Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.
1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society DNA Interest Group Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom. I discussed the recent forensic genealogy news, including AncestryDNA's grouping of maches by parent, MyHeritageDNA's sorting ability for Shared matches, and DNA Painter's new Coverage Tool. In the second hour, my friend Marshall demonstrated his ability to compare DNA Mach lists to find ThruLines added, removed, or changed in the past few weeks.
2) Published a genealogy biography for the 52 Ancestors series for 7th great-grandfather #722 William Hawkins (1679-1712) of Providence, Rhode Island.
5) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 70,077 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 1 since 17 October), and 145,426 source citations (up 3). I TreeShared no new or modified profiles with my Ancestry Member Tree, and I resolved 407 Ancestry Hints. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 175,350 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week. My MyHeritage family trees have 200,305 Record Matches in 286 sources and I work on them occasionally.
6) Wrote 15 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which one was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Genealogy News Bytes - 12 to 18 October 2022 with over 160 views. Genea-Musings had about 14,000 views last week. I slacked off posting and researching over the weekend and today, but will get back to the "normal" research and posting soon.
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