52 Ancestors - Week 357: #568 John Haughton (1647-1705) of Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut

John Haughton (1647-1705)  is number 568 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #569  Hannah --?-- (1650-1690) in about 1675, probably in Boston, Suffolk County,  Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their son #284 Samuel Horton (1686-1778) who married #285 Hannah Atwood (1686-1771) in 1714.

*  their son #142 Nathaniel Horton (1721-1771) who married  #143 Eunice Snow (1722-1816) in 1742.

*  their daughter #71 Hannah Horton (1761-1797)who married #70 Thomas Dill (1755-1839)  in 1782.

*  their daughter  #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) who married  #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840)  in 1826.

*  their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.

*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

   

*  Name:                      John Haughton[1–2]    

 *  Alternate Name:     John Houghton[4]    

*  Alternate Name:      John Horton[1–2]  

*  Sex:                         Male    

*  Father:                    Richard Haughton (1615-1682)    

*  Mother:                  Sarah --?-- (1618-1670)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 

 *  Birth:                     about 1647, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]

 

*  Death:                     before 4 June 1705 (before about age 58), inventory taken; New London, New London, Connecticut, United States[3]

*  Probate:                 16 November 1705 (about age 58), will proved; New London, New London, Connecticut, United States[3]   

    

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

 

*  Spouse 1:               Hannah --?-- (ca 1650-1690)    

*  Marriage 1:            about 1675 (about age 28), probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]    

*  Child 1:                  Hopestill Horton (ca 1677-1734)    

*  Child 2:                  Dorothy Horton (ca 1680-1738)    

*  Child 3:                  Samuel Horton (ca 1686-1778)    

*  Child 4:                  John Horton (ca 1688-1710)    

*  Spouse 2:               Ruth Browne (1668-????)    

*  Marriage 2:            about 1694 (about age 47), probably Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[3]    

*  Child 5:                 Obadiah Haughton (ca 1695-1773)    

*  Child 6:                Makepeace Haughton (ca 1696-1773)    

*  Child 7:                Hannah Haughton (1700-ca 1761)    

*  Child 8:                Abiell Haughton (1703-    )  

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Margaret Horton Weiler wrote the book Descendants of John Horton of Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut, through his son, Samuel Horton of Eastham, Massachusetts[2].  The sketch for John Horton/Haughton included:

"John Horton, father of Samuel, was recorded in Boston tax lists of 1674, 1684, 1686, 1688 and 1695."

 John Haughton was born in about 1647, probably in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, probably to Richard and Sarah (--?--) Haughton of Boston[1-2].  

He married (1) Hannah  --?-- in about 1675, perhaps in Boston[1-2].  There is no record that provides Hannah's name at the time of marriage.  They had four children, all probably born in Boston:

*  Hopestill Horton (ca 1674-1734), married 1698 Ebenezer Snow (1680-1725).

*  Dorothy Horton (ca 1680-1738), married 1701 David Doane (1674-1748).

*  Samuel Horton (ca 1686-1778), married 1714 Hannah Atwood (1686-1771).

*  John Horton (ca 1688-1710).

John's father, Richard Haughton, a mariner who resided in New London, Connecticut, died in 1682 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  His estate was proved in Hartford, Connecticut, but he did not identify his children.

After Hannah died in about 1690, John Haughton probably moved to Newbury, Massachusetts and perhaps to Eastham, Massachusetts for a time (daughters Hopestill and Dorothy married there, and sons Samuel and John resided there the rest of their lives), and then to New London, Connecticut and was a shipwright there.  

John Haughton married, in about 1694 probably in Boston, 2) Ruth Browne (1668-????), daughter of John and Hester (Makepeace) Browne of Marlborough, Massachusetts[3].  They had four children, the first two probably born in Newbury, and the next two probably born in New London:

*  Obediah Haughton (ca 1695-1773), married 1719 Mary Leverick.

*  Makepeace Haughton (ca 1696-1773), married 1725 Joanna Coffin (1701-1781)

*  Hannah Haughton (1700-????)

*  Abiell Haughton (1703-????)

John Houghton died before 4 June 1705 in New London at about age 58 when an inventory of his estate was taken[3].  There is no known burial location for him.

