GRanDMA-OnLine Occasional Newsletter.
Ken Ratzlaff, September, 2025
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GRanDMA 2509, for September, Released
GRanDMA version 25-09 is active on grandmaOnline.org including over
10,700 new or updated individual records.
After a new release, you can check if there have been new additions or changes to birth or death information in your ancestry or
in your descendants' charts.
Read more detail about Changes Lists.
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Enhancement to GMOL Searches
GMOL now makes more extensive searches for names.
When using GMOL, you are already accustomed to searching by entering given names and surnames; it even accommodates
variant spellings of those names.
However, GMOL only searched for the first and last name as found in GRanDMA. Some individuals also record a
Preferred Middle Name, a Nickname, or a changed name.
New changes to GMOL will search for those names as well.
Read more . . .
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Mennonite DNA is Looking for
Data from Males with Less-Common Low German Names
Mennonite DNA is looking for participants in
its y-dna project.
y-dna data can hold clues to the origins of Low-German family names. If you are male with a
less-common Low-German name, Mennonite DNA would like your participation in a y-DNA data study.
Follow this link to learn more
about Mennonite DNA and this y-DNA project in particular.
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New GRanDMA Database Manager in Development
Managing the GRanDMA database has been a challenge for decades. Sure, there is software for that, but none that
satisfies all of our needs: over a million and a half records; more than one editor at the same time;
a good tool to merge in a contributed database.
An entirely new platform for GRanDMA, the GRanDMA Database Manager (GDM), is in development by Tony Isaac.
Read More. . .
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GRanDMA and GMOL: Part of Mennonite Genealogy, Inc.
Last year, the group responsible for the GRanDMA database took over the name
“Mennonite Genealogy, Inc.”
and incorporated as a non-profit in California with its own
Board of Directors.
MGI’s purview includes GRanDMA,
GRanDMA Grants,
GMOL,
Mennonite Genealogical Resources,
Mennonite DNA,
and the GDM (GRanDMA Database Manager).
These organizational changes won’t affect your use of GRanDMA or GMOL. You might also like to explore the other MGI projects.
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