Dean Foster

On National Sisters’ Day, we share hands with British Airways to unite two sisters from Texas, for the first time, in the United Kingdom. Mandy Shore was born in the UK during World War II and was cared by her adoptive parents. When she started searching her family tree, Mandy discovered that her mother was a single woman who lived near the American Air Force base and her father remained a mystery for many years. Ancestry DNA helped her search and discover their family tree using a DNA test.

The Ancestry DNA database revealed that Mandy had two half-sisters by her father’s side, living in Texas, America. In an email, Ann Burrage and Lynn Garner helped Mandy to complete the puzzle. Her father might be an American G.I., and after the end of the war, he moved to Texas and married and had two daughters without Mandy's information.

Understanding the price of family ties, Ancestry DNA and British Airways came together to provide flights to Ann and Lynn to meet her newly discovered sister in Britain, and the three sisters met with each other and the wonderful moment was captured in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=EIyHlToWayo

If you also want to discover your family tree after seeing the story of these long-lost sisters. In that case, British Airways is offering the chance to search the rich history of the United Kingdom with an opportunity to win one round out of three round trip tickets to London with accommodation for four nights.

If you want to give other families a chance to make a trip of a lifetime, Ancestry DNA and British Airways had launched a social media lottery where three people will get a chance to win a pair of roundtrip Club World tickets on British Airways with complete four nights at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel.

Note: There are three different entry periods, like August 4- August 26, 27 August- September 11, and 12 September and 30 September and one winner will be selected for each entry period.

Ancestry DNA reunites siblings

Dale Frye had grown up knowing his half-sisters in California, 20 years before he was born. Dale Frye took an Ancestry DNA test in search of his sister. At the start, there were no close connections, and he started to lose hope. After a year, Dale Frye received a message from a woman named Terry living in California and was excited to know how closely they are related. Dale’s wife Polly and Terry started to position the pieces together, and they realized that this was going to be a surprise for Gloria Molner, Terry’s mother.

Gloria was an only child and brought up by her mother and a man that she thought was her biological father. After hearing the story, we decided to fly Polly and Dale to meet Gloria and her children, Wayne and Terry. It was an emotional moment for all. Gloria Molner says, we have got a big family now, and we'll stick together. I feel blessed to be a part of Gloria and Dale’s reunion and excited to see the bonding between them and the rest of the family.

Check out Ancestry’s new collections and product enhancements

Crista Cowan, a professional Genealogist, shares this month’s product enhancements and new collections across Ancestry DNA. You can watch the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=wB08i7AFrF4&feature=youtu.be

Ancestry updated Lifestory

Ancestry introduced Lifestory last year to better understand what your ancestor’s lives were like. The self-generated Lifestory has a lot of heavy lifting when translating information, facts, and dates into a narrative of someone’s life, but it shines when you make it your own. At starting, you have complete control of all the narrative snippets and have the ability to select which Historical Insights you want to save and improve your ancestor’s story with photos.

The result has been a very fast and intuitive way to show the rich tapestry of our ancestor’s lives. Some members have shared that they would choose to jump straight into writing their own stories without auto-generated Lifestory. To allow this, we have recently added a new option for customers to each tree’s settings page that will allow us to disable or enable stories being generated for that tree.

Turn Off stories

You need to tap on your tree and go to the True Settings. Under the settings option on the tree, you will find a new or added option below your Tree Name and Description of your tree. If the option Automatically builds stories for this tree is enabled. In that case, you can turn it off on a tree by tree basis, and any custom stories you have written will be pictured, and you can create more stories for your ancestors.

If the option Automatically build stories is turned off, it will not display for anyone seeing your tree.

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They Still Live a journey into the discovery of yourself. What does it mean to White, European, Black, Native American, and others? How am I different from Denver artists? Alisa Anthony and Thomas Detour Evans ask all these questions that have shed light on a dialogue about heritage through a picture sequence pairing African art relics, from the Paul Hamilton collection with African Americans from the Denver community.

Each sketch is designed to make a new conversation on ancestral heritage and origins and tells the story of the Ancestry DNA results. Ancestry took the interview of Paul Hamilton, an African Studies academic and previously was Colorado State Representative and famous collector of African masks. African Art asks him why this display is so difficult to the conversation of ancestral origins and identity.

While gathering African art, one of the discoveries was that the origin of Modern art was African art. Paul says Picasso and other’s artwork were influenced. Amidst Paul’s prized work is a Dan collection that boosts nearly 100 masks that are costly in the art world. Another workpiece is Buddha Dogo that originates from Mali. The Dogons have rich and deep scientific and astrological knowledge from more than 500 years ago.

