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Below, you will find some of the latest news headlines on genealogy and family history from around the web. It includes some articles specific to South Carolina Genealogy, although most are more generalized.

South Carolina Genealogy Headlines – From Google
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Genealogical Society tracing Iredell roots from new home in library – Statesville Record Landmark

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National president to attend conference of SC Society Colonial Dames XVII Century – Columbia Star

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Exhibitions from a birthday to the Boss – Philadelphia Inquirer

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Norman M. Spiva – Neosho Daily News

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City maps aid in search for marker Tom Mooney Out on a Limb – Wilkes Barre Times-Leader

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Samuel Johnsons odyssey ended in tragedy (Sampling History) – Mississippi Press (blog)

family history – Google News

Family history links teams at Hesston – Newton Kansan

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High Alcohol Intake, Family History Impact Colon CA Risk – Doctors Lounge

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Mike Jacobs traces family history to year 1500 – Todays TMJ4

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Family history firm Brightsolid launches in US – BBC News

Patrick Marshall: Storing digital family history – The Seattle Times

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Learn how to research family history – Fremont News Messenger

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Genealogy News Center

Ancestry.com to Acquire iArchives Footnote.com

Ancestry.com to Acquire Professional Genealogy Firm ProGenealogists, Inc.

JewishGen and MyHeritage.com collaborate to build the Family Tree of the Jewish People

Ancestry.com to Acquire Sweden’s Genline.se

Skytop Lodge Family Reunion 2010 Contest

genealogy – Google News

Genealogy is a growing part of the reality TV trend – Tbo.com

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Genealogy: FamilySearch indexes all U.S. censuses, will add 1940 quickly after … – Salt Lake Tribune

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Pay-as-you-go UK company entering US genealogy market – StandardNet

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Who Do You Think You Are: Lisa Kudrow Talks Genealogy On The Today Show – Huffington Post

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Ancestry execs say mobile, social are the future of genealogy – Deseret News

Mocavo Unveils New Products and Genealogy Content at RootsTech – MarketWatch (press release)

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Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter

RootsTech 2012 Day #2 with Pictures

RootsTech continued today with events and presentations similar to the first day. The day started with an informal keynote speech by Josh Coates, CEO of Instructure, an education-focused software company. Mr Coates also is the founder of Mozy. He also has a long list of impressive technological and entrepreneurial accomplishments, including Utah Entrepreneur of the Year, vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneur, and one of MIT Technology Review’s Top 100 Young Innovators. He spoke on Exabyte Social Clouds and other Monstrosities. Indeed, Josh Coates’ presentation was very informal. And just how informal was it? I have attended dozens of conferences…

RootsTech Announces Winners of the Developer Challenge

The following announcement was written by the RootsTech organizers: Congratulations to the winners of the of the RootsTech Developer Challenge. First Place: Jimmy Zimmerman, NoteFuser NoteFuser connects your Evernote® notes to Geni.com or new.FamilySearch.org person records. It also allows you to easily create Evernote® powered research logs and other notes with one click. Make sure you watch the NoteFuser Demo video on the homepage http://notefuser.herokuapp.com. Second Place: Brooke Schreier Ganz, LeafSeek LeafSeek helps you turn your genealogical or historical record collections into searchable online databases. LeafSeek includes features such as built-in geo-spatial searches, pop-up Google Maps, Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching, name…

MagiCensus Ready for 1940 Census

The following announcement was written by The MagiKey, LLC: Salt Lake City, February 3, 2012- The MagiKey, LLC proudly announces that the 1940 U.S. Census extraction forms are available in its new release of MagiCensus Deluxe (version 3.1). In the last year MagiCensus has more than doubled the number of census extraction forms available, and now includes over 110 census forms across 10 countries. This makes it the largest collection of census extraction forms available for genealogy researchers. In honor of this milestone The MagiKey, LLC is offering conference specials for their first non-beta product, MagiCensus Deluxe, and their online…

Funium LLC launches Family Village Premier

The following announcement was written by Funium LLC: February 3, 2012 Funium LLC, of Lehi, Utah announces the launch of Family Village Premier on Facebook. The social media game is oriented toward helping people have fun building their family tree and help them discover interesting documents and information concerning their ancestors and family members using Facebook. In the Alpha version of the game launched last September the game grew to 92,000 users. With input from the players and with help from former Disney executives the game has a wonderful fun game flow and interesting quests that will draw the whole…

RootsTech 2012 Day #1

The RootsTech conference kicked off this morning in Salt Lake City with more than 4,100 attendees. No, that number is not a misprint. More than four thousand one hundred genealogists pre-registered. However, when I walked past the registration desk in mid-morning, I saw a long line of people waiting to purchase tickets at the door. Unofficially, I was told that the number of attendees had risen to more than 4,400 by late afternoon. That number certainly will rise further during the next two days of the conference. RootsTech is now by far the most popular genealogy conference in North America….

Pictures from RootsTech 2012 Day #1

Here are a few of the pictures I took today. You can click on any image to see a larger picture: Think this room looked crowded? it has 3,000 to 4,000 seats and was the scene of today’s keynote speech. The Mini Lab was available to all conference attendees. Anyone could take several software programs for a test drive, check email, visit web sites, or perform other computer tasks. I had to laugh when I saw the Unconferencing Sign-Up Board. It is probably the most low-tech device seen at this conference about high technology. However, it worked well. brightsolid had…

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