John Houghton of New London wrote a will on 25 March 1704 which was proved in the New London District Probate Court on 16 November 1705[2].  In the will, he appointed his wife Ruth to be executrix of his estate, and bequeathed his entire estate to his present wife, Ruth, for her support and care of their children.  He also bequeathed land in Cascoe Bay given to him by his wife's father, John Browne, to his youngest sons Obadiah and Makepeace Houghton, and if they do not survive, then to his daughters Hannah and Abiell by Ruth.   He mentions his older sons John and Samuel [in Eastham at this time], and "other children," and leaves it to Ruth's discretion to give them some of the personal estate.  The will was witnessed by Joshua Bills, C. ????? Davis and Samuel Chester.  

An inventory of the estate of John Houghton was taken on 4 June 1705 by James Morgan and James Avery.  The inventory totals £19-5s-6d.

  

5)  SOURCES

 

1. Margaret Horton Weiler, "Descendants of John Horton (Haughton) of Eastham," Bulletin of the Cape Cod Genealogical Society (Harwich, Mass. : Brooks Free Library), Vol. XI, No. 3 (September 1983), pages 57-64., John Horton/Haughton of Boston and Eastham sketch.

2. Margaret Horton Weiler, Descendants of John Horton of Boston, Massachusetts and New London, Connecticut, through his son, Samuel Horton of Eastham, Massachusetts ( Bradford, New Hampshire :  Penobscot Press, 1994), 121 pages.  Accessed at Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, US/CAN microfilm 1,698,100, Item 9, John Horton/Haughton sketch.

3. Connecticut, Probate Court (New London District), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org), "Probate Records, 1675-1916," on 25 microfilm reels, Volume A-B (p.1-185) 1675-1716, Volume A, pages 310-312 (stamped) (images 439-440 of 731), estate of John Houghton, New London, 1705; FHL microfilm on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 1,311,924, Item 2.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.  The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in   https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Seavers in the News -- Charlotte (Dezell) Seaver Dies in 1945 in Ridgewood, New Jersey

 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 Herald-News [Passaic, N.J.] newspaper dated 21 June 1945:

The transcription of the article is:

"Mrs. Charlotte Dezell Seaver Dies,

Daughter Collegiate School Instructor

"Mrs. Charlotte Dezell Seaver, mother of Miss Eleanor Seaver, director of physical education for girls at Passaic Collegiate School, died last night at the private hospital on Godwin Avenue, Ridgewood, where she had been ill for the past year and a half.

"Mrs. Seaver, who was born at Waddington, N.Y., came to Passaic eighteen years ago to make her home with her daughter who lives at 238 Gregory Avenue.

"Widowed early in life Mrs. Seaver, who already had a bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence University, resumed her studies at Clarkson School of Technology at Potsdam, N.Y., working for a bachelor of science degree in home economics, which was opening a new field for career women at that time.

"She became supervisor of domestic science at Asbury Park under Dr. Fred S. Shepherd, who later became superintendent of Passaic public schools.

"Mrs. Seaver attended the 50th anniversary of her graduation from St. Lawrence in 1932.

"She was a woman of very keen intellect and an independent political thinker.  She was tremendously interested in world affairs and an ardent believer in the World Court.

"Her husband, Henry Ellison Seaver, was professor of Latin at St. Lawrence University after his graduation from Harvard.  He studied law in the offices of Judge Ledyard Hale at Canton, N.Y., where he practiced law until his early death.

"They had another daughter who died in childhood."

The source citation is:

""Mrs. Charlotte Dezell Seaver Dies, Daughter Collegiate School Instructor," The Herald-News [Passaic, N.J.] newspaper, obituary, Thursday, 21 June 1945, page 4, column 7, Charlotte Dezell Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 19 November 2020).

This obituary provides a full married name, no age, no birth date, a birth place, an implied death date, a death place, no cause of death, and the names of her spouse and daughter.  

Charlotte Dezell (1860-1945) was the daughter of Robert and Jane (Short) Dezell, and was born in Waddington, New York.  She married Henry Ellison Seaver (1860-1898) on 23 July 1891 in Canton New York.  They had two children:

*  Eleanor Dezell Seaver (1896-1974)

*  daughter Seaver (????-????)

