Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 9 January 2018


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

1)  News Articles:


RootsWeb Updates Users on Return of Service 


"Finding Your Roots'" Henry Louis Gates Jr. to Keynote RootsTech 2018

*  Celtic Genealogy Cruise announced for 2019

*  Here's why genealogists can't get birth certificates in Jersey City

*  Newest In-Brief Research Guide: “Turning Your Family Tree into a Family Treasure” by Christine Woodcock

2)  Record Databases:

*  January Update: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 34 Titles!

Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 31 December 2017 to 6 January 2018

100 New Canada Online Historical Newspaper Links Added

Advantage Preservation Adds 1 Million Historical Newspaper Pages - December, 2017
3)  Genealogy Education:


 GeneaWebinars Calendar

 Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for January 2018

*  FamilyTreeDNA, FamilySearch, and 2018 Brick Wall Webinars

*  Family History Fanatics eConference - 19 January 2018

*  Archives Skill Building Boot Camp – Saturday, January 20, 2018

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 10 January 2018, 5 p.m. PST:  Quality, Time and Completion: Developing a Research Plan (Part One), by J. Mark Lowe.

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 10 January 2018, 11 a.m. PST:  Full Circle: Tracing the Descendants of a Slaveholding Ancestor, by Nicka Smith

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  (#160) A Review of Stories from Ipswich

*  Genealogy Connection Podcast:  #035 - Ed Thompson, Creator of Evidentia Software

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  New Hinting System Observation

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Which Hint Do You Merge

*  NextGen Genealogy Network YouTube Channel:  Faces of NextGen Live - Becks Kobel

*  Ancestry.com YouTube Channel:  Genealogy Goals for 2018

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  How does Your X chromosome Compare to Your Siblings?

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 8 Jan 2018

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, January 9,  2018


5)  Neat Stuff:


A Book Aboard Blackbeard’s Flagship

*  A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics

*  Finding Family: Sisters Trace Roots to Italy

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 5 January 2018?


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