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Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week:
1) Moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group Meeting on Wednesday on Zoom with 28 attendees (iincluding 6 guests). In the first hour, I shared about RootsTech, the new MyHeritage features, FamilySearch 2020 highlights, Ancestry management changes, the NGS 2021 conference, my second FOREVER box (even showed one home movie), and discussed the Genelaogical Proof Standard and Evidence Analysis Process Map. In the second hour, attendees asked questions and shaed their research successes and challenges.
2) Attended the San Diego Genealogical Society monthly program meeting, which featured Thomas MacEntee on Coded Census: Deciphering U.S. Census Codes and Getting Ready For the 1950 Census.
7) Ancestry added 103 new DNA matches this past week, with no new ThruLines, and MyHeritage added 41 new DNA matches. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe. Added Notes to 18 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known shared ancestors, but have no new matches with known common ancestors.
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 40,335 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 85).
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 61,436 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 87), and 132.913 source citations (up 294). I TreeShared with my Ancestry Memb