Genealogy News Bytes - 24 October 2017

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

1)  News Bytes:

*  You could be more 'Neanderthal' than you thought: Modern Europeans have TWICE as much DNA from ancient cousins than first believed

*  Scroll through Colonial life

2)  Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 15 to 21 October 2017

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Databases - Week of 15 to 21 October 2017

*  22 Historic Newspaper Digitization Projects Creating More Online Collections - 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

*  Extreme Genes Radio Show/Podcast:  Episode 211 – Ordinary Person Makes Extraordinary Find / The Archive Lady Returns With More New Finds

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems Podcast:  Episode 210

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Do I add an Unknown Name from DNA Results ?

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  Mondays with Myrt - 23 Oct 2017

*  Ancestry.com YouTube Channel:  AncestryDNA: You Won't Match Everyone You Are Related To

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Taking Advantage of Record Hints on the Family Tree Person Page - Kathryn Grant

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Family History Activities with The Family History Guide - Bob Taylor

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Who is the priority in genetic testing? - A Segment of DNA

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube Channel:  AF-149: Why You Should Absolutely Take the Time to Document Your Family History Research

*  The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube Channel:  Chit Chat Live: Finding Your Roots, Episodes 2 and 3

4)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, October 24,  2017

*  Halloween Competition: Win a Complete MyHeritage Subscription!

5)  Neat Stuff:

*  Americans are pack rats. Swedes have the solution: ‘Death cleaning.’

*  Old English Money

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 20 October 2017?

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