Genealogy News Bytes - 27 December 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  Only a Few Days Left to Use Promethease for Free 

*  How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers

*  Pentagon Warns Military Not To Use Consumer DNA Kits Due To Security Risk

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Historical Record Collections Added in the First Half of December [MyHeritage]

*  1,015 Free Mid West States Online Historical Newspaper Titles Added

*  Chronicling America Adds 430 New Titles in 2019

*  TheGenealogist Enhances Map Explorer™

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

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

*  Upcoming SCGS Webinar - Saturday, 4 January 2020, 10 a.m.:  Migration Trails Are Paper Trails: Let's Pick Through the Crumbs, by Sheila Benedict

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Google's Reverse Image Search, by Geoff Rasmussen

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Treasures and Hidden Secrets of the Illinois Regional Archives (IRAD), by Luana Darby

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #140r - Family Archives

*  Generations Cafe:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Boundless Genealogy:  Original Document or Clerk's Copy? | Genealogy How-to

*  DNA Family Trees:  Top 10 Must watch Videos of 2019

*  Family History Fanatics:  Confused Researcher Doesn't Understand the Meaning of Endogamy - Genealogy Humor

*  Genealogy TV:  Set Up Alerts Ancestry FamilySearch Google for Your Ancestors

*  GeneaVlogger:  RootsTech 2020 Giveaway Winner Announcement

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Friday, December 27,  2019

7)  DNA Stories

*  A Father for Christmas

*  Father finds daughter he never knew existed

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 24 December 2019?

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