Friday, December 22, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 22 December 2017


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

1)  News Articles:


*  What’s New: FamilySearch Places

*  The mystery of the baby in the box

2)  Record Databases:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 22 December 2017

*  New Historic Records on FamilySearch: Week of December 21, 2017

*  More Sussex Records added to TheGenealogist

*  Buffalo NY Death Index 1852-1944 is now Online

3)  Genealogy Education:


 GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 27 December, 11 a.m.:  Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search, by Elissa Scalise Powell

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  The Law and the Reasonably Exhaustive (Re)Search, by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Palmetto Pride - South Carolina for Genealogists, by Rorey Cathcart

*  Archived Family Tree "Member Friday" Webinar: Funeral Homes and Family History: They're Dying to Meet You! by Dan Earl

*  Genealogy Connection Podcast:  #034 - Henrietta Martinez Christmas, New Mexican researcher, writer, and speaker

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Observation when doing a Web Merge on an SSDI Record

*  Findmypast YouTube Channel:  Getting Started with Hints - Findmypast UK

*  Findmypast YouTube Channel:  How to Use Your Findmypast Family Tree

*  Ancestry.com YouTube Channel:  Genealogy Research Tools: Top Tips for Using Newspapers.com

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Adding Drama to Your Family History Writing Projects

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, December 22,  2017


5)  Fun Stuff:

*  Season 4 of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

*  The Mystery of Maine’s Viking Penny

*  8 Odd Items People Have Used to Decorate Christmas Trees

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 19 December 2017?


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