RootsTech Connect 2022 Update February 28, 2022

 

Many of the genealogical websites and program developers will be making announcements during the week of February 28th to March 5th. I will be posting a daily update of any that I run across or are sent to me. I get a lot of email and a few personal calls. Here is the first list of announcements for Monday, February 28th. 

MyHeritage.com has just added 269 million family tree profile records from Filae to MyHeritage.  If you have French roots, you will almost certainly find some family members in this collection. This addition comes alongside the 8 million other historical records we added from France and Norway since the beginning of 2022. See the blog post entitled, "New Historical Records Added in January and February."

This is just the start, here is an announcement from Ancestry.com. 

Use the new Ancestry Stories feature on the Ancestry mobile app to combine photographs, saved historical records, and text to craft a story about any ancestor or relative in your family tree. You can then easily save that story to your tree and share it with family and friends. Doing this could even connect you to family members who might have additional information or photos you would never have found otherwise.

More about Ancestry later. 

Here is another announcement about MyHeritage.com 

MyHeritage will be running a special offer for uploading DNA kits to MyHeritage. From tomorrow, March 1–8, 2022, people who have taken a DNA test with other services will be able to upload their DNA to MyHeritage and enjoy all our advanced DNA features for free — including Ethnicity Estimates, Chromosome Browser, Theory of Family Relativity™️, and more. If you tested with another DNA service and haven’t uploaded your DNA to MyHeritage yet, there’s never been a better time! Visit myheritage.com/dna/upload to get started.

I expect some more announcement. Oh, the Relatives at RootsTech feature is up and running. As of February 28th, I have 26,737 relatives who have registered for the conference out of a total of 516,055 total registrants.