Genealogy News Bytes - 16 July 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

* Announcing the Polish Genealogy Conference 2019

*  Announcement - Laura G. Prescott Scholarship Winners

*  Vivid-Pix Announces Adding Metadata Zoom/Transcribe Feature to its RESTORE Software

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 7 to 13 July 2019

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 7 to 13 July 2019

*  New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 15 July 2019

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for July 2019

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 17 July, 11 a.m.:  Research Your Newfoundland Ancestors, by Tessa Keough

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar -- Wednesday, 17 July, 6 p.m. PDT:  More Power: Genetic Genealogy Apps and Extensions, by Shannon Christmas

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Lesser Used Records for Research in the Netherlands, by Yvette Hoitink

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips:  #88 -- Write Your Story

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 290 – The Georgetown Memory Project / Lambert On Researching Revolutionary Ancestors

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 53 - U.S. Homestead Records

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree's 2019 Connect-a-Thon Wrap-up (and many more videos from recent Connect-a-thon)

*  GenealogyTV:  Genealogy TV Live: Ancestry.com Updates and Reasonably Exhaustive Research Explained

*  GenealogyTV:  Ancestry.com: Merging Duplicate People

*  Family History Fanatics:  DNA Painting - Family History Fanatics Live

*  Family History Fanatics: How many of those small segments are actual matches? - A Segment of DNA

*  The Genealogy Do-Over:  How I ruptured my Achilles Tendon and more . . .

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Tuesday, July 16,  2019

7)  DNA Success Stories:

*  Erie man, biological mother reunited after 48 years

*  In an Apparent First, Genetic Genealogy Aids a Wrongful Conviction Case

*  DNA home test kits reveal family secrets, bring unexpected trauma

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 12 July 2019?

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