 One of the fun things about publishing this newsletter is that I get to publish the words of several genealogy experts. Today I am delighted to announce the addition of another writer to the staff: Chris Pomery.
Chris is an experienced genealogist but is best known for his expertise in DNA. In fact, I had a chance to sit in the audience in London, England a bit more than a week ago and listen to Chris deliver "how to" presentations to an enthusiastic group of genealogists. Now... Read the rest of the story »
The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Chris Pomery. Time certainly flies. I find it hard to believe that genetic testing aimed at genealogists has been around for ten years. A decade ago DNA tests were rarely seen on TV and broadly unused outside of academia. Roll forward to today, and no one researching their family history can remain unaware of DNA testing for very long. Even Ancestry has finally started offering cut-price DNA tests, chasing the coat tails of... Read the rest of the story »
The path to researching one's family history often used to hit a wall where the paper trail ended. Since the advent of the Internet, though, genealogists have had a virtual world of information available to them without traveling the globe. More recently, genetic testing has been made available to the masses to more definitively determine where your ancestors came from. A quick swab of a few cheek cells, and one can go back thousands of years, well before there were historical documents.... Read the rest of the story »
The following announcement was written by swissinfo.ch:BERN, Switzerland, March 10 -- swissinfo.ch is launching a multimedia networking platform for Italian-speaking Swiss emigrants and their descendants. People from around the world who have their roots in Ticino and the valleys of the southern Graubunden tell of their ancestors. In its Swiss-Italian Migrations special, swissinfo.ch - the international voice of SRG SSR idee suisse - takes an in-depth look at this wave of emigration. The... Read the rest of the story »
This is a follow-on to the RootsMagic version 4 announcement that I published last week at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2009/03/rootsmagic-invites-public-to-preview-family-tree-software.html. The following was written by RootsMagic, Inc.:We have just released an updated version of the RootsMagic 4 public beta. This new version fixes a number of bugs, including an issue where incremental search sometimes doesn't work right. This particular bug requires us to rebuild the... Read the rest of the story »
An interesting legal case has just been decided involving a copy of the Declaration of Independence made in 1776. A judge ruled that the copy, made by a public official and sent to public officials, is not a public record. In the summer of 1776, the state of Massachusetts had copies of the Declaration printed by Ezekiel Russell, then working in Salem, and apparently a copy was sent to each town within the state. What is now the State of Maine was still a part of Massachusetts at that time so... Read the rest of the story »
Walter Young can't find his great-grandmother's grave. The coal company that had it moved doesn't know where the remains ended up. "It always looked like a safe, good place nobody would bother," the 63-year-old retiree said of the cemetery along Pigeon Creek where his relative, Martha Curry, was buried. "It was up on a hill." But that hill was in West Virginia's southern coalfields, and over the years, it changed hands. The land around and under the... Read the rest of the story »
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