The recording of today's webinar, "Identifying Common Ancestors with DNA" by MyHeritage's Shahar Tenenbaum is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

 

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About the presenter

Shahar Tenenbaum is a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer in the DNA team at MyHeritage. As part of the DNA team, his job entails working on the visual aspects of the DNA pages, where he took part in the very successful Genetic Groups and DNA Labels, along with working on DNA analysis and algorithms, which break down the raw results from the DNA lab, and turn them into the Ethnicity Estimate, DNA Matches and other features that are available on MyHeritage. Shahar has a B.A in Cognitive Science and Psychology from the Ben Gurion University, and is a loving husband and a besotted father.

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The webinar will be live on Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at:

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About the presenter

Uri Gonen has been working at MyHeritage since 2005 where he took on different challenges and roles in product development and product management. He has been part of the wild journey of MyHeritage from a small startup to a dominant company in the genealogy space. Among his involvement in key projects of the company, Uri was the original developer behind Family Tree Builder, and the product manager of MyHeritage’s genealogy search engine. Recently, Uri was involved in several genealogical projects such as PedigreeMap, Pedigree View, Tree Consistency Checker and several integrations with FamilySearch. Before joining MyHeritage, Uri has worked in other software startups in Israel, the United States and Canada. He now lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

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The webinar will be live on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at:

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Fantastic news! MyHeritage is the first genealogy company to publish all images of the 1950 U.S. Census records LIVE and FREE to access! You can search the 1950 U.S. Census image collection here!

MyHeritage is working tirelessly to index them, and they'll be rolling out the fully indexed records gradually in the coming days and weeks — so stay tuned!

The hottest topic in genealogy right now: the 1950 U.S. census

The hottest new census tool: MyHeritage's Census Helper™

Combine the two and we're going to have fun in the new census, released on April 1, 2022.

The Census Helper™ scans your family tree (upload your GEDCOM if you don't yet have a tree at MyHeritage) and compiles a list of your relatives who are very likely to be found in the 1950 U.S. census. This enables you to focus your research: armed with the list it creates, you’ll know exactly which family members to search for in the newly released census records. You can export this list to use it anywhere.

I personally found it very easy to use and amazingly accurate.

Under the Research menu, I clicked on Census Helper. Waiting for me was a list of 1,133 individuals who are likely to be found in this census. It also showed that there are another 518 lower-confidence results that I could look at if I wanted to.

In the upper right is a Download button where I can then open the list in a spreadsheet, like Excel, and manipulate the data any way I want.

Now I'm armed with a very useful report for my use in researching the new 1950 census.

Use it for any census year!

It gets even better. Click on the "1950 U.S. Census" heading and it pops up a list for every U.S. federal census. Fantastic!

Reading MyHeritage's blog article about this, the Census Helper™ will soon support nationwide censuses in other countries found on MyHeritage, such as Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Denmark, Norway and more.

How to access

This tool is available immediately for all MyHeritage users. If you are not using MyHeritage yet, now’s a perfect time to sign up and upload your GEDCOM from Legacy and benefit from this useful tool, which will save you time and give direction to your research.

Get started at www.myheritage.com/census-helper

Learn more about census records

Our webinar library has 26 unique classes about using census records in our genealogical research including our upcoming class by Lisa Louise Cooke, "Everything You Need to Know About the 1950 Census" and our recent class by DearMYRTLE and Russ Worthington, "CensusGenie: Down to the Wire 1950 Census Prep".

The recording of today's webinar by Masha Novak, "A Deep Dive into Deep Nostalgia™" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

 

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Masha is responsible for both the Android and iOS platforms of the MyHeritage mobile app. She leads a great team of developers, QA engineers, and a designer to create the best features and user experience for our users.

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The webinar will be live on Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at:

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I'm trying out MyHeritage's newest technology called LiveStory. The tech allows you to create animated videos of your ancestors telling their life story, using just a still photo and some text.

At www.myheritage.com/livestory I uploaded the photo of my 4th great-grandfather, Asa Clark Brown, and typed a few paragraphs about his life - from HIS perspective. I added a couple of related illustrations and clicked the Create button.

Incredible! Although the technology's intent is to create a cool video, it did something for me that I didn't expect. After all of these years of researching his life, I actually started to write his biography for the first time. For me, that was meaningful and a starting point. I'm now excited to compile and analyze what else I know about him and add much more to this original video. Watch my first try below (about a minute):

I was impressed with how simple it was to use. Here's what the original photo looked like:

Wow!

Give it a try at www.myheritage.com/livestory.

The recording of today's webinar by Geoff Rasmussen, "Watch Geoff Live: MyHeritage Photos" is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free.

The recording of today's webinar by MyHeritage's Ran Snir, "DNA Labels" 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 and 8 minute recording of "DNA Labels" is now available to view in our webinar library for free.

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