Meet Your Match: How MyHeritage SmartMatches and Record Matches Can Help You Overcome Brick Walls

Date:

Saturday, Mar 23

Time:

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Room:

255A

Session ID:

B31

Type:

Presentation

Difficulty:

All

Track:

Genealogist

Syllabi:

Meet_your_Match (DOC)
Meet_your_Match (PDF)

Description

Smart Matching technology intelligently connects individuals in millions of trees, while helps genealogists discover, communicate and collaborate with their peers all over the world. A new design and nicer tree comparison allows sorting, ordering, confirm or reject matches, commenting, sourcing and coping peoples details and photos.
Record Matching, a new technology to automatically find historical records for your family trees, in MyHeritage growing collection of 5+ billions of records: newspaper articles, books and free text content. Record Matching is a time-saver by research every individual in every family tree and consolidate the relevant found in one interactive report.

Presenters

Daniel Horowitz

Daniel Horowitz is MyHeritage Chief Genealogist, providing key contributions in the areas of product development, customer support and public affairs; contacting genealogy societies, bloggers and media. Daniel is also heading the company’s Translation department, where he has been instrumental in increasing MyHeritage’s global language support. A power genealogist, researcher and lecturer himself, Daniel holds board level positions in a few genealogical societies. With a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a Specialization in Education & Management of Educational Institutions, he has a deep understanding of the needs of today’s family history enthusiasts.