A beautiful video of different places on the island of Sao Miguel in the Azores
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Azores Islands Baptismal Record Indexes Available Online
Did you know that the Direcao Regional da Cultura website includes a number of indexes for various parish (paroquiais) baptismal records? There are many indexes covering a range of years to explore. What’s Available in the Collection? Before you get too excited, it’s not every parish every year. What’s available right now is a smattering…
Skepticism is Healthy When Dealing With Ancestry.com’s Family Tree Potential Father and Mother Recommendations
I’m late to the show. Unlike millions of others, I didn’t have a family tree on Ancestry.com until about a month ago. Since I did a DNA test with AncestryDNA, I decided to add portions of my tree as cousin bait. While I appreciated the suggestions that the system makes for potential parents, I soon…
New York Times Migration Map
The New York Times has created a nifty map. It shows migrations within the United States in 1900, 1950, and 2012. New Insights into Migration Patterns I love these little insights into the world. It is especially interesting when we can compare o a time when our ancestors were in a certain place at a…
MyHeritage DNA Ups Its Game with Updated Chromosome Browser
MyHeritage DNA made a lot of genealogists happy in January 2018 by adding a chromosome browser. This allowed users to see what chromosome sequence they shared with DNA matches. But, it was limited to seeing only one match at a time. The newest update allows you to compare multiple matches to each other, thus making…