Genealogy News and Education Bytes - Friday, 11 September 2020

 Welcome to Genealogy News and Education 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 since the last issue.

1)  News Articles:

*  Ancestry® Delivers More Precise Ethnicity Estimates Powered by the World’s Largest Consumer DNA Network

*  FamilySearch Recognized for US-Mexican War Database Creation

*  Book Review: Family Stories…and How I Found Mine

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Friday Finds 11 Sep 2020

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 11 September 2020

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Back to Our Past [Ireland] Virtual Conference (18-20 September 2020)

*  Early bird registration opens for Genealogy with a Canadian Twist Virtual Workshop (17 October 2020)

*  Registration is Now Open for the 2020 ISGS [Illinois] Fall Conference! [24 October 2020]

*  Virtual Genealogical Association Annual Conference (13-15 November 2020)

*  The Family History Federation's Really Useful Family History Show (14 November 2020)

4)  Genealogy Education - Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Free [Family History Library] Genealogy Webinars for September 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events for September

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 15 September, 5 p.m.:  Reconstructing the Murphy Family Using DNA & Documentary Evidence, by Melissa Johnson

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 16 September, 11 a.m.:  Finding Genealogical Data in the Chinese Exclusion Act Case Files, by Trish Hackett Nicola

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Cyndi's List in Practice, by Cyndi Ingle

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Discover More Records with FamilySearch Image Search, by Lisa Alzo

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #205r - History

*  The Photo Detective:  Photo Fakes with Michael Medhurst

*  Ancestral Findings:  Corning Glass and your Family | AF-379

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Mysteries of the Change Log Revealed - Kathryn Grant

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mondays with Myrt - 7 Sept 2020

*  DearMYRTLE:  WACKY Wednesday - ORA Online Repository Assistant

*  DNA Family Trees:  Centimorgans - Balls and Patterns, A new way of looking at CMS

*  DNA Family Trees:  Centimorgans Plus one (A new way to View Kinships that makes CMS easier to understand and use)

*  Family History Ron:  Q&A with Family HIstory Ron

*  FamilySearch:  Greek Research

*  Findmypast:  The Blitz 80 Years On - Findmypast Live 4 September 2020 | Findmypast

*  Genealogy Quick Start:  Genealogy Quick Start LIVE: Missing Record Options (Military/Birth)

*  Kentucky-Tennessee Research Associates:  Using Tax Lists to Answer Questions TODAY!

*  Lisa Louise Cooke Genealogy Gems:  Elevenses with Lisa Episode 24

*  Lisa Lisson:  Watch How I Analyze a Tombstone!

*  MyHeritage:  Ask the Expert - MyHeritage Website Settings and Members Permission

*  MyHeritage:  MyHeritage Ask The Expert How To Work with U S Census Records

*  Who Is Nicka Smith?: New Updates Coming at AncestryDNA!

7)  DNA Stories:

*  DNA shock: 59-year-old man discovers he has a secret family

*  Baby Jessica: Infant abandoned in B.C. ditch grows up and tracks down her parents

*  Separated for decades, long-lost Connecticut and Massachusetts siblings reunited by online DNA testing

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 8 September 2020 ?

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