Paul admits, I learned to despise Africa, as it was thought to be uncivilized. It was not unless he began studying history, finally becoming a history professor at college, he started a life-changing journey to discover the truth on Africa and its deep and rich history. Based on the research, Paul went to write African People’s contribution to World Civilizations.

After taking the Ancestry DNA test, Paul confirmed his ancestors or forefathers were from West Africa, and coincidentally, a large part of his art collection belongs from this region, including pieces from Liberia, Nigeria, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and the Republic of Congo. Before the Ancestry DNA journey, Paul heard from family legends who suggested his great-grandmother was half Native American, but the DNA result does not provide any sign.

Paul was not surprised by the effect of European Ancestry that seems in many results and can use his DNA results to provide support to his previous research. Paul says this is unique that provides an opportunity for all people to examine how their ancestors affect us, whether we know it or not. By presenting traditional African art in a modern setting, Paul hopes it will motivate positive conversations for others who are interested in discovering their ethnic heritage. Despite the political climate, Paul hopes that They Still Live show will be a small step towards progress and moving our nation forward.

Paul had dedicated his life to the arts and conservation of some of the finest works from Africa. Outside the statues and masks, The Hamilton Library Collection includes nearly newspapers, magazines, audiotapes, 2,000 books, videotapes, and educational materials focused on African, African-American cultural, and historical issues and concerns. The collection includes 1960’s magazines (Muhammad Speaks, Negro Digest, Black Panther newspapers, and Black Scholar) and newspapers and the journal from 1916-1970. There will be an opening reception for the They Still Live exhibition and Ancestry DNA results for each model will be announced on reception.

Ancestry DNA results uncover 46 years of questions

Leslie H. was adopted in 1970 after her adopted parents were not able to have a child. It was a dinner party one night, and members discussed the possibility of adoption when another guest said he knew a woman wanting to give up a baby. After a few months, Leslie was picked up from the hospital by the family attorney and taken to her parents three days old. Leslie said she knew that she was an adopted child, and my parents never hide it from me. She added I was brought up in a loving home with loving parents and two sisters.

My mother got pregnant after adopting me, and they had a healthy pregnancy. My mother delivered a baby after 13 months after I was born. I was the only adopted child in the home. Due to adoption, she thought that finding out the identity of my parents would be impossible. After Leslie’s daughter was born in the 1990’s, she started to find out the truth about her biological family.

After successfully requesting the court, they released the records. She got the name of her biological family with the help of a third party. After discovering her mother had remarried, Leslie tried to trace her married surname, so Leslie put her research on hold. She started her research by signing up to Ancestry and took the Ancestry DNA test. Her results offered her ethnicity estimate and connected her with cousins.

Having only her mother’s married surname and maiden name, she messaged a few matches, and one of those matches confirmed that she knew her biological parents as a child and provided their names. She finally got to know her biological father’s name. She matched the information provided by her cousin, and from the Ancestry DNA test, she talked with large online adoption databases only to find out that she had half-siblings from her parental side looking for her.

Within hours, Leslie received a call from her half-sister, Jessica. Their stories merge, and Jessica said they were also looking for Leslie for years. Leslie came to know that her biological father had passed away, but she had two younger half-brothers. They are in touch, and Leslie now knows more of her cousins and several aunts. After discovering her parental family, Leslie went to social media to see if she could not find her birth mother.

Leslie messaged a woman whose profile matched her surname. The woman replied and confirmed that she was her biological mother and provided loads of family history. This past January, Leslie met her half-brother, and a few weeks later, she met her biological mother in EI Paso, and they spent some hours together. It has been a fantastic journey, and it was not possible without the help of Ancestry DNA and Ancestry DNA testing. Leslie says I will be grateful forever.

Ancestry releases State Classes and Short Courses

Ancestry Academy had released new classes and short courses. We will be giving you quick tips on one topic in 4-5 minutes or less and start with some basics of the US. Federal Census.

Pre 1850- Census

1850 Census- An Intro

1890 Census- Where is it?

1880 Census- An overview

Introduction to the 1940 Census

You can watch these short courses and classes free, and you need to create a login if you are watching Ancestry Academy Classes for the first time. If you have ancestors from Vermont, Michigan, Illinois, and Massachusetts. See the premium classes below:

The Green Mountain State: Vermont Research with Catherine Desmarais, CGsm

Illinois- Research in the Prairie state with David McDonald

Michigan: Family history in the Wolverine state with Kris W Rzepczynski, MLS, MA

Massachusetts: Research in the Bay State with Marian Pierre-Louis

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Ancestry has a long history of invention and innovation that has made our leadership perfect in family history and, recently, the rising field of consumer genomics. We have also added a fun and innovative way to further know about your family and also who you are, and where your ancestors lived. Ancestry DNA Traits is the new feature launched by Ancestry. It uses science and data to fuel ongoing journeys of discovery. Traits is a new method that enables you to discover traits, qualities, and characteristics influenced by your DNA.