I was unable to find a record that named the unknown daughter who died in childhood.  Henry Ellison Seaver died in 1898, and Eleanor is the only child listed in the 1900 (1 child born to Charlotte) and 1910 (two children born to Charlotte) U.S. census records. 

I am a 6th cousin 4 times removed to Henry Ellison Seaver, with the common ancestors being Robert and Elizabeth (Ballard) Seaver, the immigrants in 1634 to Boston, Massachusetts.

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 person is widowed at a young age, and lives a full life thereafter. I am glad that I can honor Charlotte (Dezell) 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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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1755 Birth of Phinehas Brigham in Westborough, 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 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802) in the Westborough, Massachusetts town record book:

The Phinehas Brigham birth entry is the third record on the left-hand page above:

The transcription of this record is:

"Phinehas Brigham was Born of Moses Brigham

and Mehitubell Brigham his wife July y'e 23'd 1755'

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 November 2020), "Westborough > Births, Marriages, and Deaths," image 284 of 1417, Phinehas Brigham birth entry, 23 July 1755.

This is probably a transcription of an original town record book for Westborough, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth of Phinehas Brigham and his parents names.

   

Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802) was the son of Moses and Mehitable (Grout) Brigham of Westborough, Massachusetts.  He married Lydia Bathrick (1752-1795), the daughter of David and Lydia (Maynard) Bathrick of Westborough.  Phinehas and Lydia (Bathrick) Brigham are my 4th great-grandparents, through their son Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) who married Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.

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Mining the MyHeritage Newspaper Collections - Finding a 1939 Annie (Richmond) Pickford Obituary

 I occasionally "mine" the MyHeritage record collections using the "Discoveries > Matches by Source" links to find records not on other record providers.  I have not done a lot of searching on the "Massachusetts Newspapers, 1704-1974" collection, but MyHeritage tells me that there are 1,365 Record Matches in this collection.  These are matches for person profiles in my MyHeritage family tree, so it's a targeted search - nearly every match will be for someone in my tree.

I opened it and was scrolling down the list and saw a match with my Grandaunt, Annie Frances (Richmond) Pickford in the Clinton [Mass.] Daily Item newspaper, dated 7 July 1939.

Seeing that the article matched all of the details in the tree profile (on the left of the screen above), I clicked on the orange "Review Match" button for this article, and saw:

The screen provided an OCR transcription of the article, but it is pretty poor.  At least the names are highlighted.

Further down, I can see the actual article, and read it (after zooming into it):

I did not see a way to save the newspaper page, or clip the article.  There is a "Print" link at the bottom of the screen, but I can print only what is on the screen and could send it to a file.

I chose to right-click on the image of the newspaper page, and save it as a JPG file.

From that, I can use the Windows Snipping Tool to clip the obituary from the page and save it to my file for Annie Frances Richmond on my computer:

I clicked on the orange "Confirm Match" button and clicked on "Save to Tree" so that this page of the newspaper will be linked to the Anne Frances Richmond profile on MyHeritage.

I transcribed this obituary and put it in the General Note for Grandaunt Annie in RootsMagic.  I will copy it into a FamilySearch Family Tree, a WikiTree, and a Geni Note soon. 

MyHeritage has Newspaper collections for almost every state, and some of the newspapers provided are unique to MyHeritage.  

If a researcher wants to find "every record" for a person, they need to "fish in all ponds."  MyHeritage makes it easy to bait the hook for the researcher, and all you have to do is reel it in!

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Stanley Richmond Seaver and his Sisters in About 1908 -- Post 644 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 is of two of my Seaver aunts and one uncle, and was taken in about 1908 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the children of my grandparents, Frederick Walton. and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver.  The children are, from the left:

*  Marion Frances Seaver (1901-2000)

*  Stanley Richmond Seaver (1905-1910)

*  Evelyn Seaver (1903-1978)

This is the only photograph I have of Stanley and his sisters at a young age.  There were four other siblings, Ruth Weston Seaver (1907-2000), Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983, my father), Edward Richmond Seaver (1913-2004) and Geraldine Seaver (1917-2007).

