Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 23 May 2018


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

1)  News Articles:


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Investigators use DNA, genealogy database to ID suspect in 1987 double homicide

*  Free Legacy Family Tree update now available (version 9.0.0.226)

*  The Jamboree 2018 Mobile App is Now Available for Download

2)  Record Databases:

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Added or Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 May 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 13 to 19 May 2018

*  New British Military Biographies on Fold3

*  Findmypast Announces Plans to Publish Kent County Council’s Collection of Original Parish Registers

*  2,075 Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Collection Links from U.S. and Canada

3)  Genealogy Education:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar


 Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for May 2018
*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 23 May, 11 a.m. PDT: Quaker Migration into America, by Peggy Clemens Lauritzen

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  How to Use the Smart Matches & Record Matches MyHeritage Technologies, by Shahar Bitton

Genealogy Gold Podcast:  #179:  What Stories Are Your Ancestors’ Headstones Telling You?

*  Genealogy Connection Podcast:  #043 - Timothy Pinnick, Speaker, Writer, and Bookseller

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:  Episode 237 – Two Experts On Records Of The Poor

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  How to Involve Children in Family History - Nicole Dyer

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  What is a Centimorgan in DNA Testing?

*  BYU Family history Library YouTube:  Understanding Extracted Records in FamilySearch Family Tree By Kathryn Grant

*  DearMYRTLE YouTube:  WACKY Wednesday - Online Searches

*  Findmypast YouTube:  Military Photographs - Ask the Expert | Findmypast Fridays Live 18 May 2018

*  MyHeritage YouTube:  MyHeritage DNA Featured on the Steve Harvey Show

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, May 22,  2018


5)  Neat Stuff:

 
Court orders man to pay $2M in child support in 'bizarre' case involving identity theft

*  DNA test reveals to Georgia man about the family he never knew he had

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 18 May 2018?


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