July 24, 2020 By now I’m sure everyone has heard about the upcoming changes to the way Ancestry lists DNA shared matches. Ancestry released a white paper discussing the changes to their system, and there have been numerous blog posts by movers and shakers in the genealogical community such as Blaine Bettinger, Roberta Estes, Diahan …
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Finding Mary in 1870
July 17, 2020 As I’ve written before, whether you started your genealogy last week or forty years ago, your go-to record for American research is the U.S. Federal census. It has been taken every ten years since 1790, and most of the censuses, up through 1940, for most areas of the country, are available for …
My Heritage Photo Enhancement Feature
July 10, 2020 The other day we had a rainy morning, so I took the opportunity of an indoor day to explore the latest My Heritage feature, which they call a Photo Enhancer. A few months ago I wrote about their earlier photo colorization feature whereby with just the press of a button black and …