Genealogy News Bytes - 21 August 2018

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

1)  News Articles:

*  IDG Welcomes New Contributor George G. Morgan

*  NEH Awards 2018 Grants to 18 States for Additions to Chronicling America

2)  New or Updated Record Databases:

*  Added or Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 12 to 18 August 2018

*  Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 12 to 18 August 2018

*  New Canadian Records [on Fold3]

*   Latest from NEHGS on MA Catholic Registers project

3)  Genealogy Education:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Classes and Webinars for August 2018

* BYU Family History Library Webinar Series (August 2018)

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 21 August, 5 p.m. PDT:  GPS: Finding Your Way Through Tough Research Problems, by James Ison

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 22 August, 11 a.m. PDT:  Researching Forces Ancestors (England and Wales), by Kirsty Gray

*  Research Like A Pro Podcast:  RLP 6: Research Planning

*  Extreme Genes Podcast/Radio Show:  Episode 248 – New Book May Connect Your Ancestors To Royalty / Listener Gives Fisher New Info On His Pirate Ancestor

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Overlapping DNA between Relationships - A Segment of DNA

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  A Family History Mission: Digitizing Records for Family Search by James Tanner

*  RF Tree Genealogy YouTube:  DNA Verification

*  Who Is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE: Ep 65 Lagniappe: Navy and Confederate Pensions

4)  Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, August 21,  2018

5)  DNA Success Stories:

*   Watch DNA Detective CeCe Moore Solve Foundling Mysteries on ABC’s 20/20

*  Father and Daughter Reunite on The Today Show

*  After 32 Years, a Father and Daughter Meet for the First Time

*  Mystery of infant found in Ohio phone booth in 1954 solved through DNA testing

Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 17 August 2018?

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