Ancestry
"Senior Manager of Content at Ancestry, Miriam Silverman, shares her experience researching her family history in Romania and how a DNA match repaired a broken branch of her family tree. When you come from immigrant stock, it can be very difficult to trace your ancestry back very far. My dad’s dad came over to London..."
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Concepts – Match Groups and Triangulation:
DNAeXplained
"Today, we’re going to talk about the concepts of autosomal DNA and the differences between:"
- Match groups
- Mathematical triangulation
- Genealogical triangulation
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AncestryDNA Sees Huge Growth In Demand For Genetic Testing:
MedCityNews
"Do-it-yourself DNA tests have attracted their fair share of controversy over what they can or cannot tell about a person. But consumers don’t appear to be paying much attention to critics, judging from sales of at-home tests, which are driving a market expected to hit $350 million by the end of the decade, according to data from Kalorama Information."
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Facing Up to the Long-term Future of Your Genealogy Society:
Dick Eastman eogn.com
"Most everywhere I go, I hear stories of societies that are shrinking in size and even a few stories of societies that are struggling to maintain their existence. Even amongst all this “doom and gloom,” I do hear a few rare stories of genealogy societies that are thriving and growing larger."
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Saving An Image:
familytree.com
"You are searching on the Internet, doing research relating to your family history. You come across a photo, document, record, postcard, something that you would like in digital format. If you are not already familiar there are a couple methods to keep a copy of what you just found."
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How To See When A Text Message Was Sent On Your iPhone:
How-to-Geek
"By default, the iPhone’s Messages app shows you the date and time for the first message on any given day, but not for every message sent and received. However, the exact time each message was sent is hidden–but there’s an easy way to show all the exact timestamps."
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This Day In History: 16 August
1858: U.S. President James Buchanan and Britain’s Queen Victoria exchange messages inaugurating the first transatlantic telegraph line.
1896: Gold is discovered in the Klondike of Canada’s Yukon Territory, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1945: Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops.
1977 Death: Elvis Presley dies of a heart attack in the upstairs bedroom suite area of his Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tennessee.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
Alaska:
1821: Russian Navy banned foreign ships from Alaskan waters
1835: United States and England received trading privileges
1847: Fort Yukon established
1835: United States and England received trading privileges
1847: Fort Yukon established
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