2015-12-27 GeneaBlog Awards 2015
Genealogy Blog Awards 2015
2015
These are the eighth Genealogy Blog Awards. As usual, there have been no pre-announcements, no nomination rounds and no voting rounds. The Genealogy Blog Awards are based on nothing more or less than my critical but fallible personal opinion.
The focus remains on quality over quantity. There are just four awards this year.
The Bonus Reads section introduced last year is prolongated.
Best New Genetic Blog: Segment-ology
Segment-ology is new blog about segments and autosomal DNA by Jim Bartlett. This isn't light reading, this is the blog of a true expert tackling such advanced topic as autosomal DNA and triangulation, without dumbing things down to sound bytes suitable for the Saturday Supplement. If you really want to understand this stuff, Segment-ology is a must-read.
Best Genealogy Activism Newsletter: Reclaim the Records
Reclaim the Records, started by Brooke Schreier Ganz
is a not-for-profit group founded that aims to gain access to American genealogical records,
through Freedom of Information Laws (FOIL) requests.
While the Reclaim the Records web site has full information on all cases,
this newsletter keeps you up to date, and so far, every newsletter has brought good news.
Best New Product Experience Blog: About Family Tree Maker
About Family Tree Maker is a blog about New Family Tree Maker by Ron Hager. About Family Tree Maker isn't another superficial product-promoting blog by a product fanboy, but a honest blog by a real-life user frustrated by Ancestry.com's poor communication with their users, who decided to blog about New Family Tree Maker issues.
Most Timely Practical Advice Series: Replacing Family Tree Maker
Replacing Family Tree is a 13-part series of blog post on the GenealogyTools.com blog. Following the announcement of New Family Tree Maker's discontinuation, this series by Keith Riggle provides the practical information and clear instructions that Ancestry.com should have provided.
Please note that the series was announced and posted as a whole, but isn't finished yet. It's a work in progress, and many of the individual blog posts are still essentially empty placeholders. Right now, the first four blog posts of the series are done.
Bonus Reads
Some noteworthy, informative, insightful, revealing, controversial or just funny blog posts that are worth reading and remembering. You may recognise a few blogs from previous Genealogy Blog Awards; that's simply because their authors continue to produce interesting content. There are links to many other good blogs here as well.
links
Best New Genetic Blog: Segment-ology
- segment-ology
- Segment-ology 2015-05-07: What is a segment?
- Segment-ology 2015-05-10: Does Triangulation Always Work?
- Segment-ology 2015-05-24: Segments: Bottom-Up
- Segment-ology 2015-05-30: Fuzzy Data, Fuzzy Segments – No Worry
- Segment-ology 2015-06-01: Segments: Top-Down
- Segment-ology 2015-06-11: Why Upload to GEDmatch or FTDNA?
- Segment-ology 2015-08-07: The Porcupine Chart
- Segment-ology 2015-09-30: Small Segments and Triangulation
- Segment-ology 2015-10-19: Does Triangulation Work?
- Segment-ology 2015-11-22: Getting Started with Autosomal DNA Part I
- Segment-ology 2015-12-02: Endogamy I
Best Genealogy Activism Newsletter: Reclaim the Records
- Reclaim the Records 2015-09-30: Our First Newsletter — and our First Win!
- Reclaim the Records 2015-10-18: Our Second Newsletter: the One where We have Forty-Six Microfilms sitting in our Kitchen
- Reclaim the Records 2015-11-27: Our Third Newsletter: We're giving thanks for...New Jersey Records!
Best New Product Experience Blog: About Family Tree Maker
- About Family Tree Maker
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-03-30: Issue with Exporting a Branch
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-03-31: A bit more about Export of a Branch
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-04-04: Almost A Meaningless Cancel Button
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-05-28: How Family Tree Maker Reporting slows your System
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-05-28: Family Tree Maker Issue – Ignores Sex for determining Husband / Wife
- About Family Tree Maker 2015-05-30: Another FTM Issue - Unattached Family Records in my Tree
Most Timely Practical Advice Series: Replacing Family Tree Maker
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 1: How to Scrub Your Data
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 2: How to Get Your Tree out of FTM
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 3: Importing Your FTM Tree into RootsMagic 7
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 4: Importing Your FTM Tree into Reunion 11
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 5: Importing Your FTM Tree into MacFamilyTree 7
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 6: Importing Your FTM Tree into Family Tree Builder 7
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 7: Importing Your FTM Tree into Heredis 2015
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 8: Importing Your FTM Tree into Gramps 4
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 9: Importing Your FTM Tree into iFamily for Mac
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 10: Importing Your FTM Tree into GEDitCOM II
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 11: Importing Your FTM Tree into Legacy Family Tree 8
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 12: Importing Your FTM Tree into Ancestral Quest 14
- Replacing Family Tree Maker, Part 13: Importing Your FTM Tree into Family Historian 6
Bonus Reads
- Nutfield Genealogy 2015-01-12: Why are there Blue “Silver” Books?
- Fusion 2015-04-03: Ancestry.com is quietly transforming itself into a medical research juggernaut
- New York Times 2015-04-04: ‘Gertie’s Babies’, sold at Birth, use DNA to Unlock Secret Past
- National Geographic 2015-04-10: The Genographic Project turns Ten
- Slate 2015-04-23: Deleting the Family Tree
- Origins Italy 2015-04-01: James Bond the Genealogist
- Cyndi's List Blog 2015-06-21: It All began 20 Years ago...
- Adoption Reunion Search Resources Blog 2015-09-20: Our Greatest Challenge (Benjamin Kyle)
- Rootdig.com 2015-09-20: Why I have Genealogy Attention Disorder
- GQ 2015-10-01: How One Man fathered 106 Babies (and Counting)
- The Legal Genealogist 2015-10-25: The Changes at 23andMe
- United States Census Bureau: Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000
- The Telegraph 2015-11-21: Nazi Holocaust Documents found: 6.300 Files discovered behind Wall of Budapest Apartment
- Behold blog 2015-12-11: What Ancestry’s “Retirement” of FTM really means
- Thinking Genealogically 2015-12-08: Databases and Software
- United States Census Bureau 2015-11-05: Census 2020 Operational Plan
- Smithsonian 2015-12-14: Your Hair Mites are so Loyal their DNA reflects your Ancestry
previous years
- GeneaBlog Awards 2014
- GeneaBlog Awards 2013
- GeneaBlog Awards 2012
- GeneaBlog Awards 2011
- GeneaBlog Awards 2010
- GeneaBlog Awards 2009
- GeneaBlog Awards (2008)
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