Looking for a deal on a DNA test? There are Valentine's Day DNA sales going on right now.
Family Tree DNA At Family Tree DNA, the Valentine's savings is on its FamilyFinder test. FamilyFinder is an autosomal DNA test that both males and females can take. Until February 14, 2019, a FamilyFinder is just $59 plus tax and shipping which is a savings of $20 off the $79 regular price. Family Tree DNA tests now come in a box suitable for gifting.
AncestryDNA AncestryDNA, an autosomal DNA, is on sale for $59 plus tax and shipping until February 14, 2019. Its regular price is $99 so that is a $30 savings for Valentine's Day.
23andMe 23andMe is offering free shipping for its Valentine's Day sale. 23andMe is an autosomal DNA test with two options. The Ancestry Service is $99 and is similar to the autosomal DNA tests at other genealogy DNA testing companies. The Health + Ancestry Service adds a look at genetic health risks and carrier status reports to the traditional ancestry focus of autosomal DNA testing. Again, tax is extra. MyHeritageDNA Valentine also struckMyHeritageDNA. The MyHeritageDNA autosomal DNA is on sale for $59 plus tax and shipping until Feburary 14, 2019. Its regular price is $79 so that is a $20 savings for Valentine's Day.
LivingDNA LivingDNAis a newer genealogy DNA testing company based in the United Kingdom that also offers an autosomal DNA that both males and females can take. The LivingDNA test is currently on sale for $79 plus tax and shipping. Its regular price is $99.
For more details on any of these tests, see our earlier posts using the labels located in the column at the left.
Also, remember that many of these DNA tests are also sold (even at sale prices) by these companies on Amazon.com where the cost of these tests qualify for free shipping whether you have Amazon Prime or not. (Prime members just get quicker shipping.) Just make sure you are buying from the official DNA company and not a third-party seller. See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library! LE
Please take note that the MCGG Let's Talk...Genealogy discussion group meets on Wednesday, February 13, 2019, at 7 p.m. in the Local History and Genealogy Room of the Mount Clemens Public Library. Our topic for the night is ... MyHeritage Library Edition.
Let us all share what we have learned about how to use MyHeritage Library Edition on MeL.org (the Michigan Electronic Library) and what we have found in the database. This is a great meeting to get answers to your questions about MyHeritage Library Edition -- questions like how-to ... and what is there, etc.
New attendees are always welcome.
See you soon at the Mt. Clemens Public Library! LE
On Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 7 p.m. in the Auditorium of the Mount Clemens Public Library, local historian (and MCGG member) John Emerson will discuss the experiences of African Americans in his lifetime.
The program is titled African Americans After Slavery, 1930 to Present Day. See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library! LE
During the month of February the Fold3
website is offering free access to its Black History Collection. This
includes "colored" troop service records, court slave records, Amistad
records, slave registry, and anti-slave records.
February is Black History month.
Just register for a basic Fold3 membership which is free
with no credit card required. If you already have a free Fold3 basic
membership, just sign into the website. (You do not need to sign up for a
7-day free trial which requires a credit card.)
This Friday, February 1, 2019, at 1:00 p.m.in the Auditorium of the Mount Clemens Public Library, Beverly Bishopwill presentWWI - Macomb County. If you are in the Mt. Clemens area, PLEASE JOIN US.
See you soon at the Mt. Clemens Public Library! LE
Conference attendees -- those able to attend in
person and those attending via LiveStream
-- can access the 2019 class syllabus handouts using the conference app or the app's browser page. RootsTech has not made an announcement that syllabus handouts are available so not all syllabus may be added yet. If a session does not have a syllabus check back later to see if one has been added but note that not all sessions will have a handout.
RootsTech App Like in previous years you must use a RootsTech App to download or
email yourself the session syllabus handouts from either the Apple App
Store or GooglePlay. The RootsTech App is made for SmartPhones.
Unlike 2017 when the app was just finicky on a tablet, one of our
members found the App unusable last year on that same tablet. It simply
crashed with each attempt to open/use it. So usability may vary by
non-smartphone device.
Please
note that this is the same app as prior years. So if you made notes in
the handouts thru the App and it is still on your device you will likely
want to make sure you download the handouts to your computer or email
them to yourself before loading the new 2019 conference information.
Some users on other blogs have said it overwrites the prior year's information.
How do you find a session's handout? Search
the conference schedule or search by speaker. To email a handout to
yourself, you have to find the session you want, view the session, click
on the PDF and you will be asked do you want to "open it, email it or
take notes on the handout." By this route, you must do this individually
for each session you desire a handout. The PDF file name will be a
series of numbers and letters not the title of the session.
To download
multiple session handouts at one time, click on the star next to the
session in the conference schedule. Then go back to the App Home and
then select the App's download and click the download icon. The files
will que and be downloaded.
If you are able to get the App to run on your tablet, please
note that some users have found the RootsTech App to be troublesome on a
tablet so exercise some patience while using
it. When you are done with the App you may want to
remove it from your tablet. But if you initially downloaded the handout
PDFs rather than email them, before you remove the RootsTech App be sure
to email those PDFs to yourself. The downloaded PDFs are stored in
the RootsTech App data and not in your device's download folder so if you
delete the App you delete the PDFs.
Here's
an example of where to find your downloaded session PDFs on an Android
tablet: Prepare an email to yourself; click on attach files; go to My
Files; go to the internal memory card (i.e. sdcard0) where apps store
their data or that place on your device; go to Android folder; go to
data folder; go to "com.coreapps. ...me.rootstech" folder (it will be
named something like that); go to files folder; then check the select
boxes and then done to attach your downloaded PDFs to the email; then
send the email. Open the received email and save the attached files to
your computer or another folder on your device. Now you will not lose
the downloaded PDF files when you delete the RootsTech App.
RootsTech 2019 App Browser Page For those without smartphones and for those who can't get the app to run on a tablet, don't despair. There is also a browser page for where you access the RootsTech 2019 App.
If you view each session's handout individually you can download it
without having to use a log-in id. Remember to rename the downloaded PDF
file so you will know what it is later. Remember class times are listed in Mountain
Time at the RootsTech website and in the RootsTech App. We are Eastern Time which is 2 hours
ahead. So 8:30 am Mountain is 10:30 am Eastern. See our RootsTech 2019 LiveStream Schedule Post listing sessions in Eastern Time with the session codes.
ArkivDigital
is having a free access weekend to its Swedish Records and Books of
interest to genealogists. Free Access runs from Jan. 18 to Jan. 20,
2019, Swedish time.
There is an ArkivDigital Blog post describing the free access weekend. The site
operates in Swedish and English. To
participate you have to register your name and email (for free) with
ArkivDigital. If you have not used ArkivDigital before, you will need to
install the latest ArkivDigital viewer software in order to see the
record images. Though it appears there is a web-version now. (The
ArkivDigital viewer works best in Google's Chrome browser, a free
software.) ArkivDigital has a help page for this free access weekend. See you soon at Mt. Clemens Public Library! LE
