Genealogy News Bytes - 7 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 four days.

1)  News Articles:

*  New Episode of Finding Your Roots – Homecomings – On PBS Tonight!

*  What’s Coming to FamilySearch in 2020

*  New Content on the MyHeritage Education Knowledge Base

*  RootsWeb Mailing Lists Shutting Down on 2 March 2020

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 29 December 2019 to 4 January 2020

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

*  ScotlandsPeople updates birth, marriage and death record images

*  Interment.net adds 368,000 Cemetery Records in the month of December 2019

*  Huge January Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 1752 Titles!

*  NY State Historical Newspapers Adds/Updates 10 Titles - January, 2020

*  Advantage Archives Adds 1 Million Historical Newspaper Pages - December, 2019

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*   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 Free Webinar - Wednesday, 15 January, 6 p.m.:  A Million Ways to Die in the Colonies: Death and Burial in Colonial America, by Dan Earl

*  Archived Family Tree Webinars:  41 Tech Zone Webinars

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 78 : Getting Things Done Part 4 – Reflecting

*  Fisher’s Top Tips: #143r - Cousins Removed

*  Ancestral Findings:  What is the Indo-European Language, and What Does it Have to Do with Your Ancestry? | AF-308

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  Amie Bowser Tennant:  Genealogy Tip Tuesday: What's a Mortality Schedule?

*  BYU Family History Library:  Finding Chinese Genealogies on FamilySearch - Tim Davis

*  BYU Family History Library:  Thanks for the Memories Part 2: FamilySearch Gallery Features for Power Users - Kathryn Grant

*  Family History Fanatics:  How to Follow Blogs and Videos in One Place - Find RSS Feed for YouTube Channel

*  FamilySearch:  Road to RootsTech 2020: Get to Know Jen

*  Genealogy TV:  Happy New Year! Genealogy Research Goals for 2020

*  GeneaVlogger:  Identifying People in Old Film - 1911 A Trip Through New York City (VLOG #41)

*  MyHeritage:  Yvette Corporon’s Tale of Islander Bravery Featured on I24

*  Who Is Nicka Smith?:  The Happs - January 2020

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains Tuesday, January 7,  2020

7)  DNA Stories

*  Family reunites in time for Christmas thanks to DNA test

*  100+ Years Later, a Family That Exchanged Photos to Keep In Touch Across Continents Is Reunited

*  Headless Body in Cave Is Identified as 1916 Ax Murder Suspect

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 3 January 2020?

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