Genealogy News Bytes - 13 March 2018

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

1)  News Articles:

*  A Major Family History Conference in the UK: Secret Lives. The Hidden Voices of our Ancestors

*  Oxford Ancestors Announces Closure – Plus How to Protect Your DNA

*  Cunard and Ancestry.com Collaborate to Offer Special Event Crossing: "A Journey of Genealogy"

2)  Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 4 to 10 March 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  FamilySearch Classes Presented at RootsTech 2018 Now Online

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 14 March, 5 p.m. PDT:  The Case of the Broken Link: Decoding the URL, by Cundi Ingle

*  Archived MyHeritage Webinar:  True Stories of Families Reunited Thanks to Genetic Genealogy

*  DNA lectures from the 2017 Institute for Genetic Genealogy now online

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  #169 - Is There Another Way to Find Your Cherokee Ancestors Rather Than the Dawes Rolls?

*  Genealogy Connection Podcast:  #039 - Polly FitzGerald Kimmitt, Researcher

*  Genealogy Journey's Podcast:   #48 - Blizzard of 1888

*  Extreme Genes Podcast:  Episode 228 – “Fairy Hole” Family Legend Spreads Through Generations / Ron Fox On Odd Places To Find Family Photos

*  Findmypast YouTube Channel:  6 Steps to Trace Your Irish Ancestry

*  The NextGen Genealogy Network YouTube Channel:  Faces of NextGen Live - George G Morgan

*  MyHeritage YouTube Channel:  MyHeritage Swabs Fox & Friends Host

*  Pressing My Way YouTube Channel:  RootsTech 2018 Mystery Box - Unboxing featuring Simba the Cat

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Got My Eyes on You: Using the Watch Feature in Family Tree - Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Should minor children have their DNA tested?

*  Genetic Genealogy Ireland YouTube Channel:  Using autosomal DNA to maximum effect (Michelle Leonard)

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, March 13,  2018

5)  Neat Stuff:

*  'A miracle': Sisters reunited after more than 70 years apart

*  Two men, a DNA test, and a secret connection seven decades in the making

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 9 March 2018?

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