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Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Upload your DNA Data to MyHeritage and Get FREE Access to All DNA Features — Limited-time Offer!

This repost came from MyHeritage Blog dated 2/21/2021. To read the original hit here.

 Christmas came just a tad early for MyHeritage DNA users when we finally released a long-awaited enhancement to our DNA ethnicity results: Genetic Groups. This feature significantly increases the resolution of MyHeritage DNA’s ethnicity breakdown to 2,114 geographic regions. Our users have been raving about it ever since.

But many folks who have tested their DNA with other services, such as 23andMe, Ancestry, or FamilyTree DNA Family Finder, were unable to join the fun.

MyHeritage allows you to upload your DNA data from other providers and get DNA Matches for free, but a one-time unlock fee of $29 (or a Complete plan with MyHeritage) has been required to access the advanced DNA features — and that includes the Ethnicity Estimate and the new Genetic Groups.

Well, we don’t want you to feel left out just because you tested with another service! For a limited time only, between February 21–28, 2021, we are waiving the unlock fee. You can now upload your DNA data to MyHeritage and get access to your Ethnicity Estimate, Genetic Groups, and other advanced DNA tools such as the Chromosome Browser, AutoClusters, and Theory of Family Relativity™ — absolutely free! These features will remain free forever for the DNA kits you upload to MyHeritage during this week.

Upload your data to MyHeritage now

If you’ve already tested your DNA with another service, you don’t need to waste your time and money purchasing a new kit. We’re aware that people who are searching for family members — such as adopted people searching for their birth parents — want to “fish in multiple ponds” and try multiple DNA databases to find leads, and purchasing multiple DNA kits gets expensive. That’s why we offer users the option of uploading their DNA data to MyHeritage for free.

Here’s what one user, Joan Matalon, recently had to say about her experience uploading her DNA data to MyHeritage: “I uploaded my raw DNA from Ancestry to MyHeritage and in May last year I joined and it has been fabulous! I have found relatives that I never knew about! I would recommend MyHeritage to anyone who would like to learn more about their family! MyHeritage has so many features that are helping me with my research.”

If you tested your DNA with another service and haven’t uploaded it to MyHeritage yet, now’s the best time to do it! Upload your data to MyHeritage now. 

Enjoy!

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Monday, February 22, 2021

Last Call to Sign in for Free for RootsTech.

 25–27 FEBRUARY, 2021

Introducing RootsTech Connect: A Free Online Conference Experience

For the first time ever, the world’s largest family celebration event will be entirely virtual and completely free. Get ready to celebrate shared connections with people from around the world. Connect with friends, your family, your past, and your heritage and homelands—all from the comfort of your home and in your browser. To access registration hit here

Saturday, February 20, 2021

GSHA-SC Writer's Workshop February 28, 2PM PST


  It's this Sunday, February 28th at 2 p.m. Please see above for more details. Note the Writer's Workshop is the 4th Sunday of the month, unless it falls on a holiday.

Friday, February 19, 2021

American Latino Museum plans to premiere a video at 2:30 PST.


 It has been a long road, but we finally arrived! We hope you will join us to celebrate the recent passage of the National Museum of the American Latino Act with a commemorative video premiering Friday, Feb. 19 at 5:30 PM EST. (2:30 PST) -- only on Facebook!

The celebration video is narrated by actor
Tony Plana
, featuring appearances by Emmy-award-winning actor
John Leguizamo
, Grammy-award-winning entertainment mogul Emilio Estefan,
One Day At A Time
showrunner Gloria Calderon Kellett, and Peabody award-winning journalist
Mariana Atencio
. They are joined by our congressional champions
Senator Bob Menendez
(D-NJ), Senator
John Cornyn
(R-TX) and
U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas
(D-CA) along with their former colleagues from congress Will Hurd (R-TX) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL).
Don't miss this special event premiering tomorrow, FRIDAY Feb. 19th at 5:30pm EST
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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Virtual GSHA Conference planned for Aug 13-14, 2021

 It is with great disappointment that I am announcing the cancellation of the in-person conference scheduled for Aug 12-14 August 2021 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

After much discussion with the Conference Committee and the GSHA board, because of the uncertainty of the Covid 19 pandemic and the vaccination rates, we would be pushing too close to conference dates. 

It has always been the top priority of the GSHA board and Conference Committee, that the welfare and safety of our members would take precedence over any in-person gatherings. Though we were hopeful, being half full glass people, we felt it was better to be safe than sorry.

Good news, the Utah chapter has agreed to hold the 2022 GSHA Annual meeting and Conference, with full day slates. We Thank them and look forward to 2022.

Last night I met with GSHA executive board and chapter rep's and agreed to hold a virtual Annual meeting and Conference, on August 13th and 14th 2021. 

