Genealogy News Bytes - 24 January 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past three days.

1)  News Articles:

*  23andMe Making Staff Reductions With Declining Sales

*  RootsTech 2020 SLC Keynote Speakers and Entertainment Lineup

*  Proposed Utah Legislature Bill Would Keep Law Enforcement from Probing DNA Data

*  ‘People Not Property’ Aims to Create Statewide Database of Slave Deeds in North Carolina

*  Genealogical Forum of Oregon Objects to Seattle National Archives Closure

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 24 January 2020.

*  Friday Finds 24 Jan 2020

*  GRO adds twenty years of birth indexes

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*   Scottish Virtual Conference January 25th 2020

*  RootsTech 2020 Free Livestream Schedule

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 28 January, 11 a.m.:  MyHeritageDNA for Your Family Knot, by Jennifer Dondero

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 29 January, 11 a.m.:  Effective Use of GENUKI: England’s Largest Free Genealogy website, by Paul Milner

*  WWII Research & Writing Center - Monday, 3 February, 5 p.m.:  Free Webinar for Genealogy & Military Research Professionals, by Jennifer Holik

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Creative Hypothesis Development for Complex Genealogy Problems, by Jan M. Joyce

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  New Tools and Ideas in Research, by D. Joshua Taylor

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Need a Fillable Form? Word Has Your Back! by Amie Bowser Tennant

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #148r - Your Ancestral Museum

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 71: Colorizing the Past with The Photo Alchemist

*  Ancestral Findings:  The Lost Treasure of Francis Wainwright: Chapter 4 | AF-313 = 164

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Boundless Genealogy:  Citing Sources in Genealogy | Easily Create Layered Citations

*  BYU Family History Library:  Germans Immigrants in American Church Records - Dr. Roger Minert

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mondays with Myrt - 20 Jan 2020

*  DNA Family Tree:  Major Channel Announcements!

*  Ellen Thompson-Jennings:  Just 15 Minutes a Day To Organize Your Photos

*  Family History Fanatics:  Living DNA Pros & Cons - Genetic Test Review

*  Family History Fanatics:  Why You Don't Need Research Logs in Genealogy and What To Do Instead - Beginning Genealogy

*  Family History Fanatics:  Live: Verogen: An Open Q&A with Brett Williams - Genealogy Genealogy news

*  Lisa Lisson:  Census Records, 1850 - 1940: Getting ALL of the Genealogical Clues

*  Lisa Lisson:  Pre -1850 Census Genealogy Tips To Keep Your Research on Track!

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Friday, January 24th,  2020

7)  DNA Stories

*  Pillowcase Rapist suspect caught through DNA evidence from 1983 cold case

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 21 January 2020?

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