MyHeritage today announced that they have teamed up with Family Tree DNA to bring you DNA testing. Currently they are offering discounts on purchases till March 31st. Additionally they have connected the Family Projects from FamilyTree DNA once you bought a package. DNA markers from Family Tree DNA can also be imported into Family Tree Builder from MyHeritage as a bonus.
About a year ago I purchased 23andMe and have been fine with that, but was curious to see if I could import my data from 23andMe. From the DNA FAQ on MyHeritage it states that it is not possible at the time but that they are working on it. As I was searching the internet I did find information that you can import your RAW data from 23andMe to Family Tree DNA for a fee.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Obituary Sunday: Friedrich Perutz 1918
Friedrich Perutz was a distant relative on my mother side. He was related to the great grandfather of my mother. He was born in 1868 in Prague, and passed away on 1 April 1918 in Prague. From the above I believe he also worked in the Bruders Perutz Textile Company out of Prague.
He was married to Ida Elias, and the had Felix Perutz, Lilly Perutz, and Edith Perutz.
Friday, February 10, 2012
New Online Resource: LackawannaCounty Online Access
About a year ago I made a post on Ancestry.com forums asking about a marriage date for a distant relative. Two weeks ago I received an email that a reply was posted to that message with a date for the marriage along with the parents names. I did not think to much of it at the time, figured that they kind person went to the courthouse.
I would usually go to PAGENWEB for Lackawanna County but that only had records till about 1920 that were listed. One day I decided to poke around the Ancestry.com forums for Lackawanna County and thats were I found this little gem.
Lackawanna County Public Access is available on with Internet Explorer but it contains Marriage Records from 1885-Present, Marriage Index 1885-Present, Wills Index 1878-Present, and I believe Birth/Death Records.
I have only had the time to search the marriage license's at this time.
On initial install i had an error reporting that "Setup.exe" could not be found. Look on your desktop for the LHA install file and it will install fine. Besides that have fun and see what you can find for your families
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Ancestry Hints: Media Questions.
I have been using the Ancestry.com trial period for about 10 days out of the 14 mostly for the Ancestry hints. As stated earlier I have full access to AncestryLibrary edition from my house but that does not work with hints. My use of the trial period was to test out the Ancestry hints and then download them to my FTM 2012.
Also as stated in an earlier post I had about 500 hints for about 2600 individuals in my tree. There would probably be more but I have noticed that they dont "get" hints unless I view them in the web view, or possibly in FTM 2012. I have not had the time to click on every person in my tree in either formats to see if there are any hints available.
Back to the main point of this was talking about Media connected to the hints. With each hint there is usually a type of media that is associated with it. For example if you get a hint for the 1930 census record for an individual then that means he/she was found in the census.
My question as I have not been able to figure this out, or maybe its a settings issue is this. If you select a hint and state that its valid, and update you tree with the sources. I know that the source is added to your person in the tree, but does the media also get attached, is it downloaded?
Now using FTM 2012 if you have connected hints and then did a sync with Ancestry.com does that download the source media or does it just provide a link to that media that would be disconnected if you did not have access to Ancestry.com on a paid account?
Is there a way to match all sources with the documents/pictures ect, and then download them all to your hard drive? I would rather have all the documents locally on my drive that I can then connect or just have to reference later on.
Also as stated in an earlier post I had about 500 hints for about 2600 individuals in my tree. There would probably be more but I have noticed that they dont "get" hints unless I view them in the web view, or possibly in FTM 2012. I have not had the time to click on every person in my tree in either formats to see if there are any hints available.
Back to the main point of this was talking about Media connected to the hints. With each hint there is usually a type of media that is associated with it. For example if you get a hint for the 1930 census record for an individual then that means he/she was found in the census.
My question as I have not been able to figure this out, or maybe its a settings issue is this. If you select a hint and state that its valid, and update you tree with the sources. I know that the source is added to your person in the tree, but does the media also get attached, is it downloaded?
Now using FTM 2012 if you have connected hints and then did a sync with Ancestry.com does that download the source media or does it just provide a link to that media that would be disconnected if you did not have access to Ancestry.com on a paid account?
Is there a way to match all sources with the documents/pictures ect, and then download them all to your hard drive? I would rather have all the documents locally on my drive that I can then connect or just have to reference later on.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Share posts with Google+
Today it was announced over at Blogger Buzz that they have now allowed direct sharing of posts to Google+ from Blogger.
To share a post with Google+ all you have to do is:
1. Make sure you Google Profile is linked with your Blogger account.
After publishing your post you will be presented with a a share box asking if you would like to share it with Google+. The share box will contain a snippit of your post and then you can share it with your circles.
Update: I had to manually share this post, but you should check under your Settings, Posts/Comments and make sure Sharing is set to YES. Mine was defaulted to No.
To share a post with Google+ all you have to do is:
1. Make sure you Google Profile is linked with your Blogger account.
After publishing your post you will be presented with a a share box asking if you would like to share it with Google+. The share box will contain a snippit of your post and then you can share it with your circles.
