 African American Genealogy Research Tips, Records and Resources in Honor of Juneteenth, Freedom Day African American Genealogy Research Tips in Honor of Juneteenth, Freedom Day!Juneteenth, Freedom Day Juneteenth was finally established as a federal holiday, last year on June 17, 2021, to be recognized and observed every year on June 19th, unless it falls on a weekend, but it has been around much longer than that! Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, and Emancipation Day. Even though Emancipation was proclaimed in 1863, it wasn’t actually implemented in confederate states, and the implementation took affect little by little. The last place that word had reached, and emancipation was finally implemented, was in the state of Texas, on June 19, 1865, when Union troops landed in Galveston, Texas and announced their freedom by executive decree. Juneteenth has been celebrated ever since; although, many Americans have not been aware of it. With it being a federal holiday, all Americans will finally know of this holiday and what an important day in history it was and is! 😉 In the early days it had been celebrated with prayer and family gatherings, and some taking pilgrimages to Galveston; today it is celebrated with the same, as well as parades, festivals and more.  Emancipation Proclamation; Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana African American Genealogy Research
Are you researching African American Ancestors for either yourself, another family member, friend, or a client? Are you looking for research tips, records to use, resources, or Presentations? I do not specialize in African American research in any way, but I have researched for African American clients and thought some of the information I use, that I have listed below, may be of interest and help. 😊 Steps to researching your African American Ancestors:
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African American Genealogy and Ancestry Webinars and Presentations Coming Up:
Free Anytime FamilySearch Lessons in African American Genealogy:
Interactive Questions: How will you celebrate Juneteenth? Are you stuck in your African American genealogy research? What records above have you found the most useful in your African American genealogy research? Do you have other tips or resources that may be helpful? Did you know that MyHeritage and FamilySearch offered these free genealogy classes and conferences? Are you signed up for any of the webinars and presentations listed above? I’d love to hear your comments below, in the comment section! More Genealogy Events: Find some more genealogy presentations and events to attend, under the Genealogy Presentations category and the Genealogy Events category. More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page. More Genealogy Records: Learn about more records you can use in your research under the Genealogy Records category. This post is a participant in the Genealogy Blog Party! ←Back to Genealogy Resources Page
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 FREE Genealogy Webinars and Conference from MyHeritage!Are you interested in FREE genealogy? MyHeritage has some fantastic Legacy Family Tree Webinars and a genealogy conference coming up this month, and they are FREE! If you’re interested in learning useful techniques to use in your genealogy such as DNA; African American research; genealogical resources; adoptive research; photo editing; Irish genealogy; genealogy records; and more, then check them out! You definitely can’t beat FREE! 😉 FREE Legacy Family Tree Webinars from MyHeritage: When: June 2022 Topics: Varied (see below)
Register here: Upcoming Family Tree Webinars FREE Legacy Family Tree Genealogy Conference from MyHeritage: When: June 25, 2022 Topic: BMDs/vital records
Join on the conference day here: www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com/conference Interactive Questions: Did you know that MyHeritage had these free genealogy classes and conferences? Have you attended any of the Legacy Family Tree Webinars or conferences in the past? If so, what were your favorites? I’d love to hear your comments below in the comment section! More Genealogy Events: Find some more genealogy presentations and events to attend, under the Genealogy Presentations category and the Genealogy Events category. More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page. See more from MyHeritage:
As of Today, a New Game Changer From MyHeritage! The MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia Tool: Photos Brought to Life!  FeedSpot's 100 Best Genealogy Blogs and Websites 2022 FeedSpot’s 100 Best Genealogy Blogs and WebsitesKnow Who Wears the Genes in Your Family’s website and family history and genealogy blog has made it to FeedSpot’s 100 Best Genealogy Blogs and Websites to Follow in 2022, at #34! You can check out my site at Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family or follow my blog for genealogy research, research tips and resources!  Best 100 Genealogy Blogs and Websites: Know Who Wears the Genes in Your Family About FeedSpot: FeedSpot is an all-in-one content reader where you can read all your favorite blogs, news, YouTube channels, social media, and other websites in one place. From FeedSpot, you no longer have to go to each site separately. So, if you want a place where you can view all your fave genealogy blogs in one place, you might want to check them out.  FeedSpot All-in-One Content/RSS Feed Reader Some of FeedSpot’s Top 100 Genealogy Blogs and Websites:
