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Nov 24, 2011 •
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This evening, I sat down to dinner with my family and said to my five year old son, Alex, "Do you know who the Pilgrims are?"
"Yeah, they had a very tough boat ride," he said. "And then they were ...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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FamilyTreeCircles.com has been around for over 7 years now, and has been in a constant state of development.
I'll be the first to admit that most poorly crafted area of FamilyTreeCircles has been t...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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This week, Thanksgiving here in the U.S., a number of genealogy bloggers are posting their Mayflower connections.
I've got two documented, <a href="http://www.familytreecircles.com/my-mayflower-con...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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As I read around the genealogy blogging community, there are a number of posts related to Thanksgiving. Of course, since the pilgrims are some of the oldest US-based ancestors (non-native, of course)...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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This week, Thanksgiving here in the U.S., a number of genealogy bloggers are posting their Mayflower connections.
I've got two documented, William Brewster and <a href="http://www.familytreecircles...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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These are the various ways to get help **about* FamilyTreeCircles *on* FamilyTreeCircles.
<ol>
<li>Check out the <a href="/faq.php">FAQ page</a>.
<li>Use the <a href="/contact.php">contact us</a>...
Nov 23, 2011 •
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I've been hard at work on some pretty significant changes here on FamilyTreeCircles, big enough that I want to roll this out a little more carefully than I usually do.
For now, the only noticeable ...
Nov 17, 2011 •
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8 comments
Unless you are brand new to FamilyTreeCircles, you should recall that a few weeks ago we launched the phase 1 of the new FamilyTreeCircles Assist! program.
Phase 1 was geared toward getting membe...
Nov 7, 2011 •
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3 comments
We're finally recovering from the debilitating snowstorm here in the Northeast United States. We had many massive limbs and even a few trees drop in our garden and on our cars. And we were counted a...
Nov 1, 2011 •
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I read recently that the Random Acts of Genealogy Kindness website is gone indefinitely.
As reported by Dick Eastman, here: <a href="http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/10/random-ac...
Sep 23, 2011 •
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Are you a tech savvy genealogist? Well if you're reading this, then I think that's a sign that you are. Even if you're not, here's a great list of things you *might* want to perhaps become familiar ...
Sep 6, 2011 •
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FamilyTreeCircles is growing and in an effort to better organize the large volume of journals that get posted here, I've added a new Journal type: Query.
Queries are simply a request for informatio...
Sep 3, 2011 •
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Please let me remind you that it is wrong to post other people's content on FamilyTreeCircles.
We state this simply in the <a href="http://www.familytreecircles.com/about.php">terms of use</a>
<...
Sep 2, 2011 •
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A lot of people ask me questions like...
"I'm from the UK, is FamilyTreeCircles a U.S. site?"
"I see a lot of talk from people in Australia. Do any Americans use FamilyTreeCircles?"
And the lis...
Sep 1, 2011 •
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14 comments
This is a quick update to the spam situation that I'm wrestling with here on FamilyTreeCircles.
As mentioned a few days ago in this post, <a href="http://www.familytreecircles.com/spam-spam-spam-sp...
Aug 31, 2011 •
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<i><b>Note</b>: This was originally posted on the FamilyTreeCircles blog over a year ago. As I'm pulling that content into the new <a href="http://blog.familytreecircles.com">FTC blog</a>, I've been ...
Aug 29, 2011 •
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When I built FamilyTreeCircles so many years ago, I had no idea how popular the private messages feature would be.
As of today, there have been over 18,000 messages sent through the private message...
Aug 27, 2011 •
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It's like a Monty Python skit around here!
I know that there has been a lot of spam here lately, and I thank the moderators who have been playing whack-a-mole trying to keep them at bay.
I've ma...
Aug 14, 2011 •
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14 comments
Hello. Your great feedback on some of the new stuff that I've been adding has inspired me to add more.
I've just added a **"Favorites"** feature.
Here's how it works...
You can add any pos...
Aug 11, 2011 •
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If you were here in the past half-hour, you know that FamilyTreeCircles was in maintenance mode for about a half hour.
I moved FamilyTreeCircles from one server to another so I could decommission a...