Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:
1) Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) DNA Interest Group Meeting on Wednesday with 12 attendees. I reported on the Ancestry Health announcement, the FamilyTreeDNA health announcement, the 23andMe updated ethnicity and family tree, the MyHeritagwe Live 2019 DNA videos, the RootsTech London livestreams and handouts, and my Newton/Brigham DNA matches. The attendees reported on the status of their DNA test results and analyses.
2) Participated in Mondays With Myrt today. The panel discussed the Zoom webinar and meetings features, RootsTech London, the Society of Genealogists, the Irish Genealogy site with free BMD records, removal of FamilySearch records, and the Newspapers.com obituary hints.
3) Finished up my new presentation on "Researching in Historical Newspapers" which I will give at the 30 October CVGS general meeting. I still need to do the syllabus.
4) Watched one MyHeritage Live 2019 video - The Worldwide DNA Web by Alon Diament Carmel.
5) Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of 6th great-grandmother #511 Sarah (Campbell) Rolfe (1746-1838) for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday. This completes my known 6th great-grandparents and closer ancestors.
6) Transcribed a 1775 deed of 5th great-grandfather Simon Gates selling land in Westminster, Massachusetts from Josiah Kendall for Amanuensis Monday.
7) Ancestry added about 4,000 record hints for the Newspapers.com Obituary Index and I started resolving them, adding content and sources to my RootsMagic tree. I used the mining tool for a specific Ancestry record collection.
8) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 33,163 of my RootsMagic persons with FSFT.
9) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 55,167 persons in my RootsMagic file, and 111,073 source citations. I TreeShared thrice this week updating 276 profiles, and I resolved 1105 Ancestry Hints. I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 120,220 to be resolved, but I work on them weekly.
10) Added several more ThruLines to DNA matches to my RootsMagic file. Added Notes to about 5 AncestryDNA matches. Downloaded new MyHeritageDNA shared cM match list and got it into a spreadsheet, hoping to find common ancestors for my matches. Tried to obtain the Auto cluster analysis but it failed for some reason.
11) Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release. The most popular post last week was New Collection on Ancestry.com - Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s to Current with over 472 views.
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