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Added Notes to 13 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known common ancestors, and added connecting lines of DNA matches to three Common Ancestors in my RootsMagic family tree. Ancestry added 67 new DNA matches this past week, with one new ThruLine. MyHeritage added 21 new DNA matches. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.
7) Started my first DNAPainter Chromosome Mapping using known relationships on MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe. I still have many more to do, but I started (a year after deciding to do it).
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 39,875 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 149).
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• San Diego nonprofit Unscripted Learning presents a Zoom reading of
“Falling,” streaming Jan. 14-17. The play by Deanna Jent, directed by La Jolla Playhouse’s Jacole Kitchen, explores the dynamic and complicated reality of a family with an autistic young man. $25.
• The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library presents
Logan Lone Piano concerts at noon Friday, Jan. 15, online. The free performance, featuring Joshua White and recorded at the Athenaeum Art Center, will be released on the Athenaeum’s YouTube channel.
• North Coast Repertory Theatre is streaming
“An Iliad” online through Sunday, Jan. 24. The adaptation of Homer’s classic poem about the Trojan War stars Richard Baird and is directed by David Ellenstein. $35.
time for some more Genealogy Fun!!
Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!):
1) It s the New Year, and many readers and bloggers have already made resolutions, or goals, or plans for one or more tasks or projects. Or they haven t yet, but could, or should.
2) For this SNGF, please tell us what plans you ve made, or what goals you ve stated, or what resolutions you ve averred for 2021. Writing them down may help you achieve them. Do one or more as you wish.
Best of the Genea-Blogs - 20 to 26 December 2020
Dozens of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.
My criteria for Best of . are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don t list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.
Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:
When: Saturday, January 09, 2021 10:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. (Pacific Time)
Session 1: Organizing Your DNA Results. Now that you have pages of matches and gobs of new information, how do you keep track of it all? We will spend time going over how to create and track correspondence, organization tools within each testing company, as well as strategies for tracking the genealogy information of your matches, including surnames, locations, and genetic relationships. You are bound to walk out of this lecture with a game plan that you can implement right away.
Session 2: Ask the Wife! A DNA Analysis Strategy. With the advent of autosomal DNA testing, women were catapulted into the limelight, no longer needing to rely so heavily on the men in their life to spit or swab. This lecture will focus on all things female from mtDNA, XDNA, and especially how to use the wives of your ancestors to help identify your autosomal DNA matches.