Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 27 December 2023 to 2 January 2024

 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:

*  FamilySearch's 2023 Year in Review

*  2023: MyHeritage Year in Review

*  2024 Legacy Family Tree Webinars Series Announced!

*  Dutch Genealogy News for December 2023

*  Finding Your Roots Season 10 Begins Tues., Jan. 2 2024, on PBS at 8 p.m.

2)  DNA Research Stories

*  Revealing how an ancient genetic invader inhabits our DNA

*  DNA sleuths solve mystery of the 2,000-year old corpse

*  I Was Told My Birth Dad Had Died. A DNA Test Proved He Was Someone Else — Who’s Alive

3)  Book Notices and Reviews:

*  Genealogy: Essential Research Methods by Helen Osborn – Book Review

*  New Book for 2024 – Simple Citations for Genealogical Sources

*  "Albion's Seed" by David Hackett Fischer

4)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Ancestry New and Updated Collections – December 1-31, 2023

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 23 to 29 December 2023

*  FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – December 1-31, 2023

*  New Historical Records on FamilySearch 3 December 2023

*  MyHeritage Adds 26 Million Historical Records in December 2023

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

*  2,125 Free Online Military Record Collections from the Southern States

*  26,955 Free United States Online Cemetery and Burial Records

*  10,925 Free Online Obituary and Obituary Index Collection Links from the U.S.

*  NewspaperARCHIVE Update – December 2023

*  Newspapers dot Com Update – December 2023

*  British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 33 Titles – December, 2023 

*  Chronicling America Updates – December 2023

*  Chronicling America Updates – 2023 Retrospective

5)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 20 to 26  December 2023.

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