Sci Fi Genealogy
What's coming in the future of family history work and genealogy!
If you want more original images released or if you're a numbers-kind-of person, you will find this post interesting: "Don Anderson at FGS: We Have the Opportunity"at Ancestry Insider. The article states:
"FamilySearch has about 607 million images online and are adding about
500 million more a year from its microfilm collection at the Granite
Mountain Records Vault."
Now that should leave you wanting to read more! The picture entitled, "The task at hand" should leave us all wanting the indexing to move faster! Go check it out.
Here's the latest scoop on Ancestry.com and DNA matches from Gena-Musings: "Checking in on Ancestry.com DNA Matches". Be sure to also link to the two previous posts he has written on this subject they are entitled: "Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA Tests-Post 1 and Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA Tests-Post 2". Very interesting reads about the future of DNA and how Ancestry is using it to further genealogical research! The possibilities are limitless.
I got my Ancestry DNA results back a few days ago. It showed me two cousins I'm also a paper trail match with -- including a 1st cousin (3x removed) on the Thomas line I've been searching for better documentation on.
ReplyDeleteThen I have several dozens possible cousins, but it's going to take a lot of digging to figure out where we might match up. I have one predicted "5th-8th cousin" that also has a Roberts ancestry -- Rhys Rumpton Roberts b 1805 Wales. But we also have 4 other shared surnames, so the DNA match could come from somewhere else.
I'm going to have to read up on tips on the best ways to organize and sort this all!