The recording of today's webinar, "Spreadsheets 401 : Excel-lent Inspiration” by Mary Kircher Roddy is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 34 minute recording of "Spreadsheets 401 : Excel-lent Inspiration" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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This is first big announcement at RootsTech, and it's a game-changer for genetic genealogy! I've played with it for about an hour this morning and am very impressed. Learn about it below, register for its free webinar, and then check out your new DNA theories in the DNA Matches area at MyHeritage.com.

TEL AVIV, Israel & LEHI, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MyHeritage, the leading global service for family history and DNA testing, revealed today its latest innovation in genetic genealogy — the Theory of Family Relativity™. This technology offers users, for the first time ever, theories that utilize nearly 10 billion historical records and family tree profiles to explain DNA connections. Until now, family history enthusiasts used two distinct domains for making discoveries: the paper-trail world of records and trees, and the biological world of DNA connections. Now, MyHeritage has combined these two domains and integrated them seamlessly.

The Theory of Family Relativity™ is based on a big data graph that connects billions of data points drawn from thousands of databases on MyHeritage, in real time. Every node on this graph represents a person, and every edge depicts a blood relationship between two individuals that is described in a family tree or a historical record; or a match between two tree profiles that are likely to be the same person; or two records that are likely to be about the same person. These connections between people and records are established by MyHeritage’s industry-leading matching technologies. MyHeritage engineers and algorithm experts led by the company’s CTO, Sagi Bashari, developed a unique approach that allows the big data graph to instantly compute all paths between millions of blood relatives. The Theory of Family Relativity™ draws upon this resource to construct the most plausible theories explaining how pairs of people linked by a DNA Match on MyHeritage are related, using family trees and historical records.

Previously, users who took a DNA test looking to find relatives were faced with puzzling lists of thousands of distant relatives, without many clues explaining the DNA connections. Now, for a growing percentage of these DNA Matches, theories are provided by MyHeritage that explain the precise relationship paths using trees and records. In these theories, not only does genealogy illuminate DNA connections, but DNA also helps separate fact from fiction in the genealogy and shows which tree and record connections appear to be correct.

This technology uses millions of family trees on MyHeritage, as well as the World Family Tree on Geni, which is replicated daily to MyHeritage, and the single family tree of FamilySearch, which is also replicated daily to MyHeritage under license. This combination results in the most comprehensive family tree traversal available today. Additionally, the technology utilizes billions of historical records on MyHeritage, including all census records, as well as the MyHeritage Record Detective™ technology that indicates whenever two records are about the same person. For example: a theory that explains a DNA Match between two users can begin in the family tree of the first user, traverse through a series of matching trees into a census record, continue to a household relative, who then matches into another tree, until the path completes with the family tree of the second user. MyHeritage displays the complete path of every theory, and explains every step along the way, allowing the user to verify its accuracy. Each theory is presented with a confidence level that is based on the confidence of the matches used to construct it.

“Our new technology is a game changer in its scope and power and is a tribute to our passion for developing the best genetic genealogy tools for our users,” said Gilad Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHeritage. “Using genealogy to explain DNA Matches, and using DNA to validate genealogy matches, combines the best of both worlds. We expect this technology to help people make new discoveries in their family history. With every day that goes by, this technology grows even more powerful as more tree profiles, historical records and DNA kits are added to our global database.”

The Theory of Family Relativity™ feature is included for free with all Premium, PremiumPlus, and Complete subscriptions on MyHeritage. Individuals who upload their raw DNA data from other testing services to MyHeritage who do not have a subscription can pay a one-time fee of $29 per DNA kit to unlock the Theory of Family Relativity™ and the full range of advanced DNA features offered by MyHeritage.

To purchase a MyHeritage DNA kit, visit www.myheritageDNA.com

The recording of today's webinar, "What's in a Surname? The History of Surnames and How They Help in Family History Research” by Alejandro T. Rubinstein is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 23 minute recording of "What's in a Surname? The History of Surnames and How They Help in Family History Research" is now available to view in our webinar library for free. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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Take a trip with spreadsheets to the lands of your ancestors. Learn how spreadsheets can help as you learn to read foreign language newspapers. Use spreadsheets as a translation tool for your ancestors' vital and religious records. Create a spreadsheet to track your ancestors and those great ethnic or locality websites – when you find a new ancestor or a new website you’ll be ready to dive in.

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Tuesday's Tips provide brief how-to's to help you learn to use the Legacy Family Tree software with new tricks and techniques.

