Nov 27, 2025

The Guys are celebrating 20 YEARS of the podcast!

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• MyHeritage is making a landmark move to Whole Genome Sequencing for its at-home DNA test. See https://blog.myheritage.com/2025/10/myheritage-upgrades-its-dna-tests-to-whole-genome-sequencing/ for more details.
• MyHeritage has released a major...

Sep 16, 2025

The Guys are celebrating 20 YEARS of the podcast!

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• RootsMagic has released RootsMagic 11, with a cleaner interface, better searching, the ability to create and save AI prompts with the AI Prompt Builder, and more powerful reporting.
• MyHeritage added 94 million historical records in July and...

Aug 1, 2025

The Guys are back after an extended health crisis.

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• MyHeritage added 540 million historical records in May and 1.25 billion records in June! Among these are 731 million records from French newspapers, part of a push to expand its vast collections of new records from non-English language...

Apr 23, 2025

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• MyHeritage added 235 million historical records in February and 794 million historical records in March.
• MyHeritage released a new DNA facility named Ancient Origins, with which you can trace your origins back 10,000 years.
• MyHeritage introduced Cousin Finder.
• MyHeritage has published United...

Feb 24, 2025

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• MyHeritage added 1.2 billion historical records in January.
• MyHeritage released Ethnicity Estimate v2.5, the long-awaited ethnicity model, including 79 different ethnicities

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• Tom asks if there are reference materials for using AI in genealogical and historical research. (Not...