Genealogy News Bytes - 6 March 2018

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

1)  News Articles:

*  23andMe Announces Major Update to Ancestry Composition

*  Major Upgrade to the MyHeritage Chromosome Browser for Better Exploration of DNA Matches

*  New FamilySearch Tree Sync (beta) allows FamilySearch users to synchronize their family trees with MyHeritage

*  Findmypast Helps North American Researchers Discover British & Irish Ancestors

* Introducing DNA Quest: New pro bono initiative to reunite adoptees with their biological families

*  Living DNA Previews Unique New “Family Networks” Offering at RootsTech 2018

*  Founders, Fishermen, and Family History Cruise Features Genealogy and History Sail from Boston to Nova Scotia in August 2019

*  Findmypast Acquires Twile

*  MyHeritage Science Team’s Research Featured in the Prestigious Journal Science

2)  Record Databases:

*  FindMyPast Brings New York Catholic Records Online

*  MyHeritage Releases New Collections with 325 Million Historical Records

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 25 February to 3 March 2018

*   Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 25 February to 3 March 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  FamilySearch Classes Presented at RootsTech 2018 Now Online

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 7 March 2018, 11 a.m. PST:  "Overcoming Brick Walls Caused by Record Loss," by Mary Hill

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 9 March 2018, 11 a.m. PST: "Secrets in the Attic: Break Down Brick Walls With Home Sources," by Denise May Levenick

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  "Find Your Roots in German Farm Histories," by Gail Blankenau

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  "Perspectives on Combining Genealogy and Genetics," by Gilad Japhet

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  "Ohio and the Early Gathering of the LDS Church," by Peggy Lauritzen

*  Genealogy Gold Podcast:  #168: Tips on Researching Your African-American Family History Before 1870

*  Family Tree Magazine Podcast:  Episode 117 - What’s New in Genetic Genealogy

*  Extreme Genes Podcast:  Episode 227 – Woman Shares Joy Over Find Of Ancestral Civil War Letters

*  RootsTech 2018 YouTube Video Compendium - Updated 6 March 2018

*  The NextGen Genealogy Network YouTube Channel:  Faces of NextGen Live - Emily Schroeder

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  FamilySearch Family Tree Q&A #3 - Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  MyHeritage DNA Improves Itself!

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  What is the Rh Factor in DNA?

*  Legacy Tree YouTube Channel:  Legacy Tree LIVE Working at LTG

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, March 6,  2018

5)  Neat Stuff:

*  Human Population Through Time

*  I’ve been geeking out ever since’ — how an unlikely Jewish genealogist caught the family history bug

*  Sonoma teen Tyler Sievers discovers 20 half-siblings

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 27 February 2018?

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