamilyTreeCircles has countless friends from that part of the world. We hope that everybody ...
Aug 3, 2019 •
1283 views •
21 comments
Got a request for this feature, so I put this together quickly. Like most of the other profile info, this is public.
Click here to view yours
Anything else you'd like to see here? Let me kno...
Aug 1, 2019 •
8229 views •
35 comments
Hi All.
Here's an update on what's been going on beyond the recent spam updates...
<b>Mobile Usability</b>
I've been doing a lot of work to make the site more mobile friendly. There are a fu...
Jul 18, 2019 •
1098 views •
8 comments
In the past three days I've deleted about 80,000 spam accounts and automatically blocked the creation of nearly 1000 more already.
Only a dozen or two have slipped through, which I'm learning from ...
Jul 18, 2019 •
995 views •
3 comments
Hi all.
The site's been down for a few days because when I was doing work on it Monday, I broke it for everybody but myself.
So here I thought there was nothing wrong. Thanks to those of you who...
Jul 15, 2019 •
6542 views •
5 comments
Hi all. I've been doing a quite a bit of spam cleanup over the past several days. I've deleted about 80,000 spam accounts (there are many more), but more importantly I've been making it more difficult...
Feb 21, 2016 •
7849 views •
11 comments
How do you determine these ancestor names?
Feb 12, 2016 •
1541 views •
1 comments
A user posted a journal here with this scenario where the records were blown up (!).
I have a similar situation where apparently the records from Barnstable county here in Massachusetts were lost i...
Feb 9, 2016 •
3895 views •
13 comments
Back at the end of 2011, I posted a chart of where familytreecircles visitors come from. You can see it here.
And here's an update...
The United States 27.5%
Australia 25%
New Zealand 23.3%
T...
Feb 8, 2016 •
3509 views •
18 comments
There are charts to view, but does anyone have an easy to remember explanation of this, so that when you hear second cousin once removed, you know what it means intuitively?
Feb 5, 2016 •
1876 views •
3 comments
Or even a FamilyTreeCircles post! It's important to cite sources, of course. What's the best way to do that? Do you have a template that you use?
Jan 28, 2016 •
5970 views •
12 comments
I always say it in my head, I think in the wrong direction (wrong name first). And is it a term that's commonly used when doing family history?
Jan 28, 2016 •
2426 views •
1 comments
The following went to the FamilyTreeCircles email list today.
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Jan 26, 2016 •
2146 views •
12 comments
I've got a few mayflower ancestors, but none of those stories feel very unique or "real" to me. Maybe because they're so well known. Do you have a great story?
Jan 21, 2016 •
2149 views •
0 comments
Guys, it's just been a few days since the updates, but I just wanted to say how grateful I am for the activity recently.
In the past few weeks, we re-launched <a href="http://www.familytreecircles....
Jan 19, 2016 •
1853 views •
7 comments
<div class="shareistElement shareistPlainTextElement"><p>The next phase in FamilyTreeCircles improvements appeared overnight last night.</p><p>You can now vote comments and answers up and down. This i...
Nov 25, 2015 •
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0 comments
I've changed the layout of the site so that it is a fluid design, rather than fixed width.
That's for two reasons: 1. the new sidebar just needs to be wider to accommodate the new content, and it w...