Wife of Google co-founder wants to test DNA of 98 per cent of the World!

Early spitters received a beanie.

"Genealogy is a global phenomenon and ultimately we're looking at the worldwide stage." Anne Wojcicki Co-founder of biotech company 23andme, is the wife of the billionaire co-founder of Google, Sergey Brin.

"We'd like to reach 98pc of the world, that is our goal," says Wojcicki 33, and her 47-year-old business partner Linda Avey reckon their service represents the future of social networking.

In the same way that the likes of MySpace, Facebook, You Tube and Flickr allow users to share information in the shape of videos, photos or instant messaging. Wojcicki and Avey can see a time where people worldwide will share and compare their genetic details.

It only costs a thousand bucks to have the DNA test through 23andme, but the founders expect the price to drop soon. Google, the company, did make a preliminary investment in the startup company, along with some other investors, however Google is keeping "Hands Off" the operations of 23andme.

Anne Wojcicki did say that she would like to hire her husband Sergey. "We're doing our best to poach him. We've even offered to double his salary to two dollars, but so far we have not been successful in luring him away from Google."

Read all about it in the "Telegraph."

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Gorgeous Photographs On-line.

What do these photographs have in common? Read below...






These gorgeous images are part of a pilot program between the U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) and Flickr.com an image sharing Social Networking website.

LOC & Flickr, what a concept! But when you think of it, you realize that this could be a VERY GOOD THING!

The Library of Congress now has its own Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/. The photos there are for users to tag, comment about, and provide more information on.

The LOC collection of photographs covers a lot of ground but they do have two sets of photos available: 1930s-1940s in Color, and News in the 19teens. Browsing through all of the photographs you will find all kinds of topics, from smokestacks to medals to cowboys to baseball players.

It will be noted that the catalog listing from LOC states "No known copyright restrictions." However if you plan on using these to illustrate your book, genealogy, website, or whatever, it would be a smart thing to research that part further.

So check these images out. This is American History in pictures, and glorious ones at that!





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Cliff Lamere Gathers No Moss, Let Him Teach You How.

Cliff Lamere, genealogy's friend, is teaching an evening course called "Genealogy in New York State."

It will begin on Wednesday January 30 and run for eight weeks. It will be a continuing education course taught 7-8:30 p.m. at South Colonie High School on Sand Creek Rd near Colonie Center.

Course description:
"Learn to find genealogical records using the Internet and local venues within 40 miles, with an emphasis on local and state Dutch history as it applies to records. Subjects will include: accuracy,census research, NYS library and archive resources, health vital records, wills, church records, cemeteries, obituaries, directories,
copyright, and more."

Full program catalog at http://www.southcolonieschools.org/docs/pdf/cont/ContEdFall07.pdf

Cliff operates a fabulous website, "Albany & Eastern New York Genealogy," at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/

On a personal note, Cliff announced this for "inexperienced genealogists," however in my opinion, genealogists at all levels would be able to gain from his vast experience.

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Save a Rubber Tree. Don't wear out your Sneakers.

This is not genealogy related, but should be of interest to any computer user.

Here is a very handy gadget, FREE (my favorite word,) that will save you a lot of time and trouble. The Internet Clipboard. cl1p.net is a website where all you do is register, get a user name and password, and then you can share files between any computers of your choosing through the Internet.

Here at Upstate New York Genealogy we keep a bunch of little USB thumbdrives laying around, and when we need to transfer one file to another, save it to the thumbdrive, insert drive in other computer, open the file, easy right? (Oh did I tell you that I hate installing ethernet networks?)

Well cl1p.net to the rescue! Get your user name and password as described, then all you have to do is enter a url that looks like this: http://cl1p.net/[nameofyourfile]/

A window opens, and you paste in anything you want to up to 2 Megs in size (at this writing,) click SAVE and you are done. Open that same url from any other computer and there is your file!

Painless and no more sneaker net to boot! Cl1p.net tells us they are working on new features, possibly larger files, and more, so tune in, drop out, (oops, that is taken.)



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Heritage Books - A Great Source

Heritage Books in Westminster, Maryland is a major publisher of books relating to Genealogy and Local History. Many of the books that they produce are in limited quantities and when offered you should purchase a copy when you find something of interest, as production may be out of stock after a while.

Here are some of the current titles that relate to New York:

1850 Census for the Town of Howard, Steuben County, New York, and Genealogical Data on the Families. ---
A Bibliography of New York State Communities, Third Edition ---
A Collection of Abstracts from Otsego County, New York, Newspaper Obituaries, 1808-1875. ---
A Dangerous Woman: New York's First Lady Liberty: The Life and Times of Lady Deborah Moody. ---
A Directory of Cayuga County Residents Who Supported Publication of the History of Cayuga County. ---
A Documentary History of Yonkers, New York, Volume Two, Part One: The Unsettled Years, 1853-1860. ---
A Genealogical Dictionary of Wright Families in the Lower Hudson Valley to 1800. ---
A Genealogy Of The Family Of Richard Howell Of Mattituck, Southold Town Long Island, New York. ---
A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland's Part in America's Struggle for Liberty. ---
A History of Deerpark in Orange County, New York. ---


Take a look at their website and catalog. (There are lots of genealogies!)

Don't forget to let our readers know when you find something really good at Heritage Books by adding your comment to the bottom of this Blog. We want to know what you think.

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