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In this week’s roundup, roots tourism continues to grow worldwide, a genealogy company faces financial challenges, AI helps reconnect a long-lost family, and more! megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-ro...

Some of us have been doing it for decades, but roots travel truly is a global phenomenon now. #Genealogy Japanese descendants drive rise in roots tourism japantoday.com/category/nat...

Hurrah! You can now edit the description field when you add a record to an Ancestry tree. It makes the process much more streamlined - you no longer have to add the event and then go into the profile to make your notes. 👍 Double thumbs up 👍 #Genealogy #FamilyHistory

#FridayFreebie #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #PayItForward I'll be at my #FamilySearch Affiliate Library for the next several hours if any genie needs a limited-access record copy. #SpreadTheWord #Genearosity

What’s in a name? What meanings or information do they encode? An investigation inspired by Anna Burns’ fabulous novel Milkman and using the Irish National census of 1911 as my tool. Enjoy! #BookSky #Speirgorm

Welcome home, CPL Robert Clark Pierce. Honored to have researched your family (2017). Closest relatives were 1C1R! #Hero #WWII #forensicgenealogy

The July issue of Scottish Maps Forum twice yearly newsletter Cairt is newly out from the National Library of Scotland. I got my copy in the post the other day, but it's also available in PDF format online. Well worth a read for anyone interested in Scottish history and/or maps. maps.nls.uk/cairt/

Last chance! Offering RootsoftheFamous.com domain in exchange for donation to @reclaimtherecords.org. Pls let me know if interested. Shares welcome. Trying to keep URLs in the #genealogy family!

From America to Israel and Back Again #genealogy megansmolenyak.com/from-america...

Interesting talk that argues that the future of genetic genealogy lies in using computer algorithms and AI to recognise patterns in huge DNA match networks. youtu.be/YItpdiIbjvI?...