Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 14 May 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  Family Tree Maker 2019 Pre-Order Sale

*  NGS Awards Excellence in Genealogy Scholarship and Service

*  BCG Names First Recipients of the Donn Devine Award

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 5 to 11 May 2019

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 5 to 11 May 2019

*  Advantage Archives Adds 1 Million Historical Newspaper Pages - April, 2019

*  NY State Historical Newspapers Adds/Updates 25 Titles - May, 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

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

*  FREE MyHeritage One-Day Genealogy Seminar, May 15, 2019

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 May, 5:15 a.m. PDT: Genealogy Pit Stop: Research in 15 Minute Increments, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 May, 6:15 a.m. PDT:  MyHeritage: New Advanced Features and Technologies, by Daniel Horowitz

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 May, 7:30 a.m. PDT:  City Directories: No Town Too Small, No Clue Too Little, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 May, 8:30 a.m. PDT:  APPsolutely Genealogy!, by Garri Regev

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Advanced Features on Geni.com, by Mike Stangel

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips Podcast:  #70:  Finding Photo Subjects Names

*  Research Like a Pro Podcast:  RLP 44 – How to Know Which Record to Search First

*  The Genealogy Guys Podcast:  #362

5)  Genealogy Videos:

*  23andMe YouTube:  23 Minutes With Anne, LIVE! Mother’s Day Edition

*  BYU Family History Library YouTube:  Case Studies in Migration for Genealogists- James Tanner

*  Family History Fanatics YouTube:  A Chromosome Look at Trisomy (Down's Syndrome) - A Segment of DNA

*  GeneaVlogger YouTube:  Using JewUA.info to find Jewish Records in Ukraine (Quick Genealogy Tip #24)

*  James Tanner YouTube:  Exploring Genealogy Series #8 Research on the FamilySearch Family Tree #3

*  Kathryn Lake Hogan YouTube:  Episode 29 Weekly Webinar Recap

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains for Tuesday, May 14,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories

*  DNA test taken ‘out of curiosity’ helps Sun City man find family he never knew

*  DNA test reunites three generations of mothers

*  N.J. man’s DNA helped him find the brother he didn’t know he had

*  Thanks to DNA testing, 54-year-old Utahn finally finds birth mom — creating a unique Mother’s Day celebration

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 10 May 2019?

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