Genealogy News Bytes - 24 December 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  A Massive New Database Will Connect Billions of Historic Records to Tell the Full Story of American Slavery

*  The Nebraska Death Index (1904-1968) [is now Online at Reclaim the Records]

*  FamilySearch Releases GEDCOM Version 5.5.1

*  Dallas Cowboys' Emmitt Smith to Keynote RootsTech 2020

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  MyHeritage Adds Two Record Collections from Hesse, Germany

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 15 to 21 December 2019

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 15 to 21 December 2019

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Wednesday, 8 January 2020, 5 p.m.:  Mistakes I Have Made: Confessions of a Repentant Genealogist, by Cheri Hudson Passey

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 76: RootsTech and Genealogy Education – Interview with Amberly Beck

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 311 – Talking Seafarers: The Wives and Families of Pirates, Man Travels To Ports His Mariner Ancestors Went, Finding Your World War II Navy Ancestors’ Records

*  The Genealogy Guys:  #372

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #139r - Internet Archive

*  Ancestral Findings:  Do You Have Any Shaker Ancestors? Here’s How to Trace Them | AF-304

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Family History Fanatics:  THE MOST UNDER UTILIZED RESOURCE ON FAMILYSEARCH: Use the FamilySearch Wiki for genealogy records

*  Family History Fanatics:  Nutty Researcher Thinks His Grandmother's Name is UNK - Genealogy Mistakes to Avoid

*  Family History Fanatics:  Stop Making This Genealogy Mistake on the FamilySearch Family Tree

*  Family History Fanatics:  Climb Santa's Family Tree with Phil and Bambi - Genealogy Humor

*  Family History Fanatics:  A BRIEF LOOK AT MATERNAL HAPLOGROUPS: Family Tree DNA mt-DNA explained in genetic genealogy video

*  Genealogy TV:  Inspiring You to Write About Your Holiday Memories

*  Lisa Lisson:  12 Days of Christmas Genealogy Records

*  MyHeritage:  World's Oldest Blogger, Dagny Carlsson, Tests with MyHeritage DNA

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Tuesday, December 24,  2019

7)  DNA Stories

*  Boy kidnapped in 1964 found through ancestry sites

*  Man Discovers Half-sister Thanks to Christmas DNA Kit Gift

*  Adoptee Celebrates First Christmas with Her Biological Siblings Thanks to MyHeritage DNA Quest

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 20 December 2019?

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