We have agreed on a format for the days, and I will be holding a GSHA Conference Committee meeting next week to work out the details. This conference committee will be the GSHA board, chapter rep's and committee chairs and we will reach out to the membership where we may need help.

We Thank you for your patience and time, I know many may be disappointed, but this pandemic will be over and we will see each other in-person in 2022. We will keep you informed of details of the virtual conference. 

Bob Craig

GSHA President 

GSHA Board and Chapter representatives


Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Over 200,000 people sign up for free online event from RootsTech Connect February 25 to 27, 2021

The world's biggest family history show will be holding its first free online event from 25 to 27 February.  First established in 1998, RootsTech is an annual family history conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah, with a European event held in London in October 2019. FamilySearch, which runs RootsTech, announced in September that the 2021 event would be free, virtual and global in response to the coronavirus pandemic At the time of writing, 205,281 people from 201 different countries have signed up to attend, with 88 per cent saying that it is their first RootsTech experience.

Genetic genealogy expert Debbie Kennett, a regular contributor to Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, will deliver a talk at RootsTech Connect. She said: “It truly is an international event. It will be a wonderful opportunity to highlight all the fantastic family history research being done around the world.”

It will be a wonderful opportunity to highlight all the fantastic family history research being done around the world. RootsTech Connect will feature a full program of talks on all aspects of family history from international experts, which will be available in multiple languages. 

Each talk is 20 minutes long, modelled on the hugely popular series of online TED Talks. The videos will be available to registrants for a year after the show. There will also be a program of keynote addresses by famous figures from around the world.  Among them is British actor Sunetra Sarker, who traced her family history on Who Do You Think You Are? in 2017 and has previously spoken at Who Do You Think You Are? Live.

The other keynote speakers announced are Indian actor, writer, director and producer Erick Avari; Uruguayan footballer Diego Lugano; US genealogist and author Sharon Morgan; Australian inspirational speaker Nick Vujicic; Mexican golf champion Lorena Ochoa; and Italian pianist and composer Francesco Lotoro.

The show will be available 24 hours a day to fit in with different time zones. There will be a virtual Expo Hall offering the chance to chat to major family history companies such as Ancestry and Findmypast as well as smaller organizations, and to enjoy free downloads and special offers.

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine will have a stall at the Expo Hall and will be available to meet readers, answer your questions about the magazine and offer a special subscriptions deal of our next six issues for just £9.99.

If you upload your family tree to the Family Tree on FamilySearch, then the RootsTech app will tell you whether you have distant family members attending the show, and there will be exclusive opportunities to communicate with other attendees through message boards, social-media interactions and video chats.

Else Churchill from the Society of Genealogists in London, who will also speak at RootsTech Connect, said: “I think it’s an amazing jolt in the arm for our community. “FamilySearch has always been innovative, and this virtual event is going to be enormous. It’s fantastic that they’re making this kind of investment.” 

To read the article hit here.


Sunday, February 14, 2021

An Iconic View: A Photographic Study of First and Central, 1880 t0 2020 -a visual history of Albuquerque.

 




On Sunday, February 21, 2021, at 2 p.m., Richard Ruddy will present “An Iconic View: A Photographic Study of First and Central, 1880 to 2020” – a visual history of Albuquerque’s First and Central using rarely seen historical photos. There will be an emphasis on the view of Central Avenue looking west from the railroad tracks beginning in 1880 when the railroad first arrived. Mixed into the visual story are accounts of businesses and people who left their mark on Albuquerque. The program will take place by live stream on the AHS Facebook page

Saturday, February 13, 2021

Tertulia Histórica Albuquerque: UnRaveling: Pancho Villa and Sam Ravel: An Encounter During the Infamous 1916 Raid on Columbus

Please join us on February 20, 2021 1 pm (PST), Live Via Zoom. To watch the event please register in advance by hitting HERE

For more than a century scholars have debated why Pancho Villa attacked the border town of Columbus, New Mexico on March 9, 1916—a deadly incursion and the only time in the 20th century that a major foreign army invaded the continental United States. For Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, the battle is the context for a family tale so spectacular that she always wondered if it was true: when Villa raided the village he was looking to kill her grandfather, Sam Ravel.

Abarbanel shares how Ravel, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, landed in Columbus and became entangled in this infamous encounter during the Mexican Revolution. Her essay about delving into this history was published in Tablet Magazine and she is now adapting the story for a documentary film titled UnRaveling.

Stacey Ravel Abarbanel works with museums and other arts/cultural organizations to amplify their messages and build audiences. From 2002–2014 she was director of external affairs for the Fowler Museum at UCLA, after ten years in arts-related publishing at Getty Publications and Architectural Digest. In addition to her consulting practice, her writings about art, culture, and history have appeared in Alta, UCLA Magazine, and other outlets.

