Ancestral Quest 14.10 (Full Featured - Windows - Purchase)
• Changed most of the API calls that used to work with New.FamilySearch.org to work instead with the Family Tree of FamilySearch.
My Family Tree 3.0.1.0 (Full Featured - Windows - Freeware)
• Support for the new OpenDyslexic typeface from opendyslexic.org which improves text redability for dyslexic readers. Once installed on your device, you can enable the font pressing Ctrl+D.
• Support for high contrast themes which can be selected from the Themes menu.
• Support display zoom which enables you to make all the text and controls larger.
Second Site 5.0 Build 9 (Web Publishing - Windows - Purchase)
• Changed the sibling inclusion filter for the Family Explorer to use the Show Name when Child filter.
• Changed the Norwegian sort sequence to treat (1) "aa" as "å" and (2) "Aa" as "Å".
• Added the Page Title Only Header Script.
• Change the Left-Hand Frame Menu Menu Script to include a link to the Surname Index.
• Added the SS-HID code.
• Changed the Second Site installer program to omit some system files that should already be present on the target PC.
• Some fixes.
StoryPress 1.3.5 (Mobile - Freeware)
• Bug Fixes.
TMG Utility 7.3 Build 1 (Other Tools - Windows - Freeware)
• Enabled the Flag Filter for the Change Roles feature.
Genealogy Blog
20 June 2013
Genealogy Software Updates of the Week
1926 Irish Census To Be Released in January 2027
After 1911, the next census in Ireland was not until 1926. Those fifteen years were the most tumultuous decade-and-a-half in Irish history – with upheavals in industry and labour, the Easter Rising, a world war, the war of independence, the civil war, Partition.The Ireland recorded in 1926 had been utterly transformed. For that reason the 1926 census occupies a very special position for historians and genealogists of every stripe.
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19 June 2013
Mistake on Former Mayor Ed Koch's Tombstone Is Corrected
Former Mayor Ed Koch can now rest in peace. Koch’s granite grave marker in Trinity Church Cemetery in upper Manhattan was corrected Tuesday to reflect his birthday accurately, Koch’s former press secretary George Arzt said.The tombstone had been incorrectly etched with the wrong date of birth — Dec. 12 1942 — making Koch 18 years younger than he was. The marker now reflects the correct birth date of Dec. 12, 1924. He was 88 when he died on Feb. 1.
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18 June 2013
Canadian Association of University Teachers criticizes Library and Archives Canada digital plan
An association representing 68,000 Canadian academics has called on Library and Archives Canada to tear up its deal to have a non-profit firm digitize historic documents.In an interview with the Citizen, Canadian Association of University Teachers executive director Jim Turk was harshly critical of LAC’s “perverse” approach to digitization and its agreement with Canadiana.org.
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Michelle Obama Receives Family Genealogy at Trinity College Dublin
The US First Lady and her two daughters were given a presentation on their family genealogy and connections to Ireland when they visited Trinity College today. At Trinity, the Obamas visited the Old Library and were shown the Book of Kells, a ninth-century, elaborately decorated gospel manuscript made by Irish monks.Mrs Obama, Malia and Sasha were also shown the birth registry of President Obama's Irish ancestors from around the village of Moneygall and old maps detailing the family's homestead in Co Offaly.
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Are You Related to Paul McCartney?
McCartney was born on 18 June 1942, in Walton Hospital, Liverpool, England, where his mother, Mary (née Mohin), had qualified to practise as a nurse. His father, James ("Jim") McCartney, was absent from his son's birth due to his work as a volunteer firefighter during World War II.Paul has one younger brother, Michael (born 7 January 1944). Though the children were baptised in their mother's Roman Catholic faith, their father, a former Protestant turned agnostic, felt Catholic schools sacrificed the education of their students for the sake of their religious teachings, so he and Mary did not emphasise religion in the household.