I see many of my faves on their list and some I’ve never heard of, but then again, it’s such an extensive list. So, maybe it’s time to check some new ones out. 😉 If you haven’t already, you can click on the links that I’ve provided to a snippet of some of the genealogy blogs and websites that are on their list and check them out, or you can go on to FeedSpot and check their list of hundreds of genealogy blogs and websites out there at FeedSpot 100 Best Genealogy Blogs and Websites! Interactive Questions: Do you recognize any of the blogs on this list or in their top 100 genealogy blogs on their site? Do you follow any of these? What are your favorite genealogy blogs or websites that you follow? I’d love to hear your comments below in the comment section! More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more family history and genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page.  Ancestry’s New SideView Ethnicity Inheritance DNA Feature!Ancestry just came out with a new DNA feature that splits your ethnicity inheritance by each parent, upping the genealogy game! They also just updated ethnicity results. New DNA Ethnicity Inheritance Feature: They use their new SideView technology with your DNA matches, by assuming your matches are from one specific parent, which is not always the case. 😉 This new technology organizes the DNA you share with them. They can’t tell which parent is parent 1 or 2, but you can most likely figure that part out yourself. 😉
 My Ancestry Ethnicity Inheritance SideView I checked it our right away today! I’m not so sure how accurate it is though. I also compared it against my mom’s and my uncle’s (my father’s brother). Keep in mind that we get half of our DNA from or mother and half from our father, and we don’t necessarily get half of all their ethnicities, which could explain the discrepancies in mine.  My Ancestry SideView Ethnicity Inheritance Results Overview  My Ancestry SideView Ethnicity Inheritance Results Detailed Comparison For my uncle though, that fact doesn’t seem to explain why he has no Germanic Europe for our main paternal family line. It shows it on his maternal side. It should be from both sides. I don’t know how far back they are going, but I guess I must also keep in mind that it is believed that our main family line most likely originally came from Switzerland in the 1400’s. 😊  My Uncle's Ancestry SideView Ethnicity Inheritance Results Detailed Comparison For my mom, I know that for at least the last couple of hundred years or so she had no one from Scotland on her father’s side, only her mother’s. She did have Irish from one line on that side though, and I must also keep in mind that if they go further back, they could have originally come from Scotland, or it is just because they are so close. I am not a DNA or ethnicity specialist, other than using it to find your unknown relatives or biological family, but I did major in biochemistry. 😉  My Mom's Ancestry SideView Ethnicity Inheritance Results Detailed Comparison DNA Ethnicity Update: They also updated the ethnicities once again. My ethnic regions stayed pretty much the same, minus the Germanic Europe being taken off and the percentages changed a bit. 😉  My July 2021 Ancestry Ethnicity Results  My New April 2022 Ancestry Ethnicity Results They added 2 new regions for my mom, Germanic Europe and Norway. They also changed around her percentages quite a bit. They cut her Irish in half, but it reflects in her Scottish and England & North Western percentages, which makes sense. They added 2 new regions for my uncle, Portugal and another indigenous area, in which both make sense. His percentages only changed ever so slightly. If you’ve done your DNA with Ancestry, then go on Ancestry and check it out! Interactive Questions: What do you think of this of this awesome new DNA feature from Ancestry? Does yours seem pretty accurate? Let me know what you think about it after you’ve checked it out, in the comments below! More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more resources you can use in your genealogy research and to preserve your family history under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page! More DNA Posts: Interested in genetic genealogy? Find more DNA posts under my DNA Simplified category! Other Ancestry resources, features and tools that may be of interest:
MyHeritage's Newest Family History and Genealogy Tool, DeepStory!
