Some of the genealogy news items across my desktop the last four days include:
1) News Articles:
* GRAMPS 5.0.0 Released
* Join Us for a Celtic Genealogy Cruise
* Genealogy Institute to Feature Freedmen of Five Civilized Tribes
* In the Future, You Will Be Forever
2) New or Updated Record Databases:
* Added or Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 29 July to 4 August 2018
* Added or Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 29 July to 4 August 2018
* Advantage Preservation Adds 600K Historical Newspaper Pages - July, 2018
* TheGenealogist adds more English 1910 Lloyd George Domesday Records
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 - Wednesday, 8 August, 11 a.m. PDT: Genealogical Proof for the Novice Genealogist, by Annette Burke Lyttle
* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 10 August, 11 a.m. PDT: 50 Websites To Find Vital Records, by Gena Philibert-Ortega
* Upcoming Genealogy With a Canadian Twist Webinar -- Thursday, 9 August, 10 a.m. PDT: Episode 6 Virtual Coffee Chat With Kathryn
* Research Like a Pro Podcast: RLP 4: Locality Research Part 1
* The Photo Detective Podcast: Episode 18: Found Photos and My Unexpected Discovery
* Extreme Genes Podcast: Episode 246 – Fisher & Woodbury Talk How To Manage Your DNA Data & Accounts
* The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube: MAAGI
* Family History Fanatics YouTube: The Challenge of Syncing RootsMagic, FamilySearch Family Tree and Ancestry
* Family History Fanatics YouTube: Download DNA Matches to Analyze - A Segment of DNA
* BYU Family History Library YouTube: Using Social Media for Interactive Family Histories - Simone Russell
4) Bargains:
* Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, August 7, 2018
5) DNA Success Stories:
* Jeff’s FamilyTreeDNA story…was it the milkman?
* Bill Uncovered a Half-Sister Using MyHeritage DNA
* Long-lost brother from London reunited with family in Kentucky
* Sisters reunited decades later on a mission to find their two brothers
Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 3 August 2018?
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