Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 25 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:

*  [MyHeritage] Update to Theory of Family Relativity™

*  ‘It’s our job to help’: the genealogists tracking down missing people after devastating fires

*  Vivid-Pix Launches New AI Powered Restore – Patented Photo & Document Restoration Software

*  FamilySearch Hits 8 Billion Searchable Names in Historical Records

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Friday Finds 25 Sep 2020

*  New Records Available To Search This Findmypast Friday, 25 September 2020

*  RAF air force lists and war memorial records added to TheGenealogist

*  Check Out the Over 500 New Mortuary and Funeral Home Collection Links

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  The Family History Show Online - 26th September 2020

*  Virtual Nordic Genealogy Conference 2020 (26-27 September 2020)

*  Virtual 2020 Iowa Genealogical Society Fall Conference -- "Discover New Resources – Expand Your Hunt" -- 2-3 October 2020

*  Virtual British Institute - 12-14 October 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 - Wednesday, 30 September, 11 a.m.: 5 Ways to find your Family in Southern Manuscript Collections, by J. Mark Lowe

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Introduction to VPNs, by Thomas MacEntee

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone - Searching and Deleting Your Internet Browser History, by Cheri Hudson Passey

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #209r - The Hunt

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 98: Collect Photo Stories with Storyglory

*  Ancestral Findings: How to Use Foreign Language Genealogy Sources | AF-383

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Using German Periodicals & Periodical Indexes: Part 2 - Larry Jensen

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends: The Underground Railroad -Rozlyn Kelly

*  DearMYRTLE:  WACKY Wednesday - Julian, Gregorian and Other Calendars

*  DNA Family Trees:  Fun Genealogist Quiz - 2 or more, your a Pro! Got All 6? Sure you did LOL

*  Family History Fanatics:  Online Family Trees - Can they help bust through genealogy brick walls?

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

*  FamilySearch:   21 Days Connection Experiment Live Discussion

*  Genealogy Quick Start:  LIVE: Freedmen's Bureau & Civil War Era, Off the Battlefield

*  Genealogy TV:  How to Create a Genealogy Research Notes Template in MS Word

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  How to Use Chronicling America's Newspaper Navigator - Exciting New FREE Tool

*  Lisa Lisson:  MORE of My FAVORITE Genealogy Books, Part 2

*  MyHeritage:  Hints and Tips for British Research Using MyHeritage With Caroline Gurney!

7)  DNA Stories

*  *  Irish DNA goes back to Vikings as well as Niall of the Nine Hostages

*  Finding out I had 600 siblings sent me on a quest to end sperm donor anonymity

8)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 22 September 2020 ?

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