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Retesting my DNA at MyHeritage - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 days ago
I took my first MyHeritage DNA test at RootsTech 2017 in Salt Lake City. At RootsTech 2024 last March, MyHeritage announced Ethnicity Estimation 2.0 which is to be released this June. There are many good reasons to get their new estimates. The estimates will be a free update for all users who tested on ...
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Excluding Living People - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Apr 2024
… and including deceased people. This is something you want your online genealogy programs to do for you. Privacy of living people is important, so you want living people to be excluded. MyHeritage displays living people like this, showing all the people with their birth surname and a given name of ...
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Honoring My Parents’ 100th Birthdays - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Apr 2024
Bertha German was born April 1, 1924 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The youngest of 7 children, living together in a small house at 524 Flora Avenue. Toby Braunstein was born on April 7th, 6 days later and 600 km (370 miles) to the west on the farm in the rural municipality of Tullymet, Saskatchewan, Canada. ...
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Remembering What You’ve Searched - Blog entry by lkessler - 27 Mar 2024
Do you often go to a genealogy site and do a specific search (e.g. surnames and places) for your family records? And then do you go back a few weeks later and search for the same information again because you forgot that you searched for it a few weeks ago? And then do you go back a month later and search again ...
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A New(?) Genealogy Program –Treebard - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Mar 2024
One of the reasons why I closed GenSoftReviews last year was because the development of new programs for genealogy had been drying up. There are so many full featured genealogy programs available to choose from that there is hardly any task that at least some of them could do. And with the onset about 10 ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 3 Mar 2024
Typo from my last comment. Sentence should read:
"Reliance on only one or two university professors ... "
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by dolinyk70 - 1 Mar 2024
Greetings Louis.
In a pre-AI world of web-based, transcribed, census records, successful transcriptions were governed by what I believe were four main factors.
1. Census Enumeration Accuracy;
2. Census Enumerator's Penmanship;
3. Digitization Scan Quality; and
4. Transcriber's ...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by paulbaltzer - 27 Feb 2024
Louis,
Thanks for the update and review of the latest Artificial Intelligence with handwriting. We are all hoping and amazed how fast this technology is improving.
Paul Baltzer
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Behold, My Genealogy, and Syncing - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Feb 2024
Over the past several months, I’ve been back to work on the next version of Behold. I’m hoping to release the next major version in the next … - okay, a programmer knows better than to promise a release date, but let’s say as soon as it’s ready. Keep an eye on Behold’s Future page to follow my ...
Can Artificial Intelligence Read Russian Handwriting? - Blog comment by lkessler - 3 Mar 2024