Manatee Genealogical Society

12/31/2025

Today is the last day for our early bird registration! SIgn-up for annual seminar on January 24th and you could win a free membership. Sign up at: https://mgsfl.org/cpage.php?pt=82 We hope to see you there!

12/24/2025

We want to thank all our members and friends for a wonderful year. We hope your holidays are full of new family memories.

12/01/2025

Are you fishing in all the ponds? Testing at MyHeritage might find that elusive match that identifies a brick wall ancestor. MyHeritage is the most international DNA testing site. Find cousins overseas! This price is too good to pass up!

12/01/2025

Too true!

11/30/2025

Shopping for your genealogy wish list? Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are still available. A few end today! FindMyPast 40%off; Amazon Kindle double rewards points. Many go through Monday including DNA kits, and many memberships and subscriptions. What do you need to move your research forward?

11/28/2025

Black Friday means great deals on all things Genealogy. Here is one of those great deals. Time to buy a Y-DNA test? Or Mitochondrial test? Or upgrade a test? FTDNA deals ….

11/24/2025

Legacy Webinars is having their massive Black Friday sale! You can get a full year of unlimited access to webinars—plus over 2,500 other genealogy classes—it is the best deal of the year.

The sale ends Sunday, Nov 30th. Check it out here:

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11/20/2025

Black Friday sales will provide lots of deals for family history buffs. How about this one?l

11/11/2025

Do you have an English or Welsh will that you have thought about ordering? It's time to place that order! Act before 17 November, when the price of ordering English and Welsh wills, from 1858 onward, increases from £1.50 to £16. £1.50 is a real bargain for what can be a multi-page document. Now is the time. Go to https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate using the link below.

Search online for a will, grant of representation or probate document for a death in or after 1858

10/14/2025

Wow - this is big! MyHeritage announced that they will be moving their standard DNA testing kits to Whole Genome Sequencing

Whole Genome Sequencing reads almost the entire human genetic code, covering around 3 billion base pairs (nucleotides). This is superior to the standard genotyping arrays used by most consumer DNA tests, including MyHeritage until recently, which read only about 700,000 base pairs.

Whole Genome Sequencing is now being applied to most new MyHeritage DNA kits currently being processed at the lab, and to every new MyHeritage DNA kit sold moving forward.

10/10/2025

Ancestry released a new DNA origins update today with 68 new and updated European regions. It is more specific than in the past.... did your percentages change?