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The MyHeritage Inbox Gets A Fresh New Look
Oct 9
MyHeritage’s platform for genealogy and DNA is collaborative, and one of its main advantages is that it allows you to connect with other MyHeritage users around the world. Whether it’s through a Smart Match, or DNA Match that you reviewed on MyHeritage, getting in touch with another users on the other side of the match is key to understand...
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Are You Relate To Ötzi the Iceman?
Oct 7
Hikers found his body 30 years ago lodged in the ice, still clad in his leather pants, with a flint blade tucked unto a wicker sheath, his copper ax, arrows, and bow strewn about him. Adoring his skill were 61 tattoos, and lodged into his shoulder was the arrowhead that ultimately killed him, 23andMe reported. He was nicknamed Ötzi the Ice...
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Grant Will Bring Opportunities In Genetics and Biotech
Sep 26
A Huntsville research center’s share of a National Science Foundation grant will bring chances for high-tech hands-on learning to middle and high school students. HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology’s share of over $30 million in NSF funding will help cover three years of STEM education open to north Alabama high schoolers and middl...
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MyHeritage Acquires MesAieux.com
Sep 24
We are delighted to announce that MyHeritage has acquired MesAieux.com, a popular family history service specializing in French Canadian genealogy. This is an exciting time for French-speaking genealogists, and a major milestone for Canadian genealogy. This marks the 13th acquisition by MyHeritage. In August 2021, MyHeritage acquired Filae,...
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Save The Date – RootsTech Early Bird Registration Opens September 25!
Sep 19
RootsTech 2025, the largest family history conference of the year, will be here before you know it. In fact, early bird registration opens on September 25, 2024, just a few weeks from now. Set a reminder because you won’t want to miss this opportunity! Registration will open at the same time for both in-person and online attendance. The p...
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What To Know About Cleaning Grave Markers
Sep 17
Soiling and staining of cemetery gravestones, monuments, markers and statuary can result from soil splashing, pollution, rusting bolts or other metal features, bird deposits, and berries or sap dropping onto the stone. Biological growth, such as algae, lichen, or moss, can cover the surface, cause the stone to decay, and make reading the stone...
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Building Family Bonds By Celebrating Grandparents Day
Sep 12
The relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is special. As humans, we tend to seek friendships with people who are a similar age to us. The exception to this trend is with grandparents. In spite of the age gap, relationships with grandparents can be some of the most meaningful familial relationships, FamilySearch reported. The e...
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Bay Residents Discover Family Connected To 90-Year-Old Quilt
Aug 27
Last month, Bay St. Louis residents Mary Serfeils and Tara Godbold rehomed a nearly 90-year-old quilt with family, The East Coast Echo reported. Serfelis found the quilt at a yard sale in Long Beach in 2021. “It was not there with a nice, neat stack of beautiful quilts,” she said. “It was mixed in with old sheets and bath towels. T...
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San Diegans Push For Reparations For Black Californians
Aug 22
In January, Black lawmakers in Sacramento released the nation’s first statewide reparations package, a slew of bills intended to compensate the descendants of enslaved Black people, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Though nascent, the policies — each now progressing through the Legislature at different stages — heralds Californi...
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Mount Vernon Cemetery Is For Sale On Zillow
Aug 20
A recent $1 million listing for Mount Vernon Cemetery on Zillow quickly went viral. But the post, like the cemetery itself, contains a few plot holes, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. While the aerial photos show the North Philly cemetery’s 26 acres are completely reclaimed by nature (volunteers call the overgrowth “the green infern...
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Scientists Find A Likely Cause of Many Unexplained Cases of Intellectual Disability
Aug 15
A newly identified neurodevelopment disorder may explain tens of thousands of intellectual disability whose cause was previously unknown, according to a new study, NBC News reported. The research, published Friday in the journal Nature Medicine, investigates the effects of mutations in the gene RNU4-2, which is found in all animals, plants,...
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New Collaboration With FamilyTreeDNA
Aug 13
FamilyTreeDNA has been a valued partner and friend of MyHeritage for well over a decade. Notably, since the launch of MyHeritage DNA in 2016, FamilyTreeDNA’s in-house lab, Gene by Gene, based in Houston Texas, has provided MyHeritage with our DNA processing services. We are happy to announce the launch of a new collaboration between the t...
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Germanic Europe Genetic Groups
Aug 9
Simply saying one has German ancestry doesn’t capture how diverse the cultural, linguistic, and historical differences are within the country of more than 80 million people, 23andMe wrote. Germany has over 16 administrative districts and at least a dozen distinct dialects. Someone from the North along the Baltic Sea who speaks what is ca...
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Celebrating Friendship Day with Ancestry
Aug 7
Good times and great friends make the best memories. Friends and family can be with you through life’s ups and downs - to celebrate with you, console you, and to share in adventures as well as everyday life. Friendships can even include the close relationships you’ve built with relatives like brothers, sisters, cousins, and other family me...
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McDonald’s Would Disturb Burials Underneath Former St. James’ Church Graveyard
Jul 25
A New McDonald’s restaurant would spill onto a former graves where some burials are still in place underground, experts have warned, Kent Online reported. The development land in Dover is next to church ruins and has already proved controversial with the fast food chain even calling on the community to support its proposals. But herita...
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