Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 8 May 2018


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

1)  News Articles:


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Introducing the [MyHeritage] Health Family Tree

[MyHeritage] DNA Quest Update

*  Thief Sentenced for Stealing Artifacts from the National Archives

2)  Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 29 April to 5 May 2018

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Collections - Week of 29 April to 5 May 2018

*  Latest records additions to FindmyPast

*  Advantage Preservation Adds 650K Historical Newspaper Pages - April, 2018

3)  Genealogy Education:

 GeneaWebinars Calendar

 Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for May 2018
*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 9 May, 5 p.m. PDT:  The Hidden Web: Digging Deeper, by Cyndi Ingle

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 11 May, 11 a.m. PDT:  A Checklist of African American Resources, by Angela Walton-Raji

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Discover Your Family in School Yearbooks, by Mike Mansfield

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:   Episode 234 – The “DNA Painter” Craze Explained / World War I Widow Talks About Her Husband

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:  Episode 235 – Photo Detective Maureen Taylor On Dating Pix / “Film Rescue” On Developing Half Century Old Film

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  English Research Finding Ancestors Using FreeReg Parish Registers - Kathryn Grant

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube Channel:  Learning to Love Family History...Research! by Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  Preserving War Stories and Open Q&A

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  A Brief Discussion of Records Acquired by Ancestry With Todd Godfrey - RootsTech

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube Channel:  How the Golden State Killer was Found with GEDmatch

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube Channel:  AF-177: Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in America

*  Jennifer Holik YouTube Channel:  Finding Inspiration for Stories in Books

*  Kenneth R. Marks YouTube Channel:  10 Reasons Why You Can't Find Ancestor Articles in Online Newspapers

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, May 8,  2018


5)  Neat Stuff:

 
Central Texas man reunited with sister after 60 years

Battle Creek woman meets biological family for the first time after 42 years

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 4 May 2018?

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