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Prediction: The Dead Will Take Over Facebook in the Next 50 Years
An interesting article by Charlie Osborne in the ZDNet web site says that “Analysis suggests that the deceased will soon outnumber the living on the network.” “An analysis of Facebook user levels in...
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GEDmatch, the Controversial Genealogy Website that Helped Crack the Golden...
Late breaking news: Crime scene DNA sequencing company Verogen has just acquired GEDmatch, a genealogy database credited with helping to solve some 70 rapes and murders. Verogen, a San Diego-based...
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American Ancestors Offers New Employee Benefit Program to Corporations
The following announcement was written by American Ancestors (also known as the New England Historic Genealogical Society): December 10, 2019—Boston, Massachusetts—In a crowded field of employee...
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RootsWeb Mailing Lists to be Discontinued
The following is from an email message sent to many RootsWeb users from the RootsWeb administrators: Beginning March 2nd, 2020 the Mailing Lists functionality on RootsWeb will be discontinued. Users...
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23andMe Lays Off 100 Employees
According to an article by Christina Farr in the CNBC news web site at https://cnb.cx/30Piet9: 23andMe is laying off 100 people, or 14% of its staff, mostly from its operations team, as consumer DNA...
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Ancestry Announces Lay-Offs and a Change in Corporate Focus on the Family...
Ancestry’s president & chief executive officer, Margo Georgiadis, today announced a reduction in the company’s workforce. Blaming a slowdown in the company’s DNA service, she writes, “Future growth...
View ArticleLayoffs at Genetic Testing Companies Reflect the Changing Market
This is a follow-up to articles I published recently: the layoff at 23andMe announced at http://bit.ly/2vhC1FH and the layoff at Ancestry announced at http://bit.ly/2SsW0t5. An article by Nicole...
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Geneanet Launches a New Service: Geneanet DNA
Another DNA testing service has launched online. According to Geneanet’s home page: “With Geneanet DNA, let’s build the first European DNA database together “Millions of you have already taken a...
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Findmypast’s Archive is the Fastest Growing on the Market
The following announcement was written by Findmypast: Findmypast’s collections have grown by over 1.5 billion names in the last year · Totalling over 13 billion records, Findmypast is now...
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MyHeritage Introduces Fan View for Family Trees
I saw this demonstrated today at the RootsTech conference and must say I was impressed. First of all, I love fan charts. They can display an excellent image of a person’s ancestry in an...
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Cutbacks by Ancestry, 23andMe Signal a Shakeout for DNA Industry
From an article by Kristen V Brown in the Bloomberg magazine’s web site: Anne Wojcicki, chief executive officer and co-founder of 23andMe Inc. “Consumer DNA-testing firms are closing up shop and...
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MyHeritage Donates 66,000 Swabs to Israel to Combat the Coronavirus
According to an article in the Jerusalem Post: The online genealogy platform MyHeritage has donated 66,000 medical swabs to Israel in a bid to combat the coronavirus. The swabs were initially shipped...
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MyHeritage Partners With Chinese Genomics Firm To Set Up Coronavirus Testing Lab
The following is an announcement from MyHeritage, the sponsor of this newsletter: Israeli-founded genealogy platform MyHeritage, the company behind DNA testing for family ancestry, has partnered with...
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Ancestry® Names Dr. Ron Park Executive Vice President of Health and DNA
The following announcement was written by Ancestry®: LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2020 — Ancestry®, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, today announced that Ronald...
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Forensic Genomics, a Dynamic New Peer-Reviewed Journal, is Launching in the...
The following announcement was written by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.: Forensic Genomics, a dynamic new peer-reviewed journal, will launch its preview issue at the annual International Symposium on Human...
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New Owner at Pharos Tutors
The following announcement was written by Pharos Teaching and Tutoring Ltd, one of the UK’s most popular providers of online genealogy courses: Helen Osborn, co-founder and owner of the business since...
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An Announcement from EverPresent, a Family Memories Company
The following is an announcement from EverPresent, a company that can convert your old photographs, 8mm films, 35mm slides, tape recordings, and 50+ year old scrapbooks into a modern digital formats...
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Ancestry® Launches AncestryHealth®, Powered by Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
The following announcement was written by Ancestry.com: “When it comes to your health and your family’s health, the more you know, the better,” said Dr. Ron Park, MD, EVP of Health and DNA, Ancestry....
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Follow-up Concerning DNA Information and Ancestry.com’s Sale to Blackstone in...
I published an article 2 days ago (at https://bit.ly/31Im9sL) containing an announcement that Ancestry.com and all its subsidiaries are to be sold to the Blackstone Group Inc. for $4.7 billion (US)...
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Ancestry® Announces Free Six-month Subscription for Teachers Just in Time for...
The following announcement was written by Ancestry®: Access to Ancestry Library Edition is Now Also Available as Free Remote Learning Resource for Parents and Tutors LEHI, Utah & SAN FRANCISCO,...
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