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Comment by Daniel Horowitz on February 4, 2010 at 4:46am

MyHeritage.com acquires major family network OSN (Verwandt.de) to accelerate building the world’s family graph

With 13 million family trees, 47 million members and 530 million profiles, MyHeritage.com becomes the largest international site dedicated to families on the web

MyHeritage.com, the company that connects families to their past and to one another, today announced a significant expansion of its global family network through the acquisition of the Hamburg-based OSN Group, which operates a network of 10 market-leading family sites, including Verwandt.de (Germany), Moikrewni.pl (Poland) and Dynastree.com (USA).

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Comment by Daniel Horowitz on December 21, 2009 at 4:16am

Dear friends,

On December 15, Beit Hatfutsot (Museum of the Jewish People) &
MyHeritage announce a partnership to help preserve -for the future-
digital information about the Jewish people.

This partnership, with your help, will add millions of data elements to
the existing multimedia database at the Museum.

To participate: Go to the special MyHeritage.com page
http://www.myheritage.com/BH to accept the terms & conditions and create
a FREE account to start building your family tree. MyHeritage will
periodically transfer the data to Beit Hatfutsot to update the database.

You and your family are part of the history of the Jewish people. By
sharing your family tree with the Museum, preserve your family’s memory
and history forever.

Please help everyone learn about this project through providing
information on your Website, in your blog, at your synagogues, Jewish
schools, Jewish organizations and any other media or group that might be
interested to learn about this project.

For more information please visit
http://www.myheritage.com/blogs/genealogyblog/2009/12/saving_the_tr...

For the complete press release click here
http://web009.myheritage.com/public/updates/MyHeritage_BeitHatfusot...

Best wishes and many thanks
Daniel Horowitz
Genealogy and Translation Manager
MyHeritage.com

Comment by Schelly Talalay Dardashti on July 18, 2009 at 11:32am

Tracing the Tribe just posted "New Mexico: Secret ancestry, hidden health risks" which covers the ramifications of knowing one's ancestry. While it covers the search for Jewish ancestry by individuals, it also focuses on breast (and other forms of) cancer resulting from the so-called Ashkenazi breast cancer gene mutation. This identification is wrong, as the gene is Jewish, dating from 2,000 years ago, long before there were Ashkenazim or Sephardim.

There are links to some interesting video interviews, to the New Mexico DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com and to additional genetic information.

Read the post here: http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-mexico-secret-ancestry-hidden.html

The bottom line: Knowing your ancestry can save your life.

Schelly Talalay Dardashti