Friday, July 13, 2018

Genealogy News Bytes - 13 July 2018


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

1)  News Articles:


*  (US) Census Comments Invited on Proposed Information Collection 2020 US Census

*  Massachusetts Society of Genealogists 2018 Writing Contest

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

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July Update: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 100 Titles!

*  Advantage Preservation Adds 500K Historical Newspaper Pages - June, 2018

*  13 July 2018 – New Genealogy Record Releases & Updates

3)  Genealogy Education:


 GeneaWebinars Calendar


*  Free Family History Classes and Webinars for July 2018

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 July, 11 a.m. PDT:  Special Tools that can Take Your Research to the Next Level, by Uri Gonen


*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 July, 5 p.m. PDT: It's a Numbers Game! Understanding Recognized Genealogical Formats. by Alice Hoyt Veen

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 18 July, 11 a.m. PDT:  Trails of Daniel Boone and other Western Travelers, by J. Mark Lowe

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  The Art of Negative-Space Research: Women, by Jeanne Larzalere Bloom


*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Freedmen's Bureau Records - Valuable to ALL Southern research, by Diane L. Richard

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Descendancy Research: Another Pathway For Doing Genealogical Research, by Michael Strauss

*  Genealogy Gems Podcast:  Episode #219

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  How To - Download RAW DNA Files - A Segment of DNA

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  3 Ways to Crop Photos in Photoshop Elements 2018 - Scrapbooking

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Memory Keeping Tips ~ On Family History Fanatics Live Stream

*  Who Is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 61: 2018 MAAGI

*  Family Tree Magazine YouTube:  Two Quick Fixes for Old Family Photos

*  Family History Ron YouTube:  Q&A July 5 2018

*  The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube:  Tips and Tricks from the GenFriends Panel

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, July 13,  2018


5)  DNA Success Stories:

 'I'm a daughter! A sister! A relative!' 28-year-old woman who was adopted at birth details emotional reunion with her biological family after her younger brother found her online

*  The affair, the son and the cousin who came to dinner: Finding a new family member through a DNA test

I knew my father. And then I took a DNA test.


6)  Fun Stuff:

 
87-Year-Old Ukrainian Said To Have Most Descendants In The World

Twisted Twigs on Gnarled Branches cartoon

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 10 July 2018?

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