MyHeritage DeepStory: Make Your Ancestor’s Photos Talk and Tell Their Story!Well, there is now another fantastic genealogy resource that you can add to your family history toolbox and photo tools, a new addition from MyHeritage, once again! MyHeritage announced at RootsTech last month of a new feature they had just added that brings your ancestors even more to life with AI technology, LiveStory (now DeepStory)! Your ancestors can now speak and tell their own life stories with a video biography! MyHeritage just keeps outdoing themselves!
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempt #1:
I tried it out RIGHT after it was announced at RootsTech, literally within minutes! I did a trial version that I had made quickly to check it out, and I couldn’t wait to do one with some more time spent on it! I was certain that a second round, after getting the hang of it (and with a few more pictures added), would be outstanding! The voice is obviously not my ancestor's voice, and it would only add the info for the ancestor I chose, their children and grandchildren, not any further. The names are also mispronounced, but it is still so cool, and I have a feeling that MyHeritage will keep improving upon it, as they have for their other tools! I can't wait! The quickie version was made by them automatically pulling whatever I had in my MyHeritage tree, which wasn't much. Of course, there are more children and grandchildren, but I only added my direct line to the tree for the quickie one and had already planned to add more at a later date, just to try it out. Check out the result!
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempt #1
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempt #2:
During my spring break last week, I finally had time to create another one, after the quickie one that I had done the month before. It took me a good part of the day to create it, but it turned out much better than the first! This one was of my great grandmother from Mexico. Compare it to the quick version I did last month!
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempt #2
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempts #3 and #4:
Then I became obsessed for a couple of days and made 2 more, each time trying to improve upon it, while checking out the functions! The 3rd one was of one of my paternal 2nd great grandfathers, and the 4th one was of one of my maternal great grandmothers. After realizing that you don’t have to just create them using their default of pulling some info from your tree, I had done these 3 using their free text chapters that you can fill in and add to yourself. Take a look at the final products!
MyHeritage LiveStory (now DeepStory) Attempts #3 and #4
This is one of the best ways to share your family history with the rest of your family and others to get them interested in where they came from! An ingenious move for MyHeritage, once again!
Thanks, MyHeritage! Tips:
They were letting anyone try it for FREE after RootsTech! I’m not 100% sure anyone can still try it out for free, but it appears that you can!
Try it out for FREE now at the MyHeritage Live Story (now DeepStory) webpage! Interactive Questions: What do you think of this of this awesome new tool from MyHeritage? Have you made one yet? Let me know what you think about it, after you’ve tried it out, in the comments below! Update (5/29/22): MyHeritage recently changed the name of their new AI photo feature from LiveStory to DeepStory. I can't find any updates from them about this name change; they just all of the sudden changed it and all their post accordingly. I have many thoughts on why they may have changed it, but I will keep those to myself. :) More Genealogy Resources: Learn about more resources you can use in your family history research under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page! This post is a participant in the Genealogy Blog Party!
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As of Today, a New Game Changer From MyHeritage! The MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia Tool: Photos Brought to Life!  Searching the 1950 Census Digital Images! A Whirlwind of Searching the 1950 Census Digital Images!Well, the release day of the 1950 census on April 1st was definitely a whirlwind to say the least! It’s a good thing that it was the first day of my spring break, because I spent the entire day (about 16 hours) searching for my family! Then I was at again the next day! 2 days was my cap, haha! I figured if I couldn’t find who I was looking for manually, then they were most likely not on the census. Just as many of you have done, I had created a list of who I wanted to find first in the 1950 Census. After I had already made my list, which took quite a while, MyHeritage came out with a super cool new 1950 Census tool, called Census Helper, that does all the work for you (if you have a tree on MyHeritage 😉)!  MyHeritage Census Helper for the 1950 Census Using the 1950 Census Distict Finder Tool from Ancestry to Search the 1950 Census Digital Images: With the 1950 Census district finder tool from Ancestry, that I spoke about last, in Get Ready for the 1950 Census with New Updates and FREE Cool Helps from Ancestry, I was able to find anyone I had an address for, right away!  