Because We Can

Not interested in genealogy or family history? Proceed with caution. My turn for the morning photo out the window. This is one of those, if there was time to post process it, which there isn't, I could have lightened the very bottom a little and slightly darkened the buildings on the other side of the river. It is something I might have done in the past so I guess you could say I'm just getting old and lazy. Or you could say I just spend my time doing what's important which is having a great time in Europe. This year I've opted for the latter and am happier for it. To be blunt about it, there were a lot of things wrong about this year's conference on the technical side particularly. There is a speaker standing behind the podium. Obviously these were left over podiums from talks from NBA players, not normal people. We've joked in the past about how tall the average Dutch person is so maybe these podiums are considered normal sized here. Slide from o...

These post is genealogy focused. You have been warned. Hard to believe, but we stepped in this morning so Linda took the morning photo out of our window. I warned above this was a genealogy focused post I really is just about all it's about. Jeff Rasmussen of Legacy Family Tree and Legacy Webinars introducing Gilad Japhet, founder and owner of MyHeritage who would give the Keynote talk. Gilad. He has the real deal, a genealogist who founded and runs a genealogy company as a genealogy company. Unlike the CEO of Ancestry who before becoming CEO was the CEO of the toy company, Mattel. MyHeritage totally dominates the genealogy business in Europe and has his eyes set on ever widening that lead. Two new acquisitions announced by Gilad. What they are working on for ethnicity of students will definitely make them the leaders in that area. They are also doing some amazing things with free text recognition of newspapers and it was interesting hearing ...