Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – June 2020
We’re now reaching the halfway mark of 2020, and what a long few months it has been …...
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Enrolments Now Open for Online MA ‘History of Family’ Course
Calling those with an interest in Irish history, family history and genealogy! Develop your...
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FREE Family Tree Webinars Every Weekend in June
In June, treat yourself to our Free Webinar Weekends with FamilyTreeWebinars.com. They...
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Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – April 2020
In this edition of Inspiring Genealogy Blogs we cover: genealogy resolutions, society membership, the good and bad stories, interviewing remotely, unmarked graves, online trees, free genealogy, DNA kits, young people and genealogy, and heaps more.
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Colourise Your Old Photographs With “MyHeritage In Color”
Big news to hit to genie world this week, is the launch of MyHeritage In Color. This is a new initiative created by MyHeritage that allows you to automatically colourise your old photos in seconds (and it’s FREE)!
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RootsWeb Discontinues the Mailing Lists
Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails.
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FamilySearch Celebrates its 125th Anniversary
FamilySearch, formerly the Genealogical Society of Utah, has just celebrated its 125th anniversary, and what a journey this organisation has been on to become the largest genealogical organisation in the world!
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Living DNA Introduces New DNA Test Kits
Living DNA have just introducted a range of new DNA kits, which also launches them into the DNA health market. They now offer Starter, Ancestry, Wellbeing and Ancestry+Wellbeing kit, so you can choose the test that’s right for you.
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FamilySearch Users Can Now Correct Name Indexing Errors
FamilySearch has added a much-anticipated feature that now enables users to make name corrections to its indexes.
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Two Big US Genealogy Societies to Merge
The big news that hit the (mostly US) genie world this past week was that the two big US national genealogical organisations: the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and the National Genealogical Society (NGS) are set to amalgamate.
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8 Billion Records and Counting!
There’s no doubt that Findmypast is dominant player in the online genealogy data field. And with 8 billion records currently, it should be. Their website contains a wide variety of records such as censuses, directories, church records, military records, schools and newspapers available from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada.
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Inspiring Genealogy Blogs – June 2019
In this edition of Inspiring Genealogy Blogs we cover: what to keep and what to toss, paper vs digital, reasons to join a family history society, tips for reading old handwriting, genetic data privacy, and research plans!
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