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You’ve heard of extreme sports. Well this, I think, is the genetic genealogist’s equivalent. In DNA or Bust, I told about getting my 93 year old uncle’s DNA analyzed. Our Endogamous Ashkenazi heritage layed 7,017 matches upon us. That was one month ago. Since then, FamilyTreeDNA have updated their ...

At the #OGS2016Toronto Conference yesterday (Sunday June 5), one of the last sessions was a panel discussion with the topic: the Future of Genetic Genealogy. On the panel were four distinguished genealogists who know their DNA: Maurice Gleeson from London, England. DNA and Family Tree Research CeCe Moore ...

#OGS2016Toronto – These are all the blogs I know of that have posts about the superb conference I just attended in Toronto. I’m only including blogger posts, not the official conference site posts. If there are any I’m missing, please let me know and I’ll update this list. Updated to include posts to ...

Wow! #OGS2016Toronto - What an experience! This was a superb conference. My time there was so chock full that I barely had time to breathe. I met and talked to so many people, but even so, there were so many more I would have liked to talk to. I only made plans a couple of months ago to go to the Ontario ...

Update: August 12, 2018:  This notation has been revised. See my blog post:  BGRN Revised. I’m leaving this older post here for historical context. Yeah, I know. BGRN is a horrible acronym. So if you can get to the end of this post and can think of a better thing to call it, I’ll ...

It was Judy Russell @legalgen on our recent Unlock the Past Genealogy cruise who implored me to get my 93 year old uncle DNA tested while I still can. Judy made me realize that it was necessary. I have always understood the importance of DNA research as a valuable science to help discover relationships that ...

@OGSConference. I had noticed that the Ontario Genealogical Society was holding their annual Conference in June. The Sunday program had several speakers I really wanted to hear. Lara Diamond will be talking on “Movement Between Towns in Eastern Europe” and “Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine”, and ...

Just before I released the last version of Behold a month ago, a user asked if there was a way to display all the burials and nothing else. They wanted to check out all the cemeteries in a city they were going to. I thought Behold could do that already. In the Organize Tags page, I allow selection of which ...

An article by Keith Riggle yesterday: “Where Are the Free Family Tree Maker Updates” caught my attention. Keith indicated that the Family Tree Maker database was based on the SQLite database software. That surprised me. SQLite is a multi-platform, speedy, single file database with a small footprint ...

@Sparkpost to the rescue. As I recently mentioned, it’s been over 4 years since my last Behold Newsletter. This was something that I really had intended to get going again. In 2010, I was having trouble with the mailing service that I had been using, and I started looking for a new one. Back then I selected ...