"Your DNA Secrets Revealed" Airs Again on January 1, 2023, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Some of you may have heard about a new genealogy-related and DNA show, Your DNA Secrets Revealed hosted by Diahan Southard, and may have wondered how to view it.

It is on the Public Broadcasting Service aka PBS so you have to see if your local PBS station has picked it up to air in its broadcasting area. But if you have a PBS Passport subscription you can watch the show at anytime on demand.

No PBS Passport? You can watch for free during the air time for your local PBS station. For Detroit-PBS, we discovered belatedly that the show aired at 3:30 a.m. on December 21. Yep, that is right -- in the middle of late last night/very early this morning. The next scheduled airing on WTVS Detroit's PBS station is 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., January 1, 2023. Mark your calendars everyone.

The show is listed as on the 56.1 WTVS HDTV channel on schedule shown for Detroit on the PBS website. But checking the online schedule for Comcast/Xfinity it does show as airing on Channel 6, the non-HD WTVS channel here in Macomb Township.

You can check when Your DNA Secrets Revealed will air on your local PBS station using the Search Schedule on the PBS website www.pbs.org going to Schedule and the search schedule. Or check your cable/satellite service's schedule.

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE

Have a Great Holiday Season!

We hope everyone is having a great holiday season. We are going to focus on home and post a bit less so we will be ready for the holidays too.

If you are looking for a genealogy-related gift for a family member or yourself, remember to check those various websites out there on the internet to see what kinds of sales each are offering. You can select our various blog labels (to the left) to pull up past posts about sales to see if the deal you are seeing is a good one or almost as good (or better?) as a prior sale.

No matter your holiday, have a great one and a Happy New Year too.

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE

Christmas Sale on Archion.de Passes and Vouchers (Gift Certificates): Save 20%

If you have ancestors from Germany who were Evangelische in religion, you may have heard of the Archion.de website. It was founded in 2016 by the Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland with eleven regional Evangelische churches. The website has continued to grow through the years and currently has over 120,000 church books digitized and now 23 partner archives which include primarily protestant archives as well as archives of dioceses, states, towns and associations.

From Wednesday December 14, 2022, through Wednesday, December 21, 2022, Archion.de is having a 20 percent off sale on 3-month or 1-year passes and vouchers/gutschein.

Passes -- Paid-Access starting from time of purchase.

3-Month Pass is regularly €52.20 now on sale for €41.75 including VAT
This pass allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for three months (90 days) starting from the date of subscription, as well as up to 150 image (PDF) downloads.

1-Year Pass is regularly €178.80 now on sale for €143 including VAT
This pass allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for one year (365 days) starting from the date of subscription, as well as up to 600 image (PDF) downloads.

Vouchers/Gutschein -- Pre-paid Coupons/Vouchers/Gift Certificates

3-Month Voucher is regularly €52.20 now on sale for €41.75 including VAT
This voucher allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for three months (90 days) starting from the date of redemption by the recipient, as well as up to 150 image (PDF) downloads. Vouchers expire two years after their issue date. Except in legally specified cases, vouchers cannot be recharged, re-sold, transferred, or paid out in cash value.

1-Year Voucher is regularly €178.80 now on sale for €143 including VAT
This voucher allows an individual user to access the digital church book archive for one year (365 days) starting from the date of redemption by the recipient, as well as up to 600 image (PDF) downloads. Vouchers expire two years after their issue date. Except in legally specified cases, vouchers cannot be recharged, re-sold, transferred, or paid out in cash value

You must create an account prior to making a purchase. Or be logged in with an existing account. When making your purchase, if you want a pass (which starts immediately) select Order but if you want a voucher be sure to select Voucher. Purchases can be made using a credit card or PayPal. Passes and Vouchers do not automatically renew.

The Archion website is in German with some English translated website pages. You are able to browse the contents of the website for free meaning to see what is available. Uploaded digitized church books are shaded in green. If a location or book is not shaded in green than it is not yet uploaded. The forum boards are also free but you must be logged into the website and have the site in German (DE.)

The church books are organized first by the regional holding archive and the regional division and the parish location where you can then see what records types and time periods are available. At this time the digitized church records are mostly NOT electronically indexed so this is a browse and manually search like you would have done in the days of microfilm. And yes, the record images are in German in that old Schrift handwriting for the most part.

If you know the name of the parish you seek you can search that parish name to see if it comes up. But sometimes spelling matters so a manual search for the parish is suggested on the Archion.de website. Church books are added daily. Generally, in batches from three or so different archives each month. The almost monthly email newsletter usually informs what was recently added, what is currently being added, and what will be added next.

Remember, in Germany records are not centralized so you really need to know your origin village and determine its parish location before jumping across the water to the old country.

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE

MCGG December 2022 Meeting Cancelled, We will see You in January 2023

As you know, the MCGG Board decided to delay the release of our Fall 2022 schedule until we learned more about when the renovation of Mount Clemens Public Library will be completed and we can meet in person again at our favorite library.

With this in mind, MCGG has decided to cancel our December 2022 Virtual Meeting. We were hoping we would be in-person for the December meeting but that is not to be and with the busy holiday month, time is short for planning a quality virtual meeting.

MCGG hopes for each holiday you and your family celebrate that it is a great one and that you and your family have a happy new year too!

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE

RootsMagic Software Holiday Special Sale, Save Up to 37% until December 31, 2022

Save up to 37% off RootsMagic software during its Holiday Special Sale running through December 31, 2022.

Save on RootsMagic 8, Personal Historian 3 and Family Atlas. A new license for RootsMagic 8 is regularly $39.95, now $29.95. If you have an older version of RootsMagic (such as 7 or earlier) the upgrade pricing sale is $24.95. You can find the sale announcement on the RootsMagic Corporate FaceBook page.

Not sure if RootsMagic is for you? There is a free version called RootsMagic Essentials you can download and install and use to see if RootsMagic will work for you. Here is a list of the differences between the pay and free versions of RootsMagic.

Use the code HOLIDAY2022 to receive your discount.

See you someday soon at our favorite library!
LE