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AncestorEbooks Talks on NGS L V Family History Conf and the New Technology for Genealogy ResearchPosted by admin on May 15th, 2013

(PRWEB) May 11, 2013

AncestorEbooks is talking about the National Geographic Society Family History Conference being held in Las Vegas, packed with events for the avid genealogist. The theme for this week’s conference is Building Bridges. Day one included talks on researching family lines, the Mariachi performance at J.D. Smith Middle School, and question and answer sessions.

Day two included 45 different lectures from the top speakers in Genealogy. [conference.ngsgenealogy.org]

Last night the NGS Conference was captivated by Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Kleins powerful message of hope and humanity followed by a book signing for her memoirs called One Survivor Remembers. [paper.li/ngsgenealogy]

For Conference attendees AncestorEbooks suggests making use of the following technology to learn, blog, tweet, and share with clients:

Try the iPad app, Snapguide, a free application for iPhone/iPad users. This app provides a simple easy way of creating 60 second videos and sharing with Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, or emailing to a client. Full control on all media profile settings such as Email and Push Notifications turning on or off Likes, Followers.

Snapguide is basically an app that creates a framework for discovering, sharing, and even creating how-to guides. [MacNewsWorld.com 1 January 2013]

iTranslate Voice for iPhones provides translation in 15+ languages. Tap a language then record what is needing translated, App automatically starts translating when speaker stops, then translation is spoken aloud and shown in text on screen in the selected language. A great addition to the Free Online Google Translate tool. [translate.google.com]

M-DISC by Millenniata, Inc. a global data storage company, created a permanent data backup disc that lasts 1000 years. Since CDs and other digital storage systems begin degrading within 5 years, states AncestorEbooks.

M-DISC is designed to last for up to 1,000 years, which means once written, your documents, data, medical records, photos, and more can be read forever.

Stay connected to the Adobe Creative Cloud [try it at creative.adobe.com/] Genealogists can use the products from the Adobe Creative Suite CS6 Extended for a low monthly fee. These products include Photoshop, for photos taken live, and Illustrator, which can move drag, paste layers into montages for sharing.

Remember AncestorEbooks is the first and only Ebook creation website where the family tree gedcom is central to the creative process, where the customer uploads their gedcom from Ancestry.com after removing duplications and unnecessary data. The website creates one page for every person in the gedcom file and up to 6 generations back in time and 2 generations forward are displayed in a horizontal family tree with pop-up Tree-lets which show each persons spouses and children.

AncestorEbooks follower, Caroline Pointer and leading Genealogy Researcher, Blogger and Columnist for In2Genealogy and Whats up Genealogy gave an interview of Day 1 of the NGS Conference along Denise Levenick. [Blogs on The Family Curator, thefamilycurator.com] Watch video here.

Additional Technology for Genealogists so far in 2013 are:

The Voice recorder HD 6.2 App from eFusion [eapps.pro/app/voice-recorder-hd-full-featured-iphone-ipad-recorder] a high quality recorder which is the #1 downloaded voice recording App, received a new version that has recording memory for 21+ hours long and uploading audio files to SoundCloud, Dropbox and sync through iCloud.

The LiveHistory iPad App [livehistoryapp.com] for logging data into a family history gedcom file, works without a network connection, and has a Gedcom import from email, a View-Date for browsing through time with a Time-Slider, with a continuous Ancestry/Descendants scrolling and Freely selectable Ancestry/Descendants scrolling. It has smart data entry for saving places, homes and addresses.

Also, the PhotoCircle App [.appcraver.com/photocircle] which allows pictures to be shared on Facebook and Twitter to a select group of people instead of friends, acquaintances, and public.

AncestorEbooks concludes with a reminder to watch their Twitter page [@AncestorEbooks] for continuing updates on the NGS Conference and New Technology helps for genealogists.

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AncestorEbooks applauds Human DNA Research for changing Genealogy ResearchPosted by admin on April 10th, 2013

(PRWEB) April 09, 2013

According to Lisa Black of the Chicago Tribune News, Genetic testing for genealogists has gone mainstream… (P-5) Ancestry.com and FamilyTree.com both have DNA testing companies though their online websites, and the costs for these tests have been reduced since 2001 until simple Y-DNA12 Male testing at FamilyTreeDNA is only $ 49.

With the affordability of DNA tests, they are being used for more than health purposes such as checking for trends of cancer. Tests for inheritance purposes, whether you are related to American Pioneers or your favorite hero are available, however the most common uses are still for Paternity cases and Criminal Investigations (CSI), concludes AncestorEbooks.

The FamilyTreeDNA company has combined tests such as the Family Finder + mtFullSequence for discovering family lines up to 6 generations back. Such testing removes much of the guesswork out of Genealogy research and provides hope for finding family lines that was nearly impossible before.

The Adoption or Indenture of children from The Children’s Aid Society and New York Foundling Hospital was common between 1853 and 1929 when more than 250,000 children rode the Orphan Trains and were fostered out to families all across the midwest. 30,000 children came from the streets of New York City, usually from emigrants, living hand to mouth after the loss of their parents due to epidemics and the terrible results of poverty, alcohol and drug addictions.

DNA testing results will help pinpoint family surnames and lines where the spelling or even the name itself was changed upon emigrating to America due to illiteracy, spelling and/or pronouncement errors. Whatever the Genealogy roadblock, states AncestorEbooks, it is very possible that DNA testing will remove those stone walls and open up the floodgates of information.