Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:
1) News Articles:
* Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Announced as RootsTech 2018 Keynote Speaker
* After years of chasing leads, Iowa man reunites with half-sister in Lincoln
* Georgia student discovers birth brother attended same college, had same major
2) Record Databases:
* Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 10 to 16 December 2017
* Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 10 to 16 December 2017
* British Newspaper Archive reaches 23 million pages
* 335 Free Mid-Atlantic States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added
* 100 Free New England States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added
3) Genealogy Education:
* GeneaWebinars Calendar
* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 5 p.m. PST: The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search, by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 11 a.m. PST: Palmetto Pride - South Carolina for Genealogists, by Rorey Cathcart
* Upcoming SCGS Free Webinar - December 20, 2017: 100 Days to a Better Family History, by Tammy Hepps
* Genealogy Gold Podcast: (#157) Unusual Sources for Finding Old Family Photos
* Extreme Genes Podcast: Episode 218 – Genie Seeks Grandfather Through DNA, Discovers Brother’s Unknown Son
* NextGen Genealogy Network YouTube Channel: Faces of NextGen Live - Daniel Horowitz
* BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel: Family History and GIS Part 2 - Jarom Randall
* Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel: How to add DNA to FamilySearch
* NYGBS YouTube Channel: The genealogy interview: Asking relatives questions to grow your family tree
4) Bargains:
* Genealogy Bargains for Friday, December 19, 2017
* Year End 2017 Sale at Hack Genealogy – 50% Off Digital Downloads
5) Fun Stuff:
* Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State
* These Sisters Took The Same Photo 40 Years in a Row and the Last One is Absolutely Amazing
* The Genealogy Web
Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 15 December 2017?
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