Viewing figures for the top genealogy show on Wednesday nights on BBC One are holding up well, according to Media Guardian at [url]media.guardian.co.uk/overnights/story/0,,2174343,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=4[/url]. Their analysis shows that well over six million viewers tuned in for the first show with Natasha Kaplinski. The second programme, which featured John Hurt discovering that he has no Irish ancestors, was somewhat less popular with only five million viewers, possibly because he is less of a mainstream media figure. Numbers climbed again to just under six million for last week’s programme with Griff-Rhys-Jones investigating the tragic life and death of his great-grandfather. The next most popular programme attracted half the number of viewers.
To put it in context only top dramas, soap operas and major sporting events can normally command these sort of viewing figures in these days of multi-channel TV. It is little wonder that a fifth series has already been commissioned.
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At the end of The National Family History Fair in Gateshead in September someone handed the organisers a spiral bound notebook with a multi-coloured plastic front which obviously contains family research material.
They have looked in vain for contact details of the owner. However, there are some clues which may help locate him or her. There are quite a number of references to the Midlands and Birmingham Anthony Joseph Workshops and numerous notes for essays. There is a family Tree – including names Chamberlain and Chatterley; and notes from two workshops on 21 April 2007: Joan Addo – The Body in Europe and Maggie Hains Workshop.
The only reference to a contact appears on a page entitled "Masquerade". "Stevie, Gegard, Max and Henry. Jon Haliday and Lesley Mountain." If you own the notebook please contact the Fair’s organiser Robert Blatchford on 01904 332638 or email robert.blatchford@nationalfamilyhistoryfair.com.
September marks the launch of TreeX.com, a new online interface in which friends, relatives and professional genealogists can work together or alone to create family trees and keep track of family history. (PRWeb Sep 25, 2007)
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Northern Virginia-based Sozer, Niezgoda and Associates, LLC Assists Local Government in Development and Opening of a new DNA Unit for St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana Coroner’s Office. This DNA Unit will allow the Coroner’s Office to play a crucial role in solving crimes and identifying human remains (PRWeb Sep 24, 2007)
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New web-based Family Dashboard? makes exploring your family tree a lot of fun while aiding your genealogy research. Now included in all subscriptions to OneGreatFamily.com, Family Dashboard provides 18 drag-and-drop widgets designed to provide interesting information and insights into your family tree. Example widgets include Relationship Calculator, Migration Calculator, Time Capsule, Top 10 Birth and Death Countries, etc. (PRWeb Sep 19, 2007)
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Genealogists, family historians, and family associations can now use a collaborative platform to preserve genealogy and family history. (PRWeb Sep 19, 2007)
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At $ 95.00 dollars, one would not think you could get a DNA test on a Human, let alone a Horse. Thanks to the collaboration of Wall Street Detective Services and Texas A&M University, a new low-cost tool of Identification and Justice is available. (PRWeb Sep 13, 2007)
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HP’s new Blackbird 002 High-End Gaming System with Voodoo DNA, tested and burned in at HotHardware.com. (PRWeb Sep 6, 2007)
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As part of the Kew 2008 programme to improve the public facilities at Kew the public reading rooms will be closed between 1 and 16 December inclusive to allow building work to take place. In addition the readings will also be closed in late January – probably the week of 21 January. The Family Records Centre will, however, remain during both periods.
For more information visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and of course we will cover all the changes in Ancestors.
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Many of the major genealogical websites have added, or are adding, social networking facilities to enable subscribers to share information among themselves and to make connections between the records (particularly the birth, marriage and death indexes) as well as to add comments to individual records.
All this will have major implications for the hobby and how we undertake research and indeed on the nature of the records and indexes themselves. We will be including an article about these developments shortly.
In the mean time, the team from Family Relatives came to see me about a month ago to demonstrate their new site and the services it provides. I was pretty impressed – the social network component in particular was easy to use and very flexible. It could even be useful even if you are not really a family historian. And the service is free.
Subsequently I received a rather breathless press release, saying that they have "added for the first time ever a new and exciting free social network facility for families and family historians which allows for the rapid linking of people across the world. The facility enables not only experts but also amateur family historians to share common interests by enabling the sharing of local knowledge and of people.
Familyrelatives.com allows families to work together by – creating, building, connecting and sharing with other members researching the same family history. these unique features ensure that where different members are researching the same information it matches them and allows them to share their information. This covers in excess of 600 million records and additional names can be added through an easy to use interface.
Add a comment to the records – if you knew the person or are related? For anyone whose Birth, Marriage or Death took place in the last 20 years you can add a comment and on many millions of other records too."
Why not visit http://www.familyrelatives.com and see for yourself.
