Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 25 September to 1 October 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)  Genealogy and Family History News Articles:

*  RootsTech 2025 Registration Now Open

*  Dr. George Schweitzer, longest serving professor at University of Tennessee at Knoxville 

*  Limited-Time Offer: Upload Your DNA Data and Enjoy Free Access to All DNA Features

*  Historically and Hysterically Trendy: The Bob Cut Then and Now

2)  DNA-Related News Articles

*  23andMe Confirms New Payment for Millions – More Than $100 Direct Deposit From This Settlement

*  In an Iconic Twist, Miley Cyrus Is *Actually* Related to Godmother Dolly Parton

*  Twin sisters separated at birth blown away as they reunite for the first time and compare features

*  Philadelphia police exhume 8 bodies from a potter's field in the hope DNA testing can help ID them

*  Brothers Who Spent 25 Years In Prison For Woman's Murder Exonerated

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

*  Book Review: The Hollywood Strangler by Nathan Dylan Goodwin

*  The Hollywood Strangler by Nathan Dylan Goodwin: Book Review

*  World War I Genealogy Research Guide

*  New Sketches: Early Vermont Settlers, 1700-1784

4)  Genealogy Software/App News

*  Genealogy Software Briefs – Sep 30, 2024

*  Genealogy on a Chromebook with rootstrust

*  Family Historian Plugin: Backup and Restore Family Historian Settings via Windows 1.3

*  GEDCOM 7.0.15

5)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 September 2024

*  Ancestry New and Updated Collections – September 1-30, 2024

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 21 to 27 September 2024

*  FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – September 1-30, 2024

*  Added and Updated MyHeritage Genealogy Research Collections - 20 to 26 September 2024

*  MyHeritage Adds 56 Million Historical Records in September 2024

*  Findmypast Friday: Commemorating British Home Child Day With Over 2,000 New Records

*  TheGenealogist completes project to link census entries to maps

*  A New Search Engine, Millions of Previously Unpublished Documents, and 25% Off on Genealogy Quebec

*  930 Free United States Mortuary and Funeral Home Records

*  Newspapers dot Com Update – September 2024

*  Find My Past Adds/Updates 150 Historical Newspaper Titles – September 2024

*  NewspaperARCHIVE Update – September 2024

*  British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 86 Titles – September, 2024

6)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - 18 to 24 September 2024.

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