Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 4 to 10 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:

*   Family Tree Magazine Announces New Edition of the 101 Best Websites for Genealogy, Updated and Revised for 2025

*  Celebrate Dad with Savings on MyHeritage DNA and MyStories

*  All New National Archives Museum to Open on October 23, 2025

*  Blogs at The National Archives have a new home

*  Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of the 10th U.S. president, dies at 96

*  What Military Records Can Tell You About Your Ancestors’ Service

*  A Cousin I Never Knew: How a Smart Match™ on MyHeritage Unlocked My Family’s Hidden Past

*  How Can You Find and Preserve Old Family Photos and Documents?

*  What Church Records Can Reveal About Your Ancestors’ Lives

*  What Hidden Clues Can Obituaries and Newspaper Archives Provide?

*  How Do You Access Historical Court Records for Family History?

*  How Can Social Security and Pension Records Help in Genealogy?

2)  DNA/IGG-Related News Articles

*   23andMe Seeks New Bids after $305 Million Offer From Its Co-founder

*  Do You Have a Doppelgänger?

*  https://cdapress.com/news/2025/jun/08/half-sisters-finally-whole/Adopted to different families at birth, siblings discover each other nearly eight decades later

*  Body Identified 31 Years After Being Found Floating Near Florida Bridge

*  Toronto Cops Credit Genetic Genealogy for Cracking Nearly 30-Year-Old Cold Case

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

*  US release of my latest book, Researching Ancestral Crisis in Ireland

*  Three Stumbling Blocks in Every Research Project: Objectivity, Presentism & Truth – By Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CG, FASG

4)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 31 May to 6 June 2025

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 31 May to 6 June 2025

*  Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - 30 May to 5 June 2025

*  MyHeritage Adds 540 Million Historical Records in May 2025

*  Findmypast Friday: Explore new additions from Cromarty to Cumbernauld this week

*  Veridian Adds/Updates 275 Titles – June 2025

5)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 28 May to 3 June 2025.   Read all recent Genealogy News Bytes here.  

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