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Historians Discover Medieval Banking Records Hidden Under Coats Of Arms
PICS2GO Turns Your iPhone into a Scanner
National Geographic and Family Tree DNA Announce Geno 2.0
Announcing a Global Alliance Of Genealogy Professionals
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Historians Discover Medieval Banking Records Hidden Under Coats Of Arms

Records are wherever you find them. In 1480, good quality paper was scarce and anything that was available was re-used. The London College of Arms, headquarters of British heraldry, recently discovered papers from a book of debtors and creditors for Florentine merchant-banking company, Domenicio Villani & Partners. The banking records, only half-covered by the design, date from 1422-24 and hint at the extensive trade in wool and other commodities produced in Britain during the era. The paper...

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PICS2GO Turns Your iPhone into a Scanner

This looks like a nifty gadget for the genealogist as well as for many other uses. The iPICS2GO is a new device from ION Audio that literally turns your iPhone into a photo, slide and negative scanner.

The box-shaped iPICS2GO is a digital photo booth that requires an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S to work. Owners of either of these Apple devices are required to place their smartphone into the slot at the top of the scanner. The image that needs to be scanned is placed onto a photo tray and slid into...

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National Geographic and Family Tree DNA Announce Geno 2.0

This looks like a major announcement for genealogy research with DNA: National Geographic is entering the next phase of their Genographic Project in partnership with Family Tree DNA and the genetic genealogy community. Continuing to move toward their goal of mapping the pattern of human genetics, the two organizations are introducing the new GenoChip 2.0.

This chip is specifically designed for ancestry testing and includes SNPs from autosomal DNA, X-DNA, Y-DNA and mtDNA. The design of the...

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Announcing a Global Alliance Of Genealogy Professionals

I received the following announcement from a new organization called "Global Alliance of Genealogy Professionals:"

Seeking to Fill the Void Left by ExpertConnect

Ancestry.com's "ExpertConnect" program made it easy for genealogical consumers to find, compare and retain the services of professional researchers. The newly formed Global Alliance of Genealogy Professionals seeks to fill the void created when ExpertConnect was discontinued in 2011.