Thursday, December 31, 2020

Seavers in the News -- Obituary of Undertaker George W. Seaver (1854-1946) of Marion, Virginia

 It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the The Times Dispatch [Richmond, Va.] newspaper dated 10 May 1946:

The transcription of the article is:

"George W. Seaver
MARION, May 9 -- George W. Seaver, 91, one of Marion's oldest citizens, died Tuesday in a local hospital.  Mr. Seaver retired in 1928 after being in the retail furniture and undertaking business for 54 years.  He was a member of First Methodist Church of Marion and is survived by two sons, William B. Seaver, of Marion, and George W. Seaver, Jr., of Princeton, W.Va.; one daughter, Mrs. M.M. Brown; and eight grandchildren.  Funeral rites were held Wednesday at Seaver Funeral Chapel.  Interment was in Round Hill Cemetery."

The source citation is:

"George W. Seaver,The Times Dispatch [Richmond, Va.] newspaper, obituary, Friday, 10 May 1946, page 29, column 1, George W. Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 31 December 2020).

This death notice provides only an age, an approximate death date, his occupation, and the names of his three living children. There is no mention of parents or spouse names, or his daughter's given name.

George Watson Seaver (1854-1946) was born 9 December 1854 in Marion, Virginia, the son of William C. and Elizabeth Ann (Pruner) Seaver.  He married Seanah M. Painter (1876-1919) on 29 October 1896 in Sullivan County, Tennessee.  They had four children:

*  Maude Elizabeth Seaver (1897-1980), married about 1919 Dr. Malcolm Marvin Brown (1887-1948).
*  Marvin Wise Seaver (1900-1945), married 1930 Glenna Marene Sprinkle (1908-1993).
*  William Blaine Seaver (1902-1947), married 1935 Margaret Virginia Blackwell (1902-1969).
*  George Watson Seaver (1905-1959), married 1926 Mildred C. Tilson (1905-1995).

I am not related to George Watson Seaver since he is descended from Henry and Elizabeth (--?--) Seaver who migrated from Germany to Virginia in the 1760s.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a man lives and works a long time, and has a mortuary named after him. I am glad that I can honor George Watson Seaver today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Disclosure:  I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.


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MyHeritage Year in Review Graphic for 2020

 I received this from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

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Throughout an exceedingly difficult year, family history became an increasingly important outlet for people and helped them remain connected to their loved ones. At MyHeritage we worked hard to fill that need by developing new features, adding historical records, and giving back to the community. 

Read more about what we did in 2020 in our year in review blog post: https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/12/2020-myheritage-year-in-review/
2020 Year in Review



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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and gave received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2020

 Looking back over the past year, I see that I pursued these genealogy and family history related activities:

1)  Speaking

*  Gave three presentations to Chula Vista Genealogical Society via Zoom in April, May and June.  
*  Gave two presentations to Orange County California Genealogical Society in September via Zoom.
*  Gave a presentation to Whittier Area Genealogical Society in October via Zoom.
*  Gave a presentation to Larimer County (Colorado) Genealogical Society in November via Zoom.
*  Gave a presentation to a Chula Vista PEO group in October via Zoom.
*  I had planned on cutting back in-person presentations due to travel issues, but COVID did the job for me.
*  I created no new presentations this year.

2)  Society Work

*  Moderated 2 SDGS RootsMagic User Group meetings at San Diego FamilySearch Library with 6 to 15 in attendance. These meetings were canceled starting in March due to COVID and the lack of RootsMagic 8 release.
*  Moderated 12 CVGS Research Group monthly meetings (3 at Chula Vista Civic Center Library and 9 in Zoom meetings) with 8 to 20 in attendance.

*  Moderated 11 CVGS DNA Interest Group monthly meetings (2 at Chula Vista Civic Center Library and 9 in Zoom meetings) with 10 to 20 in attendance.
*  Wrote, edited, printed, mailed and emailed 12 CVGS monthly Newsletters (10 pages each month) to the CVGS membership.
*  Served on the CVGS Board for the 18th consecutive year as Research Group Chair, DNA Group Chair, and Newsletter Editor, attending monthly Board meetings and General Society program meetings (3 in-person, 8 on Zoom).
*  Set up the Zoom account for CVGS and hosted all of the CVGS Zoom meetings.  We are recording the program meetings and putting them on the CVGS website.