Ancestry's 1950 Census District Finder Address Search When it came time to search for anyone with just a city with their tool, it just took a little more effort.  Ancestry's 1950 Census District Finder City Search Using NARA to Search the 1950 Census Digital Images: That’s when I went to NARA (National Archives) and used their tool. With NARA you also are able to search for a name with their 1950 Census Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning index. Don’t confuse it with the standard searchable index that you’re used to though. The AI was better at getting some names more than others, and remember if you search for a last name, it will only be attached to the head of household. I found it much more concise with first names. If you only have a city and name, you will have to look through quite a few digital images. If you only have a county and name, then you will most likely be searching through tons of images!  NARA's 1950 Census Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Index I also used this tool in conjunction with Ancestry’s 1950 Census district finder; it helped to narrow things down, especially when I had to search counties and sometimes just states. I was able to view other counties around the area of the city and county they should have been in, by finding the enumeration districts of all the areas close by, then plugging them into NARA with names, sometimes just a first name in case the AI couldn’t decipher the last name. Using MyHeritage to Search the 1950 Census Digital Images: AT some points, I also took the info from Ancestry’s ED district finder and NARA’s AI/ML searchable by name index and headed on over to MyHeritage to search. I found that MyHeritage had everything much more organized and laid out for me, minus the other’s tools. I also thought their digital image viewing was much easier to see and use.  MyHeritage's 1950 Census Digital Image Search Using FamilySearch to Search the 1950 Census Digital Images: FamilySearch also has the 1950 Census digital images available! Although Family Search is usually my first choice for accessing online records, I just didn’t need to access it with the other 3 already being used in conjunction.  Family Search's 1950 Census Digital Image Search I did realize that the most difficult family/ancestors to find were the ones that weren’t where they should have been or moved around A LOT. Of course, for these ones I had to go back into my tree and search for more directories; more of their family members in directories; more marriages, births, and deaths for any of their family members around that time; and more, so that I could get their addresses as close to 1950 as possible. I eventually found everyone I wanted in the 2 days I had searched, except for my mom and her mom, and one great grandfather. I’m not sure why I can’t find my great grandfather, as I know from directories and other documents of the city he was living in, but for my mom and her mom, I think they just slipped the census. Her mom was an unwed teenager at the time, with my mom being 1 1/2. I know where my mom was born, I searched all family members (painstakingly), and she was with none of them. I searched my mom’s stepfather, who her mom had married just a few weeks later, and she was not with him. I then searched ALL the areas around him, then the entire county, then the state. They are no where to be found, as of yet. 😉 Note (4-7-22): As of today, the states of Wyoming and Delaware are fully searchable in the 1950 Census! Interactive Questions: Did you search the 1950 Census for your family on release day? What sites or tools did you use to search through the 1950 Census digital images? Did you prep beforehand with a list of relatives you were going to search for? Were you able to find everyone you had hoped to find? Let me know how it went or ask me any questions, below in the comments! More Genealogy Resources: Find other useful genealogy resources under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page! More Genealogy Records: Find my other posts on the U.S. Census records under the Genealogy Records category! Update (4-8-22): As of today, Vermont and American Samoa are fully searchable! Update (4-12-22): As of today, Alaska, New Hampshire, and the U.S. Virgin Islands are fully searchable! 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3/30/2022 Get Ready for the 1950 Census with New Updates and FREE Cool Helps from Ancestry!Read Now Ancestry's New 1950 Census Record Updates and FREE Tools Get Ready for the 1950 Census with New Updates and FREE Cool Helps from Ancestry!Are you ready for the release of the 1950 U.S. Census in less than 2 days! I know I am! I can’t wait! Did you know that Ancestry has some cool new features/tools and updates, along with some extras to help you get ready for the census, that they just announced yesterday? These are all awesome and extremely useful to help you get ready for the census, and many are FREE! FREE Ancestry’s 1950 U.S. Census Access and Countdown Fun Page:
There are 2 ways to get to this page for members and non-members:
