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@WikiTree #WikiTreeChallenge Wikitree with over 25 million profiles, is the 3rd largest collaborative family tree, after FamilySearch Family Tree and Geni. As the name suggests, the site is designed like a wiki, giving all users ability to contribute and change (preferably with sources) and collaborate ...

Like hundreds of thousands of you, I had been looking forward to this year’s version of #RootsTech2021,  which is completely online and free to everyone. I have attended RootsTech in Salt Lake City three times in person, in 2012, 2014 and 2017. I couldn’t go from 2018 to 2020, but those years ...

Today I got a newsletter from Elizabeth O’Neal, who runs the Heart of the Family site.  The newsletter was about “Getting the Most Out of RootsTech”. What caught my attention was her point 5: “Check your growing list of cousins.” Elizabeth was talking about Relatives at RootsTech, which looks at ...

Yesterday, I released  new version of Double Match Triangulator. This took longer than I hoped, but finally it’s out. In late November, GEDmatch changed the format of their segment match file and also made a change to their one-to-one report, so DMT needed to be updated to handle those. Also in May ...

**UPDATE** June 8:  FamilySearch has released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0. See my blog post: GEDCOM 7.0, Official. It appears that a GEDCOM Version 7.0 Release Candidate will be announced at RootsTech Connect on February 25. This will likely take place in the session by Gordon ...

The GEDCOM standard for transferring genealogical data has been in use basically unchanged for over 20 years now. Just about every genealogy software program can export (some of) its family data to a GEDCOM file, and can import (some of) the family data in a GEDCOM file into its database. The issue is the ...

Windows 10 comes with its own webserver called IIS (Internet Information Services). By default, IIS is not enabled because most people don’t need a webserver on their Windows computer. But if you want a copy of your website on your computer and want to be able to view your local copy and use it to test ...

Happy 2021 everyone! This is the 12th year of the awarding of Users Choice Awards to genealogy software that users have rated highly. Since 2008, GenSoftReviews, www.gensoftreviews.com has had users write 5,874 reviews for the 1,041 different genealogy-based programs listed at the site. Of these 1,041 ...

Yesterday, I logged into my account at my webhost Netfirms and I was met with a somewhat alarming message: That was not pleasing to me. I knew what that meant. Likely I’d need to make major revisions to my website to get my Behold blog and my GenSoftReviews site to work under the new version of PHP. My ...

In my last post, I discussed a methodology that I could quickly put together an ancestors-only tree for my niece at MyHeritage. I was able to get back to about 3rd great-grandparents on most of her lines. But it was her mother’s father’s mother’s side that started to get interesting. My niece’s ...