A New McDonald’s restaurant would spill onto a former graves where some burials are still in place underground, experts have warned, Kent Online reported. The development land in Dover is next to church ruins and has already proved controversial with the fast food chain even calling on the community to support its proposals. But heritage […] The post McDonald’s Would Disturb Burials Underneath Former St. James’ Church Graveyard first appeared on Family Tree ..read more

When it comes to skin cancer, most people think of warnings about sunburn and tanning beds. Thoughts of inherited risks are reserved for diseases like breast cancer or colon cancer, Cleveland Clinic reported. Physicians rarely order genetic screens to assess risk factors for patients with a family history of melanoma because, according to previous, limited […] The post Inherited Risk May Play A Larger Role In Melanoma Than Previously Believed first appeared on Family Tree ..read more

With all of 23andMe’s services, you’re in charge of your genetic data. That means we let you decide what information you want to learn and what information you want to share. However, you need to be informed about the risks of sharing your genetic data with other services. This includes understanding the implications if you decide to upload DNA to 23andMe or any third-party sources. After receiving personalized genetic reports from 23andMe, customers can choose to download their DNA data. Some customer may do this to upload their data to third-party services, which offer to interpret their ra ..read more

In June 2024, we published 200 million historical records from 13 collections. The newly added records are from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Norway. They include birth records, marriage and divorce records, death and burial records, census records, obituary records, parish baptisms and marriages, prisoner albums, alien immigration case files, and more. Some of the collections also include images. Here are some more details about each of the collections added in June. Australia Obituary Index from OldNews.com This collection contains obituary records extracted from newspapers publ ..read more

California plans to spend up to $12 million on reparations legislation under a budget signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, marking a milestone in the state’s efforts to atone for a legacy of racism and discrimination against Black Californians, AP reported. The reparations funding in the $297.9 billion budget Newsom signed over the weekend does not specify what programs the money would go toward. Lawmakers are not considering widespread direct payments to Black Californians this year. That state Legislature is weighing proposals to issue a formal apology for California’s role in perpetuati ..read more

Your age is just a number. It doesn’t tell you much about how old or young you feel or the health of your body. Maybe there’s a better way, one that offers a path to better health while encouraging you to stay young at heart, 23andMe wrote. 23andMe launched a new Biological Age feature as part of our advanced health membership, 23andMe+ Total Health. The new feature uses blood-based biomarkers to calculate your biological age.  The Biological Age feature offers a new perspective on your health and longevity potential. You can’t change when you were born but can change your biological age ..read more

Do you like volunteering on FamilySearch.org? FamilySearch Get Involved has added more opportunities for you to help discover their ancestors — more than 100 million, in fact. That’s the number of new English record images available in Quick Name Review on Get Involved. What’s even more exciting is that these images are of 19th-century land records and deeds from he United States. Having English records from such an early time period is something we haven’t had on Quick Name Review since the US 1950 census. Why This Collection of Images Matters This collection includes documentation of enslav ..read more

June is Caribbean American Heritage Month. In celebration, 23andMe is adding 20 new historical individuals from the ancient Caribbean to Historical Matches, our new 23andMe+ Premium membership feature that may genetically connect you to one or more of hundreds of historical people across the globe. The first evidence of human occupation of the Caribbean dates approximately 6,000 years ago, when stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers migrated into the region.  Around 3,500 years later, a second wave of migration into the region of people who practiced intensive agriculture and predominantly us ..read more

California state Senator Steven Bradford has announced that three reparations bills he authored had passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. (Via Microsoft Start) Senate Bill 1403 would create the California American Freedmen Affairs Agency, tasked with helping administer reparations. The government agency would have its own Genealogy Office and Office of Legal Affairs to support reparations claims. It would also have the power to oversee and monitor existing state agencies and departments’ implementation of reparations that fall within their scope. More about Senate Bill 1403 Former l ..read more

A genomic analysis co-led by NIH suggests that the DNA a woman is born with may influence how her cells respond to chromosomal abnormalities acquired with aging. Researchers have identified inherited genetic variants that may predict the loss of one copy of a woman’s two X chromosomes as she ages, a phenomenon known as mosaic loss of chromosome X or mLOX. These genetic variants may play a role in promoting abnormal blood cells (that have only a single copy of chromosome X) to multiply, which may lead to several health conditions, including cancer. The study, co-led by researchers at the Natio ..read more