Paul McCartney's Family Tree
17 June 2013
Swedish Workers Dig Up 400-Year-Old Soldier
A man in southern Sweden was shocked to uncover a human skeleton just 20 centimetres under the ground near a public beach, remains that archaeologists believe belong to a fallen soldier from the Danish occupation of Sweden in the early 1600s.Ronny Gustavsson, head of the Kalmar municipality service project, was on the scene soon after the workers found the bones while digging for a beach extension project in the area. While the digger itself crushed a hole in the skeleton's skull, Gustavsson says the bones have weathered the centuries well.
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Alleged Nazi SS Commander Found Living in Minnesota
Polish prosecutors have pledged to help U.S. investigators bring to justice a 94-year-old man living in Minnesota, who is accused of being a former commander of a Nazi SS unit responsible for killing scores of women and children during World War II.A lengthy investigation across six countries led the Associated Press to discover Michael Karkoc living quietly in Minneapolis. Karkoc is accused of leading the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion, an organization whose members massacred civilians and resistance fighters throughout Ukraine and Poland and helped suppress the Warsaw Uprising.
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Monument to Michelle Obama Ancestor Toppled in Georgia
Police in Georgia are investigating after a monument dedicated to one of first lady Michelle Obama's relatives was knocked over in suburban Atlanta.Clayton County Commissioner Sonna Singleton tells WSB-TV that a stone monument to Michelle Obama's great-great-great-grandmother, Melvinia Shields, was pushed over and will need to be inspected for cracks.
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DNA Tests Reveal Prince William's Indian Ancestry
Britain's royal family has long been taunted for its German roots, but now a more exotic lineage can be revealed after evidence emerged indicating that Prince William is the direct descendant of an Indian woman.The Duke of Cambridge's maternal lineage was revealed on Friday by a genetic ancestry testing company, BritainsDNA, which carried out tests on the DNA of Princess Diana's two matrilineal cousins and compared them to a global database of samples.
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Library and Archives Canada Will Face Enormous Challenge in Digitizing Collection, Report Says
It is much harder and more expensive to digitize a national archive than those undertaking the task usually realize, a consultant warned Library and Archives Canada earlier this year.Éric Méchoulan of the Université de Montréal, hired on a $15,000 contract to advise LAC on issues involving digitization of its collection, produced a report in January outlining the three main challenges it faces.
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Match Your GeneaNet Family Tree
Club Privilege members can automatically match their family tree with the entire GeneaNet database. This feature automatically search for new ancestors in your family tree.Match your family tree with just one click or select the Advanced mode to get full access to all settings.
Non-Club Privilege members can automatically match surnames & places (not the first names) in their family tree with the entire GeneaNet database.
14 June 2013
Former Library and Archives Canada Boss Criticizes Private Digitizing Deal
Canada’s former chief librarian and archivist is harshly critical of the deal to have a private company digitize our public documents and photos. Ian Wilson says it smack of “desperation” by the federal government.Further, he says the contents of our archives are “a public good” like historic sites and national parks, and shouldn’t be sold back to us. Library and Archives Canada is already “superb” at preserving documents, he said.
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Long-Lost Diary of Nazi Alfred Rosenberg Expected to Bring 'New Insight' Into Hitler's Inner Circle
Hundreds of pages of the long-lost diary kept by one of Adolf Hitler's advisors were recovered by federal officials, who said today they hope the discovery will be an "important record" of crimes perpetrated during the Holocaust.The diary, which was penned by Alfred Rosenberg, is roughly 400 pages of loose-leaf paper and spans from 1936 to 1944, according to a statement from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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13 June 2013
Oldest Man In History Jiroemon Kimura Dies At 116
A Japanese man recognised as the world's oldest living person, and the oldest man recorded in history, has died aged 116, local officials say. Jiroemon Kimura died of natural causes on Wednesday in a hospital in Kyotango, Kyoto, a government statement said.In December, Guinness World Records recorded Mr Kimura as the oldest man ever verified to have lived. He reportedly had seven children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 13 great-great-grandchildren. Mr Kimura was born on 19 April 1897, the same year as aviator Amelia Earhart.
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