Using Ancestry DNA Traits, you can study up to 18 traits and characteristics that you have got from your ancestors, and you can share this with your family and save all the information for your future generations. Ancestry DNA Traits help you understand how your DNA influences the characteristics that make you unique. You can also explore the science behind your physical and sensory traits, including your body share, hair color, eye color, earlobe, iris patterns, skin tone, and more.

You can also discover how your features, traits run in your family and how they are connected to your ethnic origins and get a detailed answer on how you are connected to one of your siblings or ask about your physical appearances, like red hair, light-colored eyes. Traits will provide you a dipped look at your personal stories by Around the World map.

Explore with Ancestry DNA can see how your Traits merge with your heritage and learn if your green eyes are common with other people with Irish Ancestry. Those who are using Ancestry DNA Mobile app will be the first to enable our new Traits to compare feature that permits you to compare your genetic markets that influence your qualities and traits with family, friends, or Ancestry DNA members who have traits.

You need to understand what today’s genetic technology has to say on what you have similar with your friends and family and share your results with family on the dinner table this holiday season. Traits is just a small trailer to you, and we are working to enable you to look at your personal discovery that will surely enrich your life. Ancestry DNA keeps your information secure and private, and privacy is our highest priority. We will continue to place you in control of your data and enable you and your companion or counterpart to participate in Traits comparison.

Legacy.com founder Stopher Bartol says we are happy with Ancestry’s work for the Adpay business. We are very happy to partner with the Adpay business to make our shared mission to help funeral homes and peoples publish obituaries on newspapers everywhere, in every format.

Howard Hochhauser, CEO, Adpay says, Adpay has been helping consumers publish obituaries on newspapers, and it has grown obituary submission on newspapers through its national network model over the past years. We are looking forward to continuing that race or momentum that serves both family history researchers and newspaper publishers. Howard also says that as the global leader, Ancestry understands the value of newspapers that help our customers find their own family stories.

Mike Henne, General Manager, and Founder, Adpay, says, We should be thankful to Ancestry and Legacy, who support our mission to publish obituaries in newspapers and provide more accessibility to all. He also added that we could feel that together with iPublish Solutions, we can further elevate the value of Legacy and make Adpay a powerful name.

Adpay- An Introduction

Adpay is a leading provider of print, digital, and mobile solutions for media companies. With over 20 years, Adpay provides a comprehensive edge to its partners to fascinate or attract customers in placing classified advertisements and obituary notices in the newspaper. Adpay’s Memoriams platform provides their service to thousands of funeral homes annually and provides them the ability to publish obituaries in multiple newspapers with comfort and ease.

Legacy.com- An Introduction

Legacy.com is an online memorials or obituaries company founded in 1998 and is the world’s largest commercial provider serving around 40 million users per month. Legacy.com has a home in America, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. It is giving more innovative memorialization solutions that help families honor and remember their loved ones.

Legacy.com hosts obituaries of almost 70% of all US deaths and is searched or visited among the top 40 websites in the world. Legacy.com provides online access to the public to pay tribute to obituaries that appear on newspapers or self-published on Legacy.com. The company reviews more than 10 lakh guestbook entries per month to check that the entries are correct to those close to the family. Legacy.com has more than 1500 newspaper affiliates in North America, Australia, and Europe and headquartered in Chicago.

Ancestry- An Introduction

Ancestry is a platform that helps people find their ancestors or forefathers, and the global leader in family history and genomics enables journeys of personal discovery to improve lives. Ancestry has 27 billion records and 18 million people in its database. With Ancestry, consumers can find their family stories and enhance their understanding of their lives. Ancestry helps people learn more about their family origins through historical records, DNA testing, and family trees. Ancestry has been helping people for 30 years, and they have built trust in millions of people.

Ancestry has released a Scandinavian and Portuguese communities list for members who have ties with these areas and helping people learn more about their family history. To provide better quality updates to our customers, we pull the DNA science to improve our products, resulting in meaningful and highly detailed historical insights. Ancestry has a network of over 15 million people that has a great collection of family trees and patented Genetic Communities technology. Ancestry can identify people with shared DNA and helps in determining where their ancestors lived in the past 300 years.

