April 12th CVGS Research Group Review

The April 12th CVGS Research Group at the Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library Auditorium had 14 attendees, including one guest.

In the first hour, Randy discussed:

*  www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com is celebrating their 500th webinar, and is free for everyone over the April 15 weekend.

*  Family Tree Maker 2017 was supposed to be released 31 March but has not been released yet because of issues with synchronizing with Ancestry.com efficiently.  See latest news at  https://support.mackiev.com/498640-RELEASE-OF-FTM-2017.

*  The RootsMagic 7 update is scheduled for the end of April.  This update will include TreeShare, which will permit sync with an Ancestry Member Tree one person and/or one event at a time - not the entire database.  

*  AncestryDNA released their new Genetic Communities feature.

*  FamilyTreeDNA improved their myOrigins autosomal DNA ethnicity estimate.  

*  Randy was interviewed by Scott Fisher in episode 184 of Extreme Genes (www.extremegenes.com).

In the second hour, the attendees discussed:

*  Gary demonstrated the updated CVGS website at www.cvgenealogy.org. 

*  Karen Y.'s mother went to Maryland in the 1980s and copied records at the Dorchester Historical Society.  Karen is reviewing these records and is finding some goodies.

*  Arlene is filling out a 12-generation pedigree chart for her latest great-grandchild.

*  Bobbie has a England ancestry on her mother's grandfather's side that she is researching.

*  Susi is helping Virginia with several wills found for the Dunlap family in Pennsylvania.

*  John received an AncestryDNA match with a 6th cousin who has an error in his line.  John shared his evidence of the correct marriage record from Sussex County, New Jersey.

*  Judy did research 6 to 8 years ago, and is returning to it in order to attend a family reunion.  Descendants of two brothers have tested autosomal DNA and have different ethnicities.

*  Helen shared a descendants chart from her husband's Strickland line and her own Mallory line that indicates they have common ancestry back in the 1300 CE time frame.  

*  Gary worked a bit on his Brock line in Lenawee County, Michigan.  He found seven brothers all worked on the railroad.  The ancestry is from somerset in England.

*  Karen S had a cousin killed during World War II three days before Karen was born.  She was contacted for a picture of her cousin by a woman from the Netherlands who is tending American graves in the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten.  

*  Linda took a research trip to Mexico.  In Durango, the church office was not helpful and she was unable to obtain records.  In Zacatecas, the church office was very helpful, with a designated person to handle the record books, and Linda received several records there.

The next meeting of the CVGS Research Group will be Wednesday, 10 May 2017 at 12 noon in the Conference Room at the Chula Vista Civic Center Branch Library.