Find South African Ancestors in Millions of New Church Records on Findmypast

The following annoumcement was written by Findmypast: With the release of four new record sets, we’re taking a trip to South Africa this week. Church records and membership lists document over 350 years of South Africa’s history and people in our latest release. With records from the Cape, Free State, Kwazulu-Natal, and Transvaal regions, is …

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(+) A Single Server in a Data Center is not the Cloud!

The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman.  A newsletter reader recently posted a comment about some articles I have written explaining why the cloud is good for genealogy and for many other purposes. The newsletter reader protested, “You constantly tout that cloud storage is much more secure than …

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Genetic Genealogy Is Cracking Cases Once Thought Unsolvable. Not All Police Forces Can Afford to Use It.

There is an interesting article by Leah Hendry published in the CBC News web site that may be of interest to many genealogists: As more police forces crack decades-old cold cases with the help of genetic genealogy, Montreal police have yet to have a major breakthrough on a case of their own. The lack of progress — at …

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