Genealogy News Bytes - 18 October 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

* Living DNA Introduces Wellbeing and Ancestry DNA Testing Options!

*  The descendants of Salem’s ‘witches’ are all around us

*  Family Tree DNA: Health Report Add-On Coming

*  New twist in one of world's weirdest cold case mysteries: Body of 'Somerton Man' will be exhumed - 70 years after two jockeys found his fully-clothed body at an Australian beach with a secret code in his pocket

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

* New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 18 October 2019

*  New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch: Week of 14 October 2019

*  Irish birth, marriage and death certificates now available online for free

3)  Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for October 2019

*  National Archives Seventh Annual Virtual Genealogy Fair – Wednesday – October 23, 2019

*  RootsTech London 2019 LiveStream and Premium Video Schedules

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 23 October, 11 a.m.:  Privacy: How to Protect Your Information Online, by Judy G. Russell

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 23 October, 3 a.m.:  Die MyHeritage Matching Technologien (German), by MyHeritage

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Civil Law Records in Genealogical Research: Notarial Records, by Claire Bettag

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Italian Civil Registration (Stato Civile): Going Beyond the Basics, by Melanie D. Holtz

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Long Distance Italian Genealogy Research, by Shellee Morehead

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips:  #120r - Immigration Records

*  Generatinos Cafe:  Episode 36 - 3 Things I Learned in Downsizing

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 60: Finding Pictures Of Your Civil War Ancestors

*  Ancestral Findings:  How to Find Distant Relatives | AF-290

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  AmericanAncestors:  Going Offline: Researching at Libraries, Archives, and Other Repositories

*  Amie Bowser Tennant:  Genealogy Thoughts Thursday: Are Genealogy and Family History the Same?

*  Amie Bowser Tennant:  Family Story Friday: When Her Baby Died

*  Boundless Genealogy:  1940 US Federal Census | Genealogy Clues to Grow Your Family Tree

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends: A New Leaf- Episode 2 and Relative Race Season 6-Day 4

*  DNA Family Trees:  New Ancestry Product Released Today!

*  Family History Fanatics:  MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity - The basics of this new DNA research tool

*  Family History Fanatics:  3 Forgotten US Wars and Your Ancestor's Records - FHF LIve with Michael Strauss

*  Family History Ron:  Family History Ron Q&A 14 Oct 2019

*  Genealogy TV:  How to Attach Friends, Associates, and Neighbors (a.k.a. FAN Club) to Your Ancestor on Ancestry.com

*  Lisa Lisson:  Using Flickr to Identify Your Ancestors in Old Family Photos

*  Who Is Nicka Smith?  BlackProGen LIVE! Ep 95: Birthright: Who Has the Right to Tell My People’s Stories?

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Friday, October 18,  2019

7)  DNA Stories

*  Mother who thought her newborn had died discovers he’s alive, and a dad, 29 years later

*  Sisters meet for the very first time in 75 years

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 15 October 2019?

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