Genealogy News Bytes - 3 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:

*  Destroyed identities – the digital reconstruction of Auschwitz-Birkenau victims' data

* Selected Genealogy Website Alexa Traffic Rankings - 2 January 2020

*  Dutch Genealogy News for December 2019

*  GenSoftReviews Users Choice Awards 2019

*  GEDCOM 5.5.1 Specification: GEDCOM-L Addendum

*  2021 International German Genealogy Conference: Call for Proposals Now Open

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 3 January 2020

*  Over 500 000 new images and files – A look back at 2019 [Drouin Institute]

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  The top 10 genealogy webinars of 2019 [FamilyTreeWebinars]

*  Scottish Virtual Conference January 25th 2020

*  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 Webinars:  

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher’s Top Tips: #142r - Tell Your Story

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 68: 52 Weeks of Ancestors with Amy Johnson Crow

*  Ancestral Findings:  The Lost Treasure of Francis Wainwright: Chapter 1 | AF-307

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Boundless Genealogy:  Comparing Signatures on Original Documents | Genealogy How-to

*  Genealogy TV:  FamilySearch.org: 5 Tips for Free Genealogy Research (2020)

*  Lisa Lisson:  The Best Genealogy Apps To Keep You Organized

*  Lisa Lisson: The Best Genealogy Apps To Keep Your Research Moving Forward

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Friday, January 3,  2020

7)  DNA Stories

*  Full Siblings Reunite After 60 Years

*  Plantation man finds daughter he never knew existed

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 31 December 2019?

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