Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Family History Monthly May 2010
The May 2010 issue of Family History Monthly is now on sale in newsagents in the UK. The issue includes a beginner's guide to palaeography (the art of deciphering old handwriting) as well as a timely look at the ancestry of David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party and potentially the next Prime Minister of Great Britain. I've written a review of the Geni.com. In the last week, Geni have announced a few updates to their website including a few fixes for some of the issues I raised in the article. The promised facility to include sources has now been added. Dates can now be set to display in the usual English order with the day followed by the month. There are also a number of other enhancements. Full details can be found on the Geni blog. Further details of the contents of the May issue can be found on the Family History Monthly website.
Princess Maria Sviatopolk-Mirski at WDYTYA
I wrote back in March about "Who do you think you are? Live" and my meeting with Princess Maria Sviatopolk-Mirski. Princess Maria has shared some of her photographs with me and very kindly given me permission to publish them here. The first photograph shows Princess Maria on the Your Family Tree stand with the writer Anthony Adolph.
After receiving encouragement from Anthony Adolph Princess Maria visited the Family Tree DNA stand and provided DNA samples for a mitochondrial DNA test. Her DNA results have just come in and are very interesting. I will write about her DNA results in a separate post.
Afterwards Princess Maria posed to have her photograph taken with Bennett Greenspan, the President and CEO of Family Tree DNA.
A company called Overground Online, who describe themselves as "an alternative British news and culture website", were at this year's WDYTYA and filmed interviews with some of the stallholders and attendees. Princess Maria was one of the people selected to be interviewed. The picture below shows her with the film crew.
The full video can be seen online below. The other interviewees include Max Blankfeld, Family Tree DNA's Vice-President of Operations and Marketing, and Penny Law, the Editor of Family History Monthly.
© Debbie Kennett 2010
After receiving encouragement from Anthony Adolph Princess Maria visited the Family Tree DNA stand and provided DNA samples for a mitochondrial DNA test. Her DNA results have just come in and are very interesting. I will write about her DNA results in a separate post.
Afterwards Princess Maria posed to have her photograph taken with Bennett Greenspan, the President and CEO of Family Tree DNA.
A company called Overground Online, who describe themselves as "an alternative British news and culture website", were at this year's WDYTYA and filmed interviews with some of the stallholders and attendees. Princess Maria was one of the people selected to be interviewed. The picture below shows her with the film crew.
The full video can be seen online below. The other interviewees include Max Blankfeld, Family Tree DNA's Vice-President of Operations and Marketing, and Penny Law, the Editor of Family History Monthly.© Debbie Kennett 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
Cruwys/Cruse ONS in Ancestry magazine
The Cruwys/Cruse one-name study was recently featured in an article on social networking by Howard Wolinsky entitled "Electric Connections" in the January/February 2010 issue of the American magazine Ancestry. The article is now available online and can be found here. I was rather hoping that the article might lead to a few enquiries from American researchers but to date I have not had any new contacts.
Sadly Ancestry magazine ceased publication with the March/April 2010 issue. Some of the articles can however still be found online on the Ancestry website. In addition a complete archive of all the issues from the last sixteen years is now available online free of charge courtesy of Google Books. The archive can be found here.
Sadly Ancestry magazine ceased publication with the March/April 2010 issue. Some of the articles can however still be found online on the Ancestry website. In addition a complete archive of all the issues from the last sixteen years is now available online free of charge courtesy of Google Books. The archive can be found here.
Sunday, 4 April 2010
Surname distribution maps on Dynastree
I've been having fun playing with the surname mapping function on the German-based website Dynastree. The website generates distribution maps based on telephone directory entries for the following countries: UK, USA, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Poland and Argentina. The total number of phone book entries in each country is given along with an estimate of the total number of people with that name living in each country. I initially had trouble using the website with the Google Chrome browser, but eventually managed to get it to work by loading it in Internet Explorer and enabling pop-ups for the site.
The following are the statistics generated for the surnames Crews, Cruise, Cruse and Cruwys. If you click on the surname you will be taken to the relevant distribution map.
- In the UK there are 124 phone book entries with the surname Crews and approximately 540 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 167 phone book entries with the surname Cruise and approximately 727 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 350 phone book entries with the surname Cruse and approximately 1,524 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 25 phone book entries with the surname Cruwys and approximately 108 persons with this name.
It was announced back in February that OSN, the parent company of Dynastree, had been bought by My Heritage.com and that the two sites would be merged. It would appear that in due course the surname mapping function will be migrated to the MyHeritage website.
The following are the statistics generated for the surnames Crews, Cruise, Cruse and Cruwys. If you click on the surname you will be taken to the relevant distribution map.
- In the UK there are 124 phone book entries with the surname Crews and approximately 540 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 167 phone book entries with the surname Cruise and approximately 727 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 350 phone book entries with the surname Cruse and approximately 1,524 persons with this name.
- In the UK there are 25 phone book entries with the surname Cruwys and approximately 108 persons with this name.
It was announced back in February that OSN, the parent company of Dynastree, had been bought by My Heritage.com and that the two sites would be merged. It would appear that in due course the surname mapping function will be migrated to the MyHeritage website.
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