GeneaBabble

Out of curiosity and boredom I did a search for genealogy on Youtube the other day. Among some interesting tutorials I found the following which illustrates the consequences of our lineage system:

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Good news for French and Italian genealogists!  The Generations Network is expanding its Ancestry sites to France and Italy:

At launch, Ancestry.fr and Ancestry.it will offer access to Ancestry’s unrivaled global collection of more than 5 billion names and 24,000 databases and titles. The new sites will also provide a networking platform for users to collaborate and connect with other site users globally, build an online family tree and upload irreplaceable content from personal archives such as photographs, stories and shoebox keepsakes. [Read more]

This brings the number of Ancestry sites to seven.

Randy Seaver recently posted about finding townships and EDs on Ancestry census images and it reminded me of something I’ve found very useful.

When you are viewing a census image at Ancestry you will see something like this near the top of the page:

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So, I’ve been going through my dad’s old letters. I haven’t really been reading yet, but just sorting them into different “categories.” Anyway, I happened to notice a certain name mentioned in a letter from my grandmother dated Feb 22, 1964:

That Ed Masley nearly burnt to death the other day. His house got a fire and he was in there. I guess he wanted to die. He called the fire department but still stayed in the house. He was just sitting in there with the doors locked.

This probably won’t mean anything to anyone who hasn’t been to Cedars in downtown Youngstown, OH, specifically the men’s room. There is related the story of Ed Masley and Greg Miller. This is a family friendly blog, so I won’t go into detail. Anyway, there’s my random, useless discovery for the day.

The Generations Network, parent company of Ancestry.com, has entered an exclusive partnership with Sorenson Genomics to STEAL YOUR SOUL!!!

By taking a simple cheek-swab test and comparing results against DNA profiles in a test-results database, virtually anyone can uncover genealogical associations unimaginable just a few years ago. Users can easily connect with and discover lost or unknown relatives within a few generations, as well as gain insight into where their families originated thousands of years ago. [Read more]

It’s all part of the recent conspiracy to use genealogy as a means to collect our DNA for the database. “What database?” you say? THE database! It’s all part of the PLAN! They’re in it with Google, you see. They’re collecting all our data and running secret experiments on us. My bet is they plan on selling this information to the ALIENS!