Monthly Meeting – June 4, 2020 – “Genealogy and Local History at the Library” by Jennifer Smith via Zoom

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Your local public library is a treasure-trove of resources for the genealogist, especially if you have family roots in Monterey County. Jennifer will describe Monterey County Free Libraries’ databases and services for the genealogist, and focus on less familiar resources for local history and biography. MCFL’s archives and local history collections include a wide variety of documents, letters, images, maps, and secondary sources that document communities, families, schools, homes and histories throughout the County. Finding aids include biographical and subject indexes, lists and inventories. The Library partners with other libraries, historical societies, museums, parks, and archives to maintain a Monterey County Local History Directory to help you find similar resources in more than forty local institutions.

Jennifer Smith is Local History and Special Projects Librarian at the Monterey County Free Libraries. She holds a BA in International Development from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. In 1997, Jennifer completed the Society of California Archivists’ Western Archives Institute training. She has over 24 years’ experience in libraries and archives including the Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University, Stockton-San Joaquin County Library, and Santa Cruz Public Libraries. In 2010, Jennifer began developing Monterey County Free Libraries’ Local History Digital Archive while serving as Branch Manager at Carmel Valley Branch Library. She enjoys doing historical research and works to preserve, provide access to, and promote MCFL’s archival and local history collections

The Zoom meeting will start at 7:00 pm sharp. For security reasons, the meeting will be by invitation only.  If you are not a member and wish to attend, send an email with your email address to our Membership VP, Marilyn Ruccello .

If you are not familiar with Zoom, click here.

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Genetic Genealogist CeCe Moore Stars in New ABC Series, ‘The Genetic Detective’

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Starting Tuesday, May 19, the renowned investigative genetic genealogist will show viewers exactly how she solves decades-old murder cases on ABC News’ new primetime series, The Genetic Detective.

Airing on Tuesdays from 10 to 11 p.m. ET, the series follows Moore, the Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon NanoLabs in Virginia, and her team, who’ve helped solve more than 100 cold cases using crime scene DNA, state-of-the-art technology and Moore’s genealogy tracking skills.

Her passion began as a hobby when she started researching her own family tree. She honed her skills over the years by helping adoptees find their birth families. Sound like anyone you know? I know my DVR will be recording this one!

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Triangulating Your DNA Matches with Roberta Estes – FREE – MyHeritage Facebook LIVE

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Roberta Estes of the blog DNAeXplained just announced that she will be giving a free presentation, with Q&A, about triangulating your DNA matches at MyHeritage on Facebook Live tomorrow April 27 at 11 am PDT.  This presentation should make some of the principles surrounding triangulation easier to understand.  (See previous post here).

  • What is triangulation?
  • Why do I need to triangulate?
  • Why does triangulation work?
  • How do I triangulate?
  • How do I find matches to triangulate?
  • How does triangulation confirm ancestors?
  • How can I use triangulation in my genealogy?
  • Am I using all the tools to find triangulated matches?

If you’d like to learn more about any of those questions,  join her tomorrow at 11 AM PDT on the MyHeritage Facebook page.

https://dna-explained.com/2020/04/26/top-tips-for-triangulating-your-dna-matches-with-roberta-estes-free-myheritage-facebook-live-april-27th/

 

Great post at DNAeXplained

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Just sittin’ around, trying to add more cousins to the family trees of my wife and self. The easy fruit was picked last year, now it is slow and well, the truth is, you see, I sometimes try to prepare things to talk about in the next DNA Discussions group using my own searching as the backdrop. Trying to explain it to someone else somehow makes it easier. I said “somehow”, it really isn’t easier.

Now then, I don’t really believe in esp nor mind reading nor any of that sort. I did pay money to see Uri Geller bend spoons once, but those days are over. But today perhaps I will revisit the idea that clairvoyance or premonitions actually do exist. For you see, Roberta Estes just wrote a wonderful blog post about the very things I was trying to teach myself these past few weeks! She did a much better job than I could ever do. In fact, I might print her current posting and study it hard! I might be able to actually find that missing father in our family!

The latest post on the blog DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy is all about Chromosome Browsers, Triangulation, and the like with real examples and comparisons of the different companies and links to almost all kinds of genetic sleuthing.

CLICK HERE for DNAeXplained

If you are serious about using your DNA test results to find out more about your relatives, then you really need to visit the above linked post. We might even have a quiz about it at the next DNA Discussions group! 🙂

We (DNA Discussions) are looking for volunteers to present about things you recently discovered.  If interested, send an email to jim.mocogenso@gmail.com.

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Change your Zoom account password

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Normally this topic wouldn’t be posted here. But because I suggested about using Zoom here a few weeks ago, I feel I should bring it up.

Zoom account passwords have been hacked and are being distributed on the dark web. You can Google it to find out about it. Check the Forbes sites for a good article.

Don’t panic though, the solution is simple => just sign onto ZOOM.US and change your password! Changing your password will not affect any scheduled meetings nor any of your other settings. It is easy to do: on the main page, scroll towards the bottom, find the Password line and click Edit.

If you do not actually have an account, but have just been joining meetings, there is nothing to change!

This is a good time to remind people that it is not a good idea to use the same password everywhere!  🙂