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New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing The Day the Music Died FamilySearch Indexing Update FamilySearch Record Search Update: 4 million new records added Who Do You Think You Are? Live! 2009 More Recent Articles Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter - 5 new articles New Method To Revolutionize DNA Sequencing A new article in the Foresight Institute's web site describes a new method of DNA sequencing. The article is quite technical so I will leave it to others to describe the "3000 ZMWs (waveguides)" and other techniques used. What caught my eye is a claim that "Company founder Stephen Turner estimates that such a chip would be able to sequence an entire human genome in under half an hour to 99.999 per cent accuracy for under $1000." Forget 9 markers, forget 24 markers,... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • The Day the Music Died A bit of history died last week. The last company in America to produce player piano music has ceased production of the paper rolls. QRS Music Technologies halted production of player piano rolls 108 years after the company was founded in Chicago. Some of the machinery that was shut down last week had been built in the 1880s. To be sure, this is not the end of automated music: the company continues to make digitized and computerized player-piano technology that runs on CDs. The company's... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • FamilySearch Indexing Update The following announcement was written by FamilySearch: 5 January 2008 New International Projects/Two New Languages Several new international projects were added to the list of active FamilySearch indexing projects (see chart below). There is now a need for volunteers with an interest in or knowledge of the new Norwegian and Russian records—Norway 1875 Census and Ukraine Kyiv 1840–1842. The indexing program's interfaces have not been translated into Norwegian and Russian yet;... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • FamilySearch Record Search Update: 4 million new records added The following announcement was written by FamilySearch: FamilySearch added about 4 million new records to its Record Search pilot over the holidays. Patrons will find records from Brazil, Hungary, Czech Republic, Southern Bohemia, Třeboň, West Virginia, and the much anticipated Indian Territory records from the 1900 U.S. Census. See the chart below for more details. The new records can be searched for free at FamilySearch.org (Click Search Records, then Record Search pilot). ... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • Who Do You Think You Are? Live! 2009 Perhaps the world's largest gathering of genealogists, history buffs, and military re-enactors, along with more than 200 exhibitors, will be held in a few weeks in London. The Who Do You Think You Are? Live! 2009 event will be the third annual exhibit and promises to be even better than the first two. If you have been to either of the first two Who Do You Think You Are? Live! events, you already know what it will be like. However, be aware of the date change this year: instead of being... Read the rest of the story » • Email to a friend • • More Recent Articles (+) Who's Afraid of Land Records? - Part III - by George G. Morgan Use of Digital Camera for Genealogy New in this Newsletter: Share This Close Spellings Count Toward Matches New FGS President Appointed MyBlood - A Genealogy Program for Windows and Macintosh EOGN Forum 2 Million Documented Descendants (+) RSS and Newsreaders Explained Stacks at NY Public Library are Temporarily Closed

 

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