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• MyHeritage announced that it has reached the
  milestone of one billion MyHeritage.com profiles. The billion profiles are in nearly
  23 million family trees. MyHeritage.com has more than 63 million registered users
  who add about a million new profiles every day. About half of the billion profiles
  belong to living people.

• Elyse Doerflinger of Los Angeles and A.C. Ivory of Salt Lake City, both college students,
  have received the Suzanne
  Winsor Freeman Memorial Student Genealogy Grant.

  Each received a $500 award. Family
  Tree Magazine interviewed both in an article highlighting young genealogists.
  Freeman’s family and friends established the grant program after her death in 2010
  to assist young students in advancing their genealogical education.

• Virtual pin map website Uencounter.me, which
  lets you “pin” residences, vacation spots and other places to a map you can share
  with others, has created a Genealogy pin. You can use it to pin ancestral hometowns
  and migrations on an Ancestry map, and see others’ nearby pins. Read
  the full announcement from Uencounter.me here.

• The Michigan
  Department of Education and the Michigan
  Department of Natural Resources have agreed to move selected Family Heritage Collections
  currently housed in the Library of Michigan into the reading room of the Archives
  of Michigan. The move will take place this summer.

  The Library of Michigan was dissolved in 2009 along with the rest of the state’s Department
  of History, Arts and Libraries. The library’s functions became part of the Department
  of Education, and the Archives of Michigan is now part of the Department of Natural
  Resources. You
  can read more about the move in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources’ announcement.