Today through Sunday, Legacy Family Tree Webinars is holding a free access weekend. I am a member of this site, and enjoy listening to their webinars when I get the chance. I have specifically recommended some of their webinars on this blog. Lots of great content here. The BCG lectures are great, lots of good… Continue reading Free Access to Legacy Family Tree Webinars this Weekend
Author: Liane Jensen
My Heritage Book by kidsHeritage
My Heritage Book is a customizable book for children that teaches them about their countries of origin. From the book's creators: It's a super fun, educational, award-winning, and personalized children's book that celebrates your child's heritage. It takes families on a wonderful journey into their pasts, while exploring their origins. It's a true gift to… Continue reading My Heritage Book by kidsHeritage
DNA Day Coming Up on April 25th
DNA Day is coming up in a couple of weeks, on April 25th. From the National Human Genome Research Institute: National DNA Day is a unique day when students, teachers and the public can learn more about genetics and genomics! The day commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in April 2003, and the… Continue reading DNA Day Coming Up on April 25th
23andMe Adds Ten Genetic Risk Reports
Yesterday I received this announcement from 23andMe: I am happy to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted 23andMe authorization to market ten direct-to-consumer, genetic health risk reports. This new category of health reports will provide customers with information about genetic variants that could increase their risk for certain diseases. The authorization… Continue reading 23andMe Adds Ten Genetic Risk Reports
Revised Ethnic Origins at FamilyTreeDNA
Announcement This morning FamilyTreeDNA, one of the big players in DNA testing, announced that they have revised their ethnic origin percentage estimates: "myOrigins 2.0 is here! Discover more of your story with myOrigins! We’re excited to announce the latest updates to myOrigins, our advanced and popular mapping tool that reveals your ethnic and geographic ancestry.… Continue reading Revised Ethnic Origins at FamilyTreeDNA
AncestryDNA, Matches First See Each Other at Different Times
Did you know that AncestryDNA matches don't necessarily see each other for the first time at the same time? Recently a family member who had taken an Ancestry DNA test got a message from a close relative who had just received their Ancestry DNA results back, commenting on the DNA connection. When the first person looked… Continue reading AncestryDNA, Matches First See Each Other at Different Times
Learn About AncestryDNA Genetic Communities
Yesterday Ancestry launched a new component of AncestryDNA origins called Genetic Communities. The ethnicity breakdown by percentages is still there. Now there is also a set of one or more Genetic Communities for most testers. Genetic Communities were created based on Ancestry trees and DNA results. They are smaller regions than in the ethnicity breakdown results.… Continue reading Learn About AncestryDNA Genetic Communities
Join a Lineage Society to Preserve Your Research
Over a lifetime, you may discover a great deal of information about your family. How are you going to preserve it? We can post our trees online, but will that information still be there in many years? You can ask your family to donate it, but will a library or society want what you have… Continue reading Join a Lineage Society to Preserve Your Research
How to Make a Shutterfly Book from a PowerPoint Presentation
This month I turned a PowerPoint booklet about my husband's genealogy into a Shutterfly book. You can see a copy of it here. I learned some tricks while doing this, so I am sharing them here. I am starting with a PowerPoint booklet with a title slide, content slides with page numbers starting at 1 after… Continue reading How to Make a Shutterfly Book from a PowerPoint Presentation
Michael Lacopo Speaking at the Sacramento German Genealogy Society Spring Seminar on April 8th
Michael Lacopo will be giving four lectures at the Sacramento German Genealogy Society (SGGS) Seminar in a few weeks, on April 8th. Two of his lectures will be on DNA and two will be on German-American research. More details about the event are at the SGGS website here. Dr. Lacopo is a great lecturer, and wrote the great… Continue reading Michael Lacopo Speaking at the Sacramento German Genealogy Society Spring Seminar on April 8th
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