Genealogy News Bytes - 17 May 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia

*  The Arrest Of A Teen On An Assault Charge Has Sparked New Privacy Fears About DNA Sleuthing

*  Update Regarding [MyHeritage] DNA Test Processing Times

*  Two New Features Added to GenealogyBank

*  New Book [The DNA Guide for Adoptees] - Release Date May 30th!

*  3rd Annual Conference of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Friday Finds 17 May 2019

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 17 May 2019

*  Findmypast Adds 114 Million Birth, Marriage and Death Records from Europe

*  TheGenealogist is Expanding its Occupational Records with over 300,000 Records of Masters and Apprentices included in a Nautical Set of Apprenticeship Records

*  New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of May 13, 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Genealogy Webinars for May 2019 [Family History Library]

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 21 May, 5 p.m. PDT:  Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking?, by Jeanne Bloom

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 22 May, 11 a.m. PDT:  Google Drive: an Office in the Cloud, by DearMYRTLE and Russ Worthington

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Genealogy Pit Stop: Research in 15 Minute Increments, by Thomas MacEntee*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  MyHeritage: New Advanced Features and Technologies, by Daniel Horowitz*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  City Directories: No Town Too Small, No Clue Too Little, by Thomas MacEntee*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  APPsolutely Genealogy!, by Garri Regev

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Researching Your Orphaned Ancestors, by Debra Smith Renard
*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Resources at the Library of Congress, by James Sweany

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Land Records at the National Archives, Part I: Land Entry Papers and Tract Books, by Rick Sayre

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Land Records at the National Archives, Part II: Federal Bounty Land, by Rick Sayre

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Accessing National Archives Military Records from Start to Finish, by Rick Sayre

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #71:  Choosing a DNA test Company

*  Ancestral Findings Podcast:  How to Use Old Newspaper Advertisements to Research the Childhood Lives of Your Ancestors

5)  Genealogy Videos:

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  How to Research Your British Ancestors from America

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube: Cluster Tool: GEDmatch Genesis Tier 1 Tools - A Segment of DNA

*  Who Is Nicka Smith? YouTube:  BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 84: Getting Started with Caribbean Genealogy

*  DNA Family Trees YouTube:  Ancestry Adds 24 Million NEW Records to Card Catalog!

*  DNA Family Trees YouTube:  How to Cluster your DNA matches With Ancestry's New DNA Matches Beta

*  Boundless Genealogy YouTube:  Female Ancestor = Few Records | How to Find Female Ancestors

*  Genealogy TV YouTube:  Ancestry's ThruLines(TM) Q & A

*  The In-Depth Genealogist YouTube:  GenFriends-Relative Race Day 9-Last Connections and Final Strike

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Friday, May 17,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories

*  Adopted man finds birth mother just in time for Mother's Day

*  Learning the Truth

*  After a lifelong search, an 81-year-old Fresno woman finds her family

*  Man Finds Parents 33 Years After Being Abandoned at Airport as a Baby

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 13 May 2019?

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