 Enumeration District Maps: We’ve learned a lot over the year on how to get enumeration districts for our ancestors, going the long route, but now Ancestry has made it easy for you to find the enumeration district maps to be able to find and view the 1950 Census indexes. So forget all the long tedious steps to getting that info, and get on Ancestry for the easy route! You can search by:
This feature also combines census enumeration map overlays with then and now maps to compare landmarks, roads, and others features, to see the changes since! Where will you find this Exclusive Ancestry tool? You’ll find it under your HOME page, when you first log in, under the 1950 Census district finder category.  The Explore Maps Button for 1950 Census District Finder Tool on Ancestry, on the Home Page  The Ancestry 1950 Census District Finder Tool, Explore Maps Search Bar, after Explore Maps Button is Clicked  The Ancestry 1950 Census District Finder Results, after a City and State are Searched FREE Available State Upload Notifications: Get email notifications as soon as the census is uploaded for your state! This is available for members or non-members. If you’re a non-member, then just sign up for a FREE GUEST account, then sign up to get these notifications! There are 2 ways to get to the notifications, when your state’s records are available, sign-up:
 The Ancestry 1950 Census State Records Notification Sign-up for ALL, from the 1950 Census Page  The Ancestry 1950 Census State Records Notification Sign-up for Members, from the Home Page FREE Access to the 1920, 1930 and 1940 Censuses on Ancestry: For a certain time, to help get you ready in locating your ancestors on the 1950 Census Did you know that Ancestry will have new features for the 1950 Census when it comes out? It will have a record tour similar to the one I blogged about in my post, Ancestry’s New Deep Dive Census Record Feature! It will also have contextual insights to give you a comparison between your relatives/ancestors and other people during that time to add more context and help you dive deeper into their story! They will also have a new Cross-Record Insights feature, as soon as the 1950 Census is indexed, that will compare results from other records (such as the 1940 Census, which you can learn more about in my post, The 1940 U.S. Census Record in Genealogy: Reflecting on the Great Depression), and add more historical context to help you discover what stayed the same and what changed for your ancestors/relatives from one decade to next. I can’t wait for these new features! I absolutely love anything that’s interactive; it makes learning about my ancestors more fun! To help you get even more ready for the upcoming census, don’t forget to read my informative post on The 1950 U.S. Census: A Postwar Snapshot into the Lives of Our Ancestors! To brush up on your other census record knowledge and to see what details you might have missed out on, view more posts on census records under the Genealogy Records category! Sign up for a FOREVER FREE Ancestry GUEST membership today and 2 weeks of access to ALL the U.S. Ancestry records at https://www.ancestry.com/cs/offers/freetrial, and don’t forget to cancel before 14 days so you won’t get charged! Update 3-31-2022, 6:00 PST: I just came across a fantastic and thorough tutorial for Ancestry's Enumeration District Maps, that I had touched on, from genealogist, Amy Johnson Crow! She did an absolutely great job getting this new tool down pat! I am posting the link here for everyone to be able to gain more insight into this new feature! Thanks for the video Amy! I touched on it in my blog the other day, but there was just way too much to put into one blog post! Now I don't have to, because thanks to Amy, she's got everything down pat, and all I need to do is direct you all to her tutorial! 😉 Check it out here if you want more insight into how this new feature works!: New Tool for the 1950 Census! Ancestry's New 1950 Census Map Finder Interactive Questions: Let me know what you think of these fantastic 1950 Census tools below in the comments! Are you ready for the 1950 Census release? Do you have your ancestor’s info ready? More Genealogy Resources: Find more genealogy resources to use in your research, under the Genealogy Resources category or on my Genealogy Resources page! More Genealogy Records: You can also learn more about the other U.S. Censuses and other genealogy records under the Genealogy Records category! This post is a participant in the Genealogy Blog Party! Related 1950 Census content that may be of interest:
