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Genetic Make-up of Humans More Diverse Than Believed
An article on DNA differences from BBC News tells of how scientists are discovering that the genetic make-up of humans is much more diverse than originally thought. A UK-led team made a detailed analysis of the DNA found in 270 … Continue reading
Protect, Preserve, or Donate Your Precious Family Photos and Papers
The Genealogy Journey offers “Historic Family Papers and Photos: Store Them Right or Consider Donating Them” offers tips and links to resources and techniques on how to protect, preserve, and donate your family history papers and photographs. Please! As a … Continue reading
Genealogy Today Offers Tips for Scanning Old Photographs
Genealogy Today has an article series on scanning old photographs with part one covering basic scanning information. Part two will be out soon. Among the basics are two issues that confront most new computer users when it comes to scanning … Continue reading
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Dogs Help Historians Uncover Lost Graves
Is genealogy going to the dogs? The Genealogy Blog reports in “Find Your Ancestors with the Help of a Dog” on how dogs are being used to “sniff out” unmarked graves to help identify historical graves. The story originally comes … Continue reading
It’s Never Too Early or Late to Build Your Family Tree
It doesn’t matter how old you are, it is never too early or too late to start researching your family tree. As a precious example, Krystle, a 20ish year old student, made a chart of her family tree and posted … Continue reading
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National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution Publishing Bible and Family Records
Genealogy Today reports the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution are publishing a book of bible and family records collected over the past several years. In addition to Bible records, we have added several pages of family records, … Continue reading
Shame: Comment Spam Spotted from World Vital Records
I’ve written a lot lately about the new activity and information found on World Vital Records, but you won’t be hearing much from me about them for a long time. In fact, until they make a public apology. It appears … Continue reading
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Tips for Attending or Presenting a Genealogy Clinic
In an interesting article on The Genealogy Clinic, Genealogy Education blog offers an explanation of a Genealogy Clinic: A clinic is one way to follow up a lecture by providing individual consultations on individual research problems. Let’s say that I … Continue reading
Give the Gift of DNA Testing For the Holidays
Thinking of giving the gift of DNA testing to family members this year? Giving them the joy of researching their ancestors through their blood lines? Genetics and Health offers a list of the prices for DNA testing on the CNA … Continue reading
Finding Geographical Place Names in Canada
Eastman’s Genealogy Newsletter has helped me again with “Placed in Canada”, helping all of us researching online maps of towns and communities in Canada find them. Have you looked for online maps of towns or other named places in Canada? … Continue reading
