Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:
1) News Bytes:
* Ancestry Continues to Grow Senior Leadership Team, Appoints Evan Wittenberg as Chief People Officer
* In-Depth Genealogist Introduces their Newest Venture: IDG ACADEMY
* We’ve Surpassed 8 Billion Records on SuperSearch! (from MyHeritage)
2) Record Databases:
* Added or Updated Ancestry.com Databases - Week of 23 to 29 July 2017
* Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 23 to 29 July 2017
* Added or Updated Record Collections on MyHeritage - 1 August 2017
* Elephind Update - July 2017
3) Genealogy Education:
* Upcoming Family Tree Webinars webinar, 2 August, 11 a.m. PDT: Tracing Your West Country Ancestors, by Kirsty Gray.
* Upcoming SCGS Webinar, 5 August, 10 a.m. PDT: Using atDNA to Verify and Expand Genealogy, by Emily Aulicino
* Archived Family Tree Webinar: Using Manuscript Collections, by Mary Hill, AG.
* Archived Family Tree Webinars: Texas: The Lone Star State with Teri E. Flack - Summer Spectacular Series Now Available
* Angela Walton Raji's African Roots Podcast: African Roots Podcast Episode #418 July 28, 2017 (click the Play button just below the post title)
* Scott Fisher's Extreme Genes Podcast: Episode 201 – SAR President General Talks Revolution / Breakthrough! Name Change? No Birth Town? No Problem!
* Russ Worthington's YouTube Channel: FTM2017 - Little File Clean Up
* Ancestral Findings' YouTube Channel: AF-137: The Dangers of Being Careless on Citing Resources in Your Genealogy Research
* Nicka Sewell-Smith's YouTube Channel: 3 Minutes at MAAGI
4) Genealogy Bargains:
* Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday August 1, 2017
5) Neat Stuff:
* American History Timeline
* History's Most Significant Journeys #Infographic
* Cosmic Eye amazing video
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