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GeneaNet : Community : Genealogy Blog | Sunday May 11, 2008 | |
A New York state employee who had access to government-owned
archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of
historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on
Monday.
Among the missing documents were an 1823 letter by U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun and copies of the Davy Crockett Almanacs, pamphlets written by the frontiersman who died at the Alamo in Texas.
More than 100,000 people, including children as young as 10, will be asked to provide saliva tests and DNA samples in a new annual survey of the lives, behaviour and beliefs of people in the United Kingdom.
The UK Household Longitudinal Study will replace the long-running British Household Panel Survey. It will be the most expensive and ambitious survey of its kind in the world, costing an initial £15m and covering 40,000 households.
Cross-database alert is now more intuitive and display much faster.
Limit the search to your family tree Sosa numbers!
You can now limit the search to your family tree Sosa numbers and compare your direct line against the GeneaNet database. Your result lists will be more clear and effective!
A new interface
The display crashed often because of too long pages. It has been renewed and you can alphabetically sort lists to increase the speed of display.
Of course, the old display process is still available and you can select it at any time.
Recurring options
Alerts have expanded options for recurring weekly, twice-weekly and monthly. If needed, you would never receive email alerts!
More intuitive to use
The archives are accessible by a calendar
To change your preferences, select the "My GeneaNet / Alerts / My crossed alerts" option.
Many thanks for your interest in GeneaNet!
[ Crossed Alerts ]
A married couple who sailed to America from England around 1630 are the reason why thousands of people in the United States are at higher risk of a hereditary form of colon cancer, researchers said on Wednesday.
Using a genetic fingerprint, a U.S. team traced back a so-called founder genetic mutation to the couple found among two large families currently living in Utah and New York.
Cancer researchers at the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Utah did not name the families but said thousands of people across the country may have the mutation that spread widely as the couple’s descendants branched apart over many generations.John McCain, the Republican presidential contender, and Barack Obama, his Democrat rival, are both descended from the same Scottish king, it has been claimed.
According to research by an American genealogist, they share a common bloodline that can be traced to William I of Scotland, or William the Lion.
It was disclosed last year that Mr Obama was a descendant of the monarch who ruled Scotland from 1165 to 1214, and his background and upbringing spans the globe. He was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father, later living in Indonesia.
Last year, we also have enhanced many features.
An great enhancement promised as early as 2006 was released in April: the new Online Family Trees.
New themes and interface that makes much easier to enter, view and edit your data. These changes were very discussed but are now a great success.
Two new features were added to the online family trees: Sosa-Stradonitz numbers can be viewed and you can write a full family history with pictures, tables, links, etc. Some kind of personal website. Printing your family trees is easier with the new intuitive interface.
No more birthdays forgotten! Subscribe for free to the birthdays alerts.
You can simply embed a Surname Tag Cloud to your personal website.
The Online Records interface has been fixed and it is now more intuitive.
And so another year has passed us by. This has been a busy year and it's time to see what we did!
Many new features have been released during the year 2007.
GeneaStar has joined the GeneaNet "galaxy". This free website is intending to check off the famous people genealogies. You can instantly compare your family tree against the GeneaStar database and send us any genealogy that you own or that could be read on the Internet.
Another new feature called "All Cousins" is intending to make your data share easier and is like a web community.
You can manage and save your address book, send and receive messages, and view your contacts on a map.
This year, this feature should help you to find out the common ancestors between you and your contacts.
In the summer, the "Free Online Records" feature has launched.
A large part of you GeneaNet users wanted to upload records. You can now upload some in Excel file format. They will be indexed in the GeneaNet database in a few minutes and available for free to anyone!
The Contact Page (or Public Page) has been enhanced and a Surname Tag Cloud has been added.
Geneasofts, the famous blog about genealogy softwares, has joined GeneaNet.
And last, you can now print some wonderful large charts from your online family tree!
Nineteen million documents stored in the archives of Russia’s Defence Ministry have been digitalised. The aim of the project was to help people find relatives killed or never found during World War II.
Now, the website www.obd-memorial.ru (in Russian ; via Google Translate) allows people looking for their lost friends and relatives to carry out their own investigations into what happened.
Records include not only the name, date and place of birth and death, but also scans of original documents.
