Mark Tucker is a software architect by day and a family historian on as many nights and weekends as possible.
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The Og Blog at Root Television has showcased both of the first two videos created by ThinkGenealogy on its weekly New Roots Tuesday post.
We are having fun coming up with other ideas that we want to share in video.
Are You Smarter than a Grade School Genealogist?
Episode 1 - Introduction to DNA
Match your genealogy knowledge against a grade schooler to determine: Are You Smarter than a Grade School Genealogist? In this episode, Nathan, a 4th grader from Arizona introduces DNA for the genealogist.
Connect with friends, connect with family, connect with those that match your DNA? The social networking site launched in beta today by the Sorenson family of companies called GeneTree promises to better help people answer the questions “Who am I?” and “Where do I come from?”.
A number of Sorenson companies (Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Sorenson Media, Sorenson Genomics) have joined forces with a vision described in their motto and overall goal:
Motto: You Belong Here
Goal: To be able to take any two people in the world, sit them down and tell them exactly how they’re related.
The press release uses phrases such as “deep ancestral histories” and “human genetic heritage” as it describes how this social networking site is different from other family history networking sites:
GeneTree will tie into the SMGF database that currently contains information on more than 6 million ancestors through linked genetic and pedigree data from approximately 90 percent of the world’s countries.
Registering for the beta site is open to all and is completed in a few minutes. The site allows you to manage your profile, upload media, create a family tree, connect with friends, and keep a DNA profile.
The following image shows the Flash-based Family Tree Builder:
It will be exciting to see how this site evolves and is accepted by the genealogy community.
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