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RootsTech 2022 Has Ended, but the Learning Has NotDid you make it to the family history and genealogy event of the year? Wow, RootsTech has certainly done it again! That was a fantastic, fun-filled 3 days! The RootsTech Connect 2022 event, hosted by FamilySearch, has come to an end, but the learning has not. Did you know that you can still access RootsTech? Not only can you access everything in your playlist for a year, the sessions/classes and Expo Hall, but they are keeping your chats available till the 12th (to copy down your info), and you can still access RootsTech Relatives for 3 weeks! So, if you want to view any of the 1,000+ RootsTech Sessions, Keynote Speakers or the Expo Hall, they are all still available, and will continue to be available! Save Your RootsTech Sessions for up to 3 Years: Did you know that you can also save the sessions/classes to your YouTube watch later list, if you think it may be easier to access your classes from YouTube as opposed to going onto the RootsTech platform again and again? Did you also know that if you save them to YouTube that you have access to most of them for 3 years? Just go to the session pin you'd like to save and click on it. From there, on the upper top right corner of the video, you'll see the watch later clock symbol, and just click it. Make sure you are logged into your YouTube account before clicking it, and once you click on it, it will be automatically added to your YouTube watch later list. :)  Save Your Sessions to YouTube to Watch for up to 3 Years! RootsTech Was a Big Hit Again: Did you know that RootsTech Connect 2021 was such a hit going virtual and FREE last year due to Covid, that they went from about 30,000 attendees the year before to 1,000,000, Amazing! I’m not sure how many attended this year, but I do know they broke last year’s record! This was the most fantastic event of the year! They really outdid themselves again with the virtual platform they designed and used starting with last year’s event! Did you know that the most time spent on planning for RootsTech last year, after realizing they needed to go virtual to make it happen due to Covid, was for the platform they were going to use? It took them 2 months checking out different platform companies, before realizing that none of them had what they needed for an event such as theirs, and determined they needed to build their own site for RootsTech! The site for RootsTech was awesome, it was beyond anything I could have imagined! When I first signed up last year, I thought it wasn't going to be that awesome virtually and would be most likely like all the other virtual experiences I had this past year, but boy was I wrong! Not only was the content what made RootsTech last year, but it was their platform that brought it all together and was striking, and made you feel like you were really part of an event! I am so, so glad they went virtual again this year and didn’t waste the platform they had designed! This definitely was the event of the year once again! RootsTech Faves: I absolutely loved everything about RootsTech, from ALL of the keynote speakers, the sessions, the new RootsTech theme song, The Connection activities, the RootsTech Relatives, the Expo Hall, to the chat and more, all of it was fantastic! All the keynote speakers were amazing, but my absolute faves, were the CEO, Steve Rockwood's keynote speech, Maysoon Zayid’s keynote speech, Molly Yeh’s keynote speech, and Azumah Nelson’s keynote speech, as those are the particular speeches and personal stories that resonated with me. My other absolute faves at RootsTech were the cultural dance and food videos/interviews that really brought connection with other cultures around the world, the Facebook Live Daily Wrap Ups with Ancestry.com's Crista Cowan, and chatting with RootsTech relatives!  I Had over 26,000 Relatives at RootsTech 2022! I really hope that they keep this platform for next year (I mean, they spent a lot of time and resources building it, and already have it, so why not?!) and decide doing both an in person event and virtual, then more people from around the world would be able to join, and they may be able to keep close to the amount of attendees they had this year! No one knows for sure that plans yet for next year, but I do know they plan on always having a virtual aspect to it! Don't forget to connect your past, present and future! Connect with your family, friends, strangers, and the world! Connection is what it's all about! If you need help getting started, use some of their suggestions and fun activities to connect with others!     RootsTech 2022 Choose Connection Bingo-Activities to Connect So, if you missed the RootsTech Connect 2022 event, you can still view all the classes for FREE! Interactive Questions: I'd love to hear your experience at RootsTech below in the comments! How many RootsTech Relatives did you have attend? Have you saved your sessions for later yet? Did you take the time to chat and do any of the connection activities? More on RootsTech and other Genealogy Events and Resources: Follow more on the RootsTech Genealogy Conference in the Genealogy Events category, along with the Genealogy Resources category and my dedicated Genealogy Resources page! You can also find other fantastic events and resources there! Related Content: Have You Registered for the World’s Largest Family History Conference Yet? RootsTech Connect 2022 Registration Open RootsTech Connect 2022: The Largest Family History Event FREE Again! ←Back to Genealogy Resources Page Have You Registered for the World’s Largest Family History Conference Yet?RootsTech, by Family Search, starts in four days! Have you registered yet? Sign up for RootsTech 2022, for