Genealogy News Bytes - 6 August 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  Season Six of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Premieres Fall 2019

*  The Library of Congress Needs Help Transcribing 16,000 Pages of Suffragist Diaries, Letters, and Documents

*  The B&F Compendium of Jewish Genealogy won the 2019 IAJGS Outstanding Project Award

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 28 July to 3 August 2019

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 28 July to 3 August 2019

*  August Update: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 72 Titles!

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars:

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for August 2019

*   Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 6 August, 7 p.m. PDT:  Finding Families in New Zealand, by Fiona Brooker

*   Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 7 August, 11 a.m. PDT:  Case Studies in Gray: Identifying Shared Ancestries Through DNA and Genealogy, by Nicka Smith

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips:  #94: Ireland Time Capsule

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 293 – Church Bells Ringing For Family History

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 56 – Researching in Libraries and Archives: The Do’s and Don’ts with Melissa Barker

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Choosing the Right Tool: Family Tree Web or Mobile?- Kathryn Grant

*  BYU Family History Library: FamilySearch org Searching the Catalog, Books & Family Tree by Rayanne Melick

*  Family History Fanatics: Creating a Research Map with Google My Maps - Featuring Special Guest Melissa Finlay

*  Family History Fanatics:  What is DNA Overlap on GEDmatch? - A Segment of DNA

*  Amie Bowser Tennant:  Genealogy Tip Tuesday: Finding a Missing Ancestor in the Census Records

*  GeneaVlogger:  IAJGS 2019 Interviews - Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage DNA

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Tuesday, August 6,  2019

7)  DNA Stories:

*  'DNA doesn't lie': Siblings put up for adoption reunite in Region after learning of each other's existence via Ancestry.com

*  Family secrets, DNA, and finding dad – twice

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 2 August 2019?

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