

Discovering Your Family History: 7 unique technologies
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by Esther ·
- September 6, 2015
- · Family History
MyHeritage Founder and CEO Gilad Japhet recently presented a keynote address to hundreds of attendees of the IAJGS 2015 conference in Israel. He discussed “Seven Unique Technologies for Discovering Your Family History.”
His talk is a great introduction to understanding MyHeritage technologies, Smart Matches, Record Matches, Newspaper Matches and Instant Discoveries. Gilad described new technologies that MyHeritage has recently released, such as Global Name Translation, as well as new technologies that we are about to release.
Click on the video below to watch the full talk:
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amamun
September 10, 2015
very nice.