Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Our Next MCGG Virtual Meeting is Wednesday, April 14, 2021

 Our next MCGG and Let's Talk...Genealogy groups combined virtual meeting is Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at 7 p.m. using Zoom Meeting. The topic of the meeting is  ... Where Do I Go From Here?

Bring research questions, brick walls, or new finds to share with the group! Let's share our challenges, maybe someone will have an idea to solve them.

MCGG members on the mailing list will receive the Zoom Meeting invite in the reminder email to be sent prior to the meeting. New attendees can obtain the invite link using the Library Events calendar on the website of the Mount Clemens Public Library. 

New attendees are always welcome.
 

See you soon at the Mt. Clemens Public Library!
LE

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Good News! Our February and March 2021 MCGG Combined Virtual Meetings are Now Online for Viewing on YouTube

 Good News! The recordings of our MCGG Friday and MCGG Let's Talk...Genealogy Combined Virtual Meetings from February 10, 2021, and March 10, 2021, are now available on our MCGG YouTube channel.

As a reminder the meeting topics were How Stories Passed Down Through the Generations Can Help Uncover A Family's Journey presented by Dara Tolbert Brooks, M.Ed., and WWI: Michigan’s “Polar Bear” Soldiers Invade Russia – How They Lived and Survived presented by Beverly Bishop. Both presenters are MCGG Members. 

 


 

We will continue to work on posting the November and December 2020 meeting videos to our Youtube channel. And, work to make our January 2021 video available to MCGG members who were members as of December 2020. Thank you for your patience.

See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library!

LE

Monday, March 1, 2021

LIMITED-TIME OFFER EXTENDED TO Mar. 7, 2021! Advanced DNA Features Unlock Fee Waived for Autosomal DNA Data Transfers/Uploads to MyHeritageDNA

 

Great News! MyHeritage's waiving of the unlock fee for new DNA transfers/uploads has been extended until March 7, 2021.

If you have autosomal DNA test results at Ancestry, Family Tree DNA, or 23andMe, you might want to consider this offer. MyHeritage.com is waiving the unlock fee ($29) to gain complete access to its autosomal DNA service, MyHeritageDNA when you transfer/upload DNA data from another autosomal testing service such as Ancestry's AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA's FamilyFinder, or 23andMe's Ancestry test. See the post on the MyHeritage Blog for more details on this limited-time offer and for the transfer/upload link.

MyHeritage allows you to upload your DNA data from other providers and get DNA Matches for free, but a one-time unlock fee of $29 (or a Complete plan with MyHeritage) has been required to access the advanced DNA features — and that includes the Ethnicity Estimate and the new Genetic Groups.

With this limited-time offer, you can now upload your DNA data to MyHeritage and get access to your Ethnicity Estimate, Genetic Groups, and other advanced DNA tools such as the Chromosome Browser, AutoClusters, and Theory of Family Relativity™ — absolutely free! These features will remain free forever for the DNA kits you upload to MyHeritage during this week.

In our opinion, the AutoClusters and Chromosome Browser are just two of the Advanced DNA tools that more than make it worthwhile to do a data transfer/upload.

To use the fishing analogy, each DNA testing provider is like a different pond or pool of water. To catch a fish aka a desired DNA match, you never know which pool of water that desired fish swims/resides in so you want to put your fishing pole (your DNA test/tests) in as many ponds/pools of water to catch that desired fish. DNA data transfers are a cost-effective way to do this because a data transfer does not cost as much as a physical test, especially when the transfer cost is free. 

This is a fantastic opportunity. This means no yearly subscriptions fees just to access all of your DNA test's features. Grandfathering-in does not happen very often. The last time the unlock fee was waived was in December 2019. 

See the MyHeritage blog post (link above) for the orange "Upload your data to MyHeritage now" link to the limited-access offer. There are a variety of help articles at the MyHeritage Help Center to help you with the data transfer/upload process.

See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library!
LE