Mess on the Desk

03/10/2022

Do you need help organizing your genealogy?
https://www.nhsog.org/product-page/conference

02/28/2022

The National Archives has some wonderful upcoming education on the 1950 census.

March, April, and May 2022 Free and no registration - all are welcome! ⇒ About the program ⇒ Participation instructions ⇒ YouTube playlist ⇒ Schedule with session descriptions, handouts, and videos Condensed Schedule (more details below) March 2, at 1 p.m. ET Overview of What's on the 1950 C...

02/23/2022

If you are looking for a solid genetic genealogy beginner series, join me in Marion, Ohio, on Monday, March 21 and March 28 from 5-7 Eastern. We are meeting in person. Go to this site and click to see the class offerings.

Registrations for Spring 2022 starts Monday, February 21. First class starts on March 8, 2022 download class list --> Spring 2022 classes. (please note a class day and time change from the original posted class schedule) What is ALL? Education doesn't end at graduation! We are constantly expanding o...

10/14/2020

Paul Milner always delivers! If you are looking for an excellent overview of English research, click here to learn more about his virtual event:

Join Paul Milner for the fall Workshop Researching Our English Ancestors hosted by Allen County Genealogical Society of Indiana

10/13/2020

On Saturday, Oct 17, I will be presenting two genealogical organization topics for the Akron-Summit County Public Library:
Organization and Citation for the Family Historian
Family Tree Software Options

It's a zoom meeting. Registration is required but FREE.
https://services.akronlibrary.org/event/4595105

Hope to see you there!

Learn how to organize your family history research and to develop strategies to build robust family trees with genealogy software. Register to receive a Zoom link. Free.

03/11/2020

Ha

Guess so.

(twitter.com/thatsaragoodman)

12/10/2019

If you have a kit or manage kits on GEDmatch, make sure you log in and look at the updated Terms of Service. When GEDmatch was purchased yesterday, the site was locked down from use until you make a choice to agree to the ToS or delete all of your kits at once. You have a choice to "wait to decide" but there is no indication how long that window will be open.

06/02/2019

I'm curious what kind of issues might arise as this genetic genealogy case goes to court. Should there be credentialing for this kind of high-stakes work? I am wondering if the "relative" whose kit was used will be unmasked as part of the court record. And I am curious how defense attorneys might try to discredit this frontier science. Any thoughts?

Jury selection was delayed by about a week for defendant William Talbott, over his objection.

05/22/2019

this is FANTASTIC

Arolsen Archives makes available details and artifacts of about 2.2 million people, including N**i concentration camp prisoner cards and death notices

05/17/2019

Interesting DNA article about identical twins.

A handful of criminal prosecutions have stalled because DNA tests cannot distinguish between suspects who are twins. Then scientists decided to create one.

05/15/2019

GEDmatch can no longer be trusted The Legal Genealogist's love for the third-party DNA tools site GEDmatch has always been clear. Just in the last year, I've written about its cool tool to create superkits[1. Judy G. Russell, “Superkit Sunday,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 14 Apr 2019 (https