Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Friday, 10 December 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:

*  Announcement: SLIG 2022 Change to Virtual

*  Why Are AGRA’s Professional Genealogists Looking Forward to the 1921 Census Release?

*  Next Level of DNA Analysis Allows Police to Build Picture of Suspects

*  NYPD Still Using Controversial DNA Lab for Investigations More Than a Year After City Hall Said Ties Were Cut

*  MyHeritage Reveals Origins of Miss Universe 2021 Delegates

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Search New Far East Directories and London Synagogue records

*  MyHeritage Publishes 359 Million Additional Historical Records from France 

*  TheGenealogist Releases Over 60,200 Records for Edmonton, Enfield and Southgate to Help Find Ancestors Property

*  Dutch Genealogy News for November 2021

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  RootsTech Connect 2022 - 3-5 March 2022 (Virtual) 

*  NGS 2022 Family History Conference - May 24-28, 2022 (In-Person!)

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

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 14 December, 11 a.m.:  Looking Back & Peeking Ahead: 2021 at MyHeritage, by Daniel Horowitz

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 15 December, 11 a.m.: Navigating the NARA Website, by Julie Miler

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Documenting Families or Communities Lost in the Holocaust by Bullets, by Ellin Kowitt

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: Tech Zone - How to Prevent Gmail from Going to Your Spam Folder, by Marian Pierre-Louis

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  A Cup of Christmas Tea (AUDIO) with Best-Selling Author Tom Hegg

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-554: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments | Ancestral Findings Podcast

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  AmericanAncestors:  Stories from the Archives: Civil War Manuscripts

*  Ancestry:  What's New at Ancestry®: Dec 2021 | The Barefoot Genealogist | Ancestry

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show: Native American Research with Judy Nimer Muhn

*  Family History Fanatics:   Why Is It So Hard to Find My Ancestor's Hometown? - Genealogy Basics

*  Family History Fanatics:  How To Determine Paternal and Maternal Lines with DNA Matches

*  Family History Fanatics:  Why It Takes FOREVER to Add My Family Tree to FamilySearch?

*  FamilySearch:  Finding Cousins through DNA

*  FamilySearch:  6% Nigerian: Tracing My Missing Nigerian Ancestor

*  FamilySearch:  Genealogical Treasures in Irish Archives

* JDW Talks:  Invalid 1950 Census Map ED Numbers: Recognizing & Repairing

*  Lisa Louise Cooke's Genealogy Gems:  Top 10 Archival Heirloom Solutions - Episode 81

*  Lisa Lisson:  Chatting Genealogy & DNA with Mary Eberle of DNA Hunters!

*  MyHeritage:  "My Travel and Family History Adventures!" With Jason Schulz

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree Challenge feat. Mary Roddy and Marian Burk Wood

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

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