3)  Education

*  Watched about 50 Family Tree Webinars and about 3 Virtual Genealogical Society webinars as part of my subscriptions to both services.
*  Attended the 2020 RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City in February, attended a few classes, enjoyed the exhibit hall, served as an Ambassador, and received a GeneaBlogger Lifetime Service Award.

*  Attended the SDGS January seminar, and every SDGS in-person and online program meetings and special webinars on Zoom.  
*  Attended the SDGS DNA Interest Group meetings on Zoom from April to December hosted by Colin Whitney, often with speakers.
*  Attended most CVGS monthly General Meetings (January in-person, April to December via Zoom) with one presentation by a speaker.
*  Participated in about 40 Mondays With Myrt webinars via Zoom contributing information, commentary and opinions about events in the genea-sphere.  Also watched several Wacky Wednesday webinars.
*  Watched hundreds of YouTube videos about genealogy-related topics - I subscribe to about 90 YouTube channels for genealogy.
*  Read the NEHGS magazines and downloaded them to my genealogy education folders.  American Ancestors also provides digital editions of a number of periodicals for New England which I search occasionally and download articles to my genealogy folders.
*  Downloaded syllabus articles from RootsTech, Family Tree Webinars and save them to my education folders.
*  Read thousands of genealogy-related blog posts from hundreds of geneabloggers using Feedly on a daily basis.

4)  Blogging

*  Wrote 939 blog posts on Genea-Musings in the 15th year of the blog.  Most of my posts are about my own research (e.g., Amanuensis Monday, Tombstone Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Seavers in the News, 52 Ancestors, and Saturday Night Genealogy Fun), but some are genea-curation about the industry (e.g., New and Updated Ancestry Collections; New and Updated FamilySearch collections; New and Updated MyHeritage collections; Genealogy News and Education Bytes on Tuesdays and Fridays; and Best of the Genea-Blogs on Sundays), occasional guest posts, press releases,  research tips (Tuesday's Tips), questions asked (e.g., Dear Randy posts), genealogy software, online collections, or industry issues.  See:
***  Randy's "Best" Genea-Musings Posts in 2020
***  Top 30 Most Viewed Posts in 2020 on Genea-Musings

*  I now have about 11,512,000 page views on the Genea-Musings blog according to Google.
*  Wrote 242 blog posts on The Geneaholic blog in the 14th year of the blog.  Almost all of them are daily journal posts about my work and my life.  I really slowed down in the fall.

5)  DNA Tests and Analysis

*  I have autosomal DNA test results at AncestryDNA (test), MyHeritageDNA (upload), FamilyTreeDNA (test), 23andMe (test), and Living DNA (upload).
*  Reviewed my DNA matches on a regular basis, and made notes about the match data, including known relationships and common ancestors.  I have spreadsheets for the highest matches on AncestryDNA and MyHeritageDNA matches with collected information.  I occasionally download my Shared DNA segments from MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
*  Created AutoCluster groups on Ancestry (not available any longer), MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe  using the Genetic Affairs program.  I have not done much on DNA Painter yet because my known common ancestors with my matches are relatively few on the sites with chromosome browsers.

6)  Genealogy Research and Family Trees

*  Used RootsMagic as my "master" family tree program on my desktop and laptop computers.  See   My RootsMagic Genealogy Database Statistics Update - 1 January 2021 for my progress on my family tree.
*  Continued to research, find, source and enter information on my ancestors and descendants of my 5th great-grandparents to help find common ancestors with DNA matches.
*  Use the WebHints for Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast, and FamilySearch to add content (names, relationships, events, dates, places, notes and source citations) for records found that apply to each profile.  
*  Searched for more records for selected profiles on all of the sites, adding content and source citations for records found that apply to each profile.  
*  Mined selected record collections on Ancestry (using the specific database tool for Ancestry Member Tree profiles), on MyHeritage (finding Record Matches for a specific collection for my MyHeritage tree profiles), on Findmypast (Record Hints on Findmypast tree profiles), and on FamilySearch Record Hints for FamilySearch Family Tree profiles.
*  TreeShared weekly the changes to the RootsMagic tree to my Ancestry Member Tree, which generates more Record Hints for those profiles.  Update my Findmypast and MyHeritage trees using GEDCOM on a yearly basis.
*  Matched my RootsMagic profiles with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles on a regular basis using the FamilySearch tools in RootsMagic, and add or edit Family Tree profiles and/or RootsMagic profiles to add content, notes and source citations.
*  Started the General Society of Mayflower Descendants membership process - submitted the preliminary form and am working on the application form and supporting documentation. 
*  Wrote Randy's Best Genealogy Discoveries in 2020 to summarize my genealogy research efforts.

