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You may not have heard of this yet, but MyHeritage has just launched their new AI Record Finder. I got the email from them about it earlier today. Rather than me describe it, you can read about it on MyHeritage’s blog post:  Introducing AI Record Finder™, the World’s First AI Chat-Based Search Engine ...

Here’s a fun activity. Jarrett Ross, the @GeneaVlogger today posted a video where he ranks Genealogy Websites. He uses an interesting site I’ve never seen before called Tiermaker to do this. The site lets you drag and drop genealogy website logos into tiers that can mean whatever you want. The site ...

Maybe it isn’t for you, but it likely is for me. I’m not talking about using DNA to find close family members, e.g. if you are adopted or don’t know who a grandparent is. That’s still a big thing. And I’m not talking about forensic genealogy used for finding killers and solving cold cases. That is ...

The GEDCOM Standard was first developed almost 40 years ago as a way to store genealogical data and transfer it between programs. It was developed about the same time the first genealogical software programs were developed. The early programs developed a basic structure for genealogy, and the standard ...

My answers might surprise you. Reading Perfect GEDCOM In my previous article Reading GEDCOM – A Guide for Programmers, I outlined a general technique that a programmer of a genealogy program could use to read GEDCOM. Basically, the programmer should read each line in using the generalized definition of a ...

I’m back hard at work on Behold, trying to finish off the many features I’ll be including in Version 1.3 when it’s ready. Some of the changes for Version 1.3 made me take a look again at Behold’s GEDCOM import. Behold currently is a flexible GEDCOM reader. That is, it will accept almost anything that ...

Today, Ancestry sent me an email saying they updated the parent group assignments of my DNA matches: Ancestry calls this technology SideView, and I first wrote about it last December in my article Evaluating Ancestry DNA’s Parental Matches where I compared Ancestry’s assignments to other methods and ...