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  • 18 Mar 2024 9:07 PM | Anonymous

    The following is an excerpt from an article by Eric Bleeker and Jeremy Phillips at: https://tinyurl.com/mv873af7:

    Leading genealogy website Ancestry.com is on the sales block, according to recent reports from Bloomberg. Both Eric and Jeremy are investors in the company; it comprises 7% of Jeremy's personal portfolio, while Eric purchased the stock for a portfolio he runs on Fool.com. From that perspective, they'd be sad to see it go, as both believe in the long-term potential of the company to deliver returns beyond a buyout.

    However, Eric notes that private-equity firms should be licking their chops while examining Ancestry.com. The company has a massive subscriber base of 1.9 million users but also offers limited upsell services beyond its main "U.S. Discovery" basic offering. Eric sees a scenario where the company could continue racking up large revenue gains by offering upgraded services -- possibly involving DNA -- to its most loyal customers, even if subscriber growth slows. With the company trading at less than 10 times cash flow along with ready catalysts, that's a dream scenario for private-equity firms, and Eric says he'd be surprised if no one scooped the company up.

    One company that's been rumored to have an interest in Ancestry.com is Facebook. While investors were excited about Facebook before its IPO, the Fool had published a report telling investors to avoid the company and suggesting a different tech IPO to invest in. That report is still available for a limited time and is just as important as the day Facebook IPO'd. It's named "Forget Facebook -- Here's the Tech IPO You Should Be Buying," and it details a much better social-media stock that has a longer runway for growth than Facebook. The report won't be available forever, so get access today -- it's totally free.

    Stay tuned, I am sure there will be more news available shortly.

  • 18 Mar 2024 6:48 PM | Anonymous

    The Columbus Metropolitan Library will unveil a trove of Columbus history this month, gathered for more than 150 years by Columbus Dispatch journalists.

    Library CEO Patrick Losinski and Dispatch Executive Editor Michael Shearer will host a special event at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Main Library to discuss the new partnership and digital resources that will be free to the public. The event will allow the community to share what types of content are most important to them.

    The library's local history & genealogy department has been archiving the 152-year-old newspaper's collection of newspaper clippings, newsroom artifacts, microfilm and microfiche, digital images, photo prints and negatives for several years. More than 6,000 already-scanned images will initially be available. The collection is the largest donation of archival material in the history of the 23-branch library system.

    This physical archive alone comprises about 750 boxes, the bulk of them photographs, that the library took ownership of in June.

    "The earlier stuff, for me, is the most valuable," said Angela O'Neal, manager of the history and genealogy department. "If this doesn't get saved by us, it won't be available for future generations, to help people have a sense of place and understand how they got here as a community."

    The growing database will be accessible through the library's My History collection. Online searchers should look under “Browse by Collection” and then select “Columbus Dispatch Collection.”

    You can read more in an article by Dean Narciso published in the Columbus Dispatch web site at: https://tinyurl.com/2eerwm7r.

  • 18 Mar 2024 2:26 PM | Anonymous

    Here is a list of all of this week's articles, all of them available here at https://eogn.com: 

    (+) How to Reduce the Errors in Your Genealogy Database

    Book Review: Evidence Explained, Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

    Saint Patrick and the Snakes

    Pet DNA Testing Company Identifies Human DNA as Canine

    Were You Surprised by Your Ancestry or DNA Test Results?

    The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Genealogy

    Do You Know Your Family History of Heart Health? These Genetic Tests Could Protect Your Heart Health

    Deputies Use Genetic Genealogy to ID Woman Found Dead in Indian River County, Florida in 1982

    Genealogy Research Center Coming to Brunswick Community College in North Carolina

    23,000 Previously Unavailable Cork County Burial Register Records Now Available Online

    Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and the New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) Present Georgia Exhibits’ Newest Exhibition, “‘Thy Neighbor as Thyself’: The Women Who Shaped Georgia’s Civic Landscape

    Free BCG-Sponsored Webinar

    Quarterly Virtual Genealogical Program to Be Held in Augusta, Georgia

    TheGenealogist Releases Over 3 Million New Irish Records for St. Patrick’s Day

    Genealogy Research Center Opening at Brunswick (North Carolina) Community College

    Kamloops, British Columbia Archives to Reopen After Months-Long Shut Down

    This St Patrick's Day Weekend, Discover Brand New Irish Records and Over 174,000 Historical Newspaper Pages

    20 Years of Digitisation of the Collection of the University Library in Poznan, Poland

    Statement by Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget

    Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry

    $500,000 Approved for DNA Testing of Unidentified Bodies in Washington State

    Public Libraries Are Alive and Well

    A Google Docs Alternative You Can Use Without Any Login

    New 'Petabit-Scale' Optical Disc Can Store as Much Information as 15,000 DVDs


  • 18 Mar 2024 10:22 AM | Anonymous

    Do you believe your DNA test results are accurate?  You might want to reconsider based upon the experience of one person. WBZ News reported its investigations team receiving dog breed results from the company DNA My Dog after two people sent in a swab sample – from their own cheeks.