7)  Digital Data Maintenance

*  Added digital images of genealogy records, including downloaded books or articles, to my ancestral surname and family files on a regular "as found" basis.
*  Added other genealogy-related documents (e.g., CVGS Newsletters, presentation slides and handouts, etc.) to my Genealogy file folder.  
*  Backed up the digital image files to Google Drive and iDrive in the cloud, and some files to Dropbox for transfer to the laptop on an as-needed basis.  
*  Bought another FOREVER box for more digitization in 2020.  Finally sent it in with 29 more 8-mm home movies from the 1940s to 1970s in late November.  Added more photographs in albums to FOREVER.  Now I need to buy more storage there.

8)  Summary

*  That's what I do almost every day for 5 to 11 hours a day chained to my computer; plus eat and sleep, but usually take a mid-day nap to recharge.  I worked about 3,000 hours on genealogy-related activities in 2020.  Didn't make much money.  I think I'm my own boss.  Made a lot of discoveries and had a lot of genea-fun.  
*  I actually gained more genealogy and research time due to COVID because I didn't have to drive Linda to the YMCA every day, but now I'm sleeping in longer.  
*   I still find some time for family activities (a few visits - some on Facetime and Duo, church (some on Zoom), Padres baseball on TV in 2020, Chargers football on TV, and Aztecs football/basketball on TV, and reading fiction while watching TV) and household chores (I took on cooking and cleaning this year).  I check Facebook daily, and read or watch political news/events online and on TV. 

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1693 Birth Record of Dinah Rice (1693-1725) in Marlborough, Massachusetts

 It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the birth entry for Dinah Rice (1693-1725) in the Marlborough, Massachusetts vital record book:

The birth entry is the first one at the top of the page:

The transcription of this record is:

"RICE, Dinah, d. Edmond and Rutth, Oct. 15, 1693."

The baptism record just below the birth entry is probably for Dinah also.

The source citation for this record is:

Franklin P. Rice (editor), Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Boston, Mass. : Franklin P. Rice, 1908), Births, page 154, Dinah Rice birth entry, 15 October 1693, daughter of Edmond and Ruth Rice.

This is an abstract from an original town record book for Marlborough, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth of Dinah Rice and the names of her parents.
   
Dinah Rice (1693-1725) was the daughter of Edmund and Ruth (Parker) Rice of Marlborough.  She married  on 24 December 1717 in Marlborough to Nathan Brigham (1693-1784), the eldest son of Nathan and Elizabeth (Maynard) Brigham of Marlborough.   

Nathan and Dinah (Rice) Brigham are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Moses Brigham (1723-1769) who married Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in 1749.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Top 30 Most Viewed Posts in 2020 on Genea-Musings

 A)  Here are the Top 30 viewed Genea-Musings blog posts from 2020 that had the most page views in 2020 (from View Count statistics on the Google Blogger Posts page as of 30 December 2020):

1)  AncestryDNA Changes Coming Soon - What I'm Doing - Updated (15 July 2020) - 2782 views






8)  AncestryDNA Adds DNA Match Tree Icon to Ancestry Member Tree Profiles (21 April 2020) - 1016 views



11) How I Use Genealogy Software and Online Family Trees (11 November 2020) - 928 views




15) RootsMagic Version 8 Update - Two More Videos (4 May 2020) - 866 views

16)  RootsWeb Mailing Lists Shutting Down on 2 March 2020 (7 January 2020) - 837 views


18)  Did Sarah Giberson Marry Two Seaver Men? - Part I  (18 May 2020) - 811 views


20)  RootsTech 2020 Innovation and Technology Forum Summary (28 February 2020) - 773 views






26)  RootsTech 2020 Free Livestream Schedule (24 January 2020) - 661 views

27)  Where Are My Online Family Trees? (13 January 2020) - 654 views


29)  Rabbit!! Lookee Here What I Found. Maybe an Ancestor? (22 April 2020) - 644 views


B)  The ten most popular Genea-Musings posts since 2007 (per Google Blogger) are:

1)  Microfilm Scanning at the FHL and FHC (posted 22 July 2009) - 76,910 views.

