Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 5 January 2021

 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:

*  Litigation To Stop Plan Moving Pacific NW National Archives

*  Holes in family history leave one - like me - to wonder

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 26 December 2020 to 2 January 2021

*  MyHeritage Releases Two French Historical Record Collections: Nord Civil Births and Deaths

*  January Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 78 Titles!

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Scottish Virtual Conference January 23, 2021

*  Family History Fanatics Winter DNA Conference (30 January 2021)

*  RootsTech Connect 2021 - 25-27 February 2021 (Online, Free)

*  Family History Federation's Really Useful Show returns in April 2021

*  41st Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (Philadelphia PA, 2-5 August 2021)

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Upcoming 2021 Family Tree Webinars

*  FamilySearch Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for January 2021

*  Appleton, Wisconsin Library Presents a FREE "Find Your Ancestors" Webinar Series

*  Whittier Area Genealogical Society (WAGS) Virtual Seminar is Saturday, 30 January 2021

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 5 January, 5 p.m.:  Where else to look? When matches don’t reply, by Michelle Patient

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 6 January, 11 a.m.:  Genealogy Unplugged: When Offline Records Are the Best, by James M. Baker

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 130: How to Evaluate an Ancestry Thrulines Hypothesis

*  Extreme Genes:  Episode 327: CLASSIC REWIND – Virtual YOU! How You May Answer Your Descendants Questions About You A Century from Now!

*  The Photo Detective:  Episode 109: Portable Photo Preservation: Shotbox  

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #238r - Protecting Your Work

*  Ancestral Findings:  The Wild Days of Texas: When Texas Was a Country | AF-410

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*   American Ancestors:  Tips for Interviewing Relatives

*   American Ancestors:  Finding the Living: Doing Descendancy Research

*  DNA Family Trees:  Why you should NOT COPY TREES! Familysearch.org shows me a Mistake in my Tree! Tips to spot errors!

*  Family History Fanatics:  Top Ten Family History Fanatics Videos - FHF Live

*  Findmypast:  School Records on Findmypast

*  Genealogy Adventures Live:  04 E15: The Negro Motorist Green Book with Yoruba Richen

*  Geneavlogger:  Why we look like this - Twin Sisters DNA Test | Niki and Gabi - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  MyHeritage: Recharge Your Genealogy Research on MyHeritage With Lisa Alzo!

*  Myrt's Journal:  52 THINGS: Tour of the steamer trunk

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (2 January 2021) - The WikiTree Challenge  

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 1 January 2021?

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