Genealogy Gems Podcast Episode 227 (Audio Podcast) with Lisa Louise Cooke

Full Show Notes available at https://lisalouisecooke.com/2019/03/13/genealogy-gems-podcast-episode-227/

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We kick this episode off with the latest genealogy news including:
Major Announcements Made at RootsTech 2019 Ancestry Announcements:
- Ancestry just released over 5 million Mexico Catholic records and 1 million new France Census and Birth, Marriage, Death records and have several U.S. statewide projects underway, from New York to Hawaii. They also released US WWII Draft Cards from seven states. By early next year, the full set of WWII Draft Cards – all 33 million — will be exclusively available on Ancestry and Fold3.
- MyTreeTags™
- New & Improved DNA Matches:
- ThruLines™: shows you the common ancestors who likely connect you to your DNA Matches—and gives you a clear and simple view of how you’re all related.

MyHeritage Announcements:
- AutoClusters “A new genetic genealogy tool that groups together DNA Matches that likely descend from common ancestors in a compelling visual chart."

- DNA Quest Now Accepting Applications

- Digitizing of Israeli Cemeteries Completed MyHeritage has completed a 5-year project of digitizing every cemetery in Israel. It is now the first country in the world to have almost all of its gravestones preserved and searchable online, with images, locations, and fully transcribed records. They’ve put up all this content for free, too.

- FamilySearch and MyHeritage Tree Sync (LDS members only)

Geni announces GEDCOM Import “the return of the GEDCOM Import feature to Geni! This has been one of the most requested features on Geni and we’re excited to finally make it available to everyone. You can now import a GEDCOM file as a new tree, a new branch if you already have a tree, or onto any existing profile on which you have full permissions to edit and add onto. No longer will you need to endure the slow process of adding each individual one at a time to the tree.

The Theory of Family Relativity™ with Ran Snir, MyHeritage DNA Product Manager. Interviewed live at RootsTech 2019.