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• This week MyHeritage.com announced the launch
  of its automatic Record Matching premium service. The service automatically
  searches the 4 billion records on MyHeritage.com websites (which now include World
  Vital Records and FamilyLink) for matches
  to people in your MyHeritage family tree. MyHeritage users will receive weekly email
  updates of new Record Matches and can visit MyHeritage.com to review, filter, sort,
  confirm and reject matches.

On his
Genea-Musings blog, Randy Seaver has some detailed posts about using Record Matching
to find information.

• Genealogy search engine Mocavo has acquired ReadyMicro,
  a company that develops document digitization technology. On
  its blog, Mocavo says it’s planning
  several exciting announcements in the coming weeks about offering searchable records
  and forming partnerships to digitize organizations’ records “at a very low cost and
  even, in many cases, at no cost.” Stay tuned …

• British burial records site DeceasedOnline has
  added records from London’s Charlton Cemetery, opened in 1855. Records include scans
  of burial registers and some photographs. You can see
  a list of all the cemeteries included on the site here. You can search the site
  and get basic search results free; purchase credits to view additional details and
  records.

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