Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 31 August 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:

*  Ancestry® Signs Agreement to Acquire French Genealogy Leader Geneanet

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 August 2021

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 August 2021

*  Ancestry New and Updated Collections – August 1-31, 2021

*  NewspaperARCHIVE Update – August, 2021

*  British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 121 Titles – August, 2021

* Chronicling America Updates – August 2021

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Utah Genealogical Association Summit of Excellence: September 15-18, 2021

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

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Family History Library Class Calendar - September 2021

*  MyHeritage/Family Tree Webinars Webtember - 3 to 24 September 2021

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 1 September, 11 a.m.:  Your DNA Questions Answered Live with Diahan, by Diahan Southard

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 3 September, 11 a.m.:  Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color, by Anita Wills

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 164: RLP with DNA eCourse Part 5

*  Genealogy Connection #078 - Nicka Sewell-Smith and the Freedmen's Bureau Records

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-531: Alternative Sources of Records: A Closer Look at Cemetery Records #4 | Ancestral Findings

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Beginner Series: 1 - Getting to know FamilySearch.org - Kathryn Grant

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show: Civil War Research with Cindy Freed

*  Family History Fanatics:  3 Advanced Newspapers.com Search Strategies for Genealogy

*  FamilySearch:  Genealogy in a Spanish Sea, the Caribbean: Puerto Rico

*  Genealogy TV:  Freedmen's Bureau Records on Ancestry 2021

*  MyHeritage:  We're live with James Tanner: Opening a new world of books on MyHeritage!

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree LiveCast (28 August 2021) Weekly Recap

7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 27 August 2021?

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