Monthly Archives: July 2020

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Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 7 – Early Rock Island County Newspapers – Pre 1850

Volume 7 is now available for purchase in our RICIGS Shop.  The volume is Free to members (login required) Many legal notices from surrounding counties were published in early Rock Island County newspapers. There are many items from Henry, Mercer, and Warren Counties, and fewer items are from Lee, Jo […]

Virginia Publick Claims

Virginia Revolutionary Publick Claims was originally published as a series of booklets, one for each county.  These booklets have been combined into a three-volume series with an index covering all counties at the back of volume three. These records were compiled and transcribed by Janice L Abercrombie and Richard Slatten. […]

Genealogical Abstracts from Rock Island County Illinois Newspapers Volume 23 – Rock Island Evening ARGUS, 1869 and The Rock Island and Moline DAILY UNION, 1869

NEW for July 2020Volume 23 is available Free to members (login required) and is also available for purchase in the RICIGS Shop. Abstracts in this volume include items of genealogical interest. Only some of the lists of letters at the Moline and Rock Island post offices have been included. 311 […]

DNA Musings no. 14

The Future of DNA Testing What will DNA testing look like in 10 years? This question was posed to a panel of experts including Blaine Bettinger, Roberta Estes, and Prof. Yaniv Erlich during the 2019 MyHeritage Live conference. Automated analysis of DNA results Artificial intelligence (automation) will be used extensively […]