Tuesday's Tip - Non-breaking Spaces (Beginner)

Let's say you have someone in your file named Mary Lou Simmons. She always went by Mary Lou and not just by Mary. In the narrative portion of reports Legacy will only pick up the first name, Mary. There is a trick to tell Legacy that you want this person to be referred to as Mary Lou.

In Windows there is a command for a "non-breaking" space which keeps two words together as a single unit. The keyboard shortcut for this is ALT 0160 and this does work in Legacy. In the Given Name field type Mary, then ALT 0160, then Lou. You will see the cursor jump to make a space but won't see anything else different on the screen.

To use one of the Windows shortcut commands (there are many!) you simply hold down the ALT button while you type 0160 using the numbers keypad on the right side of your keyboard. If you are on a laptop that doesn't have a numbers keypad, HERE are instructions.

And this is what you will see in a report:

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A very simple and useful trick.

Find tech tips every day in the Facebook Legacy User Group. The group is free and is available to anyone with a Facebook account.

For video tech tips check out the Legacy Quick Tips page.  These short videos will make it easy for you to learn all sort of fun and interesting ways to look at your genealogy research.

Michele Simmons Lewis, CG® is part of the Legacy Family Tree team at MyHeritage. She handles the enhancement suggestions that come in from our users as well as writing for Legacy News. You can usually find her hanging out on the Legacy User Group Facebook page answering questions and posting tips.

Windows shortcut for a non-breaking space ALT 0160 will cause given names to stay together in reports.  

Mary Lou Davis will appear as Mary Lou instead of Mary

Discover the top 10 surnames, their meaning, idiomatic structure, cognates, and geographical frequency. The list comprises the following surnames: Smith, Jones, Williams, Taylor, Davies, Brown, Wilson, Evans, Thomas, and Johnson.

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The Legacy Family Tree team is off to Salt Lake City for RootsTech 2019! Always the largest family history event, RootsTech 2019 will feature more than 300 classes, thousands of genealogists, and a gigantic exhibit hall.

The Legacy Booth and more

You'll find Dave and Ken - the founders and developers of our Legacy software in booth #1233. I'll (Geoff) be there as well, along with Leonard, Pegi and others (thanks to Michele, Marian, Jairmie, John and Ron for keeping our Facebook, Support, webinars and everything else running at home!). So bring your questions, good conversation, and well, your money. But only bring half as much as you normally would since both Legacy and webinar memberships will be available for our special conference pricing of half off!

You'll also find me over at the MyHeritage booth giving demos and short classes.

• Thursday, 10:30am: Learn Genealogy at Home for Free with FamilyTreeWebinars.com
• Friday, 9:30am: Success with the MyHeritage Chromosome Browser

I've also been asked to introduce one of RootsTech's keynote speakers, Saroo Brierley, who was the inspiration behind the true-life story in the movie Lion (I loved the movie!). This will be on the Main Stage on Friday, March 1 at 11am.

I'm really looking forward to hearing from MyHeritage CEO, Gilad Japhet, as he has promised to make some industry-changing announcements. Here and here are sneak peeks of the topics, and who knows, there'll likely been even more.

Can't make it?

If you can't make it to SLC this year, 22 of the classes will be live-streamed. Details are here. PLUS, we'll still see you online for this week's live webinars (thanks for hosting, Marian!):

• What's in a Surname: The History of Surnames and How They Help in Family History Research by Alejandro T. Rubinstein
• Spreadsheets 401 : Excel-lent Inspiration by Mary Kircher Roddy

"Life is short, do genealogy first!"

The recording of today's webinar, "Using Timelines and Tables to Analyze Your Research” by Cari Taplin, CG is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

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If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 28 minute recording of "Using Timelines and Tables to Analyze Your Research" is now available to view in our webinar library for free for a limited time. Or watch it at your convenience with an annual or monthly webinar membership. 

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• 5% off all products at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com (must be logged in at checkout)
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• Chance for a members-only door prize during each live webinar
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Every Friday we're pleased to offer Legacy Family Tree Webinar subscribers a new bonus webinar just for them!   This Friday enjoy "Online Resources for French Genealogy Part II: Military conscription, Census, Maps, Photographs" by Paul Woodbury. If you're not a member, remember the webinar previews are always free.

Online Resources for French Genealogy Part II: Military conscription, Census, Maps, Photographs

French genealogy research benefits from some of the most complete, detailed, and well-preserved records in the world. Due to the digitization efforts of many French archives and societies, records commonly used for French genealogy are also among the most accessible. In the second part of this three-part series, explore French census records, military conscription records, maps, photographic collections and newspapers.

About the Presenter

In-depth and difficult research tasks create large amounts of data to compare and analyze. Discover analysis methods using tables and timelines to solve problems.

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We look forward to seeing you all there!