Reminders:
Today: July 10, 2017
Family Tree Maker Users SIG Meeting
1:00 PM in the Patriot Room at the Mulberry Grove Recreation Center
Tomorrow: July 11, 2017
Genealogy Writers SIG Meeting
Learn More About 23andMe’s New Genetic Health Risk Reports:
23andMe"23andMe recently started offering customers new Genetic Health Risk reports that have received FDA authorization. Below we’ve highlighted some important features in these reports to help you get more out of them."
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Ethnicity and Physical Features are NOT Accurate Predictors of Parentage or Heritage:
DNAeXplained"Let me say that again, ethnicity results are NOT an accurate predictor of heritage, or parentage. This is a great deal of confusion swirling around this topic. The fact that people are doubting parentage, or grandparentage, based on ethnicity results alone is alarming."
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Huge Genealogical Database of Ukrainians Born in 1650–1920 Opens Online:
EuroMaiden Press"A huge database of people born in the territory of contemporary Ukraine between 1650 and 1920 became available online this week. Its opening crowned the four-year efforts of activists to digitize, systematize, and assemble countless entries from historical documents—but is not the final point of the project."
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Tech:
How to Remove Other People’s Comments from Your Facebook Posts:
How-to-Geek"Other people are the worst. You put up a lovely photo of yourself on Facebook and they just have to say the meanest things."
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How to Decrypt and Rip DVDs With Handbrake:
How-to-Geek"You’ve got a bunch of DVDs sitting around your house, but you can’t even remember when you last saw your DVD player, and your laptop doesn’t even have a disc drive anymore. It’s time to modernize your collection. Here, we’ll show you how to rip your DVDs to your computer using the swiss army knife of video conversion tools: Handbrake."
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Education:
New Human Ancestor Discovered: Homo naledi:
National Geographic"Within a deep and narrow cave in South Africa, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team found fossil remains belonging to the newest member of our human family. The Homo naledi discovery adds another exciting chapter to the human evolution story by introducing an ancestor that was primitive but shared physical characteristics with modern humans."
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