Friday, October 20, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 20 October 2017


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

1)  News Bytes:


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2017 International Genetic Genealogy Conference is December 9-10 in San Diego

Last Call for Rockstar Genealogists Voting

2)  Record Databases:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 20 October 2017

*  NY State Historic Newspapers Adds 2,000,000 Pages - August/September, 2017

3)  Genealogy Education:


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 25 October 2017, 11 a.m. PDT:  Midwestern & Plains States Level Census Records, by Paula Stuart-Warren.

*  NARA’s 2017 Virtual Genealogy Fair is coming up - Wednesday, 25 October 2017

*  MyHeritage’s One-Day Genealogy Seminar October 29 in Israel to be Broadcast Online

*  FREE Webinar From SCGS: November 4, 2017:  Jennifer Alford, PE, PTOE: We're Here in America, Now What?

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Databases, Search Engines, and the Genealogical Proof Standard by David Ouimette

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  The WPA: Sources for Your Genealogy, by Gena Philibert-Ortega

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Beyond the Docket Books: Digging for Gold in Probate Packets, by Chris Staats

*  NYG&B YouTube Channel:  NYG&B Live - D. Joshua Taylor and Susan R. Miller Answer Your Questions

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  GenDoc 6 - Determining Publication Status

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Back2Basics - Back Up / Sync / Back Up

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  The Digital Race for Genealogy Books and Records, by James Tanner

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Finding Duplicates when FamilySearch Says There are No Duplicates, by Judy Sharp

*  American Ancestors YouTube Channel:  City and Rural Directories: More than Just Names, by Rhonda McClure

*  FamilySearch YouTube Channel:  Family Tree Mobile App

*  MyHeritage YouTube Channel:  Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid get their MyHeritage DNA results live on Good Morning Britain

4)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, October 20,  2017


5)  Neat Stuff:

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Historical Body Mechanics: Walk Medieval!

*  91 years later, mystery solved

Scandinavian Settlements - The Viking Age

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 17 October 2017?


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