2)  1940 Census Enumeration District Maps Online at NARA Website (posted 18 July 2011) - 64,200 views.

3)  Genealogy Presentations on Slideshare.net (posted 28 January 2010) - 25,940 views.


4)  Dear Ancestry.com: Are You Fixing These Problems? (17 January 2019) - 18334 views

5)  Merry Christmas to All! (posted 25 December 2011) - 14,900 views.

6)  World records for number of children (posted 21 July 2006) - 12,700 views.


7)  Randy's NGS 2010 Photos - Post 1 (posted 4 May 2010) - 9,345 views

8)  RootsTech 2017 Blog Compendium -- UPDATED (posted 1 March 2017) - 8212 views


9)  Ancestry.com Says They Will Work on Technical Problems (posted 11 May 2018) - 7910 views

10)  Book Review: "The Spyglass File," by Nathan Dylan Goodwin (posted  29 September 2016) -- 6,410 views


C)  Of course, all of my blog posts are viewed by many more readers than those that go to the specific web page for the post - those who read them on an Genea-Musings archive page, those that read them in an RSS reader, or on a mobile device, and those that receive them via email.

Another measure of popularity or readership might be in the number of comments generated by each post.  I don't think that is a reliable measure of popularity because of the proliferation of RSS reader usage, email usage, and mobile device usage, each of which require one or more click throughs to get to the comment box.  In addition, there are thousands of spam comments in the list (now Google doesn't block them and i'm too lazy to do it every day).

It certainly seems like readers search for Ancestry.com, conferences, DNA, and genealogy software topics, and find my blog posts.  

D)  Previous "most popular" posts on Genea-Musings are:


E)  Readership of Genea-Musings has dropped over the past year - perhaps persons have given up on reading my blog (and other blogs) on a web browser and have moved to a reader or email, or perhaps Genea-Musings has become old-hat and readers are bored by it.  for example, the 40th most viewed post last year had 680 views.  This year, the 30th most viewed post had 642 views.  

Google says that there were 1.27 million page views for Genea-Musings in 2020, and 11.5 million page views all time.  These numbers include views of "Pages" on Genea-Musings - the subject headings at the top of the post.

F)  I wondered what the least popular Genea-Musings post was in 2019.  I know that Surname Saturday, Treasure Chest Thursday, Wordless Wednesday, and Seavers in the News posts are not that popular.  The least viewed blog post in 2020 was Tombstone Tuesday -- Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) in Guild Burial Ground, Walpole, Mass. posted 18 August 2020, with 99 views.

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Randy and Mom in Early 1944 -- Post 650 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

 I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

This photograph was taken in late 1943 (Christmas time?) or early 1944.  The baby (only 2-3 months old) is your scribe, and that is my mother, Betty Virginia (Carringer) Seaver (1919-2002) lovingly holding me and beaming at me.  Mom has her hair up and is wearing earrings and a dress.  It is winter, but it's sunny in San Diego.

I think that the setting is on the side of my grandparents home at 2130 Fern Street in San Diego.  My grandfather, Lyle L. Carringer, probably snapped this as a black and white photo.  

This photo (originally black and white) has been enhanced and colorized using the MyHeritage photo tools.  

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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 29 December 2020

   Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    


1)  News Articles:



2)  New or Updated Record Collections:




3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes





4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):





*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 30 December, 11 a.m.:  Ten Databases You Need to Know About, by Shannon Combs-Bennett

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:



*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #236r - Digitized Newspapers


6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):




*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  S04 E14: Reclaim the Records with Jonathan Deiss





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Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 29 December 2020

 My last list of my Autosomal DNA test and analysis results was posted in Randy's Autosomal DNA Test and Analysis Summary - 29 September 2020.


Here is the update, with comparison to three months ago (29 September 2020).  I'm curious to see how my numbers have increased:

1)  Ancestry DNA:

*  Total Matches (8 cM or more):  34,661 matches (was 34,106 matches on 9/29/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more: 26 matches (was 26 on 
9/29//20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  146 matches (was 145 on 
9/29//20)
*  4th Cousins or closer (20 cM or more): 1,541 matches (was 1,521 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with Common Ancestors (per Ancestry):  395 (was 405 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest match has 779 cM (11.5%), and is one of my known first cousins.


2)  MyHeritageDNA:

*  Total Matches (8 cM or more):   9,002 matches (was 8,826 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  5 matches (was 5 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5 %) or more:  101 matches (was 98 on 
9/29/20)
*  Number of Theories of Family Relativity:  8  (was 8 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest Match has 512 cM (7.1%), and is one of my known first cousins once removed.

