Friday, October 6, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 6 October 2017


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

1)  News Bytes:


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Gold Olympian Scott Hamilton to Keynote RootsTech 2018

*  Geneanet.org adds automatic record matching

*  The RootsTech 2018 Schedule is Out! Time to Start Planning Classes!

2)  Record Databases:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 6 October 2017

*  British Newspaper Archive passes 22 milion pages

*  US & UK Newspapers, Vital Records & More! New Genealogy Records Online This Week

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for October 2017

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  No Easy Button: Using “Immersion Genealogy” to Understand Your Ancestors, by Lisa Alzo

*  FREE Webinar From SCGS: October 7, 2017 - Sara Gredler, MS: Think Like a Historian: Why Do People Do What They Do?

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  No Easy Button: Using “Immersion Genealogy” to Understand Your Ancestors, by Lisa Alzo\

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  How to Scan an Elephant: Digitizing Awkward Artifacts from Artifact to Zombie, by Denise May Levenick

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast: #333 - 2017 October 3

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  FTM2017 - People Workspace; User Question: also Known as AKAFTM2017 - Finding Duplicate People, #1

*  DearMYRTLE's YouTube Channel:  GenDoc 4 - Assembling ComponentsWACKY Wednesday - Watermarks & Source Labels

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Family Tree Reason Statements Made Easy - Kathryn Grant;  Basic Series: Part 4 - Adding Sources to the Family Tree - James Tanner;  Ancestry Boutique Smaller Collections by Joyce Whiting;  Common Law Marriage and Genealogy - James Tanner

*  Family history Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Using Find A Record - Genealogy Tools

4)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, October 6,  2017


FREE Ebook: 52 Weeks of Genealogy – Projects for Every Week of the Year

Save Up to 78% on Heredis 2017 Family Tree Software

5)  Neat Stuff:

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Find Out If You’re Related To Santa Claus At Ancestry.com

*  What Did People Eat In The 1800s?

5 Unspoken Laws of Genealogy

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 3 October 2017?


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