Scandinavian Communities

Ancestry has released around 200 new Scandinavian Communities to discover a link to family in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Norway. Some Ancestry members will try to find new connections in Eastern Norway and learn more about their ancestors who migrated to America in the past. Many city residents and farmers living in Eastern Norway regions began feeling crowded because the growing population and farmland became insufficient during the 19th century. Then, Eastern Norwegian people decided to move with their families to the upper Midwest to search for great and exciting opportunities for themselves and future generations.

Portuguese Communities

Ancestry has released over 20 Portuguese Communities with excellent knowledge on Portugal, Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, and more. You can be surprised to know that you have a community in Madeira located 700 miles and south-west of Portugal. Portugal founded these areas in the early 15th century. With passing time, Madeira has become a well-known port for Europeans who were setting boats to Africa, Asia, and America.

Ancestry is the largest global consumer DNA network with over 15 million people tested. As many people are excited to join us, we expect the granularity and number of communities will increase.

On average, one out of every eight women gets affected by breast cancer. It’s a heartbreaking statistic. And learning about it is important to spread awareness among women. Ancestry joined hands with Bright Pink to launch the Breast Cancer Awareness Month partnership in October 2020. It’s a national and non-profit program to prevent or detect breast or ovarian cancer at an early stage. Ancestry is feeling honored to work with Bright Pink on its mission to empower women to browse breast cancer risks with ease and confidence.

The Bright Pink and Ancestry has an information center. This center’s name is The Pink Door, and it provides free access to educational stuff about genetic testing, breast cancer screening, and what actions one should take against potential risks. The Bright Pink and Ancestry together have introduced a new video series. It’s called Real Conversations About Breast Cancer. This video series will feature conversations with genetic counselors, medical experts, families affected by breast cancer, and breast cancer survivors. This show has been inspiring breast cancer patients all over the globe. Listening to breast cancer survivors, previvors, and medical experts provides deep knowledge about this disease and helps women fight against it.

Of all breast cancer patients, around 10% inherited breast cancer from their genes. It means that many women are genetically predisposed to this disease, and they have no idea about it. Next-Generation Sequencing powers AncestryHealth that checks a large number of places in BRCA2 & BRCA1 genes. Using this method, AncestryHealth is able to tell women if they have a risk of inherited breast cancer or not.

Though getting access to Next Generation Sequencing is costly, AncestryHealth is allowing women with affordable access to this program. We’re not just talking about technology. Knowing about the health risks associated with you due to your genes is overwhelming. Under the AncestryHealth program, Ancestry selected health cases that are important and actionable to a mom and a family. AncestryHealth offers details on these selected health cases. The list of selected health conditions includes breast cancer, heart conditions, blood disorders, and colon cancer. The health information is provided in two ways. One way is to provide it in a simple report that anyone, including the customer, can understand. The other way is to provide it in a more detailed way to show it to your doctor. AncestryHealth also gives you access to counseling resources for your queries regarding your results.

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Ancestry has taken a significant step to make essential records available to everyone online. Ancestry has done this as part of its philanthropic initiative and has made online millions of Nazi and Holocaust persecution-related archives. These records will be accessible to anybody on https://www.ancestry.com/alwaysremember.

Ancestry has done a partnership with Aroslen archives; it is an international center on Nazi along with the victims of National Socialism. The archive contains millions of name and other information about those affected by Nazi and Holocaust persecution.

Ancestry has made these records online now. Before, the process was complicated and requires manual requests of copies, and that takes time to search and provide the information. It has been 70 seen since the people faced Nazi and Holocaust persecution, and there are many living witnesses but, now the numbers have dropped to around 4,00,000.

We believe that the Nazi and Holocaust incidents do not become a remote memory, and these records are preserved. We have made the Holocaust records online with the hope to empower the people to learn more on the Holocaust, those who lived it, and those who were killed by it.

How to search new Collection of Holocaust

On your browser, go tohttps://www.ancestry.com/cs/alwaysremember.

Enter your First and Last Name.

You need to enter some details, like Day, Departure, Arrival, Location, Year, Month, and Location.

Tap on the Search button.

After clicking on the search option, you can see the Holocaust details.

People can view Nazi persecution and Holocaust-related archives online to identify immigrants leaving Germany and other European places and those persecuted in occupied territories. These collections include Europe, Asia, Africa passenger lists (1946–1971) and track people who relocated by the war as they moved to rebuild their lives.

It also includes displaced persons who were leaving European ports and Airports and Germany between 1946–1971. The listed person in the archive includes former concentration camp, Holocaust survivor, and forced labors, refugees from Eastern and Central European countries. Ancestry’s new collection includes 1.7 million records and 300K pictures.

Europe, German Individuals Persecuted, and Registration of Foreigners (1939–1947)

Ancestry also has a collection of people living in Germany and its occupied places with stateless persons, non-German citizenship, and German laws. The collection is not restricted to persons who were imprisoned in camps. This information also includes those who died, their burial information and has 9.7 million and 900k pictures.

