Genealogy News Bytes -- Friday, 24 April 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, 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:

*  Ancestry® Invites Its Members to Help Advance Research to Fight COVID-19

* Ancestry Offers Free U.S. Yearbook Collection Through 26 April

*  U.S. Yearbooks on MyHeritage Now Free (Until 23 May) and In Color

*  Free access to records from the UK's National Archives now available

*  Reclaim the Records Wins Long-Running Lawsuit for Missouri Birth Index and Death Index

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Friday Finds 24 Apr 2020

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

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  View RootsTech 2020 Videos for FREE!

*  A FREE Legacy Family Tree Webinar Each Day during April 2020

*  Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for April 2020 

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 28 April, 11 a.m.:  Working with DNA segments on MyHeritage, by Ran Snir

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 29 April, 11 a.m.:  Road Crews and Jury Selection: How To Find Where Our Ancestor Lived and Their Neighbors, by J. Mark Lowe

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Maryland State Archives Decoded, by Rebecca Koford

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Introduction to Vivid-Pix RESTORE, by Rick Voight

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone: 3 Ways to Use Gmail Smarter, by Marian Pierre-Louis

4)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips:  #174r - A Better Way

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 81: The Genealogy Show in England

5)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  American Ancestors: How to Handle Old Books

*  BYU Family History Library:  Basic Paper Document Preservation with James Tanner

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends: Genealogy Blogs with Special Guest Randy Seaver

*  DearMYRTLE:  WACKY Wednesday - You Found it WHERE?

*  Family History Fanatics:  GEDMATCH TUTORIAL - An Overview of DNA Comparison Matrices in Multiple Kit Analysis

*  Family History Fanatics: Genealogy Tips: How to Methodically Research Common Name Ancestors

*  Family History Ron:  Family History Ron Q&A 9 Apr 2020

*  Family History Ron:  Family History Ron Q&A 23 Apr 2020

*  Findmypast:  Finding Ancestors in Newspapers - How To | Findmypast

*  Genealogy TV:  10 Tips for U S Census Records for Genealogy Research

* Genetic Genealogy Ireland:  The Tree of Mankind from FTDNA (Mike Sager)

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  Episode 5 Elevenses with Lisa (Lisa Louise Cooke, Genealogy Gems Podcast)

*  Lisa Lisson:  4 Tips To Start Identifying Those Unknown Family Photos

*  MyHeritage:  2020 04 21 MyHeritage Ask The Expert Accepting Record Matches

*  Who Is Nicka Smith?  Episode 111b: History:Unscripted - When DNA Gets Real - Live Q&A

6)  Genealogy Bargains:

*  Genealogy Bargains - Friday, April 24th 2020

*  Best Promo Codes, Coupons and Savings during DNA Day 2020

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 21 April 2020 ?

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