Update: I had to manually share this post, but you should check under your Settings, Posts/Comments and make sure Sharing is set to YES. Mine was defaulted to No.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Vote for my Daughters School
This is the last day to vote folks so I am posting this everywhere. My daughters school is in a competition to win 50k from Clorox for the Clorox Power a Bright Future.
Her school (DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS) is currently in first place at 122,000 votes, but second place is catching up. Second place got some 10k votes today. And with only 1 day left I am doing everything I can to get the word out there to vote for my daughters school.
Sorry if you are getting spammed on Twitter or Facebook or Google+ this will be the last day (Friday) to vote so you should not hear anything except when my daughter's school wins of course.
Two ways to vote:
Text to vote: Text clorox3742 to 44144 (SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW PLEASE)
Second way to vote is via the website, its a little hard to login, and requires registration, do not use your Facebook account to setup the registration. No emails are sent to your email account to "verify" or activate. You just put in your email address, phone number (I used my work :), and your email address.
http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/gallery/detail/?nid=725
That link will bring you strait to DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS link to vote.
Thanks everyone.....
Her school (DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS) is currently in first place at 122,000 votes, but second place is catching up. Second place got some 10k votes today. And with only 1 day left I am doing everything I can to get the word out there to vote for my daughters school.
Sorry if you are getting spammed on Twitter or Facebook or Google+ this will be the last day (Friday) to vote so you should not hear anything except when my daughter's school wins of course.
Two ways to vote:
Text to vote: Text clorox3742 to 44144 (SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW PLEASE)
Second way to vote is via the website, its a little hard to login, and requires registration, do not use your Facebook account to setup the registration. No emails are sent to your email account to "verify" or activate. You just put in your email address, phone number (I used my work :), and your email address.
http://www.powerabrightfuture.com/gallery/detail/?nid=725
That link will bring you strait to DISCOVERY, SAN MARCOS link to vote.
Thanks everyone.....
Ancestry Trial and Hints
I decided to give Ancestry.com the trial period and see what I could find out. Currently showing 500 hints in a database of 2300 people. Not sure if that is good or bad, or if it has had the chance to find hints on everybody in the database.
Overall I made a lot of connections to Ancestry Tree's and a few census records here and there. Add in a few SSDI's and we would be good. I think I spent about 2 hours on it today, and I knocked it down from 500 to about 484. Somewhere along the way I think I gained more hints, so I would guess that I hit about 50 hints today to be on the safe side.
Most of the hints were accurate with about 3 that were off. I did notice that it doubled a family in my tree, think that is mostly my mistake when verifying the data. I am thinking its going to take a lot longer then the trial period to get through my 500 or so hints, but it will be worth it in the long run. I have it setup to do monthly world access if I do need it to go past the 14 days.
The only real question that I have is that if you do use the "hints" and it find say a census record does it download the media that is connected to it or is it only attached via the online tree? If it does not get downloaded I think that it would not be all the useful. I like to be able to look at documents later on. And if I have to back track through Ancestry.com to find out where I got some sort of information for one of my ancestors I may get tired quickly.
If I am doing it wrong and there is a way to have the media downloaded please let me know so I can make the necessary changes.
Overall I made a lot of connections to Ancestry Tree's and a few census records here and there. Add in a few SSDI's and we would be good. I think I spent about 2 hours on it today, and I knocked it down from 500 to about 484. Somewhere along the way I think I gained more hints, so I would guess that I hit about 50 hints today to be on the safe side.
Most of the hints were accurate with about 3 that were off. I did notice that it doubled a family in my tree, think that is mostly my mistake when verifying the data. I am thinking its going to take a lot longer then the trial period to get through my 500 or so hints, but it will be worth it in the long run. I have it setup to do monthly world access if I do need it to go past the 14 days.
The only real question that I have is that if you do use the "hints" and it find say a census record does it download the media that is connected to it or is it only attached via the online tree? If it does not get downloaded I think that it would not be all the useful. I like to be able to look at documents later on. And if I have to back track through Ancestry.com to find out where I got some sort of information for one of my ancestors I may get tired quickly.
If I am doing it wrong and there is a way to have the media downloaded please let me know so I can make the necessary changes.
Ancestry.com: Login with Facebook
Not sure if this is something new, as it is the first time I have seen it when logging into Ancestry.com. I decided to set it up and give it a try. When I logged in via Facebook, I had to login also at Ancestry.com to link up the two accounts.
I guess this could be easier in the long run to minimize username/passwords to remember. From what it says when linking that no information will be shared between Ancestry and Facebook. I am not sure how this can or will be used in the future but wanted to let everyone know that its possibly new.
I guess this could be easier in the long run to minimize username/passwords to remember. From what it says when linking that no information will be shared between Ancestry and Facebook. I am not sure how this can or will be used in the future but wanted to let everyone know that its possibly new.
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