All the information will also be given to Aroslen archives and 11-nation International Commission, including America Holocaust Memorial Museum and YadVashem in Israel to post the information on their website.

For 20 years, Ancestry has invested around $300 million to make the world’s largest historical records collection. Ancestry is investing time and money in global content collections to help people know about their personal journey.

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For 30+ years, Ancestry has been adding family history content and developing research tools to its historical records collection to help people discover their family’s past. People around the world have been using AncestryDNA services to find out critical details about their ancestors. To take its historical record collection a step further, Ancestry recently announced the first phase of the published historical wedding collection.

Ancestry trained its AI to find key facts from engagement and marriage announcements after researching through over 600 million pages of digital historical newspapers.

Adding More Family History Content

Ancestry is using Newspapers.com Marriage Index data to find and add more family history content to its collection. Newspapers.com Marriage Index has the largest collection of searchable digital newspaper published historical engagement and wedding announcements. It contains rich information about marriage applications, engagements, and wedding announcements since the 1800s. This much data will help Ancestry a lot in providing its customers with more key details about their family history.

The Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection doesn’t only offer the names of the groom and bride but, at times, also provides rich details like age, residence, parents’ names, etc. AncestryDNA’s main goal was to index this data in a way that anyone can easily search their family’s journey and find out key insights about their ancestors’ wedding. After proper indexing with the help of Machine Learning, AncestryDNA customers can search through the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection in just one click.

What is inside the index

In the first phase of the published historical wedding collection, you’ll find marriage announcement information from more than 200 Million records. All these records contain information from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some listings only have the names of the couples, some have brief write-ups, while others have detailed articles.

The marriage listing records of the 21st century or from 2000-present will get included in Ancestry’s collection in the second phase in 2021. The first phase has been completed and can be accessed by Ancestry subscribers whenever they want in just one click. Some specific newspapers might ask you to purchase an extra subscription for viewing their content.

How to search your ancestors’ marriage records in the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection

Follow the steps given below to search the marriage record of your ancestors’ in the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection.

Firstly, open the Ancestry DNA website.

Then, click the Search tab. It’s available at the top of the screen.

From the drop-down menu, select Card Catalog.

Now, go to the Filter By Category section and click the Birth, Marriage, & Death option.

Once again, go to the Filter By Category section and select the Marriage & Divorce option.

Now, you’ll get the option Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999 in the search results. Click on it to proceed.

In the search box, enter your family member’s name from the past who got married between 1800 and 1999.

If you have, please provide additional details so that AncestryDNA can find the correct information.

Finally, click the Search button.

Now, review the records appearing on your screen.

If you find your family’s record, add it to your family tree by clicking the Save button.

That’s it! You’ve successfully grown your family tree using the Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection on the Ancestry DNA website.

Conclusion

The Newspapers.com Marriage Index collection is the largest digital archive of newspaper published Wedding announcements from the past. You can get access to this digital archive via your Ancestry DNA subscription to find key details about your ancestors’ engagement and wedding from 1800-1999. The second phase of the published historical wedding collection is expected to arrive soon in 2021 on the Ancestry DNA website for its premium users.

Personal preventive practices matter a lot when it comes to safeguarding yourself against coronavirus. Ancestry did a research study on the trending preventive practices people are using to protect themselves during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ancestry researched over 750,000 of its volunteering clients and found clear-cut insights about the severity of COVID-19 infection.

Let’s have an in-depth look on the trending preventive measures during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Ancestry’s Research Study on wearing masks indoors

AncestryDNA launched the COVID-19 Research Study in April 2020 to see the response of individuals to the coronavirus infection. This study helped AncestryDNA understand why some individuals have high chances of getting a severe infection while others suffer only mild effects. AncestryDNA has included volunteers in this study from all 50 states in both rural and urban areas.

After researching for some time on 3000 individuals, Ancestry DNA found that the individuals who were wearing masks indoors were less likely to get in touch with COVID-19 than those who weren’t wearing masks indoors. This preventive practice helps you stay away from severe COVID-19 infection.

More than 94% of individuals from all age groups reported that they were wearing masks while outdoors and indoors. Old age people showed an even higher percentage when it came to wearing masks indoors and in public while standing within a range of six feet of others.

Also, when compared on the basis of gender, a higher percentage of females were wearing masks and following the six-foot gap than males. Though the difference isn’t too much, it’s enough to tell that, in terms of safety, females are more aware than males. In comparison to 94.3% of males, 96.4% of females wear a mask indoors in public. Also, only 75.5% of males maintain a six-foot physical gap compared to 78% of females.

