Launch of MyHeritage's "Treasure Family Photos"
MyHeritage released the following announcement on August 6, 2013 and I am sure you have seen this, or similar announcements, regarding their new initiative:
"I wanted to let you about a a global initiative MyHeritage is launching
today called - Treasure
Family Photos - to encourage people
to learn more about their family's history from their old photos and to
preserve these precious artifacts online for future generations.
This
initiative is endorsed by the New England Historic Genealogical
Society and we're also thrilled to be working with Maureen Taylor, the world
renowned "Photo Detective", who'll be sharing tips for understanding
photos through a video, a
webinar, and appearances on US national television as we
speak.
We've
launched a special
website detailing ways to get involved. It's full of tips and
tricks for helping people understand the clues in their old family photos and
explains the importance of family photos for family history research. We give
suggestions for preserving photos and creative ideas for getting the
younger generations involved.
We've also announced today that we have the world's largest
international collection of old family photos online. MyHeritage users from
around the world have contributed and shared family photos on the site and
those that were
shared publicly are searchable by name, date, location and keywords via SuperSearch.
Lastly, we've doubled our free photo storage allocation to enable
users to upload and share more photos on their private family sites at no
cost."
More information about "Treasure Family Photos" can be found at www.myheritage.com/photos.
I took the opportunity recently to conduct a search of the data base of photos provided by "Treasure Family Photos". I entered just the surname "Ritchhart" and conducted a search. It came up with 6,033 photographs with names ordered by similarity to the entered surname. I think that the first 75 names were reasonably similar enough to "Ritchhart" that I would entertain the possibility that they might be related. The next big batch of names (143) were Ricciardi/Ricciardo from Italy, but I have no evidence of any Italian connection in my Ritchhart family line. That was followed with another 70 or so with the surnames Richart/Reichard, who could be related.
I then checked my O'Malley heritage and found over 27,000 entries my Deans produced over 37,000 entries. I am sure some of them might be related; but not sure how to sort them all out. Likewise with my Bush line, which had around 7,400 photos.
In summary, it is a sizable data base and I think most of the photos were embedded in the family trees that people have uploaded onto MyHeritage's Family Tree Builder Family Tree. Just in scanning through the photos and accompanying data, it appears that they have a very good representation from the International (mostly European) community. This is in line with MyHeritage's strong European membership.
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with MyHeritage, nor have I received any form of compensation from them. They did, however, send me the above press release and ask me to consider posting it in my blog. (Surprised they knew about my blog!)
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New Edition of Family Tree Maker Coming
The following announcement from Family Tree Maker (FTM) indicates that a new version of FTM will be released in September. They are offering a 40% discount if you pre-order now. The three advertised new features are a New Family View, New and Improved Charts and Reports, and Improved TreeSync. The release will be a PC version only--the MAC version is listed as "coming soon".
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When I clicked to explore signing up for the offer the following additional information about the new features was provided. The discounted price for the upgrade is advertised as $23.99 vice the regular price of $39.99. What’s new in Family Tree Maker?
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Family Tree Maker nor do I receive any type of compensation from them. The opinions are strictly my own.
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