Friday, December 29, 2017

Genealogy News Bytes - 29 December 2017


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

1)  News Articles:


Rootsweb Security Update

*  DNA tests help reunite man, woman with birth mothers

*  Tracing Your Roots: DNA Connected Me With White Kin

*  Buddies Since 6th Grade Find Out They’re Actually Brothers

2)  Record Databases:

*  850 Free Southern States Online Historic Newspaper Titles Added

*  Sources of Online Information about Victims of National Socialism (Nazis)

*  New and Updated Genealogy Records – United States

3)  Genealogy Education:


 GeneaWebinars Calendar

 Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for January 2018

*  FamilyTreeDNA, FamilySearch, and 2018 Brick Wall Webinars

*  Family History Fanatics eConference - 19 January 2018

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 3 January 2018, 11 a.m. PST:  Did I Get Everything? Creating a Checklist for Genealogy Research, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar - Saturday, 6 January 2018, 10 a.m. PST:  Introduction to WikiTree's Free Online Collaborative One-World Family Tree, by Peter Roberts

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Problems and Pitfalls of a Reasonably Shallow Search, by Elissa Scalise Powell

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Podcasts for Education and Entertainment, by Marian Pierre-Louis

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Become a Broadcaster: How to Create a Podcast, by Marian Pierre-Louis

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  (#158) Reading History to Understand Your Ancestors

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast: #336 - 2017 December 27

*  Cousin Russ YouTube Channel:  Doing a Web Merge from a Find A Grave Index Hint

*  Legacy Tree Genealogists YouTube Channel:  Legacy Tree LIVE Eastern European

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, December 29,  2017


*  Ancestry New Year’s Offer – Save up to 50% on Subscriptions

5)  Neat Stuff:


*  11 Things Women Couldn't Do In The 1920s

*  New Technology We're Actually Excited About for 2018

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 26 December 2017?


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