Thursday, July 18, 2024

MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA partnership announcement

 

MyHeritage Announcement

 

FamilyTreeDNA has been a valued partner and friend of MyHeritage for well over a decade.

 

I’m delighted to announce the launch of a new collaboration between the two companies. This collaboration, which includes integration between the MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA websites, enables FamilyTreeDNA customers to transfer their family trees to MyHeritage, and to continue building them on MyHeritage. FamilyTreeDNA users can now easily transfer their family trees to MyHeritage for free, after providing consent on both FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage.

FamilyTreeDNA

This collaboration expands the two companies’ longstanding partnership, and will provide FamilyTreeDNA customers with access to MyHeritage’s robust suite of genealogy tools and features, many of which are not available on FamilyTreeDNA.

 

This strategic decision allows FamilyTreeDNA to focus on its expertise in DNA testing services and reporting, while providing its users with access to the powerful family tree tools and technologies offered by MyHeritage.

 

To facilitate this collaboration, MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA have developed a technical integration that now enables FamilyTreeDNA users to seamlessly transfer their family tree data to MyHeritage. This process is voluntary; however, transferring the tree data to MyHeritage is encouraged, as FamilyTreeDNA will officially sunset their family tree builder on September 9, 2024. At that point, all family trees on FamilyTreeDNA will become read-only. It will still be possible to transfer trees from FamilyTreeDNA to MyHeritage after this date, but this functionality may not be available forever, so the sooner the transfer is done, the better. Access to DNA results on FamilyTreeDNA will remain unchanged.

 

For more details about the integration, read the blog post. Please help spread the word about this exciting new collaboration!

 

Daniel Horowitz

Genealogy Expert

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami Donates Library Collection to Genealogy Department of the Main Miami-Dade Library


 JGSGM LIBRARY COLLECTION DONATED TO THE GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE MAIN MIAMI-DADE LIBRARY

JGSGM MEMBERS DONATED THEIR PRIVATE JEWISH GENEALOGY BOOK COLLECTION TO THE GENEALOGY DEPARTMENT OF THE MIAMI-DADE LIBRARY

The library address is:
 101 West Flagler Street Miami, FL 33130
Phone number - 305-375-2665



Our extensive Jewish genealogical book collection will soon be available to all genealogy researchers. Our society book collection as well as books from JGSGM members will be shelved in a section of the genealogy department of the main library and named in honor of our JGSGM librarian, Marcia Finkel z"l.

The collection was boxed by staff at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation with the assistance of their coordinator, Joann Raucci.
The books were delivered to the main library by Paulette Bronstein with the assistance of two JGSGM junior members.

If you would like to donate your books to the Genealogy Department of the Main Miami-Dade Library, contact Paulette Bronstein at