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What's New? Gary Mokotoff, Editor Volume 17, Number 38 | September 25, 2016 Every
government puts value on preserving its history. That is why we have
national archives. Genealogy preserves history; the history of a
family. It cannot be done without access to records, just as historians
cannot preserve a nation's history without access to records. It is a
greater good than the right to privacy. It is a greater good than the
risk of identity theft.
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MyHeritage Halfway to Digitizing Every Cemetery in Israel  MyHeritage
has announced that they have completed 50% of their goal to digitize
every cemetery in Israel. It would make Israel the first country in the
world to have all of its gravestones preserved online and searchable.
To date, they have taken approximately 1.3 million photos and are
adding 5,000 photos every day. They hope to complete the project by the
end of 2017. The company stated they are making all of this data
available on MyHeritage.com at no charge.In 2014, the company launched a global initiative with BillionGraves to digitally preserve the world’s cemeteries. When photographing and documenting gravestones using the BillionGraves mobile application, the precise GPS coordinates of every gravestone are preserved. This makes it easy for others to locate and visit graves of family members and also allows volunteers to see which areas of a cemetery have already been photographed, avoiding duplication and maximizing productivity. The announcement can be found at http://blog.myheritage.com/2016/09/were-halfway-to-digitizing-every-cemetery-in-israel. 23andMe Offers Ancestry-Only Testing for $99  The
DNA testing firm 23andMe is now offering ancestry-only testing for $99.
Previously it was part of their health and ancestry package which costs
$199. Users may opt in to be matched against other customers to
identify familial relationships similar to that offered by Family Tree
DNA’s Family Finder service and AncestryDNA.Three companies now offer this type of service: • 23andme. $99 • Ancestry.com $99 • Family Tree DNA $79 IAJGS Records Access Alerts  Readers
who are interested in the controversy between right-to-be-forgotten,
right-to-know and freedom of the press should subscribe to the IAJGS
Records Access Alerts. The list is maintained by Jan Meisels Allen,
chairperson of the IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee.
She posts, almost daily, events throughout the world that involve
public access to information. As Meisels Allen notes, “these
concepts impact us as genealogists, who have ancestry in those
countries and are interested in the impact of records access.”Subscribe at http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts. You will be informed when you are accepted to gain access to the list. Recent postings include: • (Canada, India, Italy) The Right to Be Forgotten-Updates and More to Consider • (European Union) The European Court of Justice Ruling On Posting Website Hyper-Links Without Permission Can Be Copyright Infringement • (European Union) The Court of Justice of EU Advocate General's Opinion—Right to Be Forgotten Not Absolute • (Ireland) General Record Office of Ireland Makes Civil Registers of Vital Records Available for Free • (US) Consumer Review Fairness Act Passes House—HR 5111 • (US) National Archives Open Government Plan 2016–2018 • (US) California Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Right to Be Forgotten Appealed by Yelp • (US-NYC) Reclaim the Records and New York City Clerk's Office Agreement—RTR Gets Their Legal Fees and the Records FamilySearch Adds Nearly 1.6 Million Records This Week 
A list of recent additions to FamilySearch, nearly 7 million indexed records and images, can be found at http://tinyurl.com/FamilySearch091916.
This site provides direct links to the individual collections. They
include records from Argentina (Catholic Church records) and the U.S.
states of California, Minnesota, Texas and Utah. The largest addition
is an index to nearly 1M Minnesota obituaries 1865–2006.Note that at the website, announced collections may not be complete for the dates specified and will be added at some later date. Also note that counts shown in the announcement are the number added, not the total number available in the collection, which can be greater. 
British Newspaper Archive Now Has 15.5 Million Digitized Pages OnlineBritish Newspaper Archive now has 15.5 million digitized pages from 676 titles online. Dates range from 1710–1959. The fee-for-service site is located at http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. Ancestry Adds Glasgow Electoral Registers  Ancestry.co.uk
has added Glasgow electoral registers 1857–1962 to its
collection. These registers list the names and residences of people who
are eligible to vote. Scotland’s eligibility to vote evolved
through the years:• Until 1918, only male landowners over the age of 21. • 1918–1927, men over the age of 21 and some women (typically landowners) over the age of 30). • 1928 onward, men and women over the age of 21. The database is located at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61020. Easy Button Feature Creates New Sources in FamilySearch Tree from MyHeritage Records  FamilySearch
has partnered with My Heritage to make it easy to copy new sources of
information found on MyHeritage to a family tree built at the
FamilySearch site. Called the Family History Easy Button, it operates
in the following way.• Sign in to a family tree at FamilySearch.org. • Go to the Person page of an ancestor. • In the Search Records box on the right, click “MyHeritage.” • Click the name in the MyHeritage search results to see record details. • Review the information and find a record of interest. • Scroll to the bottom of the record page and click “Attach source to FamilySearch” in the lower left. Additional information about the feature can be found at https://familysearch.org/blog/en/create-new-sources-from-myheritage/.
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