Marion and Evelyn lived long lives, but Stanley died at age 4 of scarlet fever on 10 April 1910.  Aunt Marion told the story that, when Stanley was sick and quarantined in a room in their house, she would talk to Stanley and they would touch fingers through a slot or keyhole in the door.  

Apparently, the whole house was quarantined until the sickness passed and then the house and residents had to be inspected after being cleaned and disinfected.  Food and water and firewood would have to be brought to the house, taken in, and consumed.  The quarantine could have been for weeks.  

This photo (originally black and white) has been enhanced and colorized using the MyHeritage photo tools.  Here is the original black and white photograph:

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 17 November 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:

*  Vivid-Pix Helps Family & Friends Safely Celebrate the Holidays and Create Holiday Time Capsules

*  Introducing the MyHeritage Gift Membership

*  Statue of Liberty Museum Opened and Ellis Island National Immigration Museum Expanded

*  Inside John Wilkes Booth's Famous Family

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 7 to 13 November 2020

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 7 to 13 November 2020

*  New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 16 November 2020

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 - 25-27 February 2021 (Online, Free)

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (Philadelphia PA, 2-5 August 2021)

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Online Classes and Webinars November 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events for November 

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 November, 5 p.m.:  Separating and Merging Identities of Same-named Men, by Shannon Green

*   Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 18 November, 11 a.m.:  Surname Projects and DNA Projects, by Mags Gaulden

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 123: African American Research Part 3

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 351 – Legal Genealogist Judy Russell On Copyright, Fair Use, and Ethics In Preparing Your Histories

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 104: Clues in Group Portraits and Photo Albums

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #224r - The 1752 Calendar Change

*  Ancestral Findings:  Where Did the ‘S’ Come from in Ulysses S. Grant? | AF-396

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  DearMYRTLE:  WACKY Wednesday - Genealogy Education with Lisa Alzo

*  DNA Family Trees:  What are the Odds Compared v1 vs v2, which is best?

*  Family History Fanatics:  Newspapers.com Tutorial: Discovering Your Ancestor's Travels

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  S04 E08: When the Black and White Descendants of Enslavers Meet with Antoinette Broussard 

*  GeneaVlogger:  I'm NOT 100% CHINESE!?!? - Mikey Chen - Professional Genealogist Reacts

 

*  MyHeritage:  We're Live! Your Most Frequently Asked Technical Support Questions With Aaron Berk

*  The Genealogy Reporter:  Genealogy Tip Tuesday: Irish Immigration Research Tips

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (14 November 2020) - Weekly Recap + WikiTree+ Maps

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 13 November 2020 ?

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Tuesday's Tip - Check Out FamilySearch's Famous Relatives Page

 The FamilySearch Blog posted "Discover Your Famous Relatives" on 13 November, and I tried it out.  

1)  The page looks like this (two screens captured):

The page described how this works:

"The Famous Relatives activity searches the FamilySearch Family Tree for your possible connections to famous people in history. For the experience to work, you need a FamilySearch account (if you don’t already have one, you can create a free one) with at least four generations completed. For best results, fill out your family tree as much as possible, aiming for eight generations or more."

2)  I clicked on the "View Your Famous Relatives" blue button on the screen above, and went to the page with MY famous relatives in this app:

At the top, the page says that there are these people related to me (according to the Family Tree):

* 36 Leaders

*  14 Inventors and Scientists

*  25 Entertainers and Artists

*  43 Trailblazers

*  1 Athletes

3)  The page then shows me images of all of those famous relatives of mine.  I can click on the image of any one of them.  I chose Abraham Lincoln and saw a popup screen.  Here's the top of the popup screen::

and the bottom of the pop-up screen:

4)  So the FamilySearch Family Tree thinks that I am the 6th cousin 4 times removed of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States.  The common ancestors are my 9th great-grandparents Obadiah Holmes (1610-1682) and Katherine Hyde (1608-1682). 

This app works well, but it is difficult (impossible?) to print out your relationships.  

I wanted to know which famous athlete I was related to:  it is Gordie Howe (1928-2016), the hockey player.

