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The Boy Named Sue… “Why Not Bill, or George, or… Anything but Sue?”

August 15th, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Book Announcements, Census - U.S., Flotsam & Jetsam
A 9-year-old girl legally named “Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii” got what she deserved: a name change. A New Zealand family court judge recently took pity on the girl upon receiving her custody case. He made Talula a ward of the court so her name could be changed. The new name wasn’t released. The judge said Talula’s [...]

Ancestry.com and FamilySearch to Collaborate on U.S. Census Indexes

July 21st, 2008 | Comments Off | Posted in Ancestry.com, Census - U.S., Computer Tech, Databases, Digital Online Content, FamilySearch
It seems that the hatchet has now been buried. Ancestry and and the LDS-operated FamilySearch are once again cooperating on the U.S. census. This makes a lot of sense to me, as the indexes coming out of the volunteer-driven FamilySearch labs program are not only of superior quality (made in America vs offshore), but have [...]