Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 31 May to 6 June 2023

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news  items that came across our desktop since the last issue.    

1)  News Articles:

*  The 1931 Canadian Census Is Now Online

*  Ancestry® to Apply AI-Driven Handwriting Recognition Technology to Create a Searchable Index of the 1931 Census of Canada 

*  Genealogy For Justice: Mystery author Nathan Dylan Goodwin and Genealogy For Justice™ Announce Fundraising Contest to Benefit Cold Case Investigations

*  National Genealogical Society Presents Awards Honoring Excellence in Newsletter Editorship and Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship

*  Press Release: NGS to Acquire Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP)

*  NGS and Vivid-Pix Announce Family Matters Community Outreach Toolkit Lending Service

*  NGS Honors Excellence in Volunteerism and Service

*  Awardees of 2023 BCG Scholarships Announced

2)  DNA Research Stories

*  DNA Suggests Modern Humans Emerged From Several Groups in Africa, Not One

*  Chilean Adoptee Stolen as a Baby Reunites with His Sister

*   I Found My Swedish Grandfather’s Identity and Reunited with a Long-Lost Aunt Thanks to MyHeritage

3)  Book Notices and Reviews

*  Generation by Generation - A Genealogical Book Review

4)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 27 May to 2 June 2023

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 27 May to 2 June 2023

*  Findmypast Friday:  Records for Schools and Southwark Released

*  June Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 42 Titles!

*  Newspapers dot Com Update – May 2023

*  NewspaperARCHIVE Update – May 2023

*  Chronicling America Updates – May 2023

*  Veridian Adds/Updates 415 Titles – June 2023

*  8,330 Free Online United States Birth Records and Indexes

5)  Did you miss the last post in this series - see Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 24 to 30 May 2023.

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