Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 18 to 24 June 2025

 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:

*  New: LiveMemory™ Now Available on the MyHeritage Website

*  Harvard Hired a Genealogist to Uncover Its Ties to Slavery—Then Fired Him After He Found 900 Names

*  We Traced Pope Leo XIV’s Ancestry Back 500 Years. Here’s What We Found.

*  FamilySearch and Wish of a Lifetime Collaborate to Grant Genealogy Wishes

*  The Underground Railroad in Canada Helped Thousands Find Freedom

*  Up to 50% off Findmypast Subscriptions (Until 29 June 2025)

*  Private or Public, AI or Humans – Archives And Records Custodians Explore The Challenges

*  How to Find Wills Online, and Why They’re So Valuable

*  The Other Side of Marriage Records: Tracing Divorces in Genealogy

*  How to Search For Your Family in North American Archives

*  How to Search For Your Family in Asian Archives

*  How to Search for Your Family in African Archives

*  RTE Sells ‘Genealogy Roadshow’ Format Rights to PBS for US Remake

*  ‘We Found Each Other’: MyHeritage Helped Me Reconnect with My Grandmother’s Polish Family After Decades of Silence

*  I Discovered I’m Related to Great French Novelist Gustave Flaubert Thanks to MyHeritage

2)  DNA/IGG-Related News Articles

*   Scientists Decipher The Genetic History Of 400 Medieval SkeletonsS

*  New Historical Matches Highlight the Importance of Thinking Beyond an XX or XY Binary When Studying the Past

*  63-year-old woman discovers real dad on Ancestry.com 

*  WWII Soldier Identified 80 Years Later Through DNA

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

*  Genealogy in Reverse: Finding the Living

*  [American Ancestors]  Portable Genealogist: Getting Started with U.S. War of 1812 Records

4)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 14 to 20 June 2025

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 14 to 20 June 2025

*  Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 13 to 19 June 2025

*  Findmypast Friday: Discover Epic Voyages With Millions of New Records

5)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 11 to 17 June 2025.   Read all recent Genealogy News Bytes here.  

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