Based on the research data, people with health problems are more likely to wear masks indoors and maintain a six-foot gap in public. This is because they think they are at a higher risk of getting infected with coronavirus due to their pre-existing health issues.

When outdoors and within the 6-ft range of others, only 73.5% of individuals with no previous health issues wear masks compared to 79.6% individuals wearing masks in the same situation with existing health issues.

Around 73.6% of individuals with no previous health history maintain 6-ft social distancing, while 80.6% of individuals with pre-existing health conditions do the same.

Conclusion

Ancestry DNA has been doing a phenomenal job by collecting research data from volunteering individuals. This data can easily help solve many COVID-19 safety-related issues. We recommend you wear a mask indoors and outdoors and maintain a six-foot gap when in public until this pandemic ends.

Ancestry has released 94 new communities’ lists for customers of African-American and Afro-Caribbean descent. Ancestry will help uncover stories of the people and the places that have been your family histories. These new updates use our unique Genetic Communities technology and help reveal the impact your ancestors had on history. Ancestry has around 15 million DNA consumers and is the world’s largest consumer DNA network enabling customers to see the level of accuracy and provide you with ways to find how your ancestors could have moved over time.

African Americans and Louisiana Creoles are the newly released communities. The members belonging to this community will learn that many Louisiana Black residents were working on cotton and sugar plants before the Civil War and were enslaved. But, in the 1900s, their ancestors who were victims of racial discrimination flee to other cities on the West Coast and Midwest. More than 18% of African Americans in the Bay area migrated from Louisiana in the 1940s.

The Afro-Caribbean communities consist of Jamaica, Haiti, Bahamas, and more, and they all played a significant role in African American history as almost half 5 million of African people forcefully shipped to America and these were enslaved in the Caribbean. These have worked in sugar plantations. But after the fall of the sugar industry, America founded a headquarter for recruiting the people in Barbados to supply the workers to construct the Panama Canal, that came as a surprise to thousands of Afro Caribbeans who built it.

Some Barbadians moved to America and settled in Harlem and Manhattan in New York, and in 1930, almost all Afro Caribbeans were doctors and lawyers. These new communities will allow our members to look at new windows into their past and new insights into their ancestors’ lives.

Ancestry releases New, Game-Changing Family History Research Tools in Salt Lake City. It is such a special event that unites thousands of people who are curious, passionate, and excited to know about family history. We have shared your passion and introduced digitized content collections and cutting-edge history research tools to continue your personal discovery journey.

Historical records are the base of family history research, and Ancestry is prioritizing building the largest, most distinguished birth collection, death, marriage, census records, and more. Ancestry currently provides access to more than 5 billion BMD and census records, and this number is growing quickly worldwide. They have released over 1 million France census and 5 million Mexico Catholic records and Marriage, Birth, Death records and also have many US statewide projects on the way, from New York to Hawaii.

We are also focussing on providing access to military records to allow more discoveries than ever before. They have also released US WWII draft cards from seven different states, and the work at the National Archives in St. Louis is almost complete. By the early next year, the WWII draft cards full set will be available on Ancestry and Fold3.

Another work to advancing family history is innovation. We are very excited to launch the three of our most game-changing tools in collaboration with RootsTech to help solve research hurdles or challenges and provide you with the best possible family history research experience.

New & Improved DNA Matches

Ancestry has redesigned the DNA matches experience that will help you make more discoveries about your family history and ancestors. After launching the feature, you will be able to group, sort, and view your DNA matches anyway. The new feature includes custom labeling and color-coding that offers you more control over how you view and group the matches, new ways to filter your matches, or quick identification of your newest matches.

MyTreeTags

This feature allows you to add tags to your people in the family tree to specify whether your search on them is verified or confirmed. It also provides an option to record personal details, like never married.

Ancestry allows you to create your own custom tags to tag a person who immigrated from any place or location, like Denmark, or worked as a blacksmith. You can also use filters to search your tree to see everyone using the same tag. MyTreeTags is the way that Ancestry can help you save your time and enrich your ancestor profile.

ThruLines

You must have spent your valuable time determining how you are related to your DNA matches and are consistently trying to make your effort more efficient. ThruLines is a feature that shows you the common ancestors that they likely to connect with your DNA matches and provides you a clear picture of how you are all related to each other. If you link your public or private family tree to your AncestryDNA results, new pages or chapters of your family story will open.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) has become a vital part for those people who tend to spend a lot of time on the Internet. In the internet world, a user faces several restrictions, and to bypass those restrictions, they have to utilize VPN services. VPN also improves internet privacy and enables the user to access those additional services that aren’t available in their region or aren’t provided by their internet provider.

