Back in 2008 the National Institute of Health in the US did a study that discovered that knowledge of their Family History helps your kids be better adjusted than those who did not, "We report that knowledge of family history is significantly correlated with internal locus of control, higher self-esteem, better family functioning, greater family cohesiveness, lower levels of anxiety, and lower incidence of behavior problems." Does this sound like a Win-Win to anyone else but me?...

Happy Immigrant Heritage Month! We have celebrated the importance of immigrants to America's shores since 2014. And since is our 250th American Birthday we should celebrate our immigrant heritages in a big way! MyHeritage is offering free access to all of their immigration records this week from Monday June 1 through Friday, June 5th so we can search for info about when and where our ancestors first arrived here. The Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower in 1620, one of the first among many...

MyHeritage has installed its own document transcriber for our use like Ancestry and FamilySearch. The FS Full Text has been more user friendly for me than Ancestry's, but this new Scribe AI Transcriber really impressed me right off the bat. Plus, you can download the app to use on your phone too! Like the graphic shown above says, you can upload any letter, document or photo, but the drag and drop screen is a little confusing as it says "upload image." My PDF was readily scanned and...