Genealogy News Bytes -- Week of 28 October to 2 November 2026

 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 Research and Family History News Articles:

*  Findmypast launches ground-breaking new war memorial research tool [The Nosey Genealogist] 

*  Viking, Norman or Saxon? What your surname says about your ancestry [Country File]

*  13 Fascinating Victorian Mourning Customs [Ancestry]

*  In the Shadow of Bunker Hill [Archaeology Magazine]

*  This Soldier Kept a Diary in the Trenches of World War I. A Child Found It at the Dump Decades Later, Pierced by a Bullet and Stained With Blood [Smithsonian Magazine]

*  CCC Genealogy Records: Find a Relative’s Depression-Era Work [Genealogy Bargains]

*  Genealogy Tips: Why Does My Ancestor Not Have an Obituary? [GenealogyBank]

2)  DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy

*  About MyHeritage DNA 360° [MyHeritage]

*  MyHeritage Establishes Scientific Advisory Board to Guide the Future of Its DNA Products [MyHeritage]

*  Scaredy Cat, Candy Fiend or Creature of the Night? What Your DNA Says About Your Halloween Personality [23andMe]

*  Are You Related to Real Mummies? What Your DNA Can Reveal [FamilyTreeDNA]

*  DNA and artificial intelligence solve three-decade-old murder [Mojtraj]

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

*  Brief Review: AI for Genealogy, An Introduction [Climbing My Family Tree]

*  Fall 2026 Issue of American Ancestors Magazine Is Available [American Ancestors]

4)  Genealogy Software/Apps

*  Find the surnames and ancestors your DNA matches share [Genealogy Assistant]

5)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of  24 to 30 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  Ancestry New and Updated Collections – October 1-31, 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 24 to 30 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – October 1-31, 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 23 to 29 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  MyHeritage New and Updated Collections – October 1-31, 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  MyHeritage Adds 163 Million Historical Records in October 2026 [MyHeritage]

*  Findmypast - What's New This Week [Findmypast]

*  Newspapers dot Com Update – October 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  Findmypast Adds/Updates 119 Historical Newspaper Titles – October 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  NewspaperArchive Update – October 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  British Newspaper Archive Adds/Updates 119 Titles – October 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  Veridian Adds/Updates 498 Titles – November 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  Swedish American Newspaper Collection Adds/Updates 67 Titles – November 2026 [The Ancestor Hunt]

*  November 2026 Addition: GenealogyBank Just Added New Content from 42 Titles! [GenealogyBank]

*  New Amazing Resource for Jewish Genealogy: Project Zikaron [Genea-Musings]

6)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 21 to 27 October 2026.

Read all recent Genealogy News Bytes posts here.  

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Randy's Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 1 November 2026

  Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week (ending Sunday, 1 November 2026). 

1)   Attended the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) General Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday.  Sunny Jane Morton was the speaker about Using PowerPoint.

2)  Curated genealogy-related articles to keep myself and my readers updated on the genealogy world in:

• Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 21 to 27 October 2026
• Genealogy Education Bytes - Week of 22 to 28 October 2026
• Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 to 31 October 2026
• Listed new and updated record collections for MyHeritage, Findmypast, Ancestry.com, and FamilySearch.

3)  Transcribed the 1762 Deed of Benjamin Wing selling land in Dartmouth, Massachusetts to Samuel Wait for Amanuensis Monday with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search.

4)  Wrote one Life Memoir for an ancestor, and posted it on Genea-Musings and  Substack:

• Life Memoir of Sarah (Read) Seaver (1736-1808) of Westminster, Massachusetts
  

5)  Requested free AI tools to tell me about these genealogy and family history subjects, and posted them on Genea-Musings and Substack: 

• The Life of the Charles Auble (1849-1916) Family of Chicago in 1903 - Part 1 of 2
  
• A Day In the Life of Elizabeth (King) Spangler in Mercer County, Pennsylvania in 1850
• The Life of Samuel Vaux (1816-1880) at Age 14 of South Petherton, Somerset in 1830
• A Hallowe’en Reunion Story – The Seaver Families
  

6)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my parents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Betty and Fred’s Story: Building A Life Together – Winter Words -- Early 1945

7)  Wrote an AI-assisted short story about my maternal grandparents lives and romance on Genea-Musings and Substack:

• Emily and Lyle’s Story: After the Armistice -- Mid-November to Early December, 1918
  

8)  Housekeeping -- updated my Randy's AI and Genealogy page and added to the AI-assisted story  compendiums. Added a number of the recent Google Notebook Videos to my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@RandySeaver (now 527 videos).

