May 2017

Unique Genealogical Highlights of the Brigham Young University Family History Library -- Part Five

Part of a huge microfilm collection of local county histories in the BYU Family History Library There is a significant physical differen...

Due to a comment on my last post, I should have looked a little further. The computer I used as a comparison was not "new" it was ...

The wheels of technology keep turning. Intel has announced its new Core i9 chips for consumer level computers. The high end of this new ...

MyHeritage DNA’s new Ethnicity Estimate experience from MyHeritage on Vimeo . Some time ago, I learned that MyHeritage was building a ...

By Kosboot - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15906601 Unmarked grave of Woolson Morse at Green-Wo...

My connections to the Iberian Peninsula and my wife's connections to the Middle East have given me further incentive to delve further...

Microfilm rolls stored in cabinets at the BYU Family History Library Despite the constant worldwide movement to digitize documents and p...

BYU Family History Library Microfilm Cabinets With the huge collections of digitized records going online and all the huge repositories...

Genealogical DNA testing as it is administered today provides reports such as the ones I recently received from both MyHeritage.com and ...

The British Museum crystal skull. We all have a skeleton or two (or more) in our genealogical closets. What do we do with them? First of...

Well, according to Ancestry.com , my connection to India and my Jewish Heritage both disappear and now I am Spanish. I have to believe th...

This is going to be short note. While doing a microfilm search on the Brigham Young University Family History Library webpage, I got the ...

https://daily.jstor.org/have-humans-been-in-the-americas-longer-than-we-thought/ An article from the JSTOR Daily website entitled "...

One of the things that has been "missing," in a sense, from MyHeritage.com is the ability to easily search a catalog of all of...

http://mailchi.mp/9e2c144cef3f/aw9rajply6?e=b86c63a459 One of the most interesting recently developed programs or "apps" for ...