5)  I could not sign into the previous Relative Finder page last night - perhaps it has been turned into this Famous Relatives app that is on the Discovery page.  That is unfortunate, because Relative Finder was very useful to find relationships to other groups of people, like Genea-Bloggers, or attendees at RootsTech.

6)  If this is new to you, and you have your ancestral lines in the FamilySearch Family Tree, I encourage you to explore this Famous Relatives app.

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Monday Genea-Pourri - Week Ending 15 November 2020

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

1)  Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) Research Group Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday with 15 attendees.  We discussed my top 20 free genealogy websites, the RootsTech Connect 2021 conference, Family Tree Maker upgrade, 10 surprising things at Google Books, Wales church records on Ancestry, and mining the Newspaper.com obituaries on Ancestry.

2)  Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) Program Meeting meeting on Saturday in a Zoom meeting with Del Ritchhart giving presentation the 4 C's of Genealogy and on GenSmarts.

3)  Participated in today's Mondays With Myrt Zoom webinar.  We discussed the Vivid-Pix education videos, my grandpa shirt, senior citizens on Zoom, history timelines, "relict" vs. "consort," German resources, software and online trees, and the British Newspaper Archive resources.

4)  Watched one Family Tree Webinars video - Use MyHeritage Records to Quickly Discover and Write the Story of Your Ancestors by Devon Noel Lee.

5)  Wrote and posted a biographical sketch of my 7th great-grandmother #567 Ruth (Cole) Young (1653-1728) of Eastham, Mass. for my 52 Ancestors biographical sketch on Friday.  

6)  Transcribed a probate record in 1704 Inventory for Intestate Estate of John Plimpton (1649-1704) of Medfield, Massachusetts for Amanuensis Monday today.  

7)  Added Notes to 14 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors.  Ancestry added 31 new DNA matches this past week.  I added 1 more ThruLines to my RootsMagic tree.  MyHeritage added 20 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  

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 38,655 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 120).

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 59,966 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 125), and 128,368 source citations (up 391).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree twice this week updating 225 profiles, and I resolved 1,114 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 139,936 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.   I have 142,767 MyHeritage Record Matches to be resolved and work on them weekly.

10)  Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week, of which two were a press release.  The most popular post last week was Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- In Childhood, What Did You Save or Collect?  with over 1,019 views.  

11)  Received a wonderful birthday gift from my daughter Tami - a T-shirt with 27 photos of "Grandpa's Legacy" - my descendants!  Very cool!

12)  We are still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much in Week 35 of COVID-19 isolation.  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday, and it wasn't too busy.  We went to outdoors church on Sunday in the sun. Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing genealogy, eating, sleeping, a little yard work, SDSU and Chargers football games, and I started another new crime fiction book on my laptop.

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Introducing the MyHeritage Gift Membership

 I received this information from MyHeritage today:

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Just in time for the holidays, we’re happy to announce the launch of the new MyHeritage gift membership! You can now give someone special the MyHeritage Complete plan, our best plan for family history research. To celebrate the launch, gift memberships are now available with a 50% introductory discount.

With many people spending more time at home and looking for meaningful activities to enjoy, the MyHeritage gift membership makes the perfect holiday gift and is sure to delight a dear family member or close friend.

The gift membership provides access to all features and all 12.7 billion historical records on MyHeritage.

Please  read more about the new gift membership in the blog post.

Order a gift membership in a few clicks, and your chosen recipient will receive an email explaining the super simple steps needed to redeem their gift.

You can choose to give either a 1-year or 6-month gift membership. Gift memberships are one-time and do not renew. At the end of the membership period, the recipient will retain access to their MyHeritage account and all family tree data. If they wish to continue enjoying the full benefits of a membership, it will be up to them to extend their plan (or you can decide to be kind to them and give them another gift membership – it’s up to you).

A gift membership on MyHeritage makes a great holiday or birthday gift. It’s the perfect way to introduce someone you care about to the enjoyable world of genealogy and help them discover their family history. We’d appreciate it if you could help spread the word!

Here is a video about this offer:

 

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This would be a perfect gift for the genealogist in your family who has everything else!  

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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