This is a quick notice to let you know there may not be as many articles as normal posted in this newsletter in the next few days. If you have been reading this newsletter for some time, you already know that I often travel to genealogy conferences. This time, I will attend The Family History Show in London, England, this Saturday. I hope to write about the conference events that I see and attend.

Dette er et gjesteinnlegg om en ukjent far, fortalt av Christina Sagersten, DNA-ekspert og en av Sveriges ledende genetiske slektsforskere. Hun er grunnlegger av Christina Sagersten Finding Family. Christina er en anerkjent foreleser og kommer til Norge for å forelese ved vår MyHeritage LIVE bruker-konferanse i Oslo. Som slektsforsker er nok ordene ”ukjent far” – eller ”ukjent mor” for den saks skyld – noe av det mest spennende man kan komme over.

There is an article by Marc Daalder in the Detroit Free Press that will interest genealogists. It starts:

“Ancestry.com, the website better known for helping users create family trees, find distant family members and capture suspected serial killers, made a lot of customers angry last week.

“Recently, Ancestry has entered the business of DNA testing, which allows users to send a vial of spit to the company and receive in return a detailed genetic portfolio, including risk for some diseases and estimates of their ethnic ancestry.

NOTE:This article has nothing to do with genealogy. If you are looking for genealogy-related articles, you might want to skip this one. However, if you would like to learn of a cheap and very secure method of storing data in the cloud for backup purposes, this article may be of interest to you.

Wasabi is a brand-new cloud storage service. The company is so new that not all the planned “bells and whistles” are yet available.

National Archives of Ireland, DublinPreparatory work for the major redevelopment of the National Archives of Ireland (NAI) is about to commence. This project, which is funded by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht under Project Ireland 2040, will see the development of new purpose built storage facilities at the NAI's premises in Bishop Street, Dublin 8.

The warehouse* which has been used as an interim storage facility must be emptied to facilitate enabling and construction works for the development of new archival storage vaults.