- Issue 9.17
- The Innovator Showdown Finalsfeatured “Shark Tank”-style (though a little less intense) presentations and panel interviews from six entrpreneuers in genealogy technology, with impressive cash and in-kind prizes for top contenders. Prizes went to:
* People’s Choice: Kindex (searching documents won the award) https://app.kindex.org/
* Third place: Double Match Triangulator (analyzing DNA) http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/dmt.php
* Second place: QromaTag (adding stories to photos) http://www.qroma.net/qromatag.html
* First prize: OldNews USA (mobile searching of online newspapers) http://revgenea.com/features/
- Twile, the timeline creation tool that won the People’s Choice award at last year’s Innovator Summit, announced it will now be completely free. (Previously, a basic membership was free, with fee-based enhancements.) https://twile.com/
- FindMyPast announced its Catholic Heritage Archiveof records from Catholic churches around the world. Just released are 3 million records from the archdioceses of Philadelphia and Westminster and Birmingham in Britain. Also included are the Irish Catholic Church registers that were published last year. http://www.findmypast.com/
- MyHeritage unveiled its new Photo Discoveries feature today. Essentially, it presents users with a set of photographs of their relatives from family trees contributed by others. Premium Plus or Complete Subscribers can add up to 10 photos per Discovery to the matching profiles in their family tree, in a single click. https://www.myheritage.com
- The Journal Nature Communications published a study by Ancestry DNAthat “reveals post-colonial population structure of North America.” It identifies genetically related clusters of individuals and their migrations over time. This technology can make possible detailed historical portraits of the lives of Ancestry DNA customers. https://blogs.ancestry.com/
You can still view the recorded sessions of RootsTech at https://www.rootstech.org/ Below Did you miss a session? Click one of the days and enjoy!
For more information, contact Shanna Jones shannasjones@msn.com