Discover Your “Musical DNA”

Dick Eastman · September 24, 2018 · DNA · 5 Comments from his EASTMAN'S GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER AT https://blog.eogn.com/2018/09/24/discover-your-musical-dna/

An online advertisement caught my eye: “Spotify & AncestryDNA Users Can Now Generate Personalized Playlists Based On Their DNA Heritage Results.”

Really? My musical DNA? What is that?

An article by Kaitlyn Wylde in the Bustle.com web site states:

AncestryDNA has joined forces with Spotify to create the ultimate personal playlist curation experience. And by “personal”, I mean the playlist that this partnership offers you will resonate with you very deeply — aka, the music is literally tuned to your DNA. Yes, using your AncestryDNA results, Spotify will put together a collection of songs that are based on your heritage. If you’re in the market for a closer connection to your music library, this special feature will definitely hit the spot. I mean, how much closer can you get than sharing DNA?

Starting on September 19, customers who have received AncestryDNA test results can turn to Spotify to find carefully selected playlists that correspond with their ethnic background as disclosed in their DNA test results.

OK, I thought I had heard of everything but this is new to me. If you are interested in your “musical DNA,” check out the article at: http://bit.ly/2NZXlat.

Go to http://rootsweb.blog/2018/08/27/homepages-and-freepages-urls-are-working-again/

Homepages and Freepages URLs Are Working Again

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Anne Mitchell

Homepages Hosted Sites

If you had a homepages hosted web site (all of which should be restored), you will find your hompages URL will work.
For example, if you site is ~aihbt:
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aihbt
now works, as does
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~aihbt
You can also use https if you prefer:
https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aihbt/

Freepages Hosted Sites

If you had a freepages hosted site (and your site has been restored) you should be able to get to your content again.
For example, if your account is gillespiehistory and if you use the URL:
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/genealogy
You will be taken to the contents of your genealogy_html directory. Alternatively, you can also use the old URL:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory
which will automatically redirect you to the new version of the URL. Just substitute the name of your account into the URL.
All of the old URLs will work and redirect to the new versions, you may use which ever one you wish:

college-alumni: http://freepages.college-alumni.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/college-alumni)
computers: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/computers)
family: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/family)
folklore: http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/folklore)
history: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/history)
military: http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/military)
misc: http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/misc)
nostalgia: http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/nostalgia)
religions: http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/religions)
school-alumni: http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory (redirects to http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/school-alumni)

You may use https with the new version of the URLs, but not the old version.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gillespiehistory/history
We have no plans to make https work with the old freepages URLs.

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