Albuquerque is presented by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in collaboration with the Office of the New Mexico State Historian.

Friday, February 12, 2021

U.S. Intelligence Claims China Wants to Steal Your DNA

 China has been accused of stealing a lot of things from America: intellectual property, “jobs and wealth,” even our beloved role as the world’s biggest jerk. Now, U.S. national security officials warn that America’s greatest adversary wants to steal our genetic makeup, too. To read more of this article , hit here




Thursday, February 11, 2021

Celebrate Your Family Story! A free event being put on by RootsTech

 



Classes from Speakers around the Globe

Learn More

When is RootsTech Connect? RootsTech Connect will be live during 25-27 February 2021 at rootstech.org. All of the content will then be available following the live event for at least 12 months.

Why a virtual conference? That’s a great question. A few reasons, really. First, the live events industry is changing and adapting currently, and that calls for innovation. Hosting this event online is the safest and most responsible action we can take for everyone involved. Secondly, an online event means that we can truly turn this into a global celebration of family. Imagine how many people will now be able to participate in RootsTech without the barrier of travel or lodging. This is what gets me excited. We are focused on creating a true global event—meaning we’ll have content taught by presenters from all over the world, and many of the classes will be available in multiple languages. We’ll have an even greater number of companies to learn from in our virtual Expo Hall—from all over the world as well.

Is this online event replacing RootsTech in Salt Lake City 2021? Yes. This virtual conference will replace the planned in-person event that was scheduled for February 3–6, 2021, at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Is this really a free event? Yes! This event is 100 percent free. We won’t ask for a credit card number. In a few months we will have a simple registration form that you can fill out, and we might ask for your mailing address so we can send you some RootsTech swag, but the event will be freely available online. We’d ask that you share this with your friends, family, or colleagues so that we can really expand the reach of the event.

Will classes be available in different languages? Absolutely. One of our goals for this event is to have more content in more languages. We’re working on developing classes and content taught by people from around the world in a number of languages. More information will be available on the classes and speakers as the event approaches. 

Will recordings be available on demand after the live event? Yes. This event will have a combination of both livestream content and content that will be available on demand. So if you have to step away from the computer for a bit, no worries. All of the content will be available to you to enjoy on your own time.

Aside from classes and the virtual marketplace, what other things can I look forward to? RootsTech is more than just classes and the virtual marketplace. It’s about celebrating culture and heritage. Throughout the event, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in a number of other activities, such as a homeland cooking demonstration, a yoga session to get the blood flowing, and so much more!

I’m interested in teaching a class or sharing a family history cultural activity.

What should I do? If you’ve got an idea for a class session for RootsTech Connect, we’d love to talk with you. We’re currently gathering ideas and concepts for both classes and cultural experiences and demonstrations. We’re particularly interested in sessions taught in different languages. Dream big, and share with us your fun ideas. We’re looking for sessions based on the following topics:

Genealogical classes

Food and cultural demonstrations

Mind-break activities such as exercise, meditation, or yoga

Travel and world heritage


Register here:

https://www.rootstech.org/?lang=eng


Tuesday, February 9, 2021

"How to Use Your Y-700 DNA Results" GSHA Zoom Presentation Saturday, February 13th, 10 AM PST

 


Please join Tom J. Martinez when he gives his understanding of his Hispanic Genealogy through DNA. To receive the invitation, please hit here 

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Food in the Borderlands February 11, 2021 5PM PST

 

Food in the Borderlands (Including Colorado!) / Gustavo Arellano

Mexican food in the United States is popularly thought of as a static thing that is either "authentic" or "fake." But the reality is far more complex--and delicious! In this talk, Gustavo Arellano gives a talk about the history of Mexican food in the United States, with an emphasis on how Mexican food evolved in Colorado.

Arellano is a L.A. Times columnist, the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and a frequent guest on Netflix's Taco Chronicles.

To watch the podcast, you must register in advance. Please hit here 


Monday, February 1, 2021

Hispanic Research with John Schmal---February 17, 2021 6:30 PM PST




 GSHA-SC will be trying something new since we are unable to meet in public by hosting a presentation on Zoom.

John Schmal will do a presentation/question period of about 60-70 minutes on Wednesday night, Feb. 17th at 6:30 PM PST. He will give a short presentation on what is available online for those who are new to researching or for those who are unaware what is new and updated. There will be handouts available to assist you. After the presentation, he will switch over to familysearch.org on his computer and probably will assist the viewer. Please have your questions, family trees and any other pertinent information to assist John Schmal in researching by sending your documents, questions in advance to gshasocal@gmail.com and in the subheading of the email put "Questions to John Schmal Hispanic Research February 17, 2021." 

If this works out with John Schmal, we will be offering this again, possibly on a monthly basis.