Genealogy News Bytes - 1 March 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  Ancestry.com Announces MyTreeTags™ Feature in Beta Release]

*  Ancestry.com Introduces New and Improved DNA Matching Tools Feature in Beta 

*  Ancestry.com Introduces New AncestryDNA ThruLines™ Feature in Beta Release

*  Ancestry® Announces Coveted Content Releases & New Family History Research Tools at RootsTech

*  MyHeritage Releases the "Theory of Family Relativity™" Feature for Finding Common Ancestors of MyHeritageDNA Matches 

*  MyHeritage Adds Automatic Clustering of DNA Matches for Insights on Common Ancestors 

*  DNA Quest Initiative Is Extended

*  RootsTech London – October 24-26, 2019

*  The LDS Church Donates 2 Million $ to the International African American Museum Center

*   Findmypast Announces Project to Digitise & Publish 1921 Census of England & Wales 

*  Stephen & Tabitha King Donate 1.25 Million $ to NEHGS

*  IGHR 2019 registration tomorrow!

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Findmypast’s Exclusive Catholic Heritage Archive Continues to Grow

*  Fold3 Adds New Allied POW Records

*  Chronicling America Updates - February, 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar - Saturday, 2 March, 10 a.m.:  Irish Research - What's New? by Donna Moughty

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 5 March, 5 p.m. PST:  Polled! Finding your Ancestors in New South Wales Colonial Muster and Census Returns, by Carol Baxter

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 6 March, 11 a.m. PST: A Guide to Third Party Tools For DNA Testing, by Michelle Leonard

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Spreadsheets 401 : Excel-lent Inspiration, by Mary Kircher Roddy

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Online Resources for French Genealogy part III: Succession tables, Electoral lists, Notarial Records, Newspapers, by Paul Woodbury

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #49… The Benefits Of Tying Historic Figures And Events To Your Ancestral Stories

5)  Genealogy Education - Video:

*  FamilySearch YouTube:  Watch the RootsTech 2019 Free Live Stream - Wednesday

*  FamilySearch YouTube:  Watch the RootsTech 2019 Free Live Stream - Thursday

*  Ancestral Findings YouTube:  #227 - Your Foot Shape and Your Genealogy 

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Creative Ways to Showcase Genealogy In Your Home - RootsTech Expo Hall

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  Nathan Dylan Goodwin Released Two New Genealogy Mystery Novels

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube: How to Handle Junk Information on Ancestry Trees?

*  Sharn White YouTube:  Rootstech 2019 Day 1

*  Sharn White YouTube: Interviewing Nick BARRATT of Who Do You Think You Are at Rootstech

*  Ancestry YouTube:  RootsTech 2019 Address From Ancestry CEO Margo Georgiadis | Ancestry

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

*  RF Tree genealogy YouTube:  Podcast #5 - King George

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, March 1,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories

*  DNA Test Reveals Lookalike Friends Are Actually Sisters

*  Siblings reunite after 53 years thanks to DNA test through Ancestry.com

*  Former LA County 5th District Supervisor Mike Antonovich meets his biological son

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 26 February 2019?

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