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:
* Legacy Family Tree Webinars Launches Learning Paths (Family Tree Webinars)
* BYU Library Family History Center Sunday Classes and Webinars Discontinued [Genealogy's Star]
* Try the Improved Merge Experience in Family Tree [FamilySearch Blog]
* Finding Your Ancestors in Fraternal and Lodge Records [Ancestral Findings]
* What Funeral Home Records Can Tell You About Your Ancestors [Ancestral Findings]
* What Not to Preserve in Your Family History Collection [Family Tree Magazine]
* How to Find Rare and Obscure Books [Family Tree Magazine]
* How to Find Patents at the General Land Office Records (GLO) Website [Family Tree Magazine]
* My Father’s Surname Goes Back 400 Years. For His 85th Birthday, We Followed It All the Way to France [MyHeritage Blog]
* How AI Is Changing Genealogy and Bringing Old Family Records to Life [Popular Archeology]
2) DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
* Zoom In on Your Roots: Upgrading Your Family Finder® to Next-Generation Sequencing [FamilyTreeDNA Blog]
3) Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:
* The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 — Volume II, Bi-By [American Ancestors]
* Update: The New Hampshire Genealogical Record [American Ancestors]
* Ancestoring: Understanding Records, Family, and Ourselves (Free Book Giveaway) [Ancestral Findings]
* Bringing Your Family History to Life Through Social History by Katherine Scott Sturdevant: Book Review [Empty Branches on the Family Tree]
* Split by Chains, Bound by Blood — Coming Down in September [Genealogy Just Ask]
* Projectkin’s First Commemorative Magazine, Stories250 | Where were your ancestors on July 4, 1776? is Here! [Projectkin]
* Colonial Families of the U.S.A. – By George Norbury Mackenzie [Genealogical]
4) Genealogy Software/Mobile Apps
* New Map Overlay Tool [Jason Duncan - webjmd]
5) New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:
* Findmypast Friday: Discover Daily Life on Guernsey [Genea-Musings]
* Update: The Maine Genealogist, Volumes 42 & 43 [American Ancestors]
* 189 New Papers on Newspapers.com! [Fishwrap]
* 53,100 Free Online U.S. Historical Newspapers Now Available [The Ancestor Hunt]
6) Did you miss the last post in this series? See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 12 to 18 August 2026.
Read all recent Genealogy News Bytes posts here.
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