Enabling a VPN service on a smartphone and PC doesn’t take much effort, but enabling it in Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One could be a challenging task. By enabling the VPN service on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One, users can access to some streaming platforms that are blocked by an internet provider of a certain region. If you’re also curious about how to access or bypass blocked streaming content related to YouTube, Netflix or any other, then here’s what you must do.

Is It Necessary to Use VPN on Xbox?

As mentioned above, VPN offers the user to connect their internet connection with a virtual network which allows them to access additional content. The Xbox users already have enough games and entertaining things, but the need for bypass and access unavailable games, apps and video services make the user use a VPN service.

Most of the time, VPN lowers the internet speed because of routing data, but in some conditions, it can improve the speed too. With the help of a VPN, you can access some blocked gaming sites and games. Additionally, you can keep your IP address safe through VPN. So, here’s the procedure to configure VPN on Xbox.

How to Configure and Use VPN on Your Xbox

Configuring a VPN app or VPN support on Xbox is not a process. To activate a VPN on Xbox, first, you must enable VPN on your Windows PC and then share the network with your preferred cable. So basically, you’ll need an ethernet cable to share your Windows PC VPN internet to Xbox. If you’re using VPN for the first time, then, first of all, you have to choose a VPN app for your Windows 10 PC. Once your PC gets configured with VPN, you’ll need to link it with your Xbox using an ethernet cable. Here’s how you can share VPN-configured PC connection with Xbox.

Link your ethernet cable between Xbox and PC with configured VPN.

· Tap the Start button.

· Open Settings.

· Press Network & Internet option.

· Press VPN.

· Tap Change adapter options.

· Make a right-click on the VPN icon.

· Choose the Properties option.

· Press the Sharing option.

· Press on the Allow other network users to connect through this computer’s internet connection column.

· Tap on the Select a private network connection column.

· Select Xbox’s ethernet connection.

· Tap OK.

· Tap Xbox button on Xbox controller.

· Tap the RB button on the Xbox controller three times frequently.

· Choose Settings.

· Open the Network section.

· Press on the Network settings.

· Choose the Test Network connection option.

Now, this is everything you must do to configure your PC’s VPN connection with Xbox One and Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S console. While your PC’s network is connected with Xbox, make sure the VPN connection is enabled.

Connection

Great thing about Windows 10 is that users can find a reliable VPN from the Microsoft Store and install through there directly. Some VPN apps ask for a purchasing subscription to access their full features, but they also provide a free trial to choose the right VPN service. So before starting the setup procedure, pick a smooth VPN to bring more titles on Xbox.

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In Mac, Safari web browser has a special feature of clearing web history without clearing cookies and additional web data. For a lot of Mac users, it can be a useful feature because even after clearing web history, users can still access their login details and other information. Usually while clearing web history, Safari browser deletes all site cookies and other data, but by using the additional history clearing feature, users can choose to delete only web history.

How to Clear Web History and Keep Other Web Data and Cookies Safe

If anyone is willing to clear out their web history, but don’t want to make any changes with cookies and other web information, they should follow the following steps:

Launch Safari application on Mac.

Press the Safari option.

Tap on the Clear History and Keep Website Data… option.

Now a small display will appear at the center of the screen.

In the following display, choose the time period to clear the web history.

Press the Clear History option.

Every user has to follow these steps if they want to preserve cookies and website data. The procedure of clearing history is pretty simple in the Safari browser. In the following procedure, uses only have to follow a few steps to finish the task of clearing history and preserve cookies.

People who visit the same site daily, they really need to save cookies and its additional data because it allows the user to load the site quickly. Cookies also make the content visible quickly. On the other hand, deleting web history also has its importance. Some websites provide limited access to users and trace the IP and user’s web history to restrict the user to use their service. So in order to avoid or bypass these types of restrictions, most of the users try out the clearing history method.

Deleting cookies and web data also deletes the login information which is certainly a major part of life. The save login information feature was launched a few years ago in Apple devices, and undoubtedly it is one of the most useful features. While login on an app or a website where login username and password is must, there users can choose the saved password to access. So if anyone has to log in their account without noticing anyone about the password, saved password information comes in help.

Conclusion 

Deleting web history and keeping cookies and other web data won’t create any problem to access the website. Users will still be able to access the website with complete features and content.

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Amber Alert is a kind of emergency alert system developed in the U.S in 1996. It was developed to reduce child abduction by spreading an emergency message to the public to find abducted children.

Let’s understand it with a daily life example. If a child is lost, you receive an alert on your smartphone. This alert is known as Amber alert. These alerts are also transmitted through different broadcasting and digital services to find the missing child. While an Amber alert is helpful in finding a missing person, it can be disruptive for many if someone receives it early in the morning.

