Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 10 October 2017


Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last three days include:

1)  News Bytes:


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Global Online Event Aims to Make It Easier to Find Ancestors

*  Last Chance (?) to Sign Up for an 8-Night Eastern Caribbean Genealogy Cruise

Rockstar Genealogist Nominations are Open 

2)  Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 1 to 7 October 2017

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Databases - Week of 1 to 7 October 2017

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 11 a.m. PDT:  Southern States Migration Patterns, by Mary Hill

*  Upcoming ISBIGFH Webinar - Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 4 p.m. PDT:  Using FamilySearch to Find Your British Isles Ancestors, by Peggy Lauritzen.

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 13 October 2017, 11 a.m. PDT:  Is Your Society Growing? Social Media may be your saving grace, by Dear MYRTLE

*  FREE Webinar From SCGS: October 18, 2017 - Dr. David R. Dowell, PhD & Elizabeth Balkite: Family History + Health History Lead to Personalized Healthcare

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Sweden's Multiple Naming Systems and How They Changed in the 1800s, by Martha Garrett, CG

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Families That Came Out of Slavery, by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Using Timelines for Correlation and Analysis, by Jill Morelli, CG

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Land, Licenses, Love Gone Wrong, and Other Assorted Courthouse Records, by Ann Staley, CG, CGL

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Systematically Using Autosomal DNA Test Results to Help Break Through Genealogical Brick Walls, by Tom Jones, PhD, CG, CGL

*  Ask Maureen Video: Episode 8: Google’s “We Wear Culture!,” by Maureen Taylor

*  Ask Maureen Video:  Episode 9 – Be Prepared. Don’t Let Disaster Take Away Your Family History, by Maureen Taylor

*  Extreme Genes Radio Show/Podcast:  Episode 209 – My Ancestor Was America’s First Serial Killer

*  Genealogy Journeys Podcast:  #39 - Native American Day

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  How to Transfer a FTM2014 file on one computer to FTM2017 on anotherFTM2017 - Find Duplicate People #2 - Merge Duplicate People

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 9 Oct 2017

*  NextGen Genealogy Network:  Faces of NextGen Live - Melissa Finlay

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  To Spit or Not to Spit... Who should not take a DNA test - A Segment of DNA

*  Genealogy Magazine YouTube Channel:  Episode 4: Longevity Lies

4)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, October 10,  2017


*  FREE E-Book: The Best of Discover Your Roots from Family Tree Magazine

FREE NARA 2017 Virtual Genealogy Fair (save the date -- 25 October 2017)

5)  Neat Stuff:

Radiooooo.com - Music of Times Past 


Tips for Using GEDMatch

*  GenealogyBank, Early American Colonial History Timeline Infographic

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 6 October 2017?


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