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Behold Version 1.99 Beta - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Jun 2024
... see: Behold Version History To see what’s coming by Version 2.0, including some DNA features that no other program has, see: Behold Future Plans Note that the Help file and website will not be updated to reflect the new features once all the functionality for Version 2.0 is included. So give it a try if you want: Behold Download Page (beholdgenealogy.com)
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My Biggest Brick Wall - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 May 2024
... and I don’t know of any living relatives they might have had, so there is no one to DNA test. It wasn’t until 3 years ago during the WikiTree Challenge, that I was able to determine that they were from Odessa. The 1911 Canada Census indicates that Louis may have been born in May 1878 and Sarah in April 1876. The records from the above include those years!! So now ...
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Retesting my DNA at MyHeritage - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Apr 2024
I took my first MyHeritage DNA test at RootsTech 2017 in Salt Lake City. At RootsTech 2024 last March, MyHeritage announced Ethnicity Estimation 2.0 which is to be released this June. There are many good reasons to get their new estimates. The estimates will be a free update for all users who tested on ...
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Behold, My Genealogy, and Syncing - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Feb 2024
... What Have I Been Up To? Two things really. The first thing that caught me was DNA. It was just after my 2016 Unlock The Past Genealogy cruise that I submitted my uncle’s and then my DNA to Family Tree DNA for testing. At that point it was DNA or Bust and I ...
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Continuing Education 2023 - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Dec 2023
... noted. Webinars – Total 25.5 hours Jan 4 – The 5 steps to organizing your DNA in 2023 – Diahan Southard Jan 19 – The Basics of Jewish American Genealogy, Rhonda McClure Feb 11 – 10 Tips of Successful Online/Onsite Research in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus – Alina Khuda, Virtual Genealogical Association Mar 14 – FamilySearch GEDCOM Technical ...
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Ranking Genealogy Websites - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Nov 2023
... Canadian immigration lists, and also family trees of those who I connect to or who I DNA match. With regards to the the DNA sites, I use Ancestry DNA the most because I have the most matches who I’m related to there, and they also have their Thru Lines. 23andMe is next. MyHeritage
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Could the Golden Age of DNA Testing Be Over? - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2023
Maybe it isn’t for you, but it likely is for me. I’m not talking about using DNA to find close family members, e.g. if you are adopted or don’t know who a grandparent is. That’s still a big thing. And I’m not talking about forensic genealogy used for finding killers and solving cold cases. That is still going on in the background to the dismay of many. And ...
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Update to Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 22 Aug 2023
... Ancestry sent me an email saying they updated the parent group assignments of my DNA matches: Ancestry calls this technology SideView, and I first wrote about it last December in my article Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches where I compared Ancestry’s assignments to other methods and what other companies do. These ...
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Got 12 Hours of Genealogy Continuing Education in 2022? - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Jan 2023
... Ukrainian Archives - Alex Krakovsky Feb 27 - 1 hour - Navigating Your Jewish DNA Results - Adina Newman Mar 3 - 1 hour - MyHeritage New Releases: Timeline & FamilySearch Syncing - Daniel Horowitz Mar 17 - 1 hour - All About GEDCOM - Lisa Louise Cooke Apr 7 - 1 hour - What's New in Jewish Genealogy 2022 - Ellen Kowitt ...
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My Web Site and Family Research 2022 Summary - Blog entry by lkessler - 31 Dec 2022
... on December 31, I have been summarizing my website page views, family tree counts and DNA matches and putting that on my What’s New page of my lkessler.com website so that I can see how much they’ve changed from the year before. But I’ve never before posted these stats on my blog. This year, I thought I would. 2022 was my website’s 25th year in operation. My ...
