FamilyInsight for Windows 2013.5.13.0 (Other Tools - Windows - Purchase)
• Improved handling Roots Magic 6 files.
• Improved handling of Family Tree Maker files.
• Fixed crashes.
• Improved media handling.
• Removed Separate and AncestorSplit feature because of changes on new FamilySearch.
• Added ability to save to earlier Family Tree Maker files that we open.
GRAMPS 4.0.0 (Full Featured - Linux - Freeware/Open Source)
• Conversion to GTK 3 and use of gobject introspection.
• Support for python 3.
• Code reorganization.
• Autotools is no longer used for building Gramps, distutils is used.
• Completely reworked localization handling.
MacFamilyTree 6.3.9 (Full Featured - Mac - Purchase)
• Fixed saving editable charts.
• Fixed saving editable reports.
• Stability improvements.
The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding 9.2.1 (Web Publishing - Windows, Mac, Linux - Purchase)
• Ahnentafel/Register: Child links on these pages did not go to the right place (fixed).
• Calendar: The cross icon used to indicate a death has been replaced with a headstone icon.
• Calendar: The names of living and private individuals were being displayed on the calendar when the user did not have rights to see that information (fixed).
• Cemeteries: Headstone pagination links for cemeteries were not working (fixed).
• Citations: When creating a new source while adding a new citation, the dropdown of repositories was not being restricted to the current tree (fixed).
• And much more...
Genealogy Blog
22 May 2013
Genealogy Software Updates of the Week
1,000 Year Old African Coins Could Rewrite Australian History
Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ‘‘X’’ might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history. Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, currently Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the US, plans an expedition in July that has stirred up the archaeological community.The scientist wants to revisit the location where five coins were found in the Northern Territory in 1944 that have proven to be 1000 years old, opening up the possibility that seafarers from distant countries might have landed in Australia much earlier than what is currently believed.
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Fake Graveyard Built To Scare Away Homeless People Has Real Tombstones
A Texas man fed up with homeless people sleeping in his front yard set up a fake graveyard to scare them away. But the downtown Houston resident was himself shocked when told that the trio of tombstones had actually been made for real dead people.The unnamed man put up a fence and installed the "scarecrow graveyard" around his property, which stands in the shadows of Houston's skyscrapers, last year.
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21 May 2013
'Whodunnit' of Irish Potato Famine Solved
An international team of scientists reveals that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century.Phytophthora infestans changed the course of history. Even today, the Irish population has still not recovered to pre-famine levels. "We have finally discovered the identity of the exact strain that caused all this havoc," says Hernán Burbano from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.
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The Best and the Worst of Genealogy Home Offices
By Scott Phillips, genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past genealogy services: "Many of us who love and labor over our family histories, ancestry, and genealogy do so from a home office.In my case, early in my career I worked for decades in many different corporate offices for various companies and organizations. Now, for the last dozen or so years, I have found myself working from a home office. I can easily see that each has its own merits and sets of 'pros' and 'cons'."
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Brazil, China To Cooperate on Digitalization of Historical Archives
Brazil and China will exchange information on the digital preservation of historical archives, state news agency Agencia Brasil said on Monday.Jaime Antunes, director-general of Brazil's National Archive, and Rong Hua, chief of the Tianjin Municipal Archive, reached an agreement Monday on the matter, the agency said.
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Plague Helped Bring Down Roman Empire
To help solve this mystery, scientists investigated ancient DNA from the teeth of 19 different sixth-century skeletons from a medieval graveyard in Bavaria, Germany, of people who apparently succumbed to the Justinianic Plague.They unambiguously found the plague bacterium Y. pestis there.
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Medieval Church Found Beneath Lincoln Castle in England
A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle. It is believed the stone church was built in the Anglo-Saxon period, after the Romans left Britain and before the Norman conquest of 1066.Lincolnshire County Council said the find was unexpected and will increase its knowledge of uphill Lincoln. Human skeletons were also found in the same area three metres (9.8 ft) below the surface.
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Eight Generations of Farming and Family History
One of Australia's oldest farming families welcomed a new member to their clan this week, marking eight generations of farming and family history. The Otton's were one of the very first families to settle in south-east NSW, at Popes Hole, in Bega.The Otton dynasty dates back to the early 1800s, when the first Otton, John Thomas Otton, was shipped out to Australia as a convict in 1837. Richard Otton, from the 5th generation, is now one of the country's newest great granddads.
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Romanov's Final Days Seen in Recovered Photos
Anastasia Romanov, the youngest daughter of the last Russian Tsar, was already smoking at the age of 15, encouraged by her proud father Nicholas II.The anecdote about the Grand Duchess, a key figure in the conspiracy theories that followed the gunshot and bayonet murders of the Romanovs, has been revealed by a series of photographs found in a remote museum in the Urals.
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Mysterious Minoans Were European, DNA Finds
The Minoans, the builders of Europe's first advanced civilization, really were European, new research suggests.The conclusion, published today (May 14) in the journal Nature Communications, was drawn by comparing DNA from 4,000-year-old Minoan skeletons with genetic material from people living throughout Europe and Africa in the past and today.
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Reading the Unreadable: 'Unopenable' Scrolls Will Yield Their Secrets to New X-Ray System
Pioneering X-ray technology is making it possible to read fragile rolled-up historical documents for the first time in centuries. Old parchment is often extremely dry and liable to crack and crumble if any attempt is made to physically unroll or unfold it.The new technology, however, eliminates the need to do so by enabling parchment to be unrolled or unfolded 'virtually' and the contents displayed on a computer screen.
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The National Archives of the UK: Fifth Tranche of Colonial Administration Records Released
The fifth tranche of colonial administration records is now available to view in the reading rooms at The National Archives. This release contains records from Ceylon, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, New Hebrides, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone and Singapore.Also contained within the records on Mauritius are papers relating to Princess Margaret's visit to Mauritius, September to October 1956 (catalogue reference: FCO 141/12043).
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All Europeans Are Related If You Go Back Just 1,000 Years, Scientists Say
A genetic survey concludes that all Europeans living today are related to the same set of ancestors who lived 1,000 years ago. And you wouldn't have to go back much further to find that everyone in the world is related to each other."We find it remarkable because it's counterintuitive to us," Graham Coop, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Davis, told NBC News. "But it's not totally unexpected, based on genetic analysis."
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20 May 2013
Opening The Mystery of 250 WWII Letters Found in Old Hat Box
Purchased for just $1 at an Oklahoma estate sale 15 years ago, an old hatbox contained a mystery decades in the making: an estimated 250 letters from two brothers during their time as soldiers in WWII.Pamela Gilliland, who was unaware of the letters when she first bought the hatbox, just last week enlisted the help of a history buff, Doug Eaton, to find out more about them.
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