Therefore, many think to stop or turn it off. Turning off an Amber alert is straightforward. We will help you through this guide in disabling Amber alerts. Let’s see how you can disable it on phones, including stock Android, Samsung, OnePlus, and LG.      

Turning off Amber alerts on Stock Android

Go to the Settings.

Find and click on the Apps & notifications option.

Choose the Advanced option.

Hit the option called Emergency alerts.

Look for the Amber alerts option and disable it.

Turning off Amber alerts on Samsung phones

If you are using Samsung Galaxy phones, including Galaxy S20 and Note 20, here are the required steps to turn off Amber alerts.

Access the Messages app.

Click on the three-dot icon located near the search button.

Now go to the Settings.

You have to choose Emergency alerts settings.

Select the Emergency alerts option.

Choose the Amber alerts and disable them.

Alternatively, you can opt for this method.

Head to the Settings and then choose Connections. After that, select More connection settings.

Click on Wireless emergency alerts.

Hit Settings.

Please choose the option named Alert types and turn it off.

Turning off Amber alerts on OnePlus phones

Launch the Messages app.

Hit the three-dot menu.

Click on Settings.

Now choose Wireless alerts.

Click on the three-dot icon.

Hit the Settings options.

Choose the Amber alerts option and disable it.  

Turning off Amber alerts on LG phones

To disable Amber alerts on LG phones, you have to go to Settings.

Find and click on Network & internet from Settings.

Under the Network & internet option, you have to choose Wireless Emergency Alerts.

Hit the three-dot icon located in the upper right corner.

Hit the Settings option.

Look for the Amber alerts option and disable it.

Try the second method.

Take your phone and launch the Messages app.

Look for the three-dot icon from the upper right corner.

Click on the Settings.

Choose the Emergency alerts option.

Look for the Amber alerts and disable it.

Again, Amber alerts are helpful in finding missing children, but if you want to turn it off, you can follow the above instructions to disable it on stock Android, LG, Samsung, and OnePlus phones.

If you use phones other than those mentioned in this article, the chances are you will see the respective settings or options at the places described above. Even you may get a better idea about Amber alerts’ settings and options if you find changes in them on your different brand phone.

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Updating devices from time to time is advantageous in many ways. An update fixes many problems and adds new features on the device. Today, you will learn how to take advantage of an update on Apple AirPods or AirPods Pro. You might have heard about the new spatial audio feature on the new pricey AirPods Max. But what if you already have the AirPods Pro? Don’t worry; you can use the new audio feature without needing to buy a new model.

It is necessary to keep firmware updated If you want to enjoy spatial audio on your AirPods Pro. Luckily the firmware may get updated on its own for many users without any effort from their end. But AirPods cannot get updated in the same way as they happen for the iPhone, meaning you will need to do it manually. After all, all you have to do is check the AirPods Pro if it has the latest firmware.

To do so, you have to ensure that your smartphone has the latest version of iOS 14, which is currently iOS 14.3. After that, you have to check the firmware of your AirPods or AirPods Pro. Access the Settings and choose General and then click on About to check the firmware. You may need to scroll down to find it, but AirPods Pro or AirPods should be available in the list. This setting will not show in the case of AirPods Pro if your iPhone has the older version. Finally, make sure that the firmware version should be 3A283. And if it is, you are all set.        

Know about spatial audio

As you know, spatial audio is a new feature from Apple. This feature comes with AirPods Pro and Max to make the sound quality better. You will feel like the sound comes from several places in 3D space. It is the effect of Dolby Atmos surround sound provided by Apple. For example, while watching TV, you might feel like the sound is coming from the soundbar or from the set. And spatial audio imitates this sensation on headphones and AirPods to make you feel like sound comes from the device screen to ears. Moreover, it is not easy to describe it in words, but you can experience it with a demo. Below is how.

How to check spatial audio?

To get a demo of the spatial audio, you have to turn it on from the settings. Open Settings, choose Bluetooth and then hit on the AirPods Pro or Max you have from the list. Confirm that the Spatial Audio toggle button should be turned on in green color. Now, find an option called See and Hear How it Works. Hit this option and select Spatial Audio from the slider bar. You will notice this option if you have toggled between Stereo Audio and Spatial Audio.

Know automatic switching

The latest firmware update for the AirPods Pro offers a feature called automatic switching. This feature facilitates connecting your AirPods with the current device you use at a particular moment, meaning you don’t need to switch from device to device manually. You can take benefit of this feature on AirPods Pro, Powerbeats, Beats Solo Pro, etc.

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