Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 8 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:

*  myDNA Merges With FamilyTreeDNA and Gene by Gene

*  BCG: New Application Guide and Revised New-application Rubrics

*  TNA continues free access to digital documents during lockdown

*  Dutch Genealogy News for December 2020

*  Last Known Surviving Widow of a Civil War Veteran Dies at 101 in Missouri

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  New on Findmypast Friday: More England and Wales Records

*  TheGenealogist Adds More Than 55,000 New Headstone Records

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

*  MyHeritage Online Events in January

*  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, 12 January, 11 a.m.:  MyHeritage Mobile App: All New Features From 2020, by Daniel Horowitz

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 13 January, 5 p.m.:  Do You Have an Artificial Brick Wall?, by Robyn Smith

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Where else to look? When matches don’t reply, by Michelle Patient

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Genealogy Unplugged: When Offline Records Are the Best, by James M. Baker

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone - WordPress.com vs. Wordpress.org, by Marc McDermott

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Fisher's Top Tips: #239r - A Digital Library

*  Ancestral Findings:  The Evolution of Florida | AF-413

*  Ancestral Findings:  What Were Your Ancestors Doing in the 1820s? | AF-414

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Ideas for Stepping Up Your Family History Game - Kathryn Grant

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends: The 21 Day Family Connections Experiment

*  Data Mining DNA:  GEDmatch Ancestor Projects

*  DNA Family Trees:  Do you have HIDDEN DNA matches on Ancestry? How to check and reveal them if you do!

*  Family History Fanatics:  Big Changes to Family History Fanatics Genealogy Channel on YouTube

*  Family History Fanatics:  MyHeritage DNA Launches New Genetic Groups | Family History Fanatics

*  Findmypast:  Fridays Live 8 January 2021

*  Genealogy TV:  Ancestry.com Trees and Hinting Q & A with Crista Cowan

*  GeneaVlogger:  Native American DNA Results | Savage Brownie - Professional Genealogist Reacts

*  Lisa Lisson:  How To Research Genealogy in 20 Minutes a Day

*  MyHeritage:  We're Live! Backing Up Your Family History Projects With Dick Eastman!

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (6 January 2021) - WikiTree Challenge: A.J. Jacobs

7)  Did you miss the last Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 5 January 2021?

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