FREE, now at rootstech.org for the world's largest family history and genealogy event! As of this post (2/26/22 7:30am PST), they have over 516,000 people signed up in 195 countries around the world! I’m sure it will topple over the 1,000,000 mark as they did last year! If you don’t already know, it is 100% virtual and 100% FREE! Always held in Salt Lake City, last year’s event was their first virtual conference, due to Covid, and boy, did their first virtual event churn out more than imagined, so they are doing it again! Connect with your family, learn about family and cultural traditions, learn from experts in the field with over 1,500 sessions/classes, listen to super inspiring keynote speakers (I’m anxious to see how they top last year’s speakers!), join the Expo Hall that showcases companies from around the world (they also offer freebies and discounts!), participate in activities for all (such as cooking and activities for the kiddos!), chat with experts, get 1-on-1 help, find your relatives that are also attending and chat with them, and so much more! You also get to save and access your classes for an entire year, by saving them in your RootsTech Playlist and on YouTube! Are you ready to join the world’s largest family history event in the world from the comfort of your own home and for FREE?! Connect with your family, explore your heritage, and meet your relatives out there, by signing up for this FREE March 3-5 family history event now! I hope to see you there! View Your invitation from the President of RootsTech, Steve Lockwood Here: https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/home. More on RootsTech and other Genealogy Events: Follow more on the RootsTech 2022 Genealogy Conference below and under the Genealogy Events category, along with under the Genealogy Resources category and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page! RootsTech Connect 2022 Registration Open RootsTech Connect 2022:The Largest Family History Event FREE Again! Interactive Questions: What do you think about this fantastic FREE opportunity? Are you already signed up or are going to? Let me know in the comments below. I can’t wait to see how many of you have already signed up! See you there! ←Back to Genealogy Resources Page  MyHeritage Updates their MyHeritage In Color Colorization Photo Tool for 2022 MyHeritage In Color: Updated Photo Color Restoration!So, MyHeritage is at it again; they just updated their MyHeritage In Color colorization tool once again! As always, it is a hit and miss, but if it’s a hit, then the colorization is outstanding! It took me a while to realize that if you have the same picture in your MyHeritage Photo Album already, the colorization does not work out as well, and sometimes reverts to their old version. It works much better if you delete the photo in your album first, then upload a fresh one. Also, if you colorize, then enhance a photo, the color may be different. That can also be said for photos that you colorize many times; each instance may be slightly different or have a huge difference. Tip: It works much better if you delete the photo you already have in your album first, then upload a fresh one Check out some photo comparisons from when they first rolled out in 2020, updates in 2021 and their new updates for 2022 below!
As you can see from this "Cousins" photo I enhanced and colorized in 2020 and again in 2022, the colorization/restoration is more fine tuned. In the first photo, the colorization was new and clothes ( and sometimes faces, features, etc.) were a mix of blacks and reds. In the second photo, colorized and enhanced this year, 2022, the colors are more of what they should be; it is still just a little off, but hard to tell.
Here you can see a huge difference between 2020 and 2021, and a subtle difference between 2021 and 2022.
As you can see in the comparison of these photos of my paternal great grandparents, the hues are much better in 2022. The leaves are more green, legs are not black, and the clothing doesn't have a puple hue to it.
I'm not quite sure what's going on with my 4th great grandfather, haha.  "Grandma", MyHeritage 2022 My grandmother turned out fantastic from an old paper copy that was cropped! They are letting anyone try it for FREE until the 5th of February (it started on January 24th )! Not only do you get to try it for free, but you get to try out as many as you’d like, unlike when they first rolled this out in 2020, and you only got to test 5! Try it out for FREE now at My Heritage In Color or Photo Enhancer pages! Interactive Questions: What do you think of the newly updated In Color photo colorization tool from MyHeritage? Have you tried it out yet? Let me know what you think about it, after you’ve tried it out, in the comments below! More Genealogy Resources: You can learn more about MyHeritage's photo tools and other resources below; under the Genealogy Resources category; and on my dedicated Genealogy Resources page, along with other fantastic resources you can use in your family history research! ←Back to Genealogy Resources Page Related content that may be of interest:
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