3)  23andMe:

*  Total DNA Relatives Matches (7 cM or more):  1,522 Matches (was 1,433 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  9 Matches (was 9 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  120 Matches (was 112 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest Match has 163 cM (2.33%), and is a known 1st cousin twice removed.

4)  FamilyTreeDNA:


*  Total Family Finder Matches (18 cM or more, but counts segments with 3 cM or more):  3,872 Matches (was 3,817 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  19 (was 19 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more:  2,608 matches (was 2,565 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest Match has 96 cM (1.42%) and is an unknown cousin.

5)  LivingDNA:

*  Total Matches (9.5 cM or more):  310 (was 284 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  0 (was 0 on 9/29/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 5 (was 8 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest Match has 45.2 cM and is an unknown relative.

6)  GEDMatch:

*  Matches with 68 cM (1.0%) or more:  1 (was 1 on 
9/29/20)
*  Matches with 34 cM (0.5%) or more: 42 (was 41 on 
9/29/20)
*  Highest Match has 86.8  cM and is a known 3rd cousin

7)  Observations:

*  In 3 months, I added no matches with 68 cM or more.

*  My AncestryDNA 4th cousins or better has increased only 1.3% in 3 months, and total matches have increased 1.6%.  "Common Ancestors" ThruLines are 1.14% of the total matches.

*  MyHeritageDNA total matches have increased 2.0% in 3 months, and 34 cM or higher matches increased 3.1%.  I gained 0 Theory of Family Relativity matches, and they are 0.08% of total matches.

*  23andMe total matches have increased 6.2% in 3 months, and 34 cM or higher matches have increased 7.1%.

*  FamilyTreeDNA total matches increased 1.8% in 3 months.  

*  LivingDNA total matches increased 9.2% in 3 months.

*  It seems to me the bloom is off the DNA rose.  Will there be a Christmas boost in sales this year?  

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Monday, December 28, 2020

Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 27 December 2020

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:

1)  Christmas!  We stayed home on Christmas day, opened our gifts from our daughters and family we received in the mail, and opened our gifts for each other.  I made dinner (ribeye steak because I don't know how to bake a turkey and didn't want to mess up the day, and we don't love the leftovers).  I did genealogy, Linda watched TV, and worked in her word puzzle books (she got three more for Christmas).  On Saturday, we risked a trip to Huntington Beach to see Tami's family.  We received more gifts and had time with the three grandkids (Lauren is 15, Audrey is 12, Charlie is 6).  We watched three football games.  I played chess, chased radio control cars, took a walk around the block, and played basketball in the back yard with Charlie.  We had dinner and were home by 8:30 p.m. 


2)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandmother #571 Apphia (Bangs) (Knowles) Atwood (1651-after 1722) of Eastham, Mass. for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

3)  Transcribed a probate record in 1700 Bond and Letter of Administration for Estate of Nathaniel Sowle (1637-1699) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts for Amanuensis Monday today.  

4)  Updated my pages for Amanuensis Monday Posts and 52 Ancestors Biographies on Genea-Musings for the year.  Wrote Randy's "Best" Genea-Musings Posts in 2020 also. 

5)  Had four emails from Seaver and Auble cousins sharing information or asking for information.  I added content to RootsMagic based on their information, and sent genealogy reports to help them understand how we are related and which Seaver or Auble they descend from.

6)  Added Notes to 30 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors, and added connecting lines of DNA matches to two Common Ancestors.  Ancestry added 37 new DNA matches this past week, with no new ThruLines.  MyHeritage added 13 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

7)  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 39,518 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 123).

8)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and sources to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 60,659 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 121), and 130,756 source citations (up 353).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 262 profiles, and I resolved 1168 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 143,716 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily. On MyHeritage, I resolved 22 Record Matches, and have 143,722 to resolve.

9)  Wrote 20 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release.  The most popular post last week was Twelve Days of a Genealogy Christmas - Randy's Version  with over 370 views.  

10)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much in Week 41 of COVID-19 isolation.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Thursday, and it wasn't too busy.  We went to Tami's on Saturday.  Linda lost her purse last week.  Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating, sleeping, cleaning, and a little yard work.  I watched the Chargers football game on Sunday, and I continued reading a mystery fiction ebook on my laptop.

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