Genealogy News Bytes -- Tuesday, 17 December 2019

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

1)  News Articles:

*  RootsTech 2020 Announces Keynote Speaker: Emmitt Smith

*  NGS 2020 Family History Conference Workshops

*  BCG Releases 2020 Webinar Schedule

*  Over 750,000 applications for US birth certificate copies exposed online

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 8 to 14 December 2019

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 8 to 14 December 2019

*  Update to Related Records on MyHeritage

*  150 Free New England States Online Historical Newspaper Titles Added

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 December, 5 p.m.:  Marriages Here, There, and Nowhere: Finding Gretna Greens and Borders, by J. Mark Lowe

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 18 December, 11 a.m.:  How to trace your UK ancestry, by Kirsty Gray

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 75: Using DNA in a Polish Research Project – Interview with Alice Childs

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 310 – USS Arizona Survivor Describes Pearl Harbor Attack / Finding Records of Your World War II Ancestor

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #137r - Definitions

*  Ancestral Findings: French Christmas Traditions | AF-302

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Amie Bowser Tennant:  Genealogy Tip Tuesday: New Mexican Research Tips

*  DNA Family Trees:  AncestryDNA Match List Filter Update

*  Family History Fanatics:  FOOLISH RESEARCH BELIEVES THREE BROTHERS STORY (Comedy) - This genealogy myth should stop

*  Family History Fanatics:  How to Delete a Person on the FamilySearch Family Tree - FamilySearch Tutorial

*  Family History Fanatics: Woman Believes She's Related to Royalty Because the FamilySearch Family Tree Says So (Comedy)

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

*  Genealogy TV:  Five Reasons To Go To Genealogical Conferences

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Tuesday, December 17,  2019

7)  DNA Stories:

*  Raised an only child, Southgate woman, 92, learns she has 19 half siblings

*  Douglas County Sheriff’s Office announces arrest of 61-year-old man in 1980 homicide cold case

*  How ancestry site helped catch alleged Tampa Bay serial rapist 21 years later

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 13 December 2019?

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