9)  Searched for more records of ancestral families on Ancestry, FamilySearch and MyHeritage, downloaded record images to my digital file folders, and added research notes, events and sources to RootsMagic profiles.  My RootsMagic family tree now has 75,164 profiles (up 3 from last week)  and 148,198 source citations (up 9).  

10)  My AncestryDNA test now has 52,768 DNA matches (up 65 from last week) with 2,235 "close" matches (20 cM or more) today (up 3), with 2 new ThruLines.  Added Notes to no Matches, and added no new DNA match lines to RootsMagic. MyHeritageDNA test now has 15,085 DNA matches (up 37 from last week) for me, with 26 Theories of Family Relativity; 

11) Wrote 22 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which three were a press release. The most viewed post last week was Family Historian 8 Introduces Smart Folders, an AI Connector, and Integration with FamilySearch User Trees with over 423 views.  Genea-Musings had about 532,000 page views last week and over 2,293,000 views over the past month (lots of bots I think). 

12)  Real life events:  Visited Linda several days this past week at her memory care facility.  Went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Went to the health center for my routine appointment with my family practice doctor. I finished  reading Eruption by Michael Crichton and James Patterson.  I watched NFL Football on Sunday -- my Chargers lost again, so now 0-7 on the year.

NOTE:  I spent about 30 hours on these genealogy activities this week,  learned quite a bit, and had some genealogy fun!

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Genealogy News Bytes -- Week of 21 to 27 October 2026

 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 Research and Family History News Articles:

*  Introducing GAIA -- A Real AI Research Agent from MyHeritage [Genealogy's Star]

*   FamilySearch: Helping You Build a Tree You Can Trust [FamilySearch]

*  Honor Their Memory [FamilySearch]

*  What’s New on Our Calendar: Genealogy News & Events to Oct. 24, 2026 [Conference Keeper]

*  Breaking Down Your Latin American Brick Walls [Family Tree Magazine]

*  Grandma’s Medicine Cabinet Was Wilder Than You Think: The Shocking Home Remedies Hiding in Your Family History [Genealogy Bargains]

*  Grab Your Balls: It’s Canning Day! Home Extension Records for Genealogical Research [Genealogy Bargains]

*  Everyday Life During the Revolutionary War: A Genealogist’s Guide [Family Tree Magazine]

*  The Surrender at Yorktown, as Told by Four New Englanders Who Were There [New England Historical Society]

*  Hunt Through the Headlines with Recommended Stories & Events Searches [Ancestry]

*  The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway at 200: Tracing Scotland’s Industrial Families [MyHeritage]

*  Inheriting the whole of our complicated stories [WBUR]

*  Ancestry CEO’s Lunch Habit Offers a Powerful Lesson in Leadership [Inc. Magazine]

*  How to Find a Birth Parent With Only a Name [People Locator]

2)  DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy

*  News: Introducing MyHeritage DNA 360° -- Our Most Comprehensive DNA Test [Genea-Musings]

*  Is Personality Genetic? What a Study of 1 Million People Reveals. [23andMe]

*  Our Fathers Were Brothers: How a DNA Match Brought Us Together [MyHeritage]

3)  Genealogy Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

*  Book Review: "Lunch On A Beam" [Climbing My Family Tree]

4)  Genealogy Software/Apps

*  Family Historian 8 Introduces Smart Folders, an AI Connector, and Integration with FamilySearch User Trees [Family Historian]

*   Evidentia 4.1 Is Here, and It’s Free for Evidentia 4 Owners [Evidentia]

5)  New or Updated Genealogy Digital Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of  17 to 23 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch Record Collections - Week of 17 to 23 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  Added and Updated MyHeritage Record Collections - Week of 16 to 22 October 2026 [Genea-Musings]

*  New Korean War Era Draft Cards Added [Fold3 HQ]

*  Uncover New History: 176 Newspaper Titles Just Added! [Fishwrap]

*  Puerto Rican Civil Registration Death Records [Ancestry]

6)  Did you miss the last post in this series?  See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 14 to 20 October 2026.

Read all recent Genealogy News Bytes posts here.  

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News: Introducing MyHeritage DNA 360° -- Our Most Comprehensive DNA Test

 I received this information from MyHeritage today:

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