Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 17 May 2017


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop today include:

*  Amy Johnson Crow has a new Kindle e-book out called 31 Days to Better Genealogy available on Amazon.  See http://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/31-days-to-better-genealogy-book/.

*  Today's Family Tree Webinar was Thomas MacEntee's Remember Me: Lifestreaming and the Modern Genealogist.  You can watch it for free for the next seven days without a FTW subscription or any time with an FTW subscription.

*  Thursday's (18 May) Family Tree Webinar is Geoff Rasmussen and Michael Mansfield on Hands-On with Legacy Hints: Using MyHeritage Record Matches and Smart Matches.  Register now.

*  Findmypast has added more images to the PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) - see list at https://blog.findmypast.com/new-images-added-to-the-periodical-source-index-persi-2410055893.html

*  Genealogical.com has published Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Third Edition Revised with many new and modified source citation models.  

*  The Family Nexus mobile app has been updated - DearMYRTLE has the latest newsletter at  http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2017/05/update-family-nexus-app.html

*  Advance Registration for all ticketed events at the Southern California Genealogical Society Genetic Genealogy and Jamboree 2017 (Burbank, June 8 to 11, 2017) closes on 20 May 2017.  See  https://genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com/2017/05/advance-registration-closes-saturday.html

*  DearMYRTLE has scheduled Hangouts on Air for the rest of May - see list at  http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/2017/05/register-now-dearmyrtles-may-2017.html.

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1 comment:

Wendy Callahan said...

Oooh, snagged Amy's book with my Kindle Unlimited subscription. Thanks for letting us know it's available!