    According to the results from the Toronto-based company, WBZ News reporter Christina Hager is 40% Alaskan malamute, 35% shar-pei and 25% labrador.

    Hager also sent her samples to two other pet genetic testing companies. The Melbourne, Australia- and Florida-based company Orivet reported that the sample “failed to provide the data necessary to perform the breed ID analysis”. Meanwhile, Washington-based company Wisdom Panel said that the sample “didn’t provide … enough DNA to produce a reliable result”.

    WBZ News’ latest report comes after its investigations team sent in a sample from New Hampshire pet owner Michelle Leininger’s own cheek to DNA My Dog last year. In turn, the results declared Leininger 40% border collie, 32% cane corso and 28% bulldog.

    You can read more in an article at: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/13/dog-human-dna-test.

  • 18 Mar 2024 9:50 AM | Anonymous

    The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) and the New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) are pleased to present Georgia Exhibits’ newest exhibition, curated by Kailey Joy McAlpin, “‘Thy Neighbor As Thyself’: The Women Who Shaped Georgia’s Civic Landscape.” 

    Kailey Joy McAlpin, a Ph.D. student at Georgia State University, explores Georgia’s women reformers of the Progressive Era, some of whom include Mary Latimer McLendon, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Carrie Steele, Helen Pendleton, Lugenia Burns Hope, Jessie Daniel Ames, Selena Sloan Butler, Martha Berry, and Julia Flisch.

    Photo of Lugenia Burns Hope

    “Lugenia Burns Hope.” 1871/1947. February 27, 2024. Courtesy of New Georgia Encyclopedia

    These women came from different class backgrounds and had different racial attitudes and practices. McAlpin uses the theme and motto “Thy Neighbor as Thyself” to center the work done by Black women during the Progressive Era, both with and without the support of their white Progressive counterparts.

    Photo of the Graduating Class of the Atlanta School of Social Work, 1920
    “Graduating Class of Atlanta School of Social Work, circa 1920.” February 27, 2024. Courtesy of Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library


    McAlpin’s work dedicates itself to bringing the differences between white and Black women reformers to light. She explains that access to materials, resources, and support was much more abundant to white women than their Black peers, not to mention the actual risk of life and limb posed to Black women, particularly with regard to suffrage.

    You can read more in an article by Cheylan Baker published in the usg.edu web site at: https://blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu/?p=8689

  • 15 Mar 2024 4:41 PM | Anonymous

    The following is a Plus Edition article written by and copyright by Dick Eastman. 

    This article describes a method of killing two birds with one stone.

    The first question concerns corruption within your genealogy database. Is your data still good? Or have read errors or write errors managed to corrupt the database? When you make a backup, are you backing up a good database or are you simply making a (corrupted) copy of a corrupted database? The problem is real and has happened to quite a few genealogists.

    The second question concerns the integrity of your database. Are you confident of the accuracy of your genealogy data? You might be amazed at how many databases I see that include mothers giving birth at the age of eight, marriages at age twelve, or deaths at the age of 135. Sometimes you even find a person with a birth date prior to those of his parents. Download almost any GEDCOM file from the Internet and I suspect you can find similar problems.

    Such errors are easy to create. Sometimes selecting the wrong person in original records can cause such errors. Copying someone else's errors can cause other errors. Mistakes also occur because you had a keystroke error when entering the data; attempting to type 1835 on the keyboard can easily result in 1885 being pressed on the keys.

    I found such errors in my own database some time ago when I checked. This was embarrassing at the time, but I am very glad that I found an easy solution to identify many of these errors. Nothing is ever perfect and this method is not guaranteed to catch 100% of the errors. However, it will catch many of them and I will gladly settle for that.

    The remainder of this article is reserved for Plus Edition subscribers only. If you have a Plus Edition subscription, you may read the full article at: https://eogn.com/(*)-Plus-Edition-News-Articles/13330223. (A Plus Edition password is required to access that article.)

    If you are not yet a Plus Edition subscriber, you can learn more about such subscriptions and even upgrade to a Plus Edition subscription immediately at https://eogn.com/page-18077

  • 15 Mar 2024 4:13 PM | Anonymous

    One of the often-repeated tales about Saint Patrick is the story about driving the snakes from Ireland. One version tells of his standing upon a hill, using a wooden staff to drive the serpents into the sea and banishing them forever from the shores of Ireland. Another legend says that one old serpent resisted, but the saint overcame it by cunning. He is said to have made a box and invited the reptile to enter. The snake insisted the box was too small, and the discussion became very heated. Finally the snake entered the box to prove he was right, whereupon St Patrick slammed the lid and cast the box into the sea. 

    Of course, it is true that there are no snakes in Ireland. In fact, there is no evidence that snakes ever inhabited the island. While many fossilized remains of animals, insects, birds, and fish have been found in Ireland, no one has ever found any fossilized evidence of any serpents on the island in millions of years. 

    If one accepts the tales that Saint Patrick is the reason for their absence, one must also marvel that he was able to drive out the snakes' ancestors retroactively, too!


  • 15 Mar 2024 11:28 AM | Anonymous

    The following is a press release written by the folks at TheGenealogist:

    Get ready to paint the town green this St. Patrick's Day with a bumper release from TheGenealogist! They have just announced the release of 1,769,007 individuals to their Irish Catholic Parish Record Collection and 1,263,399 Irish Wills for their subscribers.

    For the many family historians with Irish ancestors, these latest records will be a welcome addition to the celebrations of this day that is so close to the hearts of the Irish.

    In this latest release from County Tipperary transcripts for over 80 parishes have been added: A full list of the coverage may be found here:https://thegenealogist.co.uk/coverage/parish-records/ireland/#tipperary

    Also making up the releases in the “St Patrick’s Day Parade” are these records of Irish wills:

    Dublin Will and Grant Books 1272-1858,Calendar of Wills and Administrations 1858-1922, 

    Irish Will Indexes 1484-1858, Prerogative and Diocesan Copies of Wills and Indexes 1596-1858, 

    Will Registers 1858-1900 and Soldiers’ Wills 1914-1918

    So raise a glass of Guinness, wear some green and enjoy this latest release from the Emerald Isle.

    To go with these records, read TheGenealogist’s article: A Long Way from Tipperary: 

    https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2024/a-long-way-from-tipperary-7187/

    Save Over £74 on our Diamond Personal Premium Package

    To celebrate this latest release, TheGenealogist is offering its Diamond Personal Premium Package for only £109.95, a saving of over £74.

    This offer includes a lifetime discount! Your subscription will renew at the same discounted price every year you stay with us.

    To find out more and claim the offer, visit: https://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/MGBIPR324

    This offer expires at the end of 8th June 2024

    About TheGenealogist

    TheGenealogist is an award-winning online family history website, who put a wealth of information at the fingertips of family historians. Their approach is to bring hard to use physical records to life online with easy to use interfaces such as their Tithe and newly released Lloyd George Domesday collections. 

    TheGenealogist’s innovative SmartSearch technology links records together to help you find your ancestors more easily. TheGenealogist is one of the leading providers of online family history records. Along with the standard Birth, Marriage, Death and Census records, they also have significant collections of Parish and Nonconformist records, PCC Will Records, Irish Records, Military records, Occupations, Newspaper record collections amongst many others.

    TheGenealogist uses the latest technology to help you bring your family history to life. Use TheGenealogist to find your ancestors today!

  • 15 Mar 2024 9:20 AM | Anonymous

    A genealogy research reference collection for public use is being assembled at Brunswick Community College.

    The initial donated books are from Brunswick Town Chapter National Society Daughters of the Revolution.

    “We’re very pleased about this collaboration with BCC,” said Brunswick Town Chapter NSDAR Regent Mary Sands. “Interest in genealogy has obviously grown exponentially. We see that in the increasing interest in joining DAR by locals as well as residents who have moved here from other parts of the country.”

    Patrons will be able to view and scan pages from books in the collection. BCC has made available a large flatbed scanner, desks, chairs and bookshelves. Public contributions to the room are also welcomed.

    You can read more in an article in the WWAY News web site at: https://tinyurl.com/mut5czbh.

  • 15 Mar 2024 9:07 AM | Anonymous

    The  following announcement was written by the folks at Findmypast:

    We're honouring Irish history this St Patrick's Day weekend. If you've got roots in the Emerald Isle, you may find a familiar name or two amongst this week's 992,000 new records.

    Explore three new 18th-century sets - Protestant Householders, Dissenters' Petitions and the 1766 Religious Census - as well as new Belfast and Ulster Directory records and over 174,000 historical newspaper pages.

    This week's new additions offer an unparralelled glimpse into 18th-century Irish history. From Antrim to Armagh, read on for a full rundown all that's been added this Findmypast Friday.

    Ireland, 1766 Religious Census

    This week's biggest new set consists of 20,505 transcriptions from the 1766 Religious Census. Although the original documents were lost when Ireland's Public Records Office was destroyed in 1922, these extensive transcripts were recorded by antiquarian and genealogist Tenison Groves prior to the fire.

    From these records, you may be able to learn the name of the head of the household, the year, their religion, the parish and the county. The information recorded varies widely, because different enumerators recorded different details.

    Ireland, Census of Protestant Householders 1740

    Secondly, we've also added transcriptions of a census that was taken of Protestant householders in 1740. The 15,957 records within this new set are from parishes in the counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down and Tyrone.

    Map of Ireland, c.1716.

    Map of Ireland, c.1716.

    Also created by Tenison Groves, these transcriptions contain details like a name, year, barony, parish and county. 

    Ireland, 1775 Dissenters' Petitions

    This week's third and final new set is a collection of historic petition records. It contains approximately 4,000 names, of people who protested the Church of Ireland's sacramental tests in 1775. The petitions consist of dissenters' names categorized by parish, congregation, town, neighbourhood, or, in one case, barony. 

    Occasionally, members of the Established Church also signed the petitions. The lists typically specify whether signatories were dissenters or Established Church members. In cases where no denomination is indicated, the list contained names of both dissenters and Established Church members without differentiation.

    While available for all Northern Ireland counties except Fermanagh, these records are most extensive for areas in Counties Antrim and Down.

    Belfast & Ulster Directories

    In addition to the three brand new Irish record sets, we've also made a significant update to an existing Irish collection. We added 951,127 Belfast and Ulster directory records, with both transcriptions and original images available for you to explore. 

    These new additions span 1831 to 1900, and contain over 900,000 names. With almost 70 years of history covered, they offer a detailed glimpse into what the North of Ireland was like in the 19th century. 

    New pages from Windsor to Woodford

    We added a brand new publication - the Brighouse Echo - to our newspaper archive this week. 

    The Brighouse Echo, 8 January 1892.

    The Brighouse Echo, 8 January 1892.

    We've also updated 57 of our existing titles, with a grand total of 174,403 new historical pages added.

    Here's a full rundown of all that's been added to the newspaper archive this Findmypast Friday.

    New title:

    Updated titles:

    • Alloa Journal, 1917
    • Banffshire Advertiser, 1917
    • Banffshire Herald, 1917
    • Barrhead News, 1917
    • Biggleswade Chronicle, 1891-1895, 1959-1966
    • Brechin Advertiser, 1962-1965, 1967-1969, 1971-1972
    • Bromsgrove & Droitwich Messenger, 1916-1917
    • Buchan Observer and East Aberdeenshire Advertiser, 1919-1929
    • Coalville Times, 1917
    • Cumberland & Westmorland Herald, 1917
    • Deal, Walmer & Sandwich Mercury, 1990
    • Denbighshire Free Press, 1917
    • Dominica Chronicle, 1917
    • Durham County Advertiser, 1917
    • Eastbourne Gazette, 1986
    • Essex Weekly News, 1917
    • Evening Irish Times, 1917
    • Fraserburgh Herald and Northern Counties’ Advertiser, 1990
    • Hants and Sussex News, 1917
    • Hemel Hempstead Gazette and West Herts Advertiser, 1984, 1988
    • Herts Advertiser, 1917
    • Hornsey & Finsbury Park Journal, 1917
    • Huntly Express, 1917
    • Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner, 1964
    • Kent Evening Post, 1973, 1990, 1994, 1998
    • Kentish Express, 1990-1991, 1994, 1998-1999
    • Kentish Gazette, 1990-1991, 1994, 1997, 1999
    • Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette, 1905-1908, 1910-1918
    • Linlithgowshire Gazette, 1919-1920
    • Lowestoft Journal, 1917
    • Maidstone Telegraph, 1975, 1978, 1993, 1995-1996, 1998
    • Mearns Leader, 1990
    • Midland Tribune, 1917
    • Montrose Standard, 1964
    • Morecambe Visitor, 1975
    • Nelson Leader, 1986
    • Northern Chronicle and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland, 1917
    • Port-Glasgow Express, 1964
    • Retford, Worksop, Isle of Axholme and Gainsborough News, 1980
    • Richmond and Twickenham Times, 1917
    • Ripon Gazette, 1983-1985
    • Rugby Advertiser, 1850-1852, 1982, 1986-1987
    • Sheerness Times Guardian, 1990, 1999
    • Shetland Times, 1948, 1950
    • South Notts Echo, 1964
    • Southend Standard and Essex Weekly Advertiser, 1917
    • St. Andrews Citizen, 1957-1968
    • Sydenham, Forest Hill & Penge Gazette, 1964
    • Todmorden & District News, 1936-1951, 1980-1984
    • Tonbridge Free Press, 1964
    • Voice of St. Lucia, 1917
    • Volunteer Service Gazette and Military Dispatch, 1917
    • Wimbledon News, 1917
    • Windsor and Eton Express, 1917
    • Wolverton Express, 1964
    • Woodford and District Advertiser, 1917
    • Woodford Times, 1917

    Last week we added a brand new collection of Women's Land Army records, in addition to a new Irish set and some updated Northamptonshire Militia records. Don't miss out - explore the full release for yourself.


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