Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 25 to 31 October 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:

*   Lynne M. Jackson to Keynote at RootsTech 2024

*  Riches, Rogues, and Rebellions: Exploring the Golden Age of Piracy

*  How the National Archives is using AI to make records more accessible in the digital age

*  A Free New Program Is Available for Family Historians: Projectkin.org

*  Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) Announces Their 2023 National Awardees

*  Darcie Hind Posz, CG® Named a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists

*  The Board for Certification of Genealogists® Selects 2023–2024 Officers and Welcomes Four Returning and One New Trustee

2)  DNA Research Stories

*  Leading branches of Clan Campbell ‘are not related’

3)  Book Notices and Reviews:

*  Exploring Norwegian Genealogy – New from Family Roots Publishing

*  Smorgasbord Book Promotions – New Book on the Shelves – What Leora Never Knew: A Granddaughter’s Quest for Answers (Leora’s Stories) by Joy Neal Kidney

4)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 October 2023

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 October 2023

*  New Free Historical Records on FamilySearch 8 October 2023

*  MyHeritage New and Updated Collections – October 1-31, 2023

*  Findmypast Friday: Manchester Electoral Registers, London Burials, Berkshire Baptisms and Newspapers

*  Museum of the American Revolution and Ancestry® Launch a Free Digitized Archive Connected to Black and Native American Soldiers From the Revolutionary War

*  From TheGenealogist: Newly Released Court Records Reveal a Bewitching Array of Crimes

*  Newspapers dot Com Update – October 2023

*  Chronicling America Updates – October 2023

*  Find My Past Adds/Updates 43 Historical Newspaper Titles – October, 2023

5)  Did you miss